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Modular wearable uses dual-light therapy to reduce pain and inflammation, and boost circulation

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After seeing an incredibly successful run through their Indiegogo campaign, the folks at REVIIV are back with an upgrade to their flagship product. The MOVE+ is a next-generation wearable light-therapy device that relies on light to help heal tissues, relieve pain, and accelerates recovery. Using a combination of LED and Infrared lights, MOVE+ targets the surface as well as penetrates deep to help heal you and relieve any signs of stress, pain, or inflammation.

Designer: Reviiv Design Labs

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The beauty of the MOVE+ lies in its unique modular design that can be virtually strapped around or positioned on any part of your body. Designed to be used not just on joints but also on muscles, the MOVE+ features a multi-part build that can be assembled, disassembled, and even size-adjusted to fit around your knees, shoulders, neck, elbows, or any part of your body that’s experiencing joint/tissue pain or inflammation. Armed with adjustable straps that help you position the MOVE+ device onto any body part and secure it in place, the wearable takes mere seconds to set up, and can be used by pretty much anyone.

MOVE+ uses two different wavelengths and types of light that target both the surface a well as penetrate deep to help rehabilitate you. Visible red light emitted by LEDs on the MOVE+ cover a wide area on the surface of your body, stimulating collagen production, improving circulation, and reducing inflammation. Meanwhile, concentrated beams of laser light focus on specific areas of the body with sniper-like accuracy, penetrating up to 6mm below the surface to target deep-seated chronic pain, like Osteoarthritis or cartilage damage. MOVE+ uses the underrated power of light to help the body’s healing process through photobiomodulation. This scientific mouthful only means that light enhances the natural mitochondrial functions of cells to speed up the regeneration of damaged cells.

Relief Through the Core – 10 x 808nm Infrared Lasers (5mW) ensure surgical precision and the deepest penetration into skin, muscle, tissue, and bone possible.

Full Joint Coverage – 3 x wireless modules ensure whole joint coverage on most areas of the body. Better and faster recovery by penetrating the joint from multiple angles.

Vibrant, Healthy Skin – 8 x 650nm red LED lights (35mW) optimized to energize cells, stimulate collagen production, improve circulation, and reduce inflammation.

Perhaps its most underrated feature, however, is the fact that the MOVE+ (despite its remarkable abilities) is a tiny, portable device that you can slip right into your backpack, gym bag, or even your pocket. Comprising three units that can either be used independently or connected together to form one larger light therapy wearable, the MOVE+ is designed to be lightweight so you can strap it on and move around, and is made to be wireless too – complete with a magnetic charging dock that recharges your wearable device after a couple of usage cycles. Best of all, you don’t need to ask a medical professional to use the MOVE+. Simply put it on, Simply put it on and use it at the dosage cycle that’s right for you. No ice packs, balms, or even medicines necessary!

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Zen-inspired salt air diffuser helps clear your respiratory pathways and boosts immunity

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There is, they say, a benefit to having salt in your air. It helps with building a healthy mucous layer on the inside of your airways, which then traps dust, toxins, germs, even viruses. Moreover, breathing in salt air just naturally calms the body – it’s why we feel relaxed after spending a day at the beach. Salty air is anti-microbial, helps beat allergies, and helps increase your body’s immunity. However, the prospect of salt breathing indoors isn’t quite high unless you live on the coast. Handheld salt inhalers help solve this problem, but they’re irritating to use, and aren’t as effective as just breathing salty air around you. The Salt Stone helps disperse salt into your air, making it like the air you breathe at the beach.

Designers: Jason Lundy, Carlos Lamarche & Sara Arnell

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The idea for the Salt Stone device came to co-creators Jason Lundy, Carlos Lamarche, and Sara Arnell, three city-dwellers who wanted to address the overall air quality problem. They quickly realized that existing solutions for salt breathing don’t quite deliver in all departments. Larger salt breathing devices need to be plugged into, and smaller salt nasal sprays just give you a single burst of salt air, instead of a continuous supply. Moreover, while humidifiers claim to do the trick, they don’t actually put salt into the air, just water. Realizing there was a need that wasn’t being met properly by the ‘ideal product’, Jason, Carlos, and Sara decided to build it. The result was Salt Stone, a unique, sculptural appliance designed to look like a stack of Japanese Zen Stones, lending an undeniable elegance to the overall product.

Breathe Better with Dry Salt Therapy – The centuries-old practice of Halotherapy, or dry salt therapy, is the process of breathing in microscopic salt particles to naturally cleanse deep inside your lungs and airways. It is often recommended by doctors, wellness practitioners and athletic coaches.

Dry Salt Therapy at Home – Salt Stone uses a micro version of professional salt room technology to aerolize dry salt air into your lungs, right in the comfort of your home.

Designed to look less like an ‘appliance’ and more like health-focused decor, the Salt Stone device opts for an aesthetic that you’d love to keep anywhere around the house instead of hiding away in your bathroom cabinet. Underneath its zen-inspired minimalistic exterior, however, lies the Salt Stone’s salt diffusing technology, which grinds salt down to its smallest particulate level, before aerolyzing into the air you breathe.

Using the Salt Stone is as easy as switching it on and choosing from 3 different settings – 5 minutes (high salt concentration), 10 minutes (medium salt concentration), and finally 15 minutes (low salt concentration). Just keep the device 3 feet away from your face, switch it on, and breathe the salt air. The Salt Stone also comes with a built-in battery that lasts 10 hours on a full charge. You can use the Salt Stone while sleeping, working, meditating, etc. Each Salt Stone ships along with one month’s supply of salt packets, a salt funnel to load the salt into the device, and a cleaning brush to help maintain your Salt Stone.

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Alo Smart Healthcare Assistant monitors the staff’s health and wellbeing

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Healthcare in some parts of the world is failing, but it doesn’t mean we should lose hope because plenty of solutions can be implemented. In some countries, they are somehow particular and efficient that doctors, nurses, medical researchers, and scientists try to keep up with the technology and advance in the medical field. But while these professionals do their part by expanding their knowledge and expertise, they need people to look after them too. They need to care for themselves to ensure they can also give the best care to the patients. However, some doctors and professionals take things for granted, so they need to be reminded—perhaps the Alo can help them as intelligent healthcare assistants as long as they wear it all the time.

Designer: Harry Rigler

Alo Smart Healthcare Assistant Harry Rigler How It Works

The Alo is an innovative accessory that acts as a healthcare assistant, ready to check a person’s O2 saturation, skin temperature, heart, and even GPS. It is designed to check and monitor the health and wellbeing of the clinic or hospital staff to ensure the healthcare professionals are healthy. This Alo smart device uses sensors and AI pattern recognition to check on the healthcare professional’s well-being and see if they are experiencing any stress. With the data and information gathered, the hospital management may act to reduce the workload of the nurses and doctors. If high pressure or high workload is detected, the staff can assign other work or tasks to any available staff.

The Alo Smart Healthcare Assistant is meant to be worn by a medical professional all the time. It can be clipped onto a pocket or collar for easy access and efficiency, with a small screen showing a smiley face. It will remind you a bit of a kid-friendly smartwatch because of the design and the color of the handle. It appears with a simple and subtle facade that is easy to use and understand. We can imagine seeing this clipped onto a doctor’s white coat, ready to give a smile to a patient. It features a sensor that magnetically attaches from the other side of the clothing, resulting in a simple and clean look any user can enjoy and rely on.

Alo Smart Healthcare Assistant Harry Rigler Features

Designed by Harry Rigler, this healthcare smart assistant concept has the potential to become the next big thing to a smartwatch. We see the similarities between the Alo Smart Healthcare Assistant and a fitness band or smartwatch, but we’re hoping the Alo can do more related to one’s health, fitness, and wellbeing. It’s only a concept idea, but we imagine something similar will be introduced and actually used by the doctors.

Alo Smart Healthcare Assistant Harry Rigler Concept

Alo Smart Healthcare Assistant Harry Rigler

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Neatfit fitness tracker concept mixes stylish simplicity and practicality

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Neatfit Health Tracker

Getting into health and fitness should not be complicated. Exercising can be challenging and exhausting, but it can also be fun and energizing. Nearly two years into this pandemic, you have probably started a workout routine. If not, then now is the time to get moving and be active in any way you can.

Deciding to get active is the first step, but starting is another thing. Next, you can probably shop for the right workout clothes so you will be motivated. Then, get a new fitness tracker or smartwatch so you can track your progress. You may also try those numerous health apps available and see what is best for you. If needed, you may even pay for a subscription to have full access to all the features and functions.

Designers: Ivan Shmatko for Aiia International

Neatfit Fitness Tracker Concept

But then you only need the basics like a pedometer, calorie burn calculator, distance tracker, notifications, and reminders to get moving. If you always want to be connected, you can also set alarms for messages, calls, and emails, although we recommend turning them off for an uninterrupted workout.

Neatfit is a concept that is nothing like those fitness trackers you see in the market. While those smartwatches and health trackers are getting more advanced with additional features and premium specs, the Neatfit only offers what most people need. Even when it comes to our health, things should be simple and clutter-free. There is so much noise in the world, and you do not need to be bothered or even pay for features you do not really use.

Neatfit Fitness Tracker Images

The Neatfit is a simple fitness tracker that makes a lasting impression with its sleek design. It is for those few who can appreciate simplicity and a healthy and fit lifestyle. Why the Neatfit when there are more advanced smartwatches? This one boasts a stylish yet minimalistic look, and it can be an elegant wearable device you can also use every day.

Neatfit shows only the information you need with the five hidden LED indicators. They only show up when you check the tracker or when you need to know your progress. Do not be intimated by its fashionable look as it is straightforward to use. It comes with a 3-axis accelerometer, a vibration motor, and a magnetic charger connector. A small 80mAh battery powers the watch and we’re assuming this doesn’t require much power to last.

Neatfit Fitness Tracker Health

The designer behind Neatfit promised an IP96 waterproof level rating. The fitness tracker combines aluminum, TPU, and ABS plastic—resulting in a refined and sophisticated look. The black model looks more like a classy bracelet than a rugged fitness watch. It’s lightweight at only 15g and measures 15.5mm in width. It fits most wrists with 145 to 215 mm in circumference.

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Neatfit Fitness Band Concept

Industrial designer Ivan Shmatko designed this for Aiia International several years ago, but we can still appreciate the simplicity of the design. Overly complex gadgets abound, but you only need what works for you when it comes to health and fitness. So get a simple tracker like the Neatfit, open a compatible app on your smartphone, and start your way to a healthier you.

Neatfit Fitness Tracker Concept Details

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This wearable smartwatch evolves by not only measuring your blood pressure, but also storing your medication!

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The MedBot is a smartwatch concept that monitors each user’s health conditions, measures blood pressure, stores medications and pills, and sets health-specific reminders.

There’s nothing worse than leaving the house without taking your vitamins or prescription medication. Already halfway to work, suddenly you remember your time-dependent antibiotics, but there’s nothing you can do. With smart technology shacking up in every corner of our lives nowadays, there has to be a means to integrate health concerns into portable, wearable technology.

Noticing this vacant space for a solution-based design, architectural designer Batyrkhan Bayaliev produced the MedBot, a smartwatch that monitors health, stores medication, and reminds users when it’s time to take antibiotics and various pills. Intent on exploring the intersection of health and smart technology, Bayaliev created MedBot as a means for everyone to have access to their health and catalog of medications throughout the day, wherever and whenever.

Similar in fashion to an Apple Watch, Medbot maintains a sleek, inconspicuous design that leaves enough room for a storage compartment where users can keep their pills and medication. A full display screen alerts users of their health conditions, spanning from blood pressure levels to medication reminders. Just beneath the display screen, Bayaliev outfitted MedBot with a pill storage compartment that uses a sliding mechanism to open and close.

Inside the compartment, users will find three sections that can store tablets and capsules of varying sizes. The wristband itself is also adjustable by design, allowing users to loosen or tighten their grip around the wrist as needed. With integrated smart technology that alerts users when to take their medicine, measures blood pressure, and sets alarms, as well as an adjustable wrist strap, MedBot is ideal for the modern health-conscious consumer.

Designer: Batyrkhan Bayaliev

The smartwatch display screen alerts users of varying health reminders and measures blood pressure. 

Just beneath the display screen, a hidden storage compartment allows rooms for pills and medication of varying sizes and shapes.

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This door latch attachment is a great COVID-time invention, providing a safe, hands-free way of opening doors!

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The Safe Lever Door Opener is a hands-free door opener designed for commercial settings like restaurants, doctor’s offices, and workplaces.

The output of mechanical aid devices that have come out in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of design when it intersects with health industries. When disaster strikes, designers pick up the pieces and build solutions. Doors have been a touchy subject for many throughout the pandemic–no one wants to touch a germ-ridden door handle. That’s why Dominic Spooner of Ember Design House created the Safe Lever Door Opener.

While various, innovative door-opening solutions have come out in recent years, like hands-free foot-door openers, they don’t work for every door type. Specifically, commercial settings like office buildings and doctor’s offices could benefit from door openers designed for door lever latches. Walking through office buildings and medical rooms, the doors are made for privacy above all else.

With this in mind, opening doors in commercial settings requires a bit more effort. The Safe Lever Door Opener works on lever latches by clipping to the door handle’s horizontal bar to provide a hands-free opening mechanism. The Safe Lever Door Opener comes with a bolstered area where users can place their forearms to unhinge the door’s lock and open the door.

Equipped with all the material necessary for setup, the Safe Lever Door Opener can be attached and fastened within five minutes. Inspired by his own hands-free method of opening doors, the team behind the Safe Lever Door Opener suggests, “It is time to eliminate that pain point safely, reliably, and affordably across restaurants, offices, schools, government buildings, and anywhere there are lever doors.”

Designer: Dominic Spooner and Ember Design House

Equipped with all necessary material for assembly, the Safe Lever Door Opener is your no-fuss door-opening solution.

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Tokyo’s hotel designs new pandemic-era dining experience with transparent lanterns for guests to enjoy a face mask-free dinner!

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The Tokyo Lantern Dinner at the Hoshinoya ryokan in Otemachi, Tokyo provides transparent lanterns made from vinyl for dining guests to experience group dinners without wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Across the world, we’ve seen how the industry of design has impacted our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. From transparent dining pods to no-contact food trucks, designers have made eating out possible over these past three years. Even in 2021, COVID-19’s effect on dining out has stuck around and different versions of what we call the ‘new normal’ are still making rounds. At Hoshinoya, in Otemachi, Tokyo, a new dining experience called the ‘Tokyo Lantern Dinner,’ brings lanterns for each guest to use as transparent partitions against COVID-19 during group dinners.

Designed for dining guests to feel free and unmask during dinner, the lantern partitions were conceived by Hoshinoya for their familiarity with Japanese culture and customs. From the top of each lantern, soft, warm light pours over your head and meal, illuminating your facial expressions during conversation as well as the food on your plate. Produced by the long-established lantern store Kojima Shoten in Kyoto, each lantern measures 75-cm in diameter and 102-cm in height, leaving more than enough room to enjoy your meal without fear of splashing the transparent vinyl covering, which reaches 0.15 mm in thickness.

The designers behind Hoshinoya’s Tokyo Lantern Dinner created the experience to provide a space where loved ones who were kept apart due to the pandemic can meet and enjoy a quality meal together like we could before 2019. Limiting the dining area to 40-sqm, fresh, ventilated air is poured into the room 5.5 times per hour, around 11 times more than the average public setting in Tokyo.

Interested guests of Hoshinoya can make reservations for the Tokyo Lantern Dinner and dine with loved ones staying outside of the ryokan for ¥30,000 ($264.10) per group and ¥21,780 ($191.70) per person, The price includes a multi-course meal from a set menu called “Nippon Cuisine ~Fermentation~.” As described by Hoshinoya the menu contains, “A wide variety of fermented foods such as seasonings, soy sauce, and miso, which have been popular in Japan since ancient times, [as well as] preserved foods such as pickles and salted fish.”

Designer: Hoshinoya

This meal kit and food service ensures you have a home cooked meal for all your dietary needs

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Yumme is a meal kit and combined digital food service that makes eating homecooked meals feel less like a priority and more like a given.

Fitting a homecooked meal into your schedule is difficult when you live and work in a big city. Cramped city living spaces sometimes make the act of cooking feel like moving through a laser beam security fence and finding the time to go shopping for after-work cookouts can get overwhelming.

Food delivery services and meal kits can be convenient solutions, but there aren’t many healthy or nutritious options on those menus. Coming up with a health-focused meal kit and combined digital food service, a team of designers conceptualized Yumme.

Designed to function primarily as an IoT household product, Yumme is a smart food tray that analyzes the nutrition facts and calories of each food item that makes up your meal.

Conceptualized in three different forms, Yumme’s plate options vary depending on the user’s diet. The first tray comes with five different food compartments for users who’d like to explore the full spectrum of a balanced meal.

Embedded sensors are located inside the food tray to analyze each meal’s contents. Split into two parts, Yumme’s top lid is made from Tritan, an eco-friendly and heat-resistant material, while its bottom module is coated in silicone to avoid slipping.

Another food tray features only three compartments for users with a more limited diet. Finally, a third food tray split into two layers hosts compartments for four different food items and keeps a portable size to bring lunch with you on the go.

Yumme comes with an accompanying app that tracks and analyzes your every meal so you can always stay on top of your health. While tracking your own meals, you can connect with other Yumme users through the integrated social aspect of Yumme’s application.

In addition to the three different food trays available from Yumme, the designers included utensils and a carrying case to make enjoying a homecooked meal as accessible as possible, no matter your schedule.

Designer: Hyogyeong Kang, Younghyun Na, and Dayoung Lee

Each food tray’s top lid is built from Tritan BPA plastics to ensure heat resistance and easy cleaning. 

Utensils and an accompanying carrying case make bringing food on the go as easy as making it with Yumme.

With magnetized utensils, storing all the appliances that come with Yumme is easy as ever. 

Yumme’s accompanying app tracks and analyzes the information of each meal to share with other Yumme users or to keep for your own information. 

An introvert-friendly semi-enclosed chaise lounge chair that doubles as a private resting area for public spaces!

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‘Esc.’ is a semi-enclosed chaise lounge chair designed to double as a resting space in public to get away from overpowering outdoor stimuli.

Nowadays, the world is at our fingertips–it can be hard to get away from it all, even for only a minute. Distractions come in the form of digital timelines, midday traffic, lunch rushes, and our own smartphones. Our minds and mental health could benefit from a moment’s rest. Realizing the need for a piece of furniture that could double as a place of respite in public spaces, student designer Toine Baert of Two One Design created ‘Esc.,’ a semi-enclosed chaise lounge chair.

Designed to provide people with a secluded resting area, ‘Esc.’ is essentially a chaise lounge chair that’s partly wrapped in an overhead umbrella-like awning. Baert felt inspired to create a private nook for the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) to look forward to when the stimuli of everyday life become too much. The overhead awning buffers any noise coming from outside to offer an acoustically, visually, and emotionally quiet hideaway inside. The awning can even be adjusted to varying positions to tread the spectrum between enclosed and semi-enclosed, offering anything between an open bench to a dark zone for sleeping. Made from 100% recycled PET felt and durable wood, ‘Esc.’ was made responsibly and built to last.

With upcoming generations giving more credence to the needs and stressors of mental health, design-focused industries are following suit. ‘Esc.’ was developed in part to showcase the ways that furniture can work as a conduit for change within the field of design, creating solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s obstacles.

Designer: Toine Baert x Two One Design

These portable medical devices are designed be a completely incognito health monitoring setup

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Lunit is a collection of portable medical devices designed to be inconspicuous for comfortable use in public settings.

Portable medical devices are trusted by those of us with health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Recontextualizing the portable medical device to be more accessible and tactful, designers Dayeon Jang and Sungchae Park created Lunit, a collection of portable medical devices designed for use in public settings.

Lunit is comprised of four medical devices: an inhaler, blood glucose meter, insulin syringe, and a blood pressure oximeter. Jang and Park took on the portable medical device because they noticed a lack of ergonomics and comfort in the antiquated medical devices still on the market today. Each device of Lunit is inspired by the dark side of the moon to be inconspicuous at first glance, laced in smoky black and gray tones and wrapped in translucent coverings reminiscent of evening mist.

Lunit’s inhaler comes in the same familiar shape as traditional inhalers, but a tubelike build with rounded corners and edges gives it a smoother grip and more ergonomic handling shape. The translucent coverings on both ends of the inhaler also work to give it a more obscure look.

Jang and Park reinterpreted the blood glucose meter as a household product that could be taken on the go as easily as the inhaler. The insulin syringe also finds a bit of obscurity through translucent, foggy coverings that conceal the full function of the syringe, giving it a design as discreet as a pen’s. Finally, the blood pressure oximeter is small enough to fit inside your breast or back pocket and comes with all the functions of a traditional oximeter.

Designed to fit inside your pocket, portable medical devices like inhalers and insulin syringes allow users to take care of restricted airways and high blood sugar levels from anywhere, but sometimes the device’s aesthetic design is less user-friendly than their portability. In prioritizing a discreet look for Lunit, the designers hoped to dampen the staring eyes and stigma typically associated with portable medical devices.

Speaking to this, the designers suggest, “When using medical devices outside, users can [become] nervous or uncomfortable because they are worried about what people think about them or their actions. We want to solve [this] through design so that users with underlying diseases can no longer hide and take care of their health with confidence.”

Designers: Sungchae Park and Dayeon Jang

The ribbed, translucent covering of Lunit’s insulin syringe gives it inconspicuous concealment.

When covered, the insulting syringe from Lunit looks like a pen. 

The blood pressure oximeters are adorned with yellow dots similar to a starry night.

Small enough to fit into any pocket, Lunit’s oximeter can be taken anywhere.

The household blood glucose meter looks just like a portable radio.

Equipped with their own carrying case, each device from Lunit is designed to make taking care of yourself look as good as it feels.