W1: Reimagining Everyday Objects

Floating Luggage

 

Have you been wondering why there is only luggage design with trolley type and hand carry and it usually cause trouble for us to carry while we using stairs or escalator. The generation has been pass for few decade and the design are still the same.

So, why not we design a luggage with flying mechanism which looks like a drone nowadays such as DJI Mavic. Additionally, to make more enhancement, we can also use AI system to make it easier to carry. For example, we can add a AI tracking in the luggage, so whenever we walk to any area, it will flew with us. How do the AI tracking works? It is simple like camera AI, it tracked our face and body while we walking, the luggage can fly beside us.

Moreover, to improve better security, we can add thumbprint, face ID and password and GPS location system to the luggage, so when people stole or accidentally took it, it cannot be open and it shows the location of the luggage.

Now people would ask, why not people just break it with knife or hammer, well we can use carbon fibers as a material. So what is carbon fiber? To make it shortly, it is a material which sustain high stiffness, high tensile strength, high strength to weight ratio, high chemical resistance, high-temperature tolerance, and low thermal expansion. The weight of the material is also light, so it will not cause any trouble while we send it into a plane. So whenever a person try to break it, it can resist the damage. Furthermore, a good security system will never stop upgrading. we can add a security system in it, if a person try to break or if it was stolen, we can have the face information of it when they try to open it. 

Let's just move back to the main point. Now that we have flying system on the luggage, also added with trolleys and wheel. It make us solve the problem while hand carry using stairs or escalator, but the luggage become bigger, so we can improves the rotary wings, also known as rotor blades into foldable version so when we need to keep in hotel or send it into plane we can fold the wings to make it smaller. The battery of the luggage can hold for a day, so we do not need to worry about the battery unless we forget to charge it fully.

To be specific below is the picture of it.

The rotary wing will be fold under the luggage and while the battery was charging we can also use handle while moving around. the camera can be push down to make it safer.

 The design idea comes from the moment when i see old people and kid carry their luggage and it always be trouble when walking up or down the stairs and need to be carry on with hand. To make everything convenient, making it fly with the owner not only helps us by lowering the usage of our power and strength and when it follow us we do not need to be focus too much on our luggage and with the security system, while we travel abroad we can just have fun without caring our luggage because it will follow us automatically and it have GPS. So whenever we travel we can just focus on our travel plan.

This design purpose is to solve hand carry problem usually happen in our life. It also help people from getting convenient when moving or traveling around. Anyone can use this flying luggage without having too much problem of carrying a heavy luggage walking around or use locker to keep it safe before checking up to their hotel.

 

 References

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2. Dean, G. (2021, October 20). What are FPV drones? Space.com. https://www.space.com/what-are-fpv-drones
   
3.  DragonPlate. (2019). What Is Carbon Fiber? | DragonPlate. Dragonplate.com. https://dragonplate.com/what-is-carbon-fiber