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A group of young Canadian designers vacuum-cleans our electrical outlets and our switches for us to deliver a very personal vision of it.

With the image of the slogan of EDF, the designers of Keep It Cartesian bring to us them as more as the light with their projects of electrical outlets and mural switches. This group of students in design of the University of Manitoba with Winnipeg in Canada vacuum-clean these objects of the daily newspaper, two simple objects, so common and normalized that they would be almost forgotten by it by the designers.

By replacing the front face of our catches and switches by judiciously folded and cut out metal plates, Ryan Litovitch, Nis Vik, Thom Fern and Kaley Lawrence associate to them functions additional and thought well, inspired of our practices and our everyday usages.

The Charger Clutch thus integrates a support making it possible to reload its telephone or its multimedia player on a catch without encumbering the ground, thus avoiding exposing the apparatus to an unfortunate trampling:

The Cord Wrap is a support which allows him to astutely roll up the surplus of cable when an apparatus is connected:

The Light Hook adapts him to the switches of the main doors. It invites to hang its keys there once arrived at the house and recalls us to extinguish the light at the time to leave:

The Letter Holder integrates into the switch a small support to slip mail, soft words or list of races:

More, visit the site of Keep It Cartesian.

Source: Make: technology one your time
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