Umbra Paper Towel Holder

grabcad

With technology being so integrated into our life's, my first idea was to make the paper towel holder that had a second duty holding a Ipad but then thought to myself why limit it to just this. With input from my wife and watching her work in the kitchen setting the Ipad or cookbook on the counter, I came up with a solution that would hold any tablet (Ipad, Kindle, Android...) but also a cookbook or picture frame. My second inspiration for the design came from the fact that our kids love watching movies on the Ipad while eating a snack but the mess that needs to be cleaned up requires walking to the paper towel dispenser and coming back to the mess, not with this design, just reach under and pull out as much as needed. The material to be used in the holder could be any metal or plastic. For simplicity the design has no moving parts.