The Adjustable Pivot Seesaw helps your child learn while playing!

I was a pretty skinny kid growing up, which roughly translates to “I hated the seesaw growing up”. As a kid who didn’t weigh much, I spent most of my time on the seesaw just suspended in mid-air, as the kids heavier than me held me hostage. It isn’t really my fault I had an incredible metabolism, but back in the day, I’d have really appreciated something like this adjustable pivot seesaw!

The working behind the concept is pretty simple. Shift the pivot on the seesaw and the amount of weight needed to bring it to equilibrium changes too. Make one side longer, and a lighter kid sitting on it will weight as much as the heavier kid on the shorter end. The Adjustable Pivot Seesaw is a great playground toy to tinker with the concept of equilibrium, as kids of different weights play on it. It’s a great toy even for adults who want to enjoy some quality time on the seesaw with their kids!

The Adjustable Pivot Seesaw is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2019.

Designer: Lu Xinhui

What Goes Up(cycle) Must Come Down

As you might infer from the name, the Seesaw Bench puts the FUN in functionality with a clever design that doubles as a place to sit and relax or an interactive way to engage with strangers and friends alike! Composed of reclaimed materials, including upcycled tires, each unit is as efficient to produce as it is eco-friendly. Though simple in form and function, its balanced aesthetic and contrast in shapes make it a sculptural object despite being produced from otherwise unsightly materials!

Designers: Cheung Lui, Hui King Pun ,Tai Yan Ying ,Wong Hiu Tung, & Kacama Design Lab

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Level Heading Stretcher

Skiing, trekking, rock climbing and all the similar thrills that the mountains provide also come with the high risk of accidents. The rescue operations of such victims demand specialized equipments that can tackle the unique challenges posed by a mountainous terrain. The Seesaw stretcher is a smart yet simple solution that seems to have the agility to adopt to such demanding conditions.

The bed of the Seesaw stretcher is fixed on two pivots that allows it to swivel. This swivel action helps it to balance the victim’s body in horizontal level even while traversing steep inclinations. Activate a locking mechanism and the stretcher turns into a regular fixed type. I feel that the stretcher can play a role in not just mountain rescue operations but also urban fire rescue scenarios that involves stairs and tall buildings.

Often, the most genial solutions come dressed as simple designs. The Seesaw stretcher is a classic example for that, tilting scales in favor of safer rescue operations.

Designers: Jeon Youngwon & Jeong Eunji

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Balance Seesaw Ensures a Fair Ride for Kids, Big and Small

If you ever went riding on a seesaw when you were a kid, you know how unrewarding the experience could be if the kid on the other side weighed decidedly more or less than you. But thanks to the laws of physics, one designer has come up with a solution to this problem.

balance see saw

Industrial designer Honghai Yu’s Balance seesaw offers an adjustable seating design which fixes the balance problem by allowing the lighter of the two children to pull their seat out, and moving one child further away from the pivot point. The result – a smooth ride on the teeter-totter for all. It’s not clear, though how significantly the riders’ weights could differ for this to work before the length of the seat extension became impractical. I’m sure some of the physics geeks out there could help calculate that for us.

It’s an ingeniously simple solution to an age-old playground problem. There’s no word on if or when the Balance seesaw will show up in parks, but it did take home a 2012 iF concept design award.


Light up seesaw makes Australia’s Federation Square feel like a kid again (video)

Light up seesaw makes Australia's Federation Square feel like a kid again

Nothing makes us smile like combining our nostalgia for childhood with our current love of hacking up gadgets and electronics. So, we've got to hand it to the folks over at ENESS, a design group whose latest installation takes cues from the playground as well as the DIY scene. Details on what exactly went into the build are sadly scarce, but it seems safe to assume there's at least one accelerometer on the Tilt of Light somewhere. See, this seesaw is home to 33 rows of lights that react in real time to the motion of the lever. There are also four different "atmostpheres" to choose from (air, water, space and yogurt), which effect how the light behaves. Right now the glowing teeter-totter is sitting pretty in Melbourne, Australia as part of the Light in Winter program. You can see this marvel in action in the video after the break, or by making the trip to Federation Square before July 1st.

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