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Wheelbarrow-inspired drinks-cooler is easy to pull around, and can float on water too!

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The Ondago goes where your party goes. With a tire-inspired rubber exterior, it rolls around wherever you want, and it’ll float on water too, for the ultimate pool/riverside party!

Close your eyes and imagine a drinks cooler. Chances are you thought of something boxy, with a blue or red base and a white lid. Sure, a boxy cooler makes sense because it provides more internal storage space for your cylindrical drink-cans, but that’s about all it’s good for. It isn’t really easy to transport (imagine having to lift that box around with you wherever you go), and it really turns a pool party into a by-the-pool party because your cooler can’t float on water. Clearly annoyed by these limitations, our friends at Knack Design Studio and DERRK decided to go back to the drawing board with the drink cooler and see if they could make it, well, better.

The Ondago cooler is best described as a cooler that “encourages adventure instead of limiting it”, according to Kelly Custer from Knack Design Studio. It ditches that cuboidal form factor for something more cylindrical (inspired by balloon tires), and a handle built into the cooler’s design lets you easily pull it around like a trolley. The fact that the entire cooler is basically wheel-shaped means it rolls equally well on gravel, sand, and on rocks. Once you reach your destination, the handle folds inwards and you can simply tip the Ondago over to stand vertically (to stop it from rolling as well as to access the contents of your cooler). The entire outside of the cooler comes made from recycled rubber that lets the cooler roll on rough terrain, and the rest of the cooler uses recycled plastic too, allowing it to have somewhat of minimized carbon footprint!

The Ondago’s unique design wasn’t envisioned to just conquer terrain… it was designed to float too! The drinks-cooler doubles up as a floating beer caddy, so you can have pool parties unencumbered. Ace 3D Designer and YouTuber Derek Elliot (also known by his internet moniker DERRK) even conjured up a video to show the Ondago in action as it goes from sand to soil to water without breaking a sweat, and while keeping your brewskis cool! Let’s see your ugly, bulky, heavy drink cooler do that? Or in other words, they see the Ondago rollin’… they hatin’.

Designer: Knack Design Studio and DERRK

Design for learning and play!

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Good design makes a product useful. The Nest is a wheelbarrow/chair designed for children in their pre-school phase. It not only exercises their motor skills, it also gives them something interesting to interact with. The fact that it is a 2-in-1 product not only means a smaller carbon footprint, it also helps by giving kids a wonderful lesson in design! Additionally, the nest makes minimal use of resources by being machined entirely out of a 4′ X 4′ plywood sheet.

Designer: Matthew Olson

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Wheelbarrow Or Handcart?

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Alteration Wheel Barrow is a clever design that transforms the regular wheelbarrow (featuring a single wheel) to a handcart-esque design, by simply splitting the main wheel into two. This action makes it manageable to push and transport the load to its destination.

Designers: Bosoon Sang, Park Jin Kyeong and Kim Kun Hyung

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Wheelbarrow with Internal Combustion Engine: Can Your Wheelbarrow Go Faster Than This?

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Hold your horses–er, barrows–because this might just be the fastest motor-powered wheelbarrow you’ll ever see!

Apparently modding wheelbarrows is a thing now, at least in Poland, where one dude decided to hook his barrow up with what sounds like a trail bike motor to give it that extra boost. It’s probably all for novelty’s sake. I mean, it’s admittedly pretty cool to have a wheelbarrow you can ride like a Segway, right?

And who knows, the extra speed might actually come in handy when you need to transport something (or someone) fast! The fact that it gets you places is a huge plus, too.

Clearly, you won’t be able to buy this anywhere. But if you’ve got a wheelbarrow in your garage and a spare motor just lying there…well, you know what to do.

VIA [ C|NET ]

Teen Creates Engine Powered Wheelbarrow

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Wheelbarrows are a great invention. They have helped laborers haul all manner of things easily and without breaking their backs. But in today’s world they could use some extra power.

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The internal combustion engine-powered wheelbarrow is the wheelbarrow we need. If nothing else, it gives bored farm kids a bit of a cheap thrill. It was created by a teenager in Poland. We don’t have many details, but it’s a wheelbarrow with an engine! Enough said. Check out the video to see it in action:

Now there is a wheelbarrow that will make your job go super quick as you haul items. Remember, always wear your helmet when wheelbarrowing.

[via Damn Geeky]