Creative Exercise #7: Egg Drop Soup

OK... so here is another creative exercise from the book, "Caffeine For The Creative Mind" by Stefan Mamaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield. The book is a collection of 250 exercises to help "wake up your brain". Remember... the only way that this is going to work is if YOU PARTICIPATE. So... each time I post an exercise... YOU have to play along... alright?

If you are just joining us... you can go back and do the first 6 to catch up if you'd like. Some of the exercises will seem a little silly at first... but they are designed to get you to think outside of the box.

This time around... you must create a container for an egg that will safely keep the egg from breaking when dropped from a 2 story window. You can make the container out of anything you'd like. Draw a sketch of the container and label the parts. Use a dotted line to signify where the egg would be, inside of the container... and callouts to describe what the materials are and what their function would be.

Here is the one that I came up with. I'm not real sure that it would work... but it was fun to invent.

The egg is in the center of an 8" plastic shell filled with packing "peanuts". The shell is surrounded by a rubber membrane filled with non-newtonian fluid (or "Oobleck"). The membrane is held together by a hula-hoop frame.