S5E9 - No Engineering Degree. No Prototype. He Signed Up for CES Anyway | Floyd Freeman

What does it take to solve a problem that everyone experiences and nobody has fixed?

In this episode of Why Design, Floyd Freeman shares the belief that sits at the heart of his work: that the most obvious problems are sometimes the hardest to solve not because the technology does not exist, but because no one has connected the pieces. FlushLocks a smart lock and unattended tap payment system for commercial restrooms is the result of one afternoon in Boulder, Colorado, a nappy emergency and a door with a code that said customers only.

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