Catpod Brief (Draft)

Elliot Dugas

The Catpod is a sleek home for your feline friend that allows for portability, comfort, and customization. With the hexagonal 'pod' design, our Catpod allows users to stack and place as their pods on top of one another as they please. This allows for ultimate customization when deciding how you want your feline friend to enjoy its time off.

The Catpod is an innovative product designed to provide a welcoming, multi-functional home for your cat. The Catpod has many different forms to it. Its unique locking mechanism allows you to use it as a comfortable to-go crate when your're taking your cat on the road, It also serves as a stylish playhouse for your cat to relax or play with yarn in, while you're cooking and cleaning around the house. One of the most interesting features of this product is that it is capable of transforming into a mega play-set. By stacking multiple Catpods on top of one another, you can provide your cat with a multiple story, layered play set. 

The reason Catpod was created is to break the barrier with cages for animals. Why does a crate for your animal have to be so outdated and ugly? These designs could be considered intimidating for many cats. Our vision at Catpod is to eliminate this intimidation. The animals we have in our lives deserve the best, and Catpod delivers that to them. 


Project Brief

Tomohiro Niwano

CatPod is a portable, hexagonal kennel designed for cats. Its hexagonal design allows the users pet owner to use the space more efficiently.

The main reason why this product exists is to provide the cat owners a more cleaner and efficient alternative to the kennels that is are currently available on the market at this time. While most kennels are either made of fabric or metals, CatPod will be made out of plastic. which This will allow the cat owners to wash the pod when needed, which could help with maintaining the good health conditions of cats keeping their cat clean, happy and healthy. However, The CatPod's main feature is its modularity. where People who owns many multiple cats could have a pod for each, and stack up the pods in in any way they prefer. With its hexagonal shape, pods will form a structurally-stable honeycomb structure, which is structurally stable, and that uses the space very efficiently. 

Great description! Maybe add one sentence at the end that explains how cats could have the option to play and move between pods.

The designing process of this product was very straight-forward, but as it developed, the development began, more time was spent on designing the sliding mechanism for the pods. This is the most important part of this product because this mechanism allows the users to slide the pods together and apart in and out, so that they could take to pods with them to the outside if they need to. Other things that is in the final stage of designing is Another aspect of the design development includes the lid's lock mechanism, which potentially could be replaced with velcro in order to reduce time. 

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