U-Cap: The Next Generation of Plastic Bottle Caps?

by smoa on 2008-09-08 20:44:44

Although the caps of water and beverage plastic bottles nowadays are designed to be very easy to open, the target crowd for the design of this "easy" experience are people with normal physical abilities, who have strong fingers and wrists. However, if they are elderly people, children, disabled people or patients with relatively weak physical conditions, they may still find it not that easy to open them.

Thus, Jeong Hoon Cha has designed a bottle cap with a protruding part, so that people can apply force in many ways to open such a cap. Even if one cannot grip tightly, he or she will still be able to twist open the cap through a mild gripping + pressing and pushing force. Moreover, this cap is made from materials that can naturally degrade, absolutely environmentally friendly~ Pictures below: