Hasta La Ideas

The thing I loved about the Harlem nightclub in Tokyo is that they had lockers. To be able to stow your stuff, then collect it at the end of the night without spending a half-hour waiting in the coat-check lines I was used to from NYC clubs, seemed a much more civilized way to do things.

Yet coat-check lines persist in New York, and the poor design of this system affects, in unexpected ways, peoples’ behavior; on a cold winter night, pass any Meatpacking hotspot with a line out the front and you’ll spot dozens of skimpily-dressed females shivering their asses off, because they’ve left their coats at home to avoid dealing with the coat-check line at the end of the night.

After analyzing why coat-check systems take so long, Cooper Union engineering student and ex-coat-check-clerk Alyssa Davis then came up with a better, technology-based solution. Check it out:

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