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"The Backyard crank is Back - But this time, with Backing."
“Twenty years ago, if the guy down the street had emerged from his garage with a plan for “stackable soaps” – each bar designed with a small cavity in which to set that irritating sliver of soap from the last bar, such that it “melds into a single bar” and creates and “Infinite Cycle of Soap” – you’d have been charmed, perhaps, but deeply skeptical as to whether you’d ever see it happen. Today you can go to the Kickstarter project called Stack and see 1,113 people who altogether have kicked in $17,921, or double what the inventor asked for, to get manufacturing started.”
Jack Hitt is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the public radio program This American Life. He is the author of, most recently, Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character. |
"A nation of Tinkerers"
July 2012 (print edition) 
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“It’s the genius Pringles design, applied to shower time.”
"Soapocalypse prevented! Each bar of Stack has a Soap Sliver-shaped groove at the top, allowing shower-ers (and, hey, bath-takers and hand-washers and what have you) to combine each sliver with the new bar. This is genius for several reasons, the most obvious of which is Stack's implied demise of the Soap Sliver. But, from a tech perspective, the Pringley design is a nice reminder of how utterly simple a new technology can be. Norine is pitching not just "spa quality skin care" and "an all-vegetable base infused with jojoba oil to moisturize and protect sensitive skin"; he's also, and ultimately, pitching a design innovation. He's pitching a groove. A groove that's a force for good."
Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was formerly an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab, where she wrote about innovations in the media. |
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“I love this Brilliant Stack soap featuring a groove for merging the previous Bar.”
"What's particularly great about the idea is that it's a tiny change to the shape of the bar. It just adds a grooved indent so you can stack the previous bar on top, and after a few uses, they'll be stuck together for good. And once that merged bar is reduced to a sliver, you can then stack it on top of a new bar again, creating a hygienic circle of life that means you'll never have to discard soap."
Andrew Liszewski is a Contributing Editor for Gizmodo |
"One groove turns soap bar slivers into Infinite Soap"
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"Stack Soap isn't just Banking on convenience."
"The product is lightly scented, formulated with an all-vegetable base and infused with jojoba oil, making it suitable for dry, sensitive skin. These are top attributes cited by consumers when shopping the bar soap aisle and are likely to boost the appeal of Stack soap when it hits the shelves."
Amy Ziegler, Global Personal Care Analyst for Mintel Group Ltd. Mintel is a London-based market research firm. |
Soap & Shower
March 2010 |
