Final

Nicole Magnuson-Murray and Laura Clayton

Why use a little hand sized piece of styrofoam with fuzz on the other side to erase a huge whiteboard? The process of erasing a whole board takes a while and doesn’t always hit all the spots on the board. A teacher has such limited time within a class and can’t waste any of it. Blink erases the board in seconds and gives teachers more time to spend with their students. Or, If a teacher needs to go somewhere quickly, our eraser allows them to be on time.  Also, Blink makes sure to get all the spots that drives some students crazy.

Blink is a long piece of wood with magnets along one side and felt covering the whole thing. This giant eraser has magnets all along the face and a rope attached to the top and bottom that is connected to a pulley system. The pulley system allows you to use the large muscles in your body (your legs, your core) to easily pull the eraser across the board -- much easier than pushing with the smaller muscles in your hand, wrist, and shoulder. This ergonomic design allows anyone to erase the entire board with little effort in the blink of an eye.