If you're rockin' the suburbs, chances are your Suburban comes in handy when making those weekend jaunts to Home Depot. But if you're a city dweller, particularly one who has to make his / her way up and down subway stairs, things are just a tad more difficult when it comes to transporting purchases. Enter Move-It, a bloody brilliant concept that has currently been entered into the running for the James Dyson Award in the UK. Put simply, this recyclable, disposal and potential reusable device is crafted from cardboard and fully capable of strapping to any size or shape box. Simply peel and stick the handle to the box's top, and slap a pair of rollers on the bottom -- in about three minutes, you've got your very own trolley. Prayers, answered. Hop on past the break for a video demonstration, and hopefully the collective crossing of fingers will enable this thing to actually hit the market someday soon.
It's refreshing to see innovations such as these now and then. We've been so bombarded with constant software/hardware developments that we forget that there are still boundless innovations/inventions to be made in subject matter that don't involve electronics.
Computing and electronics is merely a part of technology as a whole... not the other way around.
Pretty cool, but once you've moved that one box, what do you do about the other 10, 20, 30, or 50+ boxes you have to move? I can see this getting expensive if you have a lot of boxes to move. I guess you could re-use that one box until it falls apart, but that seems like it would waste a lot of time repacking things.
I dunno, the Idea is ok, but you can only move 1 box at a time as said before.
I recently moved house, and I had a metal trolley, that sits on my balcony, could move 4 at once, and did not have to spend 5 minutes attaching it.
And what happens if it rains, also some of my boxes had quite a lot of weight in them "DVDs/Books" and to have to turn it upside down to put wheels on (smashing anything that;s fragile at the top end of the box) is not feasible.
oh and what if it rains?? my metal trolley would still work....
Good Intentions, but the dragons would just laugh.
@i8urCookies This isn't meant to cart around 10+ boxes. The main point is that you've walked into a store, bought something in a big box, and now you need to carry it home. The store can give you this cardboard setup for free or really cheap. If you know you need to carry a dozen boxes, you can buy a nice folding aluminum hand truck with rubber wheels for under $30.
It's a good thing I'm up to date on my metrics system! Anyone know what twenty kilos is? Its probably like five pounds but all of us morons in the US are going to buy one because we don't realize it can't carry anything that we couldn't carry ourselves.
As a shop giveaway with the purchase of every large box, it could be a pretty cool thing. As a personal device, I think a nice fold-up metal and rubber (wheeled) trolley serves the purpose better.
Metric units do make more sense because it's a decimal system but intuitive is subjective. For example degrees is for angles intuitive to most people but radians probably make more sense mathematically.
@wobbles - I'm always amazed that the only place in the US where it did catch on is with soda bottles. Cans are still ounces, but larger ones are 1, 2 & 3 liter.
@wobbles Well, to be perfectly fair, we do use it. Just not exclusively. Most cans and bottles and things will have the weight/mass/volume in the imperial units, and then put the metric measurement in parenthesis.
@wobbles because to convert everything from ounces and pounds, mph and feet, and ounces and liters into kg, kph, meters, etc..it would cost A LOT of money
@Liberty I agree. Wouldn't a steel 2 wheel dolly cart be better for this task? No need to recycle a metal one because it will last a hell of a long time.
Amazing if you add wheels and a handle to a card board box, it's easier to roll around! If this deserves an award for innovation or design, than awards have really lowered their standards. Just make an actual dolly out of cardboard with a couple of straps and you have something thats less wasteful and easier to use than this piece of crap. Oh yeah and the wheels will need to be a little bit bigger in diameter to pull upstairs for the subway. I know if you strapped skis on the bottom it would go through the snow!
A trolley made of cardboard is unlikely to be strong enough to carry heavy boxes. This concept turns the whole box into a trolley. Plus I am sure they could easily modify it to have bigger wheels. And the best inventions are the simple (and quite obvious) ones. If you are so great and wise then why on earth did you not patent it? It is better than a metal trolley as stores could sell it to you (or even give them away) when you walk in for an impulse buy.
It'd be pretty horrible when the glue on the handle part fails and your heavy box tumbles down the subway stairs, killing and maiming all in its path.
Just buy a freaking folding hand truck. They're cheap, can be bought almost anywhere (home depot, staples, office depot, local hardware or office supply store), and fold up to fit anywhere.
Your solution is not so good for impulse buys though is it. I generally do not carry a trolley around with me on a day to day basis. Plus I do not generally need a trolley and it seems a bit of a waste to buy one just in case I may one day need to roll a bog box home.
@coolblue2000 I guess my solution isn't good, if you often impulse buy window unit ACs, subwoofers, or perhaps a coffin from Costco. Personally, I don't.
This "green" product is way more wasteful than a simple folding hand truck. Besides the fact that the hand truck is truly reusable, and this thing will likely just get thrown away after one use, a hand truck only costs like $20. Ever buy a shipping box from Staples or the post office or a UPS store? Think those are a ripoff? Just wait until Best Buy can sell you one of these. You pay through the nose for convenience.
And what about when it's raining? Thanks but no thanks. If I have something that big (especially if it is electronic) I don't want to be lugging it around like that on public streets and subways. I'll drive my car.
Interesting idea. The real question I think is-- is that a woman or a man in the picture? One would assume man from the waist area and the hands, but then the "we're not in Kansas anymore" red shoes suggest otherwise.
Please Americans, this video is from the UK. Where not everybody has cars, not because they can't afford them, but because they don't need one. More astounding, is that some shops in the UK aren't 'drive-thru', or have car parks. We even have pedestrianised city centres. I'm sure the same is true in cities like New York. So this devices saves having to get a taxi, finding somebody who has a car, or struggling to the car park. 'Out of town' shops will still have metal trolleys.
@Nevasleep No offense, but does your knowledge of the US come from the Simpsons? And have you ever left London? I have lived in the UK, and I see no difference in attitude. The English are as car-obsessed as Americans, if not more so. Exhibit one: "Top Gear." There is no equivalent program in the US. The difference you cite is urban vs. rural, period, and of course the UK is much more densely populated. But if you really want to prove your mettle, I challenge you to move house by bus or Tube, using only this wasteful POS. I think you'll rent or borrow a truck, and likely a real handtruck, as I always do.
@bdeonline How are you supposed to impress your hipster friends with a metal hand cart. You can't reason with hipsters, they don't think logically, they just do whatever trendy things their "non-conformist" friends do. Thus their motto: The Move-It For Hipster, by Hipsters!
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posted August 12th 2010 8:31AM
Nice!
@MatteoVega - I wish I had this when I purchased my floorstanding speakers!
@MatteoVega
It's refreshing to see innovations such as these now and then. We've been so bombarded with constant software/hardware developments that we forget that there are still boundless innovations/inventions to be made in subject matter that don't involve electronics.
Computing and electronics is merely a part of technology as a whole... not the other way around.
@MatteoVega
Pretty cool, but once you've moved that one box, what do you do about the other 10, 20, 30, or 50+ boxes you have to move? I can see this getting expensive if you have a lot of boxes to move. I guess you could re-use that one box until it falls apart, but that seems like it would waste a lot of time repacking things.
@MatteoVega
Welcome to the United States of America
Our biggest innovations are cardboard and duct tape
jk :P
@MatteoVega
I dunno, the Idea is ok, but you can only move 1 box at a time as said before.
I recently moved house, and I had a metal trolley, that sits on my balcony, could move 4 at once, and did not have to spend 5 minutes attaching it.
And what happens if it rains, also some of my boxes had quite a lot of weight in them "DVDs/Books" and to have to turn it upside down to put wheels on (smashing anything that;s fragile at the top end of the box) is not feasible.
oh and what if it rains?? my metal trolley would still work....
Good Intentions, but the dragons would just laugh.
nothing too see here.. "Move" along... :P
@MatteoVega - that woman looks like she is at the beginning stages of pregnancy.. she should NOT be pulling that thing like that !
@MatteoVega
*Looks over shoulder...jumps off roof
http://www.megaindustrial.com/images/platform/loading_dolly/cart4b.jpg
@i8urCookies This isn't meant to cart around 10+ boxes. The main point is that you've walked into a store, bought something in a big box, and now you need to carry it home. The store can give you this cardboard setup for free or really cheap. If you know you need to carry a dozen boxes, you can buy a nice folding aluminum hand truck with rubber wheels for under $30.
@manofchao5
Red Green was ahead of his time.
Brilliant!!!
@westonpowers Is it just me or does anyone else want to follow the yellow brick road.
Pretty awesome idea.
It's a good thing I'm up to date on my metrics system! Anyone know what twenty kilos is? Its probably like five pounds but all of us morons in the US are going to buy one because we don't realize it can't carry anything that we couldn't carry ourselves.
@bretrbs
About 44 pounds but I'm sure you googled this already.
@bretrbs 44 lbs.
@bretrbs
1kg = 2.2pounds.
As a shop giveaway with the purchase of every large box, it could be a pretty cool thing. As a personal device, I think a nice fold-up metal and rubber (wheeled) trolley serves the purpose better.
@bretrbs
Why cant america use the metric system aswell? Its the most intuitive one. imo of course...
@wobbles
Metric units do make more sense because it's a decimal system but intuitive is subjective. For example degrees is for angles intuitive to most people but radians probably make more sense mathematically.
@wobbles - I'm always amazed that the only place in the US where it did catch on is with soda bottles. Cans are still ounces, but larger ones are 1, 2 & 3 liter.
@wobbles
Well, to be perfectly fair, we do use it. Just not exclusively. Most cans and bottles and things will have the weight/mass/volume in the imperial units, and then put the metric measurement in parenthesis.
@wobbles
because to convert everything from ounces and pounds, mph and feet, and ounces and liters into kg, kph, meters, etc..it would cost A LOT of money
I JUST moved to another apt in Atlanta. I WISH I had about 10 of these.
What happens when a bit of rain comes at it?
It dissolves into a splodge of paper and castors?
@Heliosphan That's what all cardboard things do... so yea I would rent a lorry to move it across continents...
@Heliosphan
Rain?!
It gets me real pissed off, it makes me wanna say
F*ck!
You'd better look out, because I'm gonna say f*ck!
(See, I was rockin the suburbs there....yeah...awe, damn, I tried!)
The shoes says it's a man in woman shoes. The body sas meh.
@Fugo WOW! I didn't even see the shoes until you said something... Scary shoes.
It's gonna be a slow day.. :(
Nice idea.
But please please please drop the moralizing for "a healthier, greener and more responsible attitude". That turned me off the product completely.
I would never ever use or buy such a convenience product because of some fake and lame "green credentials".
@Liberty I agree. Wouldn't a steel 2 wheel dolly cart be better for this task? No need to recycle a metal one because it will last a hell of a long time.
@slipdisc And steel recycles very easily. Make the wheels of HDPE plastic and it's as green as it gets.
@Liberty
Recyclable does not mean recycled. We all know most of them will end up in the landfill.
Amazing if you add wheels and a handle to a card board box, it's easier to roll around! If this deserves an award for innovation or design, than awards have really lowered their standards. Just make an actual dolly out of cardboard with a couple of straps and you have something thats less wasteful and easier to use than this piece of crap. Oh yeah and the wheels will need to be a little bit bigger in diameter to pull upstairs for the subway. I know if you strapped skis on the bottom it would go through the snow!
@jek
Yep , you have completely missed the point...
A trolley made of cardboard is unlikely to be strong enough to carry heavy boxes. This concept turns the whole box into a trolley. Plus I am sure they could easily modify it to have bigger wheels. And the best inventions are the simple (and quite obvious) ones. If you are so great and wise then why on earth did you not patent it? It is better than a metal trolley as stores could sell it to you (or even give them away) when you walk in for an impulse buy.
Genius!
Why would they release a picture like that? Why?
It'd be pretty horrible when the glue on the handle part fails and your heavy box tumbles down the subway stairs, killing and maiming all in its path.
Just buy a freaking folding hand truck. They're cheap, can be bought almost anywhere (home depot, staples, office depot, local hardware or office supply store), and fold up to fit anywhere.
@werk
Your solution is not so good for impulse buys though is it. I generally do not carry a trolley around with me on a day to day basis. Plus I do not generally need a trolley and it seems a bit of a waste to buy one just in case I may one day need to roll a bog box home.
@coolblue2000
I guess my solution isn't good, if you often impulse buy window unit ACs, subwoofers, or perhaps a coffin from Costco. Personally, I don't.
This "green" product is way more wasteful than a simple folding hand truck. Besides the fact that the hand truck is truly reusable, and this thing will likely just get thrown away after one use, a hand truck only costs like $20. Ever buy a shipping box from Staples or the post office or a UPS store? Think those are a ripoff? Just wait until Best Buy can sell you one of these. You pay through the nose for convenience.
And what about when it's raining? Thanks but no thanks. If I have something that big (especially if it is electronic) I don't want to be lugging it around like that on public streets and subways. I'll drive my car.
@Vince730
I think your missing the point.
It's more for people who don't have cars.
You pushed me down the stairs!
Interesting idea. The real question I think is-- is that a woman or a man in the picture? One would assume man from the waist area and the hands, but then the "we're not in Kansas anymore" red shoes suggest otherwise.
Please Americans, this video is from the UK.
Where not everybody has cars, not because they can't afford them, but because they don't need one. More astounding, is that some shops in the UK aren't 'drive-thru', or have car parks. We even have pedestrianised city centres.
I'm sure the same is true in cities like New York.
So this devices saves having to get a taxi, finding somebody who has a car, or struggling to the car park.
'Out of town' shops will still have metal trolleys.
@Nevasleep
Urgh, Engadget needs an Edit option.
@Nevasleep
No offense, but does your knowledge of the US come from the Simpsons? And have you ever left London? I have lived in the UK, and I see no difference in attitude. The English are as car-obsessed as Americans, if not more so. Exhibit one: "Top Gear." There is no equivalent program in the US. The difference you cite is urban vs. rural, period, and of course the UK is much more densely populated. But if you really want to prove your mettle, I challenge you to move house by bus or Tube, using only this wasteful POS. I think you'll rent or borrow a truck, and likely a real handtruck, as I always do.
I like the idea but wouldn't renting a regular metal hand cart be far greener?
@bdeonline How are you supposed to impress your hipster friends with a metal hand cart. You can't reason with hipsters, they don't think logically, they just do whatever trendy things their "non-conformist" friends do. Thus their motto:
The Move-It
For Hipster, by Hipsters!
I want to use one of these as my airline carry on bag!
I might even whip out my sharpies and customize my 'bag'.