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Fire Extinguisher Disguised as an Air Freshener for Ease of Use and Enhanced Safety

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Fire safety is an essential aspect of any home or workplace, yet the traditional fire extinguisher often remains an overlooked necessity until an emergency arises. The Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign challenges this status quo by seamlessly integrating safety with aesthetics, making it an indispensable addition to any living space. This innovative design aims to revolutionize fire safety by addressing usability concerns and enhancing the overall user experience.

Designer: Inika Jhamvar

We’ve all obviously seen the conventional fire extinguishers on every floor of our residences and workplaces. Have you ever been taught how to use one? Or even know how to use one with confidence? God forbid we ever have to use it, but it’s always good to be prepared. The directions on it appear straightforward and doable, but are you mentally prepared to read, grasp, and implement them? Some of us would rather have to first take lessons to learn how to keep cool in stressful times.

Intuitive design has always been an important aspect of the design process and thinking, but it has recently gained prominence. The Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign acknowledges these limitations and emphasizes the need for an intuitive design that promotes quick and effective usage. This redesign aligns with the contemporary trend of prioritizing intuitive interfaces in all facets of design.

The choice of red as the primary color for fire extinguishers carries significance. Red is universally associated with danger and fire, instantly alerting individuals to the presence of a fire safety device. Moreover, red is highly visible even in low-light environments, such as a smoke-filled room, ensuring that the extinguisher is easily locatable during emergencies. The Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign stays true to this color while incorporating subtle highlights for enhanced visibility.

What do the Letters on a Fire Extinguisher mean?
The letter on a fire extinguisher indicates its classification:
• Class A puts out ordinary combustible fires (wood, paper, plastic, etc.).
• Class B puts out flammable liquid fires (oil, gas, petroleum, etc.).
• Class C puts out electrical fires.
• Class D puts out combustible metal fires (magnesium, titanium, potassium, sodium, etc.).
• Class K puts out cooking fires ignited by flammable oil and grease.

Since Class A, B, and C fires are all found in conventional homes and businesses, ABC fire extinguishers are designed to put out all three types of fires.
The letters on a fire extinguisher serve as a classification guide. Class A, B, C, D, and K fires require different extinguishing agents, ranging from ordinary combustible fires to flammable liquids and electrical fires. The Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign unifies these capabilities, offering a versatile solution to combat various fire types.

The Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign introduces several innovative features to enhance usability and safety:

Enhanced Control:

The elimination of long tube nozzles provides users with greater control and precision while aiming and operating the extinguisher. This addresses a common concern among users regarding the difficulty of effectively directing the extinguishing agent.

Ergonomic Design:

The redesign incorporates improved ergonomics into the handle, minimizing discomfort and wrist strain during use. This ergonomic approach ensures that users can confidently grip and control the extinguisher, even in high-stress situations.

Smoke Detection Integration:

An in-built smoke detector, connected to a speaker, alerts users to the presence of heavy smoke. This dual functionality not only warns of potential fire hazards but also pinpoints the extinguisher’s location, enabling a swift response.

User-Centric Instructions:

Instructions for use are strategically placed at eye level, ensuring immediate visibility and comprehension. This addresses the challenge of reading and understanding instructions in stressful situations. The inclusion of a QR Code scanner, mentioning detailed information regarding Pressure, Expiry, How to Use, Types of Fires, and even Alert Authorities.

Wall-Mounted Stand:

The inclusion of a dedicated wall-mounted stand provides a designated and easily accessible space for the extinguisher, eliminating the need for storage that compromises accessibility.

Improved Aesthetics:

Since a neutral color has been chosen, it encourages people to place them anywhere around the house without having to store them in an enclosed space. However, the color Red is still included as it is very directly related to fire extinguishers and will help recognizability.

The Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign marks a significant advancement in fire safety, yet opportunities for improvement are evident. Incorporating interactive instructions with visuals or augmented reality could enhance user engagement and understanding during the extinguishing process. A comprehensive fire safety network, integrating extinguishers with smoke detection devices throughout homes, promises a more effective initial response system. Offering customizable color options would allow seamless integration with diverse home decor. Moreover, providing detailed dimensions through Computer-Aided Design (CAD) would aid architects in smoothly incorporating the extinguisher into building plans. While already innovative, the Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign’s potential lies in refining interactivity, broadening integration, enabling personalization, and streamlining architectural assimilation for an even more sophisticated fire safety solution.

The Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign redefines fire safety by seamlessly blending intuitive design with essential functionality. By prioritizing ease of use, accessibility, and aesthetics, this innovative approach transforms the traditional fire extinguisher into a discreet yet indispensable element of modern living spaces. As we continue to embrace user-centric design solutions, the Agni Fire Extinguisher Redesign sets a new standard for fire safety products that prioritize both form and function.

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These marvelous fire extinguishers will make you feel like a superhero

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Very few of us probably think about being ready for fires. We might have emergency go-bags prepared for disasters like earthquakes and floods, but most of us will still be caught unprepared if a fire breaks out. Fire extinguishers are, or at least should be, a necessity in any home, but that’s hardly the case. Even those that do have one or two keep them out of sight, rendering them inaccessible in an emergency. A major reason for that might be the unsightly appearance of these cylindrical tanks that create an eyesore that makes our minds averse to their presence. Unfortunately, that may come at a price of human lives, so this new breed of fire extinguishers rethink that design and turn it into an almost literal shield that you’d actually be proud to display anywhere in your house.

Designer: Premysl Kokes

The problem with emergencies and accidents is that you never know when they will happen, which is why they’re called emergencies and accidents. That’s why we need to be prepared for any eventuality and have the tools ready to aid us. Fire extinguishers are supposed to be easy to access and easy to use, but the reality is quite the opposite. They’re often placed in hard-to-reach corners and are cumbersome to operate, adding to the panic and stress that people would have already been suffering.

Designed by architect and fire survivor Přemysl Kokeš, the Hussechuck and Shield fire extinguishers completely redefine what you thought fire extinguishers should look like. While there’s very little to be done for the weight, simply changing its shape and manner of use can drastically improve its usability. In this case, turning the device into a circle like a giant steering wheel or shield frees one hand for other things and offers some protection for your body as well.

Whether it’s the basic Hussechuck or the covered Shield, the way you use it is the same. You slip your left arm into the strap and use a trigger to release the fire retardant from the front opening hole. There’s also a short hose for those times when you really need to use it like a traditional extinguisher. Otherwise, it can all be used with a single arm, freeing your other arm to support it or hold something else. It also makes you look cool, like a firefighting superhero donning a veritable shield.

Although the Hussechuck itself is already more presentable than a conventional tank, the Shield and Shield Plus add even more reasons for you to show it off on your walls. These two offer a variety of stylish covers, including some with a self-extinguishing textile surface, that turn them into decorative pieces for your interiors. With this redesign, you have fewer reasons to forget where you placed that life-saving device and even get to look a little cool under literal fire.

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Universal attachment turns any water bottle into a makeshift fire extinguisher

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Designed for third-world countries or places where fire-fighting infrastructure isn’t readily available, the Fire Conqueror helps turn a regular water bottle into a fire-fighting device. All you really need to do is mix vinegar and baking soda into the water to create an effervescent solution that generates CO2, and the Fire Conqueror module lets you spray the solution onto a fire, helping neutralize it.

The Fire Conqueror, a winner of the iF Design Award, was conceptualized by the students of Dalian Minzu University. Fire extinguishers aren’t readily available or accessible in public spaces, even though the presence of one can be the difference between life and death. The Fire Conqueror helps makes fire-fighting materials much more accessible by literally allowing you to turn a regular water bottle into an extinguisher.

Designers: Yu Zhang, QingGuang, Chen HuaYing & Xu Jia Xu

The Fire Conqueror snaps onto the top of any standard bottle with a 28mm neck. Screwing onto the top, the device then provides the perfect mechanism to spray the contents of the bottle on command. To use the Fire Conqueror, all you do is add vinegar and baking soda to the water inside the bottle. This generates bubbles containing CO2, which when sprayed onto the fire, can help cut the oxygen supply to the fire and cause it to die down almost instantly. Pressure within the bottle begins building up, and a valve on the Fire Conqueror lets you deploy the contents of the bottle in a focused spray, much like a fire extinguisher.

The Fire Conqueror is a winner of the iF Design Award for the year 2022.

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This emergency safety system is like an air hostess that helps you evacuate during a fire!

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Safety devices don’t usually focus on the form because their purpose is to serve emergencies and therefore function reigns over everything. But the winner from the 2020 Korea Design Exhibition was an example of how safety devices can be extremely functional while showing good design details so they aren’t an eyesore in the space. Think of them as superheroes and they need a good suit – now they have one!

Emergency Helper was designed to help people in the event of a fire in a building, but what makes it different is that it is a lot more than just a fire extinguisher and is aimed at helping with the side effects of the emergency as well. In case of fire, it informs the location of the fire extinguisher as well as the location of the evacuation route. When a fire breaks out, LED lights will come on from both sides and the bottom of the product, an alarm will ring the warning sound and the LED on the top- front will notify people where to evacuate from. In case the fire breaks out around the product or the product cannot be used for some reason, the smart device will spray extinguishing fluid from the front and both sides after detecting the heat around it. It also includes a hammer, flashlight, and respirators – this can help people evacuate safely and reduce respiratory stress for those with breathing problems in case of such emergencies.

The smart design of the Emergency Helper adds necessary layers to the traditional fire extinguisher for a more well-rounded safety system. The design reminds me of a modern vending machine that also helps users associate it with a reassuring product than something that reminds them of dreadful situations. Emergency Helper can also expand its safety measures by including life jackets and whistles to be even more prepared in case of unforeseen circumstances but it is certainly a step in the right direction. Something that comes to mind when designing safety devices is how can they be made more inclusive so people with disabilities can also operate them when needed – perhaps a voice assistant?

Designer: Jungwook Lee and Jinho Kim

This flower-vase is also a fire-extinguisher

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As useful as they are, fire-extinguishers are also designed to be too utilitarian and technical. They’re stored in attics and store-rooms, because they aren’t particularly aesthetic, and working them usually requires knowing how to operate them.

Even though laws dictate that all homes in South Korea need to have a fire extinguisher, as many as 58% of them don’t… and the ones that do, have them lying in hard-to-reach places. In order to equip Koreans with a product that’s easy to use, and can sit in one’s house in plain sight, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance partnered with Cheil Worldwide to design the Firevase. A double-walled flower-vase with potassium carbonate filled in the sealed hollow space. The Firevase works like any normal vase, allowing you to place flowers in its inner container, while the hollow space holds the potassium carbonate which looks like water… but in the event of an emergency, the vase becomes your fire extinguisher. Designed to be thrown at a fire, the vase shatters when it hits the floor or a wall, allowing the potassium carbonate to spill out. The Potassium Carbonate starts a rapid cooling reaction that suppresses oxygen, eventually putting out the fire.

Made to look aesthetically pleasing, and have a user experience that’s much simpler than working a complex fire extinguisher, the Firevase can put out a fire by just being thrown at it… like a Molotov cocktail, but with the absolute opposite effect! Plus, the fact that it’s well-designed and has a home-friendly aesthetic means the unsuspecting fire-extinguisher will sit around your house in plain sight, storing flowers when you want, and allowing you to fight fire when you need!

Designers: Wanmo Koo, Jeakyun Kim, Sungjin Lee, Taeyul Ko (Cheil Worldwide) for Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance.

The Feuxzy drone fights forest fires with sonic waves

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Feuxzy makes a case for the use of drones in swift-action danger-scenarios where human life is much too precious. Designed to monitor park, woods, and forests, the Feuxzy is shaped like a saucer and comes built with chemical sensors, thermal sensors, thermal cameras and AI that help it detect forest fires. Also built into the Feuxzy is a sonic fire extinguisher that shoot beams of low-frequency bass sounds between 30 and 60 Hz to disrupt the air around the fire, sending pressure through the air molecules to remove the oxygen from it and causing the fire to die down. Built with as many as five of these sonic extinguishers, Feuxzy can travel right into the heart of forest fires, fighting the flames from all sides, rather than working just at the periphery, the way a human firefighter would do.

Feuxzy measures 20 inches in diameter and 12 inches thick. Its shell is made out of composites and its energy source comes from ion lithium batteries (or a fuel cell) that power an electric turbofan located at its center. It isn’t clear how these batteries will fare in high-temperature scenarios, but I’m sure there’s always a design or engineering fix that can help these conceptual drones become a fire-fighting reality. Feuxzy’s roles aren’t, however, limited to just fire-fighting. They can patrol these large expanses of land, monitoring the flora and fauna as well as working to track down missing people.

Designers: Martin Rico & Adolfo Esquivel (Imaginactive)

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One Haute Fire Extinguisher

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Fire extinguishers: you can’t live with ’em, you can’t live without ’em. What I mean is, nothing will kill the aesthetic vibe of a space quicker than a bright red extinguisher. Of course, that space won’t exist if it’s overtaken by fire… so what to do? This concept by Alessandro Zaghi is designed to look better and operate more intuitively than your average red can.

Mounted on any wall or surface, the minimalistic unit’s surface is a giant push-to-release button. It’s also attached to the base magnetically, making it easy to remove. The design differs from traditional units in that it can be worn like a satchel or bag, freeing the hands to carry other objects and operate the spray nozzle. Once removed, instructions are revealed in a detailed yet simple graphic. Simply throw it over the shoulder and press the button to spray.

Designer: Alessandro Zaghi

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Designer Fire Extinguishers

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It’s a smart idea to keep a fire extinguisher in/near your kitchen (and a certificate of occupancy requirement in some areas) but who says it has to be just a boring red one? You’re unique and there’s no reason for something so prominently displayed in your home to have to look like an industrial piece of equipment. Step up your design game and get a fancy Designer Fire Extinguisher.

These Belgium made fire extinguishers offer 10 different styles of your choice to suit the room you plan on placing it in. Made of steel and brass, they are built to strict CE safety standards. Measures 3.25″ by 11″ tall. If you buy one the only thing that will be on fire is your amazing design sense.

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Finally, A Fire Extinguisher That Works!

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A rather terrifying statistic is that as little as 17% of people know how to correctly operate a fire extinguisher, a device that could quite literally save a person’s life! This may well be down to the small, sometimes illegible instructions, a lack of training, or their level of difficulty to correctly operate one… surely something must be done to correct this?!

Well Karl Martin thought so, and his solution comes in the rather intuitive form of LiteFire. Its elevated level of usability stems from the carefully considered and extremely well-developed handle; gone are the fiddly safety pins and awkward trigger, instead they have been replaced with a large, rounded handle, where ergonomics have been greatly considered, and a single, clearly labeled button is present to activate the device.

The revised handle paired with the far simplified instructions leads to a device that can be operated by people of all ages. Just how a fire extinguisher should be!

Designer: Karl Martin

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Handle ideation sketched from design requirements that include: the ability to hold with two hands, intuition through product semantics and accessibility of key operational features when in use.

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The device requires less hand strength to operate compared to the existing lever mechanism. The semantics illustrate how the product is used and handled.

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This design uses an adapted version of the aerosol can mechanism to allow the user the easiest method of operation. The main body is made from a die-pressed aluminum alloy. The handle and nozzle is injection molded from thermosetting, heat-resistant polyurethane. The internal mechanism components are made of brass.

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Unlike fire extinguishers today, the handle can be held at two points allowing for a better distribution of weight. The handle includes a release button and sliding lock, which all have symbols to show its action. At the top of the handle is an instruction to aim at the base of the fire as this is a ‘must do’ which many are unaware of.

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A Very Smart Fire Extinguisher

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Recently, household fires have increased and in these events, the risk of death for blind people is significantly high. Designed to assist a person who is visually impaired during the event of a fire, Ball uses a multitude of sensors to aim at the danger zone automatically.

Packaged inside the sleek exterior casing lies a tracking system which, together with the sensors located around the room, pinpoints the fire source. The ball which protrudes out of the top of the device automatically rotates to locate and track the fire. Touch points have been greatly considered, most noticeably with the pressure gauge that features a needle on both sides of the glass so that the dial can be felt.

A small speaker can be found within the base of the product, this sounds an alarm if a fire is detected as well as providing clear, concise instructions on what to do next!

Designer: Minwook Paeng

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