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Gaurav SoodBy Gaurav SoodAugust 17, 2017No Comments2 Mins Read
Thomas Howell Jones Rest Backpack
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Every year tonnes of old office chairs end up in the landfill, practically increasing the carbon footprint and adding to the disposed-off waste. Seeing this predicament, Thomas Howell-Jones, a Birmingham-based product design student has come up with a simple yet useful idea. He’s using the back rest of disposed-off chairs in the landfill to make backpacks that double as bicycle panniers. To top it off, these backpacks are durable, waterproof and impact-resistant.

Howell likes to call this hard-shell backpack ‘Rest’, and for its effective utility it won the 2017 RSA Re-Work Brief Winner. The rugsack has got funding from RSA fellowship and other industry contacts which points towards a huge probability that it will make it to the market in coming years.

Coming on to the utility of this dual utility backpack, it morphs from rucksack to a pannier bag by simply tightening the exposed straps. The fact that this backpack has a robust chair back rest, therefore it is highly impact resistant. Its high capacity size makes it ideal for bike messenger jobs or for that matter carrying stuff on daily basis too.

To increase the strength of this backpack, a new kind of attachment technique called G-hook is used for strength and durability.

Although there is no word on the availability of this backpack yet, those of you who have discarded chairs laying around in the house can salvage them to make something similar. That’s because Howell is generous enough to share the DIY technique on his website.

Thomas Howell Jones Rest Backpack
Robust rucksack that can be used as a pannier
Thomas Howell Jones Rest Backpack
Plenty of space on the inside
Thomas Howell Jones Rest Backpack
Convert it from backpack to pannier in a jiffy
Thomas Howell Jones Rest Backpack
Thomas Howell Jones Rest Backpack

Via: Phys.org

2017 RSA Re-Work Brief Winner backpack Backrest bag Chair backrest Discarded chair DIY Office chair Pannier ReST Rugsack Thomas Howell-Jones
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Hailing from the northern region of India, Gaurav has a profound liking for everything upbeat in the cloud and vision to acquaint readers with the latest home decor trends. He likes to observe nature, write thought provoking quotes, travel places and drive cars. And his food for thought comes from the ambient music scores he listens to.

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