Cardboard boxes probably aren’t something you think about often unless you’re planning to move house. But engineering students Henry Wang and Chris Curro thought about them a lot: their design, their difficulty of use, their wastefulness. And they decided to do something about the standard cardboard box problems by designing their own.

The Rapid Packing Container requires no glue or tape to assemble. You simply shove the unmade box into a specialized square container, then with one hand close the box with its built-in wax seal. The demo made by the inventors looks extra cool, but the design has plenty of critics who don’t believe the new design can match the durability and strength of the traditional box. We hope to see these young dreamers realize their goals and reinvent the ubiquitous box.

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The cardboard box design is reasonably straightforward: it is a box. But anyone who has ever had to move a hundred or so of them in the course of moving house knows that this straightforward design can lead to some irritating moments. Trying to get those things up off of the floor requires tipping them one way or the other, trying to slide your foot under one side, or otherwise maneuvering them to get a solid handhold. The Corner Box design from Lin Tsen Ying and Huang Hsiao Yuan uses a rather simple method to make picking up boxes much easier.

The Corner Box features one inverted corner, providing a convenient place to put a hand. The prototype created by the designers involves a corner that has been cut off off the box and then refitted onto the box – but this time, pointing in. The designers think that the box could be mass produced with existing production methods, but it would require some careful engineering to maintain the structural integrity of the box while adding the corner handhold.

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