Roly Poly Iron Won’t Burn Your House Down

by Adrian How

Designed by Lee WonKook, the Roly Poly iron has a unique weight shifting mechanism to stand on it’s own with the heating element off your ironing board when not in use, to prevent accidental fires.

The iron itself has a very futuristic minimalist design which appeals to me. Its design was meant to address two issues:

1) chiefly, to prevent burning your clothes (or your home down) due to carelessness

2) it claims that the conventional iron creates immoderate wrist movements having to stand up the iron everytime it’s not in use during your ironing sessions

So how does this iron work exactly by being able to stand itself up? Here’s a diagram that explains it (in rather poor English – but hey, it doesnt really matter when it’s explaining cool tech)