Silver Wear
Interplay Award Commendation Winner 2023
Insight:
Travel utensils exist, but one of the biggest problems seems to be that you forget to bring them when you need them. Separately people are wearing things like permanently bent silver forks as jewelry. Could we make these items actually usable as well as decorative?
photo credit: wikihow
How might we create a fork bracelet that’s actually functional as an eating implement?
Concept:
a bracelet that turns into a fork when you apply tension to the internal ligature
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