Sugru hack gallery

Sugru is a London based invention which is pure genius! The idea is simple you use Sugru, a silicone based product to hack things better…

Sugru is a putty like substance made from silicone which sets when exposed to air after around 30 minutes. It takes 24 hours to set fully and can be molded and textured to any shape imaginable. Sugru has endless applications and now comes in a few colours, you can even add phosphorescent powder to make it glow in the dark!

We recently spoke to Jane, the inventor of Sugru about how she came up with the idea and how people have been using Sugru in amazing unexpected ways.

Jane teamed up with several retired scientists (I like to think of them as mad professors in the style of doc from ‘back to the future’) and created a silicone based compound which was developed and refined over three years. Jane got loads of advice and training from the scientists which lead to Sugru it it’s current form.

The invention was spawned from a college project whilst Jane was studying at the RCA on the Product Design course and took off after it was featured in a British Airways in flight magazine. Sugru is a really unique invention which has taken off due to it’s customers imagination. People all over the world are hacking things better in the most unexpected ways.

Keep an eye on the Sugru twitter feed and blog to see some cool inventions and uses for the wonderful stuff!

I think Sugru is great and have been using it non-stop since I found out about it. Everyday you spot new ways of using the clever stuff and so far I have used it for:

holding together a smashed usb stick
beautifying a external hard drive
patching up bicycle tyre cuts
fixing the plumbing in our toilet
creating some funky key covers

Sugru and Jane are currently based in lovely East London and sell Sugru online at Sugru.com

What is Sugru?