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This wireless power bank ditches bulk for a slim build and attaches to your smartphone via micro-suction cups!

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Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Adsorb is a wireless power bank that attaches to the back of your smartphone with micro-suction cups and replaces the bulky design of current power banks with a slimmer build.

Charging our smartphones while we’re out is always an uphill battle. You either have to ask the waiter or bartender if they have a charging cable or available outlet for yours. Your only other option is a bulky power bank that weighs and measures three times the weight and size of your phone, which is no fun carrying around. Alas, we need that juice. Slimming down its bulk and outfitting it with silicone suction cups to attach to your smartphone, industrial designer Wenjie Zheng gave the classic power bank a much-needed makeover, calling it Adsorb.

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

In conceptualizing Adsorb, Zheng hoped to swap out the conventional power bank’s heavyweight and large size for a much slimmer power bank that attaches to the back of your smartphone, requiring no wires for operation. Since we tend to use power banks only when we’re desperate for battery–like when we’re at 1% but need to seal that uber ride before the screen goes dark–Zheng cut down the size and output of the power bank to allow for a slimmer build.

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

In conceptualizing Adsorb, Zheng also aimed to give the power bank a more emotive and appealing look, ditching the industrial tech look of typical power banks for a simultaneously eye-catching and discreet final look. Without the need for wires, Adsorb attaches to the back of your smartphone via a grid of suctions, adhering to and merging with your smartphone to look like a purposeful design.

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Adsorb was designed by Zheng to appeal to everyone, with his conceptualization showcasing an array of different colors ranging from marbled yellow, to sky blue, dual-tone orange, heather gray, and even violet. Considering the antiquated design of most power banks on the market, Zheng’s visualizes a wireless power bank that attaches to the back of your phone and rises to the quality of technology it powers up.

Designer: Wenjie Zheng

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Using micro-suction cups, Adsorb attaches to the back of your smartphone to charge it.

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Discreet by design, Adsorb blends into your smartphone like a charging case. 

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

Coming in blood orange, Zheng conceptualized an Adsorb for every taste.

Wireless Power Bank with Suction Cups

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This portable power bank comes with an attached cord to ensure your phone is never at 1% again!

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I have the highest phone battery consumption among my friends but I am also that fool who forgets her power bank. If it is my lucky day, I will have my power bank but I will most likely forget the cord. It is a small problem but when your phone is on 1% and you have to do a post…or worse, when your mom calls and it just dies, that is when you wish you had a solution like Peel!

This clever product is a conceptual power bank especially designed for people who forget to bring their cord when they head out. Zheng gives the otherwise dull and boxy power banks a smart, sleek, and refreshing look. Peel has a variety of charging functions integrated into itself and one of the most efficient features is the rewinding cord mechanism. It can hold up to 750mm of wire for charging. The length and clean storage of the wire allows you to adjust it based on your needs and you don’t have to sit right next to a plug point again.

Peel literally radiates warm energy but it does so metaphorically as well through the choice of CMF – the surface of the power supply is made of soft cloth, adding a delicate tactile dimension missing from power banks currently in the market. The rounded corners give it a friendly aesthetic while making it more comfortable to hold. I love the modern look of Peel and the fact that I will never have to search for my cords again or be tethered to the plug point along with my phone. Peel-ease get this into production ASAP!

Designer: Wenjie Zheng

This curious double-headed smart light is the next generation of the iconic desk lamp

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Designed to revise the definition of a shared space, the Sharing Lamp is a curious little lamp design that makes a huge impact with a small twist! Imagine a shared public space, like a library or a college desk – designed to work for many instead of focusing on one. The Sharing Lamp takes the well-known desk lamp design and adds two instantly identifiable movable heads, creating personalization in a public space!

Invoking the feel of an airline overhead light, the Sharing Lamp comes with two individually swiveling lamp heads that turn to suit your need. Simple, isn’t it? Well, designer Wenjie Zheng doesn’t just stop there. The lamp comes with four unique lighting modes to meet the user’s work requirements, with a different mode for working on your computer and a different mode for watching a movie! The light also changes colors to prevent straining your eyes. The Sharing Lamp’s real fun begins when the AI remote tutoring feature comes to life. When the lamp focuses on your work, the AI scans your written text to easily proof and point out the spelling errors or grammatical mistakes you may have made in your work. It’s like having a personal proofing machine that runs you a spell-check without diluting the experience of writing in your diary with your treasured pen!

Looking almost like Pixar’s Wall-E in bright pastel colors, this lamp is sure to be the focal point (literally!) in any room! The Sharing Lamp’s unique problem-solving capacity helps us work smarter while retaining the iconic desk lamp’s form and flexibility we love and depend upon in our everyday life. Its truly an evolution, making this the next generation in the life of desk lamps!

Designer: Wenjie Zheng

This smart door handle solves 4 issues of its predecessors

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Smart homes are no longer a thing of the future, it all started with TVs and mobile phones but now most appliances in our home have an ‘above average IQ’. One of the first few converts were lights, refrigerators, and thermostats, we also have a few smart handles and locks but they are just not ready to take the SATs (I can’t be the only one who finds these entertaining!). They are often overlooked when we think of smart appliances but this conceptual handle is here to ‘unlock’ some new levels in the smart home game.

The Handle solves a lot of the issues that come with the current smart locks in the market. The invisible tech feature has a human body sensor so the backlight in the handle will light up when you approach thus making it easier for you to touch the fingerprint identification on the backside of the product. The frontside has a laser microvia touch keypad which lights up subtly when needed and literally looks like someone has imprinted the handle with characters using a fine-tip glow pen. You can set a number password, icon password or pattern password on this keypad.

The indoor handle (when you are inside the room) has an unlock key to open the door and an ergonomic toggle switch you can use to lock the door. Unlike most smart handles and locks, the Handle is not black or bulky, it is slim, very sleek and has a modern yet minimalist design that makes it merge with any interior environment. The handle is here to open the door to a brighter future of smart homes.

Designers: Wayne Lu and Wenjie Zheng