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If I want to float that on the sea ,Should I have 8 empty bottles?
However, that has 6 legs-hole .. where is 2 ? ^^

What do you do with the cap you have to unscrew to screw it to that thing?

Also 8 legs? why do I only see 6? hmm I may be crazy.

most bottles you find on the beach will be different sizes, shapes and often have different thread sizes which could be problematic

People:

I think you’re missing the point [comments regarding number of legs, caps or bottle neck sizes].

The idea is to encourage children to collect the bottles off the beach. Engaging them in a positive activity which helps the environment. If the bottle doesn’t fit, well at least they picked it up! If the bottle has a cap (and really who screws the cap back on an empty bottle only to toss it on a beach) they take the cap off…

It’s a wonderful catalyst for teaching children ecological responsibility.

If it’s a toy for kids, the kid won’t be happy unless the 6-legs octopus get 8 legs! What if the kid is in a clean beach? Maybe he would get bottles from the garbage. Or make his family drink 16 liters of soda, so he can get 8 bottles to use 6.

I love the idea. That someone would make a toy like this restores some of my faith in design. This about it: should it require the same bottle for each “leg,” the child could go find bottles and place the ones that don’t work in the recycling bins or in the trash (because recycling bins might be hard to come by on the beach). Two challenges solved: the problem-solving skills of the kid get developed AND more than six bottles are picked up off the beach. And for those who claim the kid might pull bottles out of the trash to complete the octopus? Please don’t have children. No one wants your little hellions running unsupervised out in the world.

Love it. I’d buy one if I knew how to get it in the U.S.

SEXTOPUS!!!

Idea: creative…. beyond that I think we’re kidding ourselves a bit here. Yes, it only has six holes for bottles (really glad right now that Jaehyung Hong isn’t designing airplanes), and yes the threading on bottles will be different. To think that kids will simply run to the recycling bin (easily located on the beach?!) when they find one that doesn’t fit is, well, stretching it to say the least. You and I both know that pretty soon (if they do indeed find this fun) they will stop seeing the bottles they know won’t fit, and will only be picking up the ones that do…

I have to agree with Matze that children won’t learn about ecological responsibility through picking up trash AND PLAYING WITH IT…

What’s that Timmy? You want to take your trash - I mean “toy” home? I really don’t want those dirty things in my new SUV so we better recycle them before we leave. Sorry, they don’t seem to have recycling bins here at the beach Timmy, so just throw them in the trash and we’ll recycle them next time….

Six Legged Design Thingy: 1
Environment: 0

This comment thread is everthing that’s great about the internet. Take a nice idea and rip it apart. And everyone’s right, it *is* a *nice* idea with good intentions, but it’s also totally unrealistic and impractical, and the fact that the happy promo pictures show the product with eight (sorry six) clean, uniform, label-less bottles undermines the whole point. I just keep thinking of more and more questions about its practicality, on top of the many listed already. Does it make sense to use more plastic to make the octopus? Is the octopus recycleable and/or made from recycled materials? Do we need more plastic? Is this really something a parent is going to want to drag to the beach along with 500 other toys, blankets, umbrellas, picnics, etc? Where do the caps go? Do cigarette butts, shards of glass, syringes, etc go into the bottles first? How long before kids fill the bottles with saltwater and turn it into a 3-lb ninja throwing star? What percentage of discarded bottles on the beach contain urine? do parents really want their kids playing with trash and dragging dirty, urine-filled bottles home? And I’m sorry, an octopus has eight legs, if they needed to make it with six, they shoulda called it an insect or a space station or Sealab or something.

wow, this is incredible, a simple design that probably works. I just hope that once they’re done making the octopus they dont throw the bottles back on the beach

I knew it I knew it would happen ! good .

This is a very cool idea. What a great way to keep a kid busy for a while.

Does anyone know how to contact Jaehyung Hong as im doin a project on engaging kids with discarded material and it would help alot! Thanks

it’s a great idea: encourages children to recycle/keeping the enviornment clean while also enjoying themselves. and BTW, cap sizes are always the same so that’s not a problem

Octopus have tentacles not legs haha Its a great concept. Congratulations!

So it’s a sixtopus

“Octopus have tentacles not legs haha Its a great concept. Congratulations!”

Nope, Octopi have legs.

Squid have got tentacles though.

Don’t touch it, little boy! Can’t you see it only has six legs? It’s not an octopus! You are being deceived! If it’s lied about that, who knows what else it is plotting? Don’t help it’s evil plans come to fruition!