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Modular In-car Coat Hanger Concept Doubles as a Tablet Holder and Stand

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Vehicles like cars and vans have a variety of storage solutions for almost everything you might want to bring with you except for coats, dress shirts, and dresses. It’s not uncommon for people to bring certain clothes they need to hang, but even after decades, the majority of cars don’t have a proper solution to that problem. At the same time, it might be a waste of precious space to have a permanent fixture just for hanging clothes you might bring occasionally, so this accessory concept utilizes a modular design that adds a hanger in your car when you need it or any other thing you need to hang from the back of a car seat, like a tablet, for example.

Designer: BKID co

Theoretically, you could always hang clothes from the car’s grab handles or assist grips, but they’re obviously not designed for that purpose. It doesn’t align the hanger with the car’s cabin, making it awkward, cumbersome, and space-consuming. This Hyundai Multi Hanger, in contrast, uses the space right behind the driver or front passenger seats, using a hanger design that doesn’t get in the way when you don’t need it or can even be used for some other purpose.

The secret to this multi-functional feat is the modular design of the hanger. The hanger itself has “wings” that can fold inside its body, conserving space even while it’s still attached to the seat. The base of the hanger clamps onto the rods of the seat’s headrest, which means you will need to raise that headrest a bit, which could be uncomfortable for the person sitting in front. Alternatively, the hanger itself can be hooked somewhere else, presuming there’s a bar thin enough to fit inside the very small hook.

If you do remove the hanger from the holder, you can attach other parts instead. One of these is a clamp for holding tablets, which transforms the hanger into an entertainment panel, which kids might enjoy. That clamp can also be used standalone, with the connector at the back acting as a stand for the tablet.

In theory, plenty of other things can be attached to this modular system, like a pocket or basket for small items or maybe even a holder for food and drinks. It’s a simple yet effective solution that takes advantage of an often overlooked area of cars, made possible thanks to the creative use of foldable mechanisms.

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A Modern Multifunctional Hanger That Can Be Used For Shirts As Well As Sarees

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Design is an ever-evolving stream, innovation often stems from addressing everyday challenges. The KOI Cloths Hanger PD1 is a testament to this principle, as it sets out to tackle the inconveniences associated with traditional clothes hangers. Recognizing the limitations of bulky and non-portable designs, the KOI Hanger introduces a clean, minimal, and modular approach, redefining the way we organize our wardrobes.

Designer: ADHITHYA VISHNU M

Traditional clothes hangers, while serving their basic purpose, have long been associated with a lack of portability and impractical bulkiness. Recognizing this shortcoming, the creators of KOI set out to redefine the clothes hanger, envisioning a product that not only serves its fundamental purpose but also aligns with the contemporary lifestyle where convenience and versatility are paramount.

The KOI Clothes Hanger emerges from a design brief that prioritizes innovation and user-centricity. Focusing on modularity and portability, the objective was to create a clothes hanger that seamlessly integrates into the lives of individuals who prioritize convenience, versatility, and style in their wardrobe organization. The result is a sleek and minimalistic design that addresses the drawbacks of traditional hangers while introducing a range of features that cater to the modern user.

This hanger boasts a clean and minimalistic aesthetic that aligns with modern design sensibilities. Its modular design allows for easy assembly and disassembly, promoting hassle-free use. The primary body and head attachment interlock seamlessly through a snaplock mechanism, ensuring a secure and effortless connection between the male and female components. This not only enhances the user experience but also adds a touch of sophistication to the product.

At the heart of this hanger is its innovative snaplock mechanism. The primary body and head attachment fit together with precision, providing a reliable and user-friendly solution for various applications. This mechanism not only ensures a secure connection but also simplifies the process of assembling and disassembling the hanger, offering users a hassle-free experience.

One of the standout features is its universal attachment. Part A’s male component and Part B’s female counterpart ingeniously fit together via the versatile snaplock mechanism. This design not only guarantees a secure connection but also provides users with the flexibility to choose multiple orientation options. The KOI Hanger adapts to diverse needs and configurations, making it a versatile solution for various wardrobe setups.

This Hanger goes beyond conventional expectations by introducing a saree attachment (An Indian traditional garment). This innovative addition allows users to hang a variety of clothes, including shawls, ties, scarves, and more. The saree attachment, with its option for multiple orientations, transforms into an all-in-one component, catering to the diverse wardrobe needs of users.

The KOI Cloths Hanger stands as a testament to the power of innovation in addressing everyday challenges. By reimagining the traditional clothes hanger, KOI has not only created a practical solution but also introduced an element of style and versatility to the realm of wardrobe organization. As we embrace a future where design meets functionality seamlessly, this Hanger sets a new standard for what a clothes hanger can be.

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This space-saving + ergonomically designed hanger functions like a pair of scissors!

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Open someone’s wardrobe, and you’re gonna find a bunch of hangers within it. Some are actually used to hold clothes, whereas some are randomly strewn about on the shelves, whereas a few others are in locations quite far away from the actual wardrobe! Hangers have pretty much-reached necessity status in a household. But no matter how handy they might be, there is something to be said about their pesky form! Their odd shape makes it difficult to adjust clothes with a narrow or tight neck on them. It’s also difficult to store them, and forget about packing them in your suitcase to carry them with you on your travels! I really don’t know how to shove their un-ergonomic form into my bag. But this is where Yong Jeong’s Snap Hanger comes to the rescue!

The Snap Hanger promises to be everything the ordinary hanger is not. This cleverly designed product comprises of two units. The units fasten together at a single joint, functioning like a pair of scissors! The two units can be attached and detached. When attached, it functions as an ergonomic hanger that can be easily slipped into narrow or tight necked clothing, without any hassle! When detached, the hanger can be effectively stored away or carried with you when you hit the road. Multiple hangers can be attached and combined vertically to help store them without taking up much space!

The Snap Hanger comes in a lot of colorful options, making it a quirky everyday product that is not only ergonomically functional but also adds a pop of color to your wardrobe!

Designer: Yong Jeong

This cleverly designed chair encourages you to hang your clothes on it!

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Ask a designer what the purpose of a chair is and they’ll throw fancy words about lumbar support and complementing interior spaces. Ask a bachelor what the purpose of a chair is and you’ll get two answers – Sitting, and draping clothes.

The Jules chair by Sarah Willemart explores this unintended yet undeniably popular function of the chair. Designed to function as both a chair and a makeshift wardrobe, the Jules is a functional, aesthetic seating device with a new twist. The backrest of the chair comes with an unusual shape that actively promotes you to hang your clothes, from coats and pants, to even hats and handkerchiefs or scarves (or babushkas – a word I recently learnt). The backrest’s innovative shape comes with a bar on the top for hanging clothes, and a hole running through the cushion for you to hang kerchiefs through. The backrest even has shoulder-like proportions, letting you easily drape a coat on it without worrying about it losing its shape or getting wrinkled. Ingenious, eh? Sign me up for three of them.

Designer: Sarah Willemart

Clever “elevated” hanger design helps increase your wardrobe space by 15%

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Spend enough time doing what I do and you’ll stop taking the design of mundane products for granted. Even something as basic as a keychain or a pencil can be redesigned to be made better and I’ll be honest… I can’t look at a regular clothes hanger anymore without noticing at least ten problems in it that can be solved through design intervention.

The COMPACT HANGER hopes to solve a problem nobody seemed to have noticed before. If you look carefully at any regular hanger, it obviously looks like a pair of shoulders, and the hook in the center comes with this neck-like aesthetic. Drape your clothes on the shoulders, and suspend the hanger from the rod in your wardrobe. Now, unless you’ve noticed this before, the hook’s neck-like aesthetic occupies a good 6-8 inches of space between the rod and your clothing… space that could be used efficiently.

Look at the Compact Hanger and you’ll notice that the hook is almost recessed into the hanger’s form… sort of like the hanger is shrugging. Drape your clothes over the Compact Hanger and suspend it in your wardrobe you’ll notice two things. A. Your clothes hang closer to the hanging rod, and B. Those 6-8 inches reappear as free space at the bottom of your wardrobe, allowing you to stack boxes, clothes, folders, appliances, or a bunch of other items, increasing your wardrobe’s storage capacity by a cool 10-15%.

Designed in Italy (a fact that doesn’t surprise me, considering how design and fashion-centric that entire country is), the Compact Hanger’s defining feature is that shrugged design. The hanger comes with an adjustable hook and three height settings, allowing you to use it in its shrugged form, but expand it to become a regular hanger with a long neck the minute you want to hang collared shirts or turtle-necks. This way, the same hanger coolly shape-shifts depending on your wardrobe, helping you carefully store your clothes while effectively helping you to increase wardrobe space too. The hanger is designed to be robust and ergonomic, allowing it to properly hold your shirts, dresses, and even heavy blazers without ruining their shape. Additionally, it comes manufactured using recycled plastic, so while it’s freeing up space in your wardrobe, it’s freeing up oceans previously polluted with plastic! Neat, eh??

Designer: Andrea Giorgi

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Compact Hanger – The World’s Most Space-Saving Hanger

Designed to make your home more organized thanks to the 3-levels adjustable hook, it perfectly fits with collared shirts.

Compact Hanger raises your clothes higher and creates new space underneath.

You can use the extra space for boxes, shoes, accessories, T-shirts etc.

Before & After

Before using the Compact Hanger.

After using the Compact Hanger.

Space Saving

Compact Hanger saves enough space to insert an extra drawer in your wardrobe.

For All Types of Clothes

Since the clothes have collars of different sizes, they have created an adjustable hook on 3 levels to adapt to the hanging garment, so that the clothes never bang on the hanger bar.

Italian Design

Ergonomic Design

They took the 5 best hangers on the market and they studied their shape alongside a dressmaker who makes Italian tailored shirts.

Strong & Recyclable

Made from recycled plastic which is less resistant than the non-recycled one. Therefore they have designed two reinforcing flaps that can make the hanger ultra-resistant.

Reversible Direction

The hanger has 3 holes both in front and behind. This way you can remove the hook and put it back in the opposite direction.

How It Works

Just press the button and pull the hook. So, if you have a pullover you can use the 3rd level. Otherwise, you can use the 1st or 2nd level.

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The key to an organized wardrobe lies in just having a better designed hanger

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I imagine YD sees at least 5 hanger redesigns each year, each better than the previous one, either improving on its strength, its eco-friendliness, or its function. I said these very words exactly a year ago as we featured the first edition of the Hurdle Hanger. the first edition of Hurdle Hanger (Hurdle Hanger for Pants) aimed at being the best way to organize/hang your pants. The Hurdle Hanger 1.0 could hang pants in a way that conserved space, saved loads of time, and kept the pants wrinkle-free. This version, however, is designed to be more all-encompassing. Designed to be what Collabo Space claims to be the most hassle-free hanger ever, the Hurdle Hanger lets you hang everything from shirts to pants, scarves, and belts in mere seconds. It’s the classic example of how form often follows function in a way that’s so nuanced that it allows the Hurdle Hanger to look slightly different from other hangers, but be remarkably better at what it does.

Most hangers aren’t really consciously designed because they always play second fiddle to the most important items in the wardrobe… the clothes. The Hurdle Hanger, on the other hand, is conscientiously designed to make sure it supports and protects the clothes you wear. It comes with a slightly deformed, asymmetric design that gives it strength as well as the ability to hold all your clothes. Its unique form lets you slide shirts and tees into it in a mere second, without stretching the neck-hole. The same form gives the Hurdle its ability to easily hold scarves, as well as easily hang pants from. A larger loop (the c-type hook) on one end of the hanger even supports belts, letting you hang them by the buckle. The Hurdle Hanger’s design promotes easy, universal hanging in a way that quickly helps you keep your wardrobe organized, while slip-resistant strips on the hanger ensure that your clothes never slide off by accident. The hanger’s design even elevates most clothes by 2-3 more inches than other hangers, giving you more space on shelves to store folded clothes.

Hurdle Hanger achieves all this thanks to good design + engineering, along with the use of ABS in its construction… a recyclable thermoplastic known for strength and durability used for products ranging from protective headgear to Lego bricks. All this combined gives Hurdle Hanger the ability to last longer than conventional hangers while also hanging all your clothes easily, swiftly, and neatly!

Designer: Swen Hong of Collabo Space

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Hurdle Hanger – The One Second Hanger

The Hurdle Hanger is an all-purpose hanger designed to help you organize clothes quickly and easily.

6 Reasons Why Hurdle Hanger

1. Prevents the Neckline from Stretching. The design helps prevent the neckline of your tops from stretching. Now you can hang your favorite shirts, even turtlenecks, with ease.

2. Quick & Easy To Use. Whether it be tops or bottoms, you can hang your clothes effortlessly.

3. Optimal For Both Clothes & Accessories. Organize both clothes and related accessories neatly.

4. Saves More Space. Hurdle Hanger is designed to hang clothes 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7.6 cm) higher than most hangers in the market, creating more storage space beneath.

5. Slip-resistant. The slip-resistant strips help prevent clothes from falling off.

6. Made Of High-Quality ABS. Made of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), an easily recyclable high-quality thermoplastic with increased strength, rigidity, toughness, and temperature & chemical resistance. Because of these properties, ABS is widely used for making all sorts of household and consumer goods, ranging from protective headgear to Lego bricks. It won’t break unless you intentionally attempt to do so by applying excessive force.

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This plastic hanger lets you carry shopping bags the easier way!

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Designed to free-up your hands, this little plastic contraption acts like a hanger for your bags, transferring the weight of the multiple bags to your shoulder. The Tote-It can carry as many as 6 bags (3 on the front and 3 on the back) to free up your hands, helping you carry your stuff easily and walk faster too. The plastic hanger can carry as much as 50 pounds worth of weight without breaking a sweat… that’s provided your shoulder can carry that weight too! With a relatively flat profile, the Tote-It rests on your shoulders without hurting them, and thanks to its foldable design, it fits right into your bags too when you don’t need it! I’ve got to admit, using the Tote-It may get you a few glances and stares as you strut down the road, but that’s so much more bearable than having to struggle with large bags and aching hands, no?

Designer: Tote-It

The Coat Check Chair gives you a seat, as well as a lifetime supply of hangers!

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Perhaps the most practical piece of pop-art I’ve seen, the Coat Check Chair is tongue in cheek (try saying that fast), with the way it addresses fashion, function, form, and fun, all in one design! Basically a sturdy metal frame that also doubles as hanger-storage, the Coat Check Chair comes with as many as 40 hangers that eventually form the seat and backrest of the chair!

The sturdy hangers can take the weight of a person sitting or even standing on it, thanks to their thick cross-section, and they deck pretty well on the chair too, sliding in from the top, accumulating to form a surface you can sit on (two rings at the end of the seat prevent the hangers from sliding over). “By bringing the elements of the closet into the foreground of a person’s daily routine, the Coat Check Chair offers a unique design and a gentle encouragement to stay neat,” says Zeledón. “The hangers’ flexible plastic makes the chair surprisingly comfortable, while its impermanent construction lets users customize in terms of hanger color and pattern.”

Zeledón’s Coat Check Chair is truly an avant-garde representation of today’s wardrobe. Consider it a commentary on many things, from the consumerist culture, to a critique on cupboards, to even a reinvention of the mundane hanger into a product that has much more purpose, structurally, visually, and even emotionally. It manages to achieve all this while becoming a popular visual meme too. The Coat Check Chair is a winner of multiple design awards, including the coveted IDEA award and the Spark award. Flipping traditional furniture (and wardrobe) design on its head, the chair comes in a stainless-steel frame and even across different powder-coated color options. You can even choose the color of the hanger, giving you the feeling of choosing your furniture’s upholstery! The hangers can be used as seats, or periodically even in your wardrobe to hang your garments. When you’re done, slide them back into the chair, giving them more meaning, purpose, and visibility than they would get somewhere in a dark corner in your stuffy closet!

Designer: Joey Zeledón

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Coat Check Chair: Pop Art Meets Practical

This iconic designer chair creates unexpected meaning in mundane objects. Recombining clothes hangers and a steel closet rod, it elevates these pedestrian artifacts into something special.

Your Closet. Reinvented.

By bringing the elements of the closet into the foreground of a person’s daily routine, the Coat Check Chair offers a unique design and a gentle encouragement to stay neat.

The hangers’ flexible plastic makes the chair surprisingly comfortable, while its impermanent construction lets users customize in terms of hanger color and pattern. Timeless and practical, the Coat Check Chair can fit in your studio, home, boutique, hotel or gallery, letting your closet join the party.

Welded Steel Rings

Important Detail

These welded steel rings are what keep the hangers from sliding down the frame. The custom rings intentionally match the diameter of the tubular hangers so they nest together beautifully.

Sit Down or Stand!

It’s true. You can sit on this chair. In fact, you can stand on this chair. Well, Joey can stand on this chair. He weighs 170 lbs. So it’s 170 lbs of his dynamic weight.

Colors

Mix and Match Frame and Hanger Colors to Create Your Own Custom Chair!

7 frame options:

– powder coat: off-white, black, dark pink, dark turquoise, dark yellow, and navy blue
– polished stainless steel

12 hanger colors:

– neutrals: white, off-white, black, grey,
– cools: navy blue, royal blue, turquoise, and purple
– warms: red, pink, orange, yellow

The chair frame is designed and built to work with standard Container Store hangers. We provide a set of hangers with the chair frame, but you can order more hangers in the future from Container Store at any time to make changes to your chair color.

Manufacturing

Joey has partnered with a high quality manufacturer in Pennsylvania. Their innovative powder coating process produces a durable finish with minimal impact on the environment. They don’t use solvents that produce hazardous VOCs. Their pre-treatment system uses rainwater as the source water in the process, does not produce hazardous by-products, and uses an evaporation method to reduce wastewater discharge. Their facilities use energy-efficient infrared heaters to speed curing, reducing carbon footprint. And, they retrieve and reuse powder over spray to minimize waste.

Design Process Zine: The Making of Coat Check Chair

Design Process Zine

This zine showcases the making of Coat Check Chair. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the raw sketches, prototypes and thinking that led up to this iconic designer chair. The story begins in the furniture design studio course at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005.

Print 1

Prints

These are vector art prints of the Coat Check Chair. Each print is on enhanced matte paper poster. 8 x 10 size. Signed by the designer.

Print 2

About the Designer

Joey believes good design is like good music. It’s approachable, engaging, and makes you feel. It’s something you want to play on repeat.

Having led successful design projects at industry stalwarts like Steelcase, Smart Design, and Continuum, Joey’s experience is vast. Since 2006, he has been creating iconic design for both young and established brands that make food, furniture, housewares, lighting, spaces, shoes and tech.

His work has garnered over 25 design awards, a dozen patents and has been published by Apartment Therapy, Boston Globe, Core77, Design Milk, Fast Company, Good Housekeeping, Metropolis, New York Times, Real Simple, Taschen, TIME and Wired.

Born and raised in Upstate New York by a Costa Rican immigrant father and Irish American mother, Joey is proud of his mixed heritage and blue collar roots. He is also proud of being a first generation college graduate. He is grateful for what he has, the people who have supported him and believes wholeheartedly in the American dream.

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The Hurdle Hanger Can Organize your Clothes in Seconds

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The clothes hanger is probably one of those products that each industrial designer looks at with disgust, and probably redesigns at least once in their lifetime. They’re so commonly found and horribly designed, that they’re the perfect product to relook and reinvent. I imagine YD sees at least 5 hanger redesigns each year, each better than the previous one, either improving on its strength, its eco-friendliness, or its function. The Hurdle Hanger, like all its predecessors, looks at the common household hanger with a similar feeling of repugnance, promising to do more, and look better while doing it.

Designed with the specific objective of being the world’s easiest and strongest pant-hanger, the Hurdle is a single-piece hanger that’s molded out of ABS, rather than the common PP hangers that flex and break. ABS is break-proof and impact resistant, allowing the hanger to easily take the weight of your pair of jeans without buckling or snapping under the pressure. It also helps that the hanger measures a cool 6 millimeters in thickness, making it marginally thicker than your flimsy plastic hanger, but loads stronger too.

The Hurdle Hanger’s design comes in an open, linear pattern that makes sliding and draping your pants on them easy. If you’ve got shorts that are too short to drape on the Hurdle, hang them by sliding the hanger through the belt loops. The draping method works well for most of your clothes (topwear too), while the insert-holding technique makes it easy to hang shorts, or pants you don’t want to crease/fold (pro-tip, you could use this technique to hold pants that have stuff in their pockets too). A non-slip surface on the hanger prevents your clothes from accidentally sliding off, while a dedicated hook on one end helps you also hang accessories like belts, caps, etc. All in all, the Hurdle promises to broadly do three things better than regular wooden or plastic hangers. Be easier to use, provide more features, and last much longer than run-of-the-mill mass-produced pant-hangers.

What’s noteworthy about the Hurdle Hanger is that unlike most of the hanger redesigns we end up featuring on YD, the Hurdle isn’t conceptual. Taken from sketch to prototype to mass-manufacturing, designer Seungwoo Hong plans to make his iteration of the hanger available to the public. The Hurdle Hanger is currently in its crowdfunding stage, available in anywhere from a pack of 10 for regular consumers, to packs of 60 for retail outlets and warehouses.

Designer: Seungwoo Hong

Click Here To Buy Now: $20 $25 (20% off).

 

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The Hurdle Hanger is an organizing solution that removes all of the existing inconveniences of pants maintenance like crumples, crease, clip marks, and having to take out coins from the pockets! It is the world’s easiest and strongest pant-hanger.

Hurdle Hanger is easy and intuitive to use. Literally takes 1 second.

The Hurdle is a single-piece hanger that’s molded out of ABS and is break-proof and impact resistant. ABS allows the hanger to easily take the weight of your pair of jeans without buckling or snapping under the pressure.

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HOW TO USE

Insert Holding way of using the Hurdle Hanger.

Fold Holding way of using the Hurdle Hanger.

Front Holding way of using the Hurdle Hanger.

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Panasonic Deodorizing Coat Hanger Does the Laundry for You

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Those too lazy to take their clothes to the dry cleaner will love Panasonic’s new clothes hanger, the Nanoe X. It deodorizes your clothes for you. The deodorizing hanger works by using negatively charged particles, or “nanoe,” to clean your clothes. These ions gather moisture from the air and are a billion times smaller than steam particles.

It won’t get stains off your clothes, but at least it will eliminate odors like sweat and cigarette smoke without harming your fabrics. Or you could just do it the old fashioned way and spray some Febreze on it and save yourself some money.

If you must clean your clothes on this hanger, it has two cleaning modes and will take 5 to 7 hours to get them completely deodorized. The Panasonic Nanoe X hanger is priced at 20,000 yen, or about $180(USD).

[via Engadget]

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