Elefount
A portable water system for cars. How do you make it smarter?
- Role
- Industrial design engineering
- Stage
- Research to prototype concept
- Where
- Costa Rica
The challenge
In Costa Rica, surfers and beachgoers had a habit of mounting PVC pipes on their cars to rinse off after the beach. Simple. Cheap. The problem was that water sitting in those pipes under the sun would reach 40°C, and there was no way to use it as drinking water either.
The thinking
This wasn’t a design brief. It was a raw problem handed over by investors who saw an opportunity. The job was to start from zero, understand the behaviour, find the real pain points, and develop a concept that solved them without killing the simplicity that made the original habit work.
The work
A concept product system addressing both the temperature problem and the drinking-water opportunity, developed from first principles. From problem to prototype concept, no brief required.
