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LEXUS DESIGN AWARD announces its Grand Prix Winner for 2022, a motion-tracking device for the elderly

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The 2022 LEXUS DESIGN AWARD comes to a conclusion with its jury finally unveiling their pick for the Grand Prix Winner. A motion-tracking device to help rehabilitate the elderly and stimulate their memories, Rewind by Poh Yun Ru was deemed as the project that best encompassed the LEXUS DESIGN AWARD’s theme of “Design for a Better Tomorrow”. It surpassed 1725 other entries from 57 countries and regions to reach the top spot.

Rewind was selected from a roster of 6 finalists, which were picked for their ability to articulate the Lexus brand’s three core principles: Anticipate, Innovate, and Captivate, and Enhance Happiness. Poh Yun Ru and the other finalists then spent 3 months developing their original proposals and creating prototypes under the highly skilled guidance of Sam Baron, Joe Doucet, Yosuke Hayano, and Sabine Marcelis – this year’s team of mentors for the LEXUS DESIGN AWARD. The finalists were then judged by LEXUS DESIGN AWARD’s elite jury panel, featuring Paola Antonelli, Anupama Kundoo, Bruce Mau, and Simon Humphries. In a new addition to the award program, the finalists also met one-on-one with the judges, receiving not only direct feedback on their work, but also career advice and tips for improvement.

View the other LEXUS DESIGN AWARD Finalist Designs here.

The idea for Rewind came to Poh Yun Ru after seeing her grandmother struggle with remembering how to perform basic day-to-day tasks as a result of dementia and failing memory. Designed to evoke memories, Rewind uses motion-tracking to guide seniors with dementia in re-enacting familiar gestures. Based loosely on the phrase that ‘practice makes perfect’, Rewind allows its user to engage in activities that would otherwise come intuitively. By creating a platform that allows them to constantly practice these activities (and even receive haptic feedback as a result), Rewind helps rebuild the neural pathways that get weak with age.

At the root of the Rewind experience is a handheld IoT device that acts almost like an input device. Actions like ironing, pouring, spice-griding, stirring, etc. are displayed on a screen, and users are required to mimic them with the handheld device in their hands. This is made easier because it’s much safer for the elderly to work with a purpose-built device than an actual iron or a heavy pestle and mortar. Sensors within the handheld device measure how users interact with it, and through this process of copying and repeating these actions, elders are re-familiarized with common physical actions and interactions, allowing their minds and bodies to get used to them. These functions helped inform the Rewind’s design. The device was made to be minimal with no complex buttons or controls, intuitive to grasp and use, and incredibly tactile, with a pattern running along its grip that made it easy to hold and maneuver.

Upon winning the 2022 LEXUS DESIGN AWARD, Poh Yun Ru commented: “I feel immensely grateful that Rewind is now a step closer to improving the lives of more people. This couldn’t have happened without the unwavering support of my mentors, my team of dedicated engineers, programmers, healthcare experts, and users. This opportunity from Lexus Design Award to turn a project into a real-world product felt nothing short of amazing, and I feel heartened to have met and learned from the Grand Prix of Lexus Design Award 2022 so many passionate designers from around the world. It has been such a rewarding and inspiring journey, and I am excited to continue designing for a better world and a better tomorrow for all.”

View the other LEXUS DESIGN AWARD Finalist Designs here.

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No this isn’t a modular Project Ara phone – its grid-based design was inspired Manet and Mondrian

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If you think about it, the back of your phone is really its defining visual element. Virtually every phone looks identical on the front, but flip it over and you’re faced with an empty canvas that most phone designers use to set their phones apart. Designers do this using a few proven techniques, namely color palettes, and the shape/placement of the camera lenses. The Polychromatic Mobile Phone ups this ante.

Using patterns and light to define how unique your phone looks, the Polychromatic Mobile Phone comes with a rather Mondrian-inspired grid of pearlescent swatches that change colors based on whether it’s exposed to UV light or not. At first glance, the Polychromatic phone instantly reminds one of Google’s Project Ara… however as Google quietly killed that endeavor citing complex issues, the team at Tecno Camon looked at the Ara’s distinct design (courtesy NewDealDesign) and noticed how incredibly captivating that grid pattern was. Combining that with inspiration from French painter Edouard Manet, who brought light into painting and is credited with creating the Impressionist art movement, Tecno Camon created the Polychromatic Mobile Phone’s design – a striking grid-based rear design that’s also UV light-responsive, changing colors/tints when exposed to ultraviolet light.

Designer: Tecno Camon 19 Pro Design Team

The Polychromatic Mobile Phone looks like a plain white grid when in normal light, but as soon as it’s exposed to any form of ultraviolet light From the sun or a tube light, the colors dramatically shift, giving the phone a wash of pink and blue. “Multi-color photoisomer technology, which means the cell phone battery cover appears white when it is not exposed to UV light under interior area,“ mentions the Tecno Camon design team. ”When the mobile phone is taken outdoors and exposed to sunlight, the color of the mobile phone battery cover shows different color blocks.”

Achieving this unique technique took 500 different iterations, and the final outcome was the result of a painstaking 22-step process performed on the nanometer level. This process breaks through the technical limitations of what’s really possible with smartphone design. Having a phone’s color and finish react to UV light is surely no small feat, and as a result, you get a phone that transcends contemporary smartphone design, bordering into technological art!

The Polychromatic Mobile Phone is a winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2022.

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Art Noveau meets Minimalism – This low-poly furniture reinterprets animal motifs in a minimalist style

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Titled the Guardian series, this award-winning furniture set incorporates zoomorphic motifs into its design, almost like a revival of the Art Noveau period where furniture looked heavily at nature for inspiration. “For millenniums, animals have been an inseparable part of human life”, says Kamran Afshar Naderi, the creator behind the Guardian series. The Guardians is a limited-edition line of furniture that hopes to re-forge that positive connection between humans and animals by its design. However, it does so in a uniquely low-poly style that’s equal parts maximal in expression, and minimal in detail. The Guardian makes a conscious choice to deviate from the traditional values of minimalism rooted in Scandinavian and Japanese furniture – where minimalism often means geometric minimalism. Instead, the series strives to achieve a sort of organic minimalism that involves turning organic forms into edgy low-poly versions of themselves. The result is surely eye-catching, looking less like traditional furniture and more like a statement piece. Sure it isn’t for everyone – but then again, populism doesn’t necessarily equal good design, right??

Designer: Kamran Afshar Naderi

Naderi’s designs may be edgy, but that doesn’t mean they’re uncomfortable. On the contrary, they’re designed to be ergonomic despite the presence of sharp lines. Sitting on the chairs and using the table feels extremely comfortable, almost like any regular ser of furniture would. Naderi looked to 3D printing to bring his series to life. The Guardian’s furniture pieces were produced by a state-of-the-art 3d printing system combined with fiberglass technology and handcrafting for the final refinements.

The project has been designed and presented in the Patternitecture exhibition in Tehran in August 2021. The Guardian series is a winner of the A’ Design Award for the year 2022.

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Lexus Design Award announces its 6 Finalists for 2022 – Here are the contending design projects

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Now in its 10th edition, the annual Lexus Design Award has helped foster innovation by finding great talent from around the world, nurturing life-changing ideas, and creating the right environment for experienced mentors to help budding designers turn their ideas into reality.

Held annually since 2013, the program invites young designers and students from around the world to create a design that they believe makes the world a better, healthier, and more inclusive future for our planet. The theme for the award echoes Lexus’ brand principle – “Anticipate, Innovate and Captivate, while seamlessly enhancing the happiness of all”. Creating the perfect environment for a design to grow, Lexus helps engineer ideas into real, impactful solutions. The brand’s strong association with design and with innovation helps it accelerate ideas to achieve their full potential. Apart from accelerating, developing, and promoting design projects, the Lexus Design Award helps kickstart design careers too, with exclusive mentorships from international design stalwarts, funding for prototypes (up to 3 million Japanese Yen or $25,000 USD), and the opportunity to have your work judged by the biggest figures in design in the final Grand Prix competition. This year’s esteemed judging panel comprises Paola Antonelli (Senior Curator for the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA), Anupama Kundoo (Architect and Founder of Anupama Kundoo Architects), Bruce Mau (Co-Founder & CEO of Massive Change Network), and Simon Humphries (Head of Toyota and Lexus Global Design).

The award process is quite unlike any other… it’s part award, part internship, part incubator, and part institute. When you apply for the Lexus Design Award, you’re enrolling yourself into a 3-month course with internationally-recognized mentors, the likes of Sam Baron (Designer / Creative Director, Sam Baron & Co.), Joe Doucet (Founder, Joe Doucet x Partners), Yosuke Hayano (Principal Partner, MAD Architects), and Sabine Marcelis (Designer / Founder, Studio Sabine Marcelis). During this time, the mentors work with you on your project (sort of like the most personalized internship ever), taking your rough concept to fruition, while Lexus incubates the product, providing grants of up to 3,000,000 yen (approx. $25,000 USD) dedicated to prototyping the projects to a working proof-of-concept. Additionally, in exclusive individual follow-up sessions, the six finalists will receive personalized consultations with each of the panel members to explore career paths and give a flying start to their further professional development.

The awards are free for all to enter, focusing on young talent looking to find their footing in the industry, and offering them the ability to take their nascent ideas to new heights, with advice from established professional mentors. The 2022 Lexus Design Award’s mentoring phase came to a close in the past few weeks, and here is a look at the 6 Finalist designs that are in contention to win this year’s Lexus Design Award!

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Lexus Design Award 2022 Finalists

Chitofarm by Charlotte Böhning & Mary Lempres

Meet Chitofarm, a natural solution to a man-made problem. Of all the single-use plastics found in landfills, nothing is more notorious than styrofoam. It’s bad for you because it can create toxins that go into your body, and it’s bad for the environment because it takes centuries to biodegrade. However, Charlotte Böhning and Mary Lempres of Döppelganger discovered that mealworms can ingest styrofoam in just days, turning it into fertilizer and CO2. The CO2 produced from this process is the same amount of CO2 the insects would produce if fed any other food source. The Chitofarm is a modular, vertical recycling center that allows these mealworms to biodigest styrofoam waste, solving the plastic crisis using an ingenious, low-cost technique!

Hammock Wheelchair by Wondaleaf

Now here’s an unusual statistic I didn’t know – anywhere between 35% to 80% of nurses will sustain back injuries from having to lift patients. As noble as the profession may be (and dangerous too), it seems like lifting a patient from a wheelchair to a bed or vice versa is perhaps the most avoidable problem a nurse or caregiver can have! The Hammock Wheelchair hopes to tackle this problem by looking beyond the medical field for inspiration. Its design borrows from a forklift’s ability to lift things off the floor or even off platforms. The Hammock Wheelchair’s unique design was developed around similar lines, allowing caregivers to easily lift patients and transport them around. Patients are made to lie on a soft fabric underlay, which hooks right to the Hammock Wheelchair. This fabric underlay then becomes like a hammock for the patient – a hammock with wheels, no less!

Ina Vibe by Team Dunamis

The Ina Vibe is a sustainable and holistic method for cooking, charging, and lighting. The project had initially started as an energy-capture device that harnessed the heat or thermal power that escapes from a gas stove, turning it into electricity. However, through extensive mentorship, it was transformed into a solution that didn’t need gas in the first place. The Ina Vibe now runs entirely on renewable energy, using solar panels to charge a battery pack that powers an induction stove and can even charge mobile phones! The entire solution sits in an elegant-looking woven cane basket, making the Ina Vibe equal parts traditional and advanced!

Rewind by Poh Yun Ru

Designed as a response to her grandmother dealing with aging and dementia, Singapore-based Poh Yun Ru developed Rewind – a therapeutic multisensory device that helps elders regain control over their life by familiarizing themselves with activities that they would perform daily. At the root of the Rewind experience is a handheld IoT device that acts almost like an input device for the Rewind. Actions like ironing, pouring, stirring, etc. are displayed on a screen, and users are required to mimic them with the handheld device in their hands. Accelerometers and sensors within the handheld device measure how users interact with it, and through this process of copying and repeating these actions, elders are re-familiarized with common physical actions and interactions, allowing their minds and bodies to get used to them.

Sound Eclipse by Kristil and Shamina

The Sound Eclipse follows the LDA theme of ‘enhancing happiness’ in perhaps the most relatable way! As its name suggests, it’s a device that eclipses sound, and is designed to be placed on windows. Using traditional active noise-canceling techniques, the Sound Eclipse can reduce both indoor and outdoor noise, creating a peaceful atmosphere practically on demand. It can even identify and handle different sounds differently – so theoretically the Sound Eclipse would cancel out traffic noise, but not music playing on your laptop. It’s rather poetic that the Sound Eclipse also looks like a literal eclipse-inspired black disc with an annular ring!

Tacomotive by Kou Mikuni

Inspired by the story of his father, a teacher who worked predominantly with disabled children, the Tacomotive is a unique communication tool designed to help turn textures into a language. The solution was designed primarily for deaf blind people, who can’t communicate using any traditional methods. Relying on touch as a mode of expression and feedback, Mikuni developed Tacomotive, a ‘database’ of textures created by cutting patterns out of paper. These textures would, in turn, represent aspects of expression like rough, soft, grip-ability, and anisotropy (or something that registers different values across different directions). Tacomotive in turn then becomes a new bridge for communication that is touch-based but is much more visceral, unlike Braille which needs to be learned in the first place. Instead, it relies on how we perceive stimuli, and turns them into ‘onomatopoeic textures’ that everyone can relate to!

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StudyBook kid-friendly laptop comes with a built-in drawing slate and stylus

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StudyBook Child-friendly Laptop with Built-in Pad and Stylus

There are plenty of kid-friendly laptops available on the market, but they arrive with many limits and restrictions. They don’t come complete but that’s expected since children’s use of gadgets should always be controlled. The StudyBook has been designed to be a child-friendly laptop with added features that kids and parents will find helpful. It comes with a built-in pad and stylus, so you can do more with the device.

This StudyBook can be your kid’s very first laptop. It’s not just for watching videos as it can help them learn new lessons and activities even if the learning environment is remote. The pandemic has changed the horizon of education, so parents, teachers, and children need all the help they can get.

Designer: Compal

StudyBook Child-friendly Laptop Tablet Stylus

Everyone needs the proper tools to make learning effective. Even kids need suitable devices and an environment conducive to learning. The StudyBook offers numerous conveniences for the children and the adults as the notebook assists them in learning in clas and be free in getting creative.

StudyBook Child-friendly Laptop Notebook

The StudyBook features a large laptop display perfect for learning. There is a detachable keyboard that reveals a CLCD drawing pad underneath. The large pad works with a stylus so children can draw or write on the surface. The slate doesn’t need any charging, so your kid can use it every time without worrying it will lose power.

This particular laptop has a unique fold-out mirror and camera solution. This allows kids to show off whatever is on the CLCD and share it on screen for others to see. Perhaps it can be their homework for their teachers to see or a new drawing to showcase to grandparents. You can also use it to cover the camera if you prefer, so kids are safe. The clever design makes it an ideal gadget for school because it is convenient to use.

StudyBook Child-friendly Laptop

Since kids may not really know how to care for stuff, the StudyBook’s colorful rubber around the edge will keep the device safe and protected against bumps, scrapes, and drops. This product is undoubtedly making heads turn with its design, features, and functions. It has reached the iF Design Award 2022 and can be found under the Computer category.

StudyBook Laptop

This multi-function laptop from Compal is ready to make the parents’ and guardians’ lives more manageable because of its additional features and advantages. It’s a concept product for now, but we see the potential of this thing. There are no specs, but we can see the standard ports like a 3.5mm audio port, microSD card reader, USB Type-C, USB Type-A, and HDMI. There is a power button on the side that seems accessible and easy to press.

StudyBook

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This BUDDY Portable Lamp is one multi-function lighting solution

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BUDDY Portable lamp Faro Barcelona Design

The term buddy is widely used as it pertains to anyone or anything that can be considered a friend. This new lamp can be a buddy or a friend in times of darkness as it can be many things.

The BUDDY Portable Lamp can work as ambient light and as a flashlight. The top light serves as the primary light source when you need some illumination. The design is versatile with the light available on both sides.

Designer: Andreu Carulla

BUDDY Portable lamp Faro Barcelona Concept Details

The rubber around the light works as a cushion to protect the device when placed on its side. The rubber is available in three colors: Blue, Green, and Gray. The modern style makes it an ideal lighting solution at home and even when going outdoors. It’s a simple flashlight but the design makes it one attractive lamp. You can leave it on a counter or a desk, and it can serve as a home decor or accent light.

Buddy can let you be free and dynamic at the same time. This portable lamp boasts no cables or ties as it is completely wireless. It’s ideal for those with a busy lifestyle or people who like adventures. The design inspiration is lanterns from the 80s and 90s, while the shape is based on the R95 light bulb. The silhouette is classic and straightforward, which vintage design lovers always go for.

BUDDY Portable lamp Faro Barcelona Concept Design

The multifunction lamp goes beyond its aesthetic appeal as it offers a lot of functions if you need better illumination, a flashlight, and ambient light. The flashlight function is provided by the main light, which is ideal for when you want to read. You can also use it at night or in the darkness when you need some lighting.

The light at the bottom is enough to work as ambient lighting. It’s the perfect lighting you can put in the garden when you want to have dinner al fresco and picnic on the beach at night. Then, when you need more light, you can turn on both lights.

BUDDY Portable lamp Faro Barcelona

The BUDDY Portable Lamp comes with a magnetic charger. The lamp uses a 3W LED bulb with 2700K 260Lm and it can also support a dimmable 5V IP20 Class III bulb. The material used is a polycarbonate body with an opal polycarbonate diffuser and an opal white finish. It is priced at €98.62 which is about $108. The product design has reached and has been recognized at the iF Design Award 2022. Faro Barcelona has already listed the BUDDY Portable Lamp, so it’s now ready for purchase HERE.

BUDDY Portable lamp Faro Barcelona Concept

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The Autel EVO Nano+ is a US-made pocket-sized consumer drone with a cinematic 4K camera

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There’s a new sheriff in town. The homegrown American robotics brand released a tiny 4K drone that directly fires shots at DJI.

The EVO Nano+ from Autel is impressive for a lot of reasons – its most significant one being that it’s a stellar 4K drone that proudly says ‘Made in USA’ on its label. The award-winning drone also weighs under 250 grams but still packs a 48 Megapixel camera that comes with a 1/1.28-inch sensor. The camera, capable of HDR 4K video, sits on a 3-axis gimbal for smooth stabilized footage. It’s also equipped with object detection and collision avoidance protocols, can track subjects and shoot them in a variety of styles, and simultaneously beam footage to your smartphone from as far away as 6.2 miles… and when you’re done, the Autel EVO Nano+ folds down and slides right into your pocket.

The Autel EVO Nano+ is a winner of the Red Dot Product Design Award for the year 2022.

Designer: Autel Robotics

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The tiny pocket-sized drone takes on its China-based rival by being well under 250 grams but still packing a tonne of features, along with a one-of-its-kind 3-way collision detection system. Its 1/1.28″ CMOS sensor has a modest 86° FOV and is capable of shooting 4K at 30fps or 1080p at 60fps. The camera has the ability to track fast-moving subjects (animals, humans, and vehicles) with incredible precision through PDAF + CDAF autofocus system, and can even retroactively apply a portrait blur on humans!

The EVO Nano+ comes with a unique 3-way sensor array that helps it maneuver around obstacles and even air-brake to avoid collisions. It can either be controlled via the remote controller that comes along with the bundle, or even through Autel’s own Autel Sky app. The app lets you program the drone, set subjects, flight paths, and even edit the footage your drone captures. The EVO Nano+ has a max flight distance of a whopping 16.8 kilometers (10 miles), although the remote controller has a transmission distance of 10 kilometers or 6.2 miles. Data captured by the EVO Nano+ can be transmitted to the app over a distance of 6.2 miles too, and once you’ve captured footage, the drone can automatically do a video dump to your phone simply by bringing the two of them close together. The app is available on both iOS as well as Android smartphones.

The EVO Nano+ can fly continuously for nearly 30 minutes, which means plenty of time to experiment with creative angles and dream up inventive shots. To charge it, a USB-C port on the drone lets you hook it to a power bank or socket.

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Meet the Blossom, an award-winning ceiling fan with a minimalist flower-inspired aesthetic

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Ceiling fans never got their ‘Dyson’ moment… for the most part, they’re still the same boring-looking bladed structures that spin from your ceiling. The Blossom challenges their age-old aesthetic with fresh, nature-driven inspiration.

Titled Blossom, for the way it looks like a blossoming flower in the center of your ceiling, this fan + lamp was designed for the discerning Indian market that’s currently saturated with ‘boring’ fans that look like ‘engineered appliances’ that hang from your ceiling. The Blossom adds a breath of fresh air (quite literally) to the category, by creating a fan that’s just as aesthetic as it’s functional.

The Blossom Fan is a winner of the Red Dot Product Design Award for the year 2022.

Designer: Ticket Design for Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals

The Blossom fan replaces the traditional blade with a more organic petal-inspired form that still drives air efficiently. There are no engineering details, no rivets, no fixtures in sight. The entire fan takes on the role of a kinetic sculpture, with a dimmable light right at the center. On the inside, a quiet brushless DC motor powers the appliance, giving the entire experience a complete upgrade.

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The 2022 Goldreed Industrial Design Award is looking for designs that capture innovation, sustainability, and harmony

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Designed with a vision towards the future yet rooted firmly in tradition, the Goldreed Industrial Design Award is an international design prize driven by globalization, specialization, and market orientation. Based out of Xiongan New Area of China, the award was originally created to discover the future of design, inspire the quality of future living and empower the design of future cities by exploring the Chinese concept of “harmony”.

The award, which is free to participate in, is targeted towards designers, design teams, design studios, companies, universities, and institutes from all countries and creative fields. Entries can either be real products or conceptual in nature, while aligning with the Goldreed Industrial Design Award (GIDA) mission to help lead a better lifestyle, upgrade industries, and balance the city life with nature.

The Goldreed Industrial Design Award is spread across 8 different categories – Manufacturing Equipment, Transportation Means, Home Life, Culture & Creativity, Sports and Healthcare, Public Facilities, Information Processing, and Communication Design. Among the entries, the jury nominates 100 designs for winning the GIDA, of which only a select few win the Good Design Award, the Future Star Award, and the Gold Award, with one sole entry winning the Best of the Best Award. Winners of the awards win a grand total of 4,500,000 RMB ($706,680), with the Best of the Best winner getting 1,000,000 RMB ($157,040) as a cash prize.

Winners are presented with their award at the GIDA Award Ceremony held during the Hebei International Industrial Design Week in September. The award ceremony is attended by media personnel, industry personnel, and even venture capitalists. Aside from the cash prize and trophy/certificate, GIDA winners are also given exclusive opportunities to connect with potential clients, business partners, and the media. Winning designs are additionally displayed at both virtual and physical exhibitions for the duration of the year. Here are a few select winners from the 2021 Goldreed Industrial Design Award!

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High-privacy Forward Layout Sleeper EMU (Best of the Best)

In order to adapt to the complex operating environment of China’s high-speed railway and the needs of long-distance routing operation, Mr. Huang Junhui and his team pioneered the design of a new type of large capacity and high privacy longitudinal sleeper EMU. This new sleeper holds a capacity of 60 passengers, a 50% increase from the previous 40 passenger capacity. Additionally, it also provides extra comfort, while giving each group of passengers their own private quarters, reminiscent of the pod hotels found in Japan!

Uphold Cup (Good Product Design Award)

Designed on the principles of Origami, the Uphold Cup is a foldable, portable travel cup that goes from tumbler to a flat-packed disc when not in use. The cup’s materials are food-grade, BPA-free, and can carry beverages of up to 100°C in temperature. The Uphold Cup uses polymer Polypropylene (PP) as its body material which is relative stiff, while also providing the ability to fold multiple times (live hinging) without breaking.

Island (Future Star Award)

Island is a conceptual double-decker driverless tram designed for the city of Hong Kong to be used in the post-pandemic era. Island is an exemplary blend of industrial design, transportation design, public design, urban mobility, and sustainability. Using public transport is crucial to keep pollution levels low especially when the virus going around attacks your respiratory system first. Making sure that public transport facilitates social distancing was also given the utmost importance during the design process. “We wanted to reimagine public transport in the post-COVID era from a prevention perspective. Especially in the densely populated city of Hong Kong, where social distancing is hard to achieve.

De-Noising Pillow (Future Star Award)

Designed to work not just as a neck pillow, but also as earmuffs, the De-Noising Pillow is perhaps the ideal travel accessory. It gives you the ability to cushion your neck, while also covering your ears in case you’re in a particularly noisy environment. Moreover, the pillow can merely be rotated to be used as a forehead pillow so you can rest your head on a table. Multiple birds with one stone, eh!

X-ferry Bus (Future Star Award)

This innovative vehicle bridges the gap between ferry-buses and aerobridges. Given that not every airport is large enough to provide a skybridge for all flights, the X-ferry Bus conveniently offers a nifty alternative with its massive hydraulic cabin. The bus looks and functions like a normal ferrying vehicle. It carries passengers from the gate all the way to their flight, but instead of getting them to deboard and climb up the stairs to the plane’s entrance, the X-ferry’s entire passenger cabin lifts upwards, docking into the plane’s entrance! Passengers can climb out of the bus and directly into the plane – a feature that’s convenient for passengers, especially disabled ones, and even more so in bad weather conditions!

Pop-Up Booster (Good Product Design Award)

The Pop-Up Booster is a portable, foldable booster seat that relies on origami folding patterns to become a strong, sturdy seat when opened, and fold down to a flat profile when you’re done using it. The super-strong origami structure is designed to withstand as many as 20,000 impacts of up to 75kg. It’s also designed to securely hold your baby using its 5-band harness, fits most chairs, and is perfect for on-the-go families and hospitality spaces.

AIREADER (Good Concept Design Award)

Although the AIREADER looks a lot like a fancy successor to the Google Glas HUD display, it is, in fact, a wearable for the visually impaired, acting as a pair of eyes for them as they navigate the world. Studies have shown that about 80% of blind people actually retain vision and still respond to light. AIREADER is a future blind reading device based on user experience design and AI algorithm. It uses the remaining light sense of blind people to propose the design concept of “light signal prompt”. A scanner sitting on the front of the device observes the world, relaying it to the wearer using powerful light signals that flash directly into the wearer’s eyes. This allows them to rely on a sense that was once dormant, alleviating the load on other senses like their sense of touch or hearing. With the support of AI algorithms such as text recognition, item recognition, and gesture recognition, it’s possible to give blind people the ability to achieve reading, object recognition, and road signal recognition.

NEOLIX X3 (Gold Award for Best Smart Design)

NEOLIX X3 is the world’s first commercially available unmanned vehicle for commercial use. Equipped with Level-4 autonomy, NEOLIX X3 has the ability to autopilot in all scenarios and at all times, allowing it to meet the needs of different operational scenarios: logistics, distribution, retail, security and sanitation, etc. Aside from being autonomous, capable, and versatile, the NEOLIX X3 can hypothetically work 24×7, thanks to its battery-swap technology that lets you easily swap out an old battery for a new one, reducing down-time during recharging.

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WAVE UV-C Sanitizing Tool eliminates unwanted germs, viruses, and bacteria

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Wave Portable UV-C Germicidal Sanitizing Device How to Use

The coronavirus has definitely left a mark on our lives. Everyday life is never the same again and we have seen that rapidly change the past couple of years. The pandemic is not yet over, but many people in some countries have started to embrace living in the New Normal.

Some are also chanting it should be “Better Normal” now because things are seemingly getting better, at least, in some parts of the world. But for those who are still trying to overcome their anxieties and fears of going out, we won’t stop you from doing all the things you need to do to give you peace of mind.

Designers: Ivan Vecchia and Giorgio Mastropasqua for UV-C LABS

Wave Portable UV-C European Product Design Award

If you still can’t live without an alcohol sprayer in your hand, it’s fine. If you are the type of person that sprays Lysol on every surface or package, it’s okay. If you have a UV box at home to put your stuff in when you get home, that’s still acceptable. No one is stopping you from making sure you and your things are clean and disinfected, but there are ways to make your life easier.

The Wave is an innovative germicidal sanitizing device that uses UV-C to ensure bacteria, viruses, and germs are killed before you touch a surface. This is a portable solution that easily sticks to the rear of your smartphone. What makes this different from other UV wands is that it works using a mobile app. The app guides you through the process of sanitation, so an area is thoroughly cleaned in less than a minute.

Wave Portable UV-C Sanitizing Wand

This compact tool is only 5mm thick but is capable enough to destroy germs on the surface you often touch, like the keyboard, doorknob, chair, or elevator buttons. This is another effective way to fight the pandemic, although we are unsure how many people will bother to do this. Well, having the Wave on the back of your phone is more effortless. It makes UV-C readily available and guarantees you always have it because you rarely forget your phone.

Wave by UV-C Labs is said to be the first UV-C light for your phone. The Wave, designed by Italian industrial designers Ivan Vecchia and Giorgio Mastropasqua, has been recognized and given the Gold Award of the European Product Design Award. Specifically, the category is Design for Society.

Wave Portable UV-C Germicidal Sanitizing Wand

It takes advantage of a technology that has been proven to eliminate 99.8% of bacteria and viruses. A simple touch of a button will sanitize any surface. The app will tell you how to do the sanitization properly, like proper distance and correct amount of time. Having an app will make it easier for you to sanitize a surface or item because it tells you what to do.

Wave Portable UV-C Germicidal Sanitizing Tool

The process is simple: Click, Scan, and Sanitize. The ultra-thin and stylish UV wand connects via Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity to your smartphone. It has a child lock so kids can’t use it during those unintentional power-ons. It’s non-invasive and safe, but you still need to be careful around kids. It can be used up to 100 times on a single full charge. Battery life can be longer because the device shuts off automatically after two minutes of inactivity. Choose from either the black or white model of the $79 compact UV-C sanitizing tool.

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Wave Portable UV-C Sanitizing Wand

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