Durian Opener

Rahman, Rizal (2010) Durian Opener. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition (STEDex’10), 2. pp. 195-196. ISSN 2180-0685

Abstract

A local product requires a local tool to operate. The durian fruit opener is a tool designed to cater for the need of promoting tropical climate fruits to international market. Physically, the durian is thorny and quite difficult to open. Every species of durian has different rind thickness where traditionally, the durian is opened using hand tools, i.e. knife or parang and assisted by a gloved hand. It requires special skills and knowledge only known to some local people. In a local environment, the consumer will hold the durian on one palm and strike open the durian at the centre of the striate with a knife. Based on this mechanism, much force is applied. The thorns on the durian skin can easily hurt the hands. Therefore, women seldom open the durian on their own. This ‘Durian Opener’ is specially designed and crafted by Chong Wei Wei to ease users who want to enjoy this fruit at home. The design is a portable household durian opener. Using this device, the task will use less force since the opener is convenient, safe and easy to use. Furthermore, besides encouraging durian to be promoted to international market, this device’s design caters to users with different abilities including women and elderly people as it requires less force with high safety features.......[Read more]

Item Type: Article
Subjects: T Technology > T342 Industrial Design Coordination
Divisions: Faculty of Architecture and Design
Last Modified: 29 Mar 2011 20:38
URI: http://stedex.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19
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