Sep 24 2009Geometric Cans Look Cool, Prevent Rolling

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awesome! especially the coke logo on the coffin bit.

come

cool

Soda cans are round because they are A) easier and cheaper to manufacture that way, and B) can withstand more internal pressure.

They also use less material, and dispensers are designed with rolling in mind.

This solution to a non-problem (rolling off the counter? How often does that really happen?) introduces WAY more problems than it supposedly solves.

The concept is dead on arrival.

why dont they make geometiric straws

@5 my thoughts exactly, you'd have to use a thicker gauge metal for the can... if you were to use the same the can would just push itself back into a cylinder... It is however pretty cool looking... I wonder if i can buy Brawndo in that can... It has electrolytes..

A. Cool looking can. I like the one sans coloring.

B. Do they really still put the word "classic" on the cans/bottles? New Coke died out like what...20 years ago?

C. They would still roll...just as pencils do.

D. No Coke...Pepsi! Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger!!!

E. Just skip the cans all together and give me my Mt. Pew in syringes so I can just mainline the junk directly into my jugular. kthxbye

Dynomint totally caught it, the first thing I saw was "Coke Coffins". If you are going to play with a globally known brand... don't f* up the logo. As long as you are sculpting a can, why not sculpt around the current design. Have we learned nothing from God's glorious design? If you want to stop a cylinder from rolling on it's slide, you place one very awkward leg on it: http://www.geekologie.com/2009/09/snake_with_foot_found_killed_i.php

They need to make metal trash cans like this... maybe then I won't be rolled down hill in one...

Doubt it

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@5 well said, I was thinking the same thing
@8 if they print 'classic' on it, I think it should be the original formula when it had a little coke in it

If I ever lose a d10, I'll just roll a Coke Can. Now if we could only get some icosahedron...

How will this affect me shotgunning beers?

this is a down-grade! there's so little polygons that even my old Geforce3 could handle this!

What ever happened to the dumbell shaped can shown in Enemy Mine? Oh, wait, that was Pepsi!

@8 WHAT!? Sans colored? There is no color at all on that one! Besides, I don't think there is a color called "sans"!

Great. Two cans will "lock" during assembly and 600 cans per minute will be fountain off the line. I don't think the can factory will run more than a minute before that happens. Not to mention issues with coating the insides of geometric cans.

@5 I thought the same thing when I saw it

In order to be featured on Geekologie, I think conceptual products should have a real life prototype at the very least. Not just some computer-generated rendering. Is creating this can even feasible? You can't just make up some imaginary, impossible-to-create product and call it a "concept".... that should be against the rules.

The coffin shaped polygons a message that if you drink too many of these you end up in one? What the hell, we end there anyway.

Stupid concept, cool design.

@17

sans = without, or absence of

the can looks kinda cool, i love the coffin detail.

@ 5 you nailed it, my thoughts exactly, well probalby not exactly, but close, so close

What if they did beer cans like this? I would find it very hard to shotgun a beer without spewing it all over myself.... Hell with it!!! I'd still try it out =)

17 - You are sans brains.

A round of applause for 5 since everyone seems to agree
but i mean why wouldn't you want your coke can to roll??? pft

One word: PLASTIC. Who says "cans" have to be metal?
Also, no all vending machines depend on roll capability: these machines have conveyor belts that keep drinks upright.
Besides, people who make designs usually understand how they could be put into production, which doesn't have to be the way they are manufactured currently. Just look at Blu-Ray. It beat out HDDVDs for many reasons, even though they required new machines and methods of manufacture, as opposed to HDDVDs, which could be made on the existing equipment.

@28
Good point. But it still comes back to solving a problem that does not exist.

Must by why Halo armor is angular like this.

Prevents bodies from all the dead noobs from rolling around. =)

If you're going to prevent rolling, can you make it not stable at the perfect angle to dump all my soda? Gomboc cans? http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/gomboc_the_selfrighting_piece.php

Hey, some people like cans, others prefer bottles.
I say this.

Aerosol.
Give us cans of aerosol Coke!
Id buy it.

OR.
Do what Mountain Dew did, and use aluminum bottles.
Same feel as a can, but the minimal air:drink ratio of a bottle!
=D

A can that doesnt roll? So now when i throw my empties out the window when im driving, instead of them rolling into the gutter and out of traffic im going to have to actually exert myself and throw them far enough to reach the gutter??? Thanks a lot einstiens. Every graphic design student in the world should be shot.

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The only way this concept would be adopted would be if they made it cheaper to produce.

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100% agree w/ 2, 5, 14, 20, 32 (Bud's got aluminum bottles as well, I guess)

@28:

one word: NO

producing plastic cans is done e.g. by Red Bull in Germany due to can deposit regulations and it
1. costs a fortune
2. does not close perfectly (sealing on top cover)
3. has a completely different appearance
and so on...

this "concept" -if it's worth calling it a concept- totally shows off a 100% lack of any knowledge in producing and filling beverage cans. the top cover is flanged to the body - this works with circular shapes only, since the flanging tool rolls around the rim. no angularities possible. proposal rejected. period.
apart from meeting a no-need.
apart from the coffin shapes.