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AR measuring instrument was designed to help make better, ergonomic augmented reality displays

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Looking half like a futuristic optician’s instrument and half steampunk headgear, the Test Tool was designed by Seoul-based BEBOP Design to allow them to figure out the exact placement for AR displays on a motorcycle helmet. Eventually, the tool blossomed into a comprehensive measuring device that could possibly make AR headsets much more optically accurate and comfortable in the future. With a variety of sliders, gauges, calibration dials, and other moving parts, Test Tool helps locate the highest clarity point of an AR window, helping designers and engineers develop much better face-mounted HUDs.

Designer: BEBOP Design

The design language of the Test Tool naturally communicates its fundamental purpose of precision. Its fixing screw knobs, distance sliders, and angle adjustment dials all have simple and reassuring ergonomics, allowing the wearer to easily adjust them without having to look.

The Test Tool comes in an all-black design, with white markings for high legibility. Adjustment features on the head-arch allow you to secure the Test Tool to the wearer’s head snugly, fitting them just the way a helmet would.

A slider on the front, running parallel to the bridge of your nose, lets you adjust a piece of glass towards or away from your face while also configuring its angle. This glass reflects the helmet’s AR imagery directly into your eye, giving you visual elements superimposed directly over the world in front of you. This display, however, sits below your eye level instead of at it, which means virtual objects don’t obstruct your view of the road. The tool helped calculate the perfect screen distance for the average rider, directly informing the helmet’s design. A secondary lens unit on the top could be manually adjusted per rider, for better clarity control.

The Test Tool ultimately helped inform the AR helmet’s overall design. A half-face prototype of the helmet was recently unveiled by Datechniq (image below), showcasing a uniquely shaped visor, designed to accommodate the reflective AR display. The helmet is still a work in progress, although the Test Tool is quite an interesting object in itself, working as a unique anthropometric gauge to create ergonomically sound display units.

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This emergency tool for your car is a glass breaker that doubles as a make-shift hammer

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Who says a typical windows glass breaker has to be concealed in the dark corners of your vehicle? This glass breaker that doubles as a hammer and designer prop breaks away all those notions!

More often than not we tend to hide away emergency use equipment like windows glass breaker, simply because they don’t go very well with the car interiors or tend to be forgotten as they are seldom used. This can lead to serious repercussions in the event of an emergency when you desperately need to break the glass to make an exit. A breaker stored in a hidden compartment or in the boot of the car – not accessible in case you are stuck in the front seats can be the difference between life and death.

Bringing the element of sanity and clever design to the good old glass breaker is the Objemer emergency car window breaker. The emergency use accessory designed for Escape Lab (a Korean startup) by BEBOP Design gets over the dangerous behavior of hiding typical breakers in places where they’ll eventually not be found when desperately needed. The idea here is to make it blend with the car’s typical dashboard and compartment storage design so that the designer accessory is always at arm’s length – ready for use.

The Objemer’s USP is its intuitive rectangular design which is an eye-pleasing prop when not in use. Since it is CNC machined the designer managed to achieve a very precise and accurate shape that looks good and most importantly maintains the sharp edge just at the right place. When required the sharp end of the window breaker concealed in the magnetic mount can be put to judicious use. It’s made from a single block of metal and also acts as a make-shift hammer for the odd task. While the design house doesn’t mention any other double utility of the car escape tool explicitly, I can think of it as a surprise self-defense prop, because you never know!

Designer: BEBOP Design for Escape Lab

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This robot is an autonomous product designed for enhancing digital interactions like a modern R2-D2!

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Imagine if R2-D2 got a 2021 makeover? Well, BEBOP Design did something like that…they took the concept and gave it a sleek makeover to give us all Information Robot! This is an autonomous robot designed specifically for the Korean startup Zetabank that aims to make human lives safer and healthier with the help of robots.

Zetabank has a range of robots and this is their second collaboration with BEBOP. The company’s mission is to imrpove our lives using artificial intelligence. Their Disinfectant Robot, Hospitality Robot, and Untact Robot are all designed keeping in mind how they can maximize utility and bring practicality to make our day-to-day more efficient. Continuing that legacy is Information Robot which is created as a service platform for digital interactions building upon the Hospitality Robot’s intelligence. These digital interactions are enhanced by the robot’s autonomous movement in various commercial and residential spaces.

Information Robot not only takes the best from its hospitality counterpart but also includes the best from the Disinfectant Robots. It features tech that enables it to purify the air and it becomes more efficient due to its ability to move around smoothly in large environments so it hits two targets with one arrow! Information Robot maintains a coherent design language while accommodating its unique functional purpose. It presents a friendly and approachable personality while its large display is the focal point that invites people to interact with it. R2-D2 would certainly be envious of the minimal aesthetic and the tech upgrade!

Designer: Soohun Jung, Byungwook Kang, Rich Park, Kikang Kim of BEBOP Design

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This Window Air Purifier blows fresh aromatic air indoors for a clean, healthy home

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While most of the air purifiers refresh the air inside the room – be it fresh air from a window, air conditioner, or air circulating for hours due to the closed indoor environment; there is actually the need for an air purifier that sucks in fresh air from the outdoors and then freshens it up to be really perceived as an “air purifier.” BEBOP Design realizes the importance of designing an air purifier for homes as well as any decent-sized commercial location that can actually bring refreshing air inside without being too heavy on the fragrance which can be a nightmare for people with allergies or sensitive sinusitis.

They’ve come up with the Ventus Air – an air purifier that can be installed onto any existing window frames and ventilates the room with a breath of fresh air – sans the old-fashioned way of constantly filtering the stale air inside the room – that most air purifiers out there do! The radically different air purifier is commissioned for Ventus, a Korean startup that takes pride in its air filtration technology. The air purifier has a very minimal yet attractive design for a clean feel – a monochrome color that gives the assurance of purity, reliability, and calmness. It has a concealed display system, a light strip indicating the air quality and harmful gas indicator, and a magnetic filter lid that has a fabric pull tab.

Ventus Air windowed air purifier can be easily maintained by pulling out the filter and replacing it with the new one when required. Of course, you get a matching remote to operate from the cozy confines of your couch, making it an air purifier tailored for the right intended function.

Designer: BEBOP Design