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Plug & Play wearable injector concept simplifies biological drug delivery

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Plug & Play Cambridge Consultants Concept

Chronic diseases are those that may not be cured but can be managed. They may last a lifetime but you should not worry when you are diagnosed with one. With the advances in health and medical technology, such bad news can become more bearable.

We’re not here to downplay chronic diseases but rather to introduce possible solutions and improvements to enhance and lengthen life. Treatments vary but one thing is certain, the field of medicine will only get better. But as it improves, some people may still not catch up because of forgetfulness, fear, and other issues. Plug & Play aims to solve that as the first wearable injector.

Designers: Cambridge Consultants, David Robinson

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This personal injector is a small device that can be worn or stuck onto a body part. It helps fulfill a patient’s needs for injections. It’s not for every illness, syndrome, or health condition but only for those who need injections. It boasts a one-step plug-in mechanism so a patient can insert a vial easily. No need for another person to assist you. The Plug & Play will inject the contents of the vial itself into the patient after a single press of the play button.

The name Plug & Play perfectly describes what this concept device does. You simply “plug” a vial and then press ‘play’ and it’s done. The simple process lessens the agony and waiting time for those who may be afraid of injections. This device is more than helpful as patients can know the injection status with color-coded feedback.

Plug & Play Wearable Injector

Vials can vary in size but this Plug & Play can transform them into a primary container with a customizable insert. This is important as biological drug volumes really vary depending on the prescription. The small device allows orientation independent delivery as made possible by a method (patent-pending ) of extraction from a vial.

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Plug & Play was designed by Cambridge Consultants. The group is known for its breakthrough products. It offers business technology consultancy and licenses for intellectual property. This project won a Red Dot Design Award for Design Concept years ago.

The Plug & Play wearable pump injector concept still remains a significant idea especially now when access to medical professionals and hospitals may be limited, no thanks to the pandemic. Since injection of biological drugs may take time or require a hospital visit, an independent solution like this revolutionary Plug & Play may be preferred. It’s making things less complicated not only for the patient but also for his caregiver, family, and doctor.

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C-Ecology Concept Ecosytem will bring life to the urban rivers

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C-Ecology Taiwan Green Concept Award 2022

More green concepts and projects that will hopefully save Mother Earth will be introduced. There is no guarantee that every idea will work or come to fruition but we believe every concept that is revealed to the public arena can inspire more people. Smarter and bigger ideas will be generated and shared until a proper system becomes a reality.

One of the numerous entries for the GREEN CONCEPT AWARD (Green Concepts 2022) is the C-Ecology concept from Taiwan. It’s designed as an ecosystem building for urban rivers. Designed by a group from Tunghai University, the system makes use of environmentally friendly ceramics that are 3d-printed.

Designer: Tunghai University

C-Ecology Taiwan Green Concept Award 2022

The 3D printing technology continues to win in different fields. This time, it will be greatly used in caring for the environment. The idea is that a modular structure will be set in place as a wetland system. The size and depth of the rivers vary but with the modular system, they can adapt.

The wetland system is then placed on the water surface’s resuscitation basket that will provide nutrients. The idea is for a coral reef structure to be available so shellfish, shrimp, and other organisms will be able to live and start a habited in the water. Having these living things will increase water circulation.

C-Ecology Taiwan Green Concept Award 2022

The more the water circulation improves, the more the urban river will be balanced in terms of environmental beautification, hydrophilicity, and ecosystem. Ecology in Taiwan has always been important and we’re glad to know there are more researchers looking for ways to improve on it. Building an ecosystem in the urban rivers will definitely have a long-term effect and we can’t wait for this to happen not only in Taiwan but in other countries as well.

A sustainable environment is always a good idea but we recognize not every idea will be a success. As for the C-Ecology, this project has been recognized as a nominee by the people behind the Green Product Award 2022. It’s been recently named as the Top 8 among the ten awardees of the Green Concept Audience Award 2022. The main Concept Winner has not yet been named but it will be announced this coming February 25.

C-Ecology Taiwan Green Concept Award 2022

This project from Taiwan has great potential when it’s implemented. Imagine urban rivers becoming a real habitat and environment for living sea creatures. Well, we don’t want to see big fishes and alligators roaming underwaters. We just want those little fishes and shrimp thriving and giving life to the water.

C-Ecology Taiwan Green Concept Award 2022

C-Ecology Taiwan Green Concept Award 2022

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Top Automotive and Transportation Designs from the A’ Design Awards 2021

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One of the A’ Design Awards’ standout features is just its vastly multidisciplinary nature. Conceived as the one award program to cover every single aspect of the design industry, the A’ Design Award looks at as many as 100 categories, spanning everything from Architecture to Interiors, Graphics, Packaging, Furniture, Film, Social Design, Medical Product Design, Consumer Technology, Jewelry, and a category that’s truly close to our hearts… Transportation Design.

With its Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design category, the A’ Design Award hopes to identify and reward game-changing innovations made in the mobility and transport sector. The awardees aren’t just your average cars, motorbikes, and cycles, they even look at recreational vehicles like skateboards (there’s one in the list below!) as well as mobility solutions for the physically impaired. Currently in their 2021-22 edition, the awards are looking for the next generation of life-changing, life-bettering transportation designs, with as many as 211 Jury Members covering all of the award categories. Moreover, winners of the A’ Design Award don’t just win a trophy and a certificate, but receive an entire PR Campaign dedicated towards pushing their career, clout, and even their projects to newer heights. A’ Design Award’s winners and even its participants are included in its annual award book and business network, while additionally contributing to their country’s overall design ranking that paints a holistic picture of how design-centric and design-forward each country is… so if you’ve got a great idea for a product and all it needs is a bit of a push and some validation from some of the most accomplished professionals and educators in the design industry, head over to A’ Design Award’s website and submit your design for this year’s award! Hurry, there are only 2 more weeks till the award’s final submission deadline of 28th February! Your design, your profession, and even your country could really use that bit of clout!

If you’ve got a great transportation/mobility design that’s innovative and award-worthy, click here to register & participate in the A’ Design Award and Competition 2022. Hurry! Submissions close on February 28th, 2022.

CanguRo Mobility Robot by Shunji Yamanaka – fuRo

The CanguRo Mobility Robot is a classic example of building the future by looking at the past. For centuries (if not millennia), humans have rode on horses as transport. The horse, unlike a car or motorcycle, forms a relationship with the rider over time, following, responding to commands, and remaining subservient to its owner. The CanguRo Mobility Robot provides a similar experience with a three-wheeled robot that the user can ride, summon via their smartphone, and even walk ahead of as the robot follows them along. The three-wheeled mobility bot is autonomous, which gives the rider a certain degree of freedom. It can be summoned from the parking lot by simply tapping a button, and can even follow you around as you walk. However, when you want to ride it, straddle yourself in its seat and the three wheels spread apart, providing you with a comfortable, controlled, and stable driving experience!

The Board Skateboard by Chia-Wei Chen

The Board is an award-winning collapsible skateboard that is inspired by the same mechanical linkage system seen in collapsing gates, in scissors, and in those expandable grabber toys you’re probably familiar with. It’s hard to think of how skateboards and gates have any design-process overlap, but The Board makes it clear that a detail found in one product can easily and effectively be ported onto another product with stunning results. The Board uses this collapsible linkage system to make itself more portable. Machined metal components are arranged, sandwiched, and connected to each other with multiple pivot points to make The Board’s body. These linkages allow The Board to expand and collapse just by pulling or pushing it, taking it from a long, skateboard shape to a much more compact and carryable circular shape that easily fits right into backpacks. The metal construction gives The Board its signature strength (so the pieces don’t bend or flex when you stand on the skateboard), while also imparting a unique appearance to it, whether open or closed!

XP Zero by Hugo Eccles for Untitled Motorcycles

Untitled Motorcycles (UMC) turned a lot of heads when it unveiled its XP Zero design. Based on Zero Motorcycles’ SR/F naked sportbike, the XP Zero floored audiences with its classic lines, modern performance, and minimalist styling. Since its debut at the prestigious Goodwood Festival of Speed, the XP has exhibited in Milan, Italy and Portland, Oregon; won nine design awards; and been featured in hundreds of magazine articles. Now that alone is pretty impressive… aside from that bare-basic beautiful design!

Sadler Foldable Electric Bike by Gianluca Sada

Another folding bike? Well, the Sadler is much more than that. The Sadler Folding Electric Bike, as its name suggests, comes with an electric powertrain that takes the effort out of manually cycling. Aside from that, it comes with a folding frame that’s also made further innovative by the two hubless wheels on the bicycle, and the frame’s carbon fiber construction. The foldable and portable design allows the Sadler to measure a mere 26-inches when closed, making it the world’s most compact folding e-bike. Designed and manufactured in Italy, the Sadler comes in three versions – a classic manual bike, a 3-gear shift, and the electrified version.

Cerberus Moped by Marco Naccarella

Although the Cerberus has the stylings of a café racer, it is, in fact, a moped owing to its lean lithe frame with the hollow design right under what looks like the moped’s fuel tank. The Cerberus sports one of the most interesting hybrid power systems. It comes equipped with a 2.3kw 50cc 4 stroke engine powered by a 2.8 kW electric battery and even has that aforementioned fuel tank to power the engine. If those weren’t enough, the Cerberus also has, wait for it, a set of foot pedals that allow it to live up to its moped name (the ped in moped standing for pedal)! The moped can reach speeds of up to 60km/h on both electric and fuel-based drives, and if you’re in the mood for some casual ambling about, you can just switch to the pedals and enjoy your bike ride!

Wusa Electric Personal Mobility by Anri Sugihara

As incredibly wicked as the Wusa electric scooter looks, it is, in fact, designed to help people with reduced mobility make their way around. The brief of the Wusa is a pretty interesting one – envisioned for Japan, a country that’s seeing a gradual reduction in its population along with an increase in the median age of its citizens, the Wusa hopes to provide a robust, reliable personal mobility solution for people who often opt for public transport but are seeing these options close down due to a reduction in population and in demand. The scooter/motorcycle is a pretty nifty-looking electric two-wheeler that not only lets you ride it around from point A to B, it also comes with the ability to strap a wheelchair to its rear, turning it effectively into a motor-powered trike. The beauty of the Wusa, mentions designer Anri Sugihara, is that it’s agnostic in its approach to the rider. “This compact mobility won’t separate user by their body ability”, Sugihara says. “It can be enjoyed by both manual wheelchair users and able-bodied people for their own usage.” By doing so, it elevates the status and position of a ‘welfare vehicle’, truly impacting all its consumers by being as inclusive as possible.

If you’ve got a great transportation/mobility design that’s innovative and award-worthy, click here to register & participate in the A’ Design Award and Competition 2022. Hurry! Submissions close on February 28th, 2022.

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Your 2022 Interior Design Inspiration – Winning Interior Projects from the A’ Design Award

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I’m aware that the world spent all of last year locked indoors, but believe me, if these ‘indoors’ looked anything like the ones I’m about to show you, I could sit indoors forever! Here to break your ‘Indoor Fatigue’ are some absolutely refreshing Interior Designs from the A’ Design Award and Competition.

Interior Design forms just one of the various categories of the A’ Design Award and Competition, which spans the popular categories like Architecture, Lighting, and Consumer Electronics, as well as the obscure, lesser-known categories like Cybernetics, Prosumer Products, and Safety Apparel Design. The A’ Design Award’s ultimate goal is to be an umbrella that covers good design across all disciplines, which is why it has 100 different categories for submitting design projects, and 211 jury members (comprising academics, design professionals, and press members) from all around the world collectively judging the works. Winners of the A’ Design Award don’t just secure a trophy and a certificate, but receive an entire PR Campaign dedicated towards pushing their career, clout, and even their projects to newer heights. A’ Design Award’s winners and even its participants are included in its annual award book and business network, while additionally contributing to their country’s overall design ranking that paints a holistic picture of how design-centric and design-forward each country is.

Interior Design remains one of the most popular categories at the A’ Design Awards, receiving entries by the thousands each year. Here are a few favorites that are absolute Interior Design Goals!

Register to participate in the A’ Design Awards now! Hurry, with the final date just 3 weeks away… You still have time to grab yourself an A’ Design Award and make 2022 YOUR year!

Zhenlong Mansion by YLH Design

The distinct design of the Zhenlong Mansion takes inspiration from the Beijing Directorate of Imperial Academy, which was considered the highest institution in ancient China. The sprawling mansion’s design serves the purpose of a modern sales office, drawing a connection between rich culture as well as an enterprising forward-thinking approach. The primary use of red harks back to the importance of red in Chinese history and culture, and the construction seems highly reminiscent of ancient building techniques too, with the use of interlocking wooden channels to make pillars and beams. The layout imitates the ancient Chinese Academy, and the materials are basically wood and ecological materials. The space comprises a hall, corridor, negotiation area, and sand table area (shown above with the hovering doves as a token of peace and prosperity)

Zhongshuge Bookshop by X+Living

While opening a book may feel like stepping into a new world for some book lovers, setting a foot inside Chengdu’s new Zhongshuge Bookshop should feel like floating through a galaxy! With thousands of books lining the walls of the bookstore, and with mirrored ceilings that create mesmeric reflections, the Zhongshuge Bookshop feels like it was designed by MC Escher! The bookstore, however, comes designed by Shanghai-based architecture firm X+Living who visualized the space as a shrine for books. The massive shelves cover the entire wall from the floor to the ceiling, however, they aren’t completely lined with books. To create the illusion of being filled with publications, the architectural firm used a film printed with books on the upper shelves, leaving the lower shelves to actually hold books. “The store already has a collection of over 80,000 books, so there’s actually no waste of space,” says Xiang Li, of X+Living.

Eco Smart City Sales Centre by Yipai Decoration Co.,Ltd.

The overall layout of the project Ecological Smart City Sales Centre is inspired by the patterns of ancient grand mansions, imitating the three-courtyard system to divide and differentiate the visions and functions of the spatial dimensions. The central hall, shown in the image above, comprises a reception lobby and a sand table area that’s illuminated with self-luminous ‘thermostat lamps’. The ceiling lamps run through the entire central hall, following the pattern of the Chuanzi River of Changde. Each individual lamp is shaped like a peach blossom, and together, they look like a large branch overwhelmed with peach blossoms, honoring the theme of the ‘Peach Blossom Spring’.

Qingcheng Creek Village by Nine Dimension Design

Created with an idyllic aesthetic that hopes to resemble “a fictitious land of peace”, the Qingcheng Creek Village is a sprawling homestay that draws people away from the loud noises of the city and the humdrum routine of daily life. Tourists enter the Village through a fascinating barrier at the entrance, and peep and appreciate disparate gorgeous sceneries amidst the landscape as if they are in a “fairyland”. The attractive semi-open architectural layout helps people connect with the outdoors while being indoors, and the organic and wooden architectural style visually relaxes the visitors by offering a flowy architectural style that feels comfortable, non-linear, and non-rigid. The project covers a total of 2000 square meters.

Ice Cave Office by Omid Amini and Fatemeh Salehi Amiri

With its unconventionally Ross Lovegrovean interior, the Ice Cave Office located in Tehran ditches the notion that architecture should have straight lines. Instead, the interiors take on a more curvilinear, sculpted-from-ice design with pillars and seats that look like stalactites and stalagmites emerging from the white floor and ceiling. To add a pop of color and vibrance to the interior, the walls are lined with plants and creepers that are fed sunlight through an open skylight on the top. The Ice Cave was originally envisioned to serve as a sales office and retail space, with the intent of gradually turning it into an event hall and exhibition space.

Puer Community Sales Center by Qingtao Ji

A signature part of the Puer Community sales building is its massive roof installation located in the center of the building. Set amidst a tea estate, the building aims at celebrating the tea leaves found around the property with a large leaf-shaped roofing structure above its central atrium. The large installation resembles a tea sieve of sorts, with a tea leaf at the very center, complete with the veins that are characteristic of any leaf. The designer wanted to take advantage of the glass central roof and sunshine to create a unique spatial appeal. The device is carefully designed to reflect different patterns of light depending on the position of the Sun. Sometimes they coalesce into one giant leaf, and sometimes they break down into millions of tiny leaves. These varying light and shadow effects make the space vivid and attractive.

BD’s Hype Tribe Office by DB and B Pte Ltd

This unique space with its blended decor style is inspired by Becton Dickinson’s (‘BD’) own business practices of consolidation. A strong visual and immersive design fuels different experiences throughout this space. From the inspiration of an Alfresco cafe that offers an ambient and cozy environment with the lingering aroma of freshly-brewed coffee to the dynamism created by the suspended acoustic panels which emulate robust flow or current. The interplay of wood and green elements enforces the architect’s natural inclinations and inspirations.

Wandering in the Woods Kindergarten by L and M Design Lab

While the title of the kindergarten highlights a more woodland-inspired approach, the architecture takes on a more fairytale-esque design with the dominant use of white, with wooden accents and patches of green on the floor. This approach, according to the designer, was adopted to maximize the amount of natural light within the space, creating a bright space that’s healthier for the children within. The design guarantees that all classrooms receive natural light from both sides. Columns become trees and beams become bridges to form abundant spatial effects. Continuous stairs and slides spiral up around the “trees”, connecting and activating spaces. “Treehouses” provide private spaces for children to read and do other school activities.

Register to participate in the A’ Design Awards now! Hurry, with the final date just 3 weeks away… You still have time to grab yourself an A’ Design Award and make 2022 YOUR year!

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Award-winning minimal TV Stand uses an easel-style design to prop your TV up in sleek fashion

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In what could easily be a first, this sleek, minimal TV stand actually looks better than the TV it holds – so much so that you’re sure to have guests asking you all sorts of questions about it!

A winner of the iF Design Award, the Carry TV Stand from Eva Solo takes the shape of a slim easel that props your TV up. Its metal pipe-based construction provides two distinct benefits, strength without the visual or physical weight. The stand looks so incredibly slick, it feels almost as if the TV is floating in mid-air, and the pipes themselves provide the perfect tubular structure to hide your TV cables behind. All you need to do is display some NFTs (especially easy if you own a Samsung TV) and you’ve got yourself an easel with literal art on it!

The Eva Solo Carry offers a nice way to freely place your TV anywhere in a room without being restricted to a wall, TV unit, or credenza. The lightweight stand holds flatscreen TVs between 40″ to 65″ in size regardless of their company or type, offering a flexible experience that isn’t as restrictive as a wall-mount, letting you position your TV anywhere in your living room, bedroom, or even office space and plan your furniture layout accordingly.

The minimalist Carry TV stand comes constructed from durable stainless steel piping that easily and comfortably lifts your TV 9 inches off the floor, angling it upwards for a comfortable viewing experience whether you’re seated on the floor, a beanbag, or even a sofa set. My only real concern with this angled design is that you’re almost sure to catch the reflection of a fan or a tube light if it’s right in front of the TV, so that’s something to watch out for.

Aside from the stainless steel piping, the Carry TV Stand even comes with a few accents, including leather straps that fasten to the back of the TV, holding it in place so that it doesn’t accidentally fall forward (a serious hazard if you’ve got kids or pets), and rubber details at the base of the easel and on the TV’s resting bars to prevent any damage to your flooring or expensive television.

The Carry TV Stand is a winner of the iF Design Award for the year 2021.

Designer: Eva Solo

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Formerly known as the Michelin Challenge, the “Movin’On Challenge Design” is now accepting entries for 2022!

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With its new brand name and its newly unveiled theme for the 2022 leg of the competition, the Movin’On Challenge Design is all set to revolutionize the world of transport and make it sustainable, equitable, and beneficial to everyone.

Formerly known as the Michelin Challenge Design, the international competition has a rich 21-year history when it comes to fostering and encouraging innovation from the brightest minds in the design industry. Over the last two decades, the challenge issued a broad brief to designers, asking them to create concept electric vehicles, conceptual Le Mans race cars, and even its 2021 brief — “Respect”, a call to end the mobility divide between people from different communities, walks of life, and with different abilities. Michelin Challenge Design became Movin’On Challenge Design in 2020, reflecting its integration as a featured program of the Movin’On Summit, the world’s foremost gathering for sustainable mobility. Created and inspired by Michelin, the Summit brings together large companies, startups, public and academic authorities, NGOs, and international organizations, as well as a community of experts and professionals to move from ambition to action.

The Movin’On Challenge Design now enters its 2022 edition with its competition theme: DELIVERED. The brief of the theme is to invite designers to focus on logistical equality and equitability, or being able to get goods and services to the people who need them. Nearly 30 percent of the world’s population lives outside urban centers and an equal number reside in economically depressed urban areas with sub-standard infrastructure. The 2022 Movin’On Challenge invites participants to design a mobility solution to provide essential services to all people in a safe, efficient, and sustainable way. The challenge isn’t even a transportation-focused one anymore. It’s open to artists, designers, engineers, architects, city planners, creatives, or anyone with a strong vision to build a more equitable, sustainable future by considering mankind’s need for and relation to mobility. Participants are encouraged to:

  • Identify the people or communities that your solution would serve, by including related research, and how it will improve their quality of life.
  • Explain how your idea is built on the foundation of inclusive design to enhance the human experience, and not simply to make services more convenient for those who already have access.
  • Illustrate how your innovative solution will deliver services to people.

The 2022 Movin’On Challenge Design is now accepting entries up until its submission deadline of March 1st, 2022. The Challenge’s top three winners will be announced at a Movin’On global event in June and concurrently through Movin’On social media channels. Through its first 21 challenges, the competition has received more than 14,700 entries from 136 countries. Scroll down to see a few of our favorites from the 2021 challenge, with its theme: RESPECT.

Click Here to participate in the Movin’On Challenge Design 2022. Deadline for entries: March 1st, 2022.

Crosswing by Drew Spahn

The Crosswing’s clever design turns a prosthetic leg into a skateboard that the prosthetic-wearer can use to skateboard – either for recreation or transportation. The prosthetic leg features a fold-out skateboard that when closed, provides the same walking experience as a prosthetic leg but when opened out, offers a riding experience that compares to a skateboard or pair of skates! The multipurpose artificial limb “turns a disadvantage into an advantage”, mentions Spahn, a fourth-year industrial design student at Kean University.

T.Flex by Siavash Jafari Jozani

T.Flex is an Adaptive Extreme Sports Wheelchair that aims to redefine the pleasure of having an active lifestyle with an enjoyable machine for individuals with limited lower-body mobility. Traditional wheelchairs are designed to be steady and balanced, a feature that becomes a problem for people who want their mobility solutions to be flexible, freeing, and frankly, thrilling. The T.Flex incorporates an innovative steering and a flexible structure to realize this freedom. Moreover, the riding position is highly customizable to meet the needs of individuals with diverse body characteristics, including paraplegics, above-knee amputees, below-knee amputees, and a host of other disabilities. While incredibly unconventional as a design solution, the T.Flex does justice to the 2021 challenge’s theme, giving respect to its user and allowing even the disabled to enjoy the thrills of racing and extreme sports!

Orbit by Seongha Lee, Byunghyun Bae, Byungyoon Jung and Minsun Lee

A modern solution for a modern problem, the Orbit is a mass-transit system designed to provide public transport for people with agoraphobia. The pandemic has drawn major attention to the need to socially distance, although people with agoraphobia find it difficult to be around other people, to begin with. Orbit aims to hit two birds with one stone, providing a public transport system that’s accommodating for all, while still creating a private, personalized travel experience. The larger vehicle acts as a ‘movable nest’ for smaller pods that can independently dislodge from the main body of the Orbit and complete last-mile pickups and drop-offs for people. The main vehicle covers fixed frequent routes while the individual pods provide access in remote areas, picking them up from their locations and taking them to the main vehicle, which transports everyone in their own enclosed bubble!

Tramo by Stefan Perriard

Tramo imagines transportation in a world without cars. Designed for the futuristic car-free city, Tramo offers an equitable mode of transport that’s safe, human-centric, and truly for everyone. The design adopts the shape of a pod-like platform that traverses across the city’s roadways. Its unique design makes space for people who want to stand or sit, as well as for wheelchairs and baby strollers. Designer Stefan Perriard describes Tramo as “a flexible solution with no need for stations — like a moving sidewalk” that you can hop onto or hop off from.

Concept Holosafe by Kiran Babu

The Indian Railways is among one of the world’s largest rail networks, although 41% of its accidents and 63% of its fatalities happen OUTSIDE the train, on railway crossings. Kiran Babu’s Concept Holosafe aims at making the railway crossing not only safer but much more informative too. There’s a sense of complacency when you see the barricade descend at a railway crossing, and most people simply assume that they’ve got a reasonable window of time to cross before the train ACTUALLY arrives because the barricade doesn’t tell you how long you have to wait. This attitude is so prevalent at unmanned crossings in India that the government has decided to completely close off all unmanned crossings in the interest of public safety. Kiran Babu’s solution is a novel one that promotes safety by eliminating complacency and replacing it with actionable information. While it isn’t entirely possible to prevent people from crossing over at unmanned railway crossings, Babu’s solution implements a holographic counter that acts as a ‘traffic light’ of sorts. The holographic barricade creates a virtual ‘red zone’ with a countdown clock to let people know how long they’ll be waiting at the crossing, and when the train passes by, it turns into a green zone with a countdown clock too, giving people a realistic idea of the time they’ve got before the zone turns red again. Sounds a lot like a certain Squid Game event, but hey… this one’s actually designed to SAVE lives!

Click Here to participate in the Movin’On Challenge Design 2022. Deadline for entries: March 1st, 2022.

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The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2022 Is Open for Entries Across 20 Categories!

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The iPhone, the MacBook Pro, the Tesla Model S, the Oculus Rift, the Xbox, all have one thing in common. They’ve all received the International Design Excellence Award. A mark that rewards the best and brightest in design, the awards are now back for their 42nd edition and you can apply too, to stand a chance to have your work put on the same platform as some of the world’s greatest designs!

The International Design Excellence Awards (or IDEA for short) is organized every year by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), America’s foremost and oldest organization for Industrial Designers. Originally founded to recognize exceptional achievement in industrial design, the program has since grown to highlight design in many connected disciplines including design strategy, branding, digital interaction and so much more. “For anyone who is a maker, who is building something, it’s the ultimate achievement to get an IDEA. IDEA is the award by designers, for designers”, says Yves Béhar, IDSA member, founder of fuseproject, and multi-IDEA winner.

Winning an IDEA puts your design on the biggest creative platform there is, giving it recognition alongside some of the most lauded and life-changing products in years gone by. The awards accept entries across a wide gamut of experience levels, with a dedicated section for students too. Agnostic to brand or studio size, the IDEA rewards sheer creativity, and IDEA-winning designs and designers receive significant international publicity and exposure, including high-profile industry promotion by IDSA and across media outlets. All winners are featured in IDSA’s annual Yearbook of Design Excellence, a standout collector’s edition magazine distributed to a global audience of design and business executives, and winning IDEA products are also entered into the permanent collection of The Henry Ford Museum, where they remain ever-present symbols of ingenuity and mastery of craft. The designers also receive the highly coveted IDEA trophy, which can be pulled apart to showcase the letters I-D-E-A (you can view the history and the design process of the trophy in the video above!)

The 42nd annual International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)®, presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), is now open for entry through March 21, 2022. Entries are open across a myriad of categories for designers, studios, brands, and even for students. The IDEA 2022 categories are Automotive & Transportation, Branding, Children’s Products, Commercial & Industrial Products, Concepts & Speculative Design, Consumer Technology, Design Strategy, Digital Interaction, Environments, Home (including Kitchen & Bath), Furniture & Lighting (including Outdoor Furniture), Lifestyle & Accessories, Medical & Health, Office & Accessories, Outdoor & Gardens, Packaging, Service Design, Social Impact Design, Sports, Leisure & Recreation, and Student Design (including any physical or digital product, service, or experience created during collegiate student coursework).

Heading the jury panel this year is IDSA member and VP of Design at Airbnb, Tim Allen. The diverse IDEA 2022 jury also includes top designers from Dolby Laboratories, Fjord, GE Appliances. HP, Medtronic, Radio Flyer, Above, Signify, and more. The International Design Excellence Awards saw a record-breaking 2,081 submissions from 25 countries in 2021 (we’ve highlighted a few of our favorites below). The awards program now enters its 42nd edition in 2022, and you can enter your product/design by visiting the IDEA website. This year, all IDEA winners will be honored at the IDEA Ceremony & Gala in Seattle, preceding the International Design Conference 2022 (Sept. 12-14).

Click Here to Visit the IDEA Website and Submit Your Design! Entry Phase ends on March 21st, 2022.

Xbox Adaptive Controller (Best In Show)

Designed primarily to meet the needs of gamers with limited mobility, the Xbox Adaptive Controller is a unified hub for devices that make gaming more accessible. It was built from the ground up through strong partnerships with The AbleGamers Charity, The Cerebral Palsy Foundation, SpecialEffect, Warfighter Engaged, and many community members. Input from these groups helped shape the design, functionality, and packaging of the Xbox Adaptive Controller, which can even additionally be supplemented with external devices such as switches, buttons, mounts, and joysticks to create a customized controller experience.

Eargo Neo Hearing Aids and Charger Case (Jury Chair’s Award & People’s Choice Award)

Dieter Rams’ principles for Good Design ring incredibly true with the Eargo Neo Hearing Aids, a pair of hearing aids so small, they do their job incredibly well without screaming for attention or validation. The earpieces sit snugly within each ear in a way that makes them practically invisible to the eye, uplifting the lives of people with hearing impairment in a way that lets them live normal lives without any social stigma. Eargo Neo features a sleeker profile than previous generations, with corrosion-resistant steel charging contacts for enhanced durability. Replaceable Flexi Palm tips made from soft medical-grade silicone conform to users’ ear canals, providing improved comfort and acoustic performance. The rechargeable Neo contains a full day’s charge and comes with a portable charger case that protects and charges the hearing aids when not in use.

Hyundai IONIQ 5

The 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the closest we’ve felt to driving an iPhone, in a good way. It brings modern, distinctive, and sleek design, innovation, ease of use, and allure, things that Apple has so compellingly mastered. What’s immediately clear, this electric car was created with great ambition, with genuine intention, and not out of compliance. The Ioniq 5 is built on Hyundai’s just-out-of-the-box all-electric platform—called EGMP, or Electric Global Modular Platform—and is the first of many pure-electric vehicles to come. Being built on a dedicated platform allows for reimagined thinking, from the outset.

Cognixion One AR Headset

Cognixion One is the world’s first wearable speech-generating device, combining a Brain-Computer-Interface with Augmented Reality to enable communication in those with disabilities like never before. Three context-aware, predictive keyboard options, radial sentence builder tools, and an integrated AI assistant are all powered by 6 occipital-placed electrodes and 4G mobility, enabling comfortable use and functionality to the wearer, who’s presented with a new, intuitive way to communicate with the world. Designed for tetraplegic users with communication disabilities, the technology is usable in any position, in any environment.

TômTex Sustainable Faux Leather (Student Gold Winner)

TômTex is a sustainable artificial leather that’s made from just two ingredients and chances are, you’ll never ever be able to guess them! Crafted from just two bio-based ingredients, seashell waste and coffee grounds, TômTex uses no tanning process or backing material, offering an alternative to leather that may not be vegan, but is incredibly sustainable given that it uses only waste for its raw materials. “It is a solution that makes productive use of the more than 9 million tons of wasted coffee grounds produced globally each year and the 6–8 million tons of shellfish waste generated by the food industry annually”, says Uyen Tran of Parsons School of Design. It also provides an alternative for the toxic tanning process, which isn’t just harmful to the environment, it’s hazardous for the workers who use the chemical tanning agents too.

Elves – Shinola Camping Accessory Set

By massively upgrading the camping experience, Elves makes the outdoors just as comfortable and enjoyable as relaxing indoors. The camping accessories boast of a minimal yet functional design that borders on the sleek appeal of glamping, while still being energy efficient and having a minimal carbon footprint. At the very heart of the design is the innovative fireplace that runs on solar energy and emits thermal energy without a flame. It’s perfect for cooking food on as well as for roasting marshmallows, and the legs of the fireplace even come with integrated lamps to illuminate your campsite, giving you an experience that feels familiar, yet is radically different and better!

Nebia by Moen Spa Shower

Designed in partnership with Moen’s shower design, Nebia’s showerhead works with water droplets that are less than a millimeter thick. Just like a 4K screen has smaller and more clustered pixels as compared to a 720p screen, Nebia’s showerhead creates what the company calls a “high definition” shower experience. Now that may be marketing-speak, but the shower definitely covers a larger area than a regular shower, especially with its ring-shaped Rainshower head and the shower wand, that bombard you with rain-like water sprays from not just the top, but even the front. That perfect stream of well-heated water is courtesy of the specially engineered nozzles within the Nebia by Moen which don’t work as flow regulators, but rather function as pressure regulators which help it deliver a consistent experience no matter which part of the world you’re in.

PlayStation 5

As polarizing as its organic, alien-inspired design may be, the PlayStation 5’s incredible demand really cements its reputation as the most popular gaming console of all time. The whole structure is designed to look as if it were formed by floating components, accentuating its slim appearance. On the inside, haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and 3D Audio deliver deeper immersion, while the power of a custom CPU, GPU, and SSD is harnessed to rewrite the rules of what the PlayStation 5 console is really capable of. With a performance that’s out of this world, it helps that the PS5 looks otherworldly too!

Click Here to Visit the IDEA Website and Submit Your Design! Entry Phase ends on March 21st, 2022.

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Medical Innovations from the A’ Design Award that will revolutionize human life and healthcare

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It might sound borderline unbelievable, but some of the most life-changing innovations today actually began as ideas that were considered ridiculous back in the day. Medical history is FILLED with innovations that were initially rejected on the grounds of them seeming laughable, only to then become global standards – the washing of hands comes to mind, as it helped radically reduce maternal mortality. 19th-century Hungarian surgeon Ignaz Semmelweis was labeled as crazy for proposing that doctors wash their hands before and after surgery – today, it’s a norm not just for doctors, but for any and everyone! While I’m talking about crazy medical innovations, did you know the chainsaw was originally invented to help doctors deliver babies?? Yes, the same chainsaw you use to cut down trees! And cornflakes were originally invented as a medicine to reduce sexual drives in people, long before they became a staple breakfast item! The point is, innovation and inspiration (medical or not) can sometimes go overlooked or unregarded, although it’s best when rewarded!

‘Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design’ forms just one of the various categories of the A’ Design Award and Competition, which spans the popular categories like Architecture, Lighting, and Consumer Electronics, as well as the obscure, lesser-known categories like Cybernetics, Prosumer Products, and Safety Apparel Design. The A’ Design Award’s ultimate goal is to be an umbrella that covers good design across all disciplines, which is why it has 100 different categories for submitting design projects, and 211 jury members (comprising academics, design professionals, and press members) from all around the world collectively judging the works. Winners of the A’ Design Award don’t just secure a trophy and a certificate but receive an entire PR Campaign dedicated towards pushing their career, clout, and even their projects to newer heights. A’ Design Award’s winners and even its participants are included in its annual award book and business network, while additionally contributing to their country’s overall design ranking that paints a holistic picture of how design-centric and design-forward each country is.

The A’ Design Award is currently accepting entries for the 2022 edition of the award program, so if you’ve even got an idea for a medical product (or any other category), now’s your time to shine and change the world!

Here are some of our favorite Medical Device and Equipment Design winners from the A’ Design Award & Competition across the years. If you have a potential medical device or equipment design that you think is worthy of an award, Click here to register & participate in the A’ Design Awards 2022. Hurry, the last date for application is the 28th of February 2022!

Dab ECG Holter Patch by Adam Miklosi

Literally, the size of a quarter, Adam Miklosi’s Dab is an unobtrusive Holter ECG/EKG that rests comfortably on your chest, constantly reading your heart’s movements. Designed to be minimal, non-invasive, and simple, the Dab tries to bridge the gap between medical appliances and wearables. Its tiny yet classy design sits on your chest via a gel patch, while the electrodes capture your heart activity. The Dab’s dry-electrodes allow it to be used and reused, while they constantly measure one’s heart activity (requiring periodic charging via their wireless charging hub), and keep logs of accurate readings, quietly sitting on your chest while you absolutely forget that they’re even there in the first place!

Gait Analysis Robot by Anri Sugihara

Here’s an idea that doctors in the 19th century would absolutely laugh at – did you know that your gait (the way you walk) could be studied to identify if you’re suffering from any diseases? It’s common knowledge that a person’s gait is so unique that they can literally be identified by them, but what this robot is attempting to do here is even more game-changing. Simply by studying and analyzing your walk, the robot can A. Detect diseases, both external and internal, and B. Track rehabilitation. It’s strange although if you think about it, maybe you subconsciously walk differently when you’ve bruised your arm or ribs, or when you’ve got a cough or an internal difficulty. The Gait Analysis robot could potentially help detect ailments and diseases using data gathered from just a 10-minute walk. Not only would it save time, it would also save a WHOLE lot of costs on expensive tests!

Espire Full Face Gas Mask by Carlos Schreib

As we enter what’s effectively our third year in this pandemic, let me be the first to say that if you wear spectacles just like I do, there’s nothing quite as annoying as an ill-fitted face mask leaking air and fogging up your glasses! The Espire Full Face Gas Mask is exactly what ALL face masks should look like. Not only does it purify the air going into your nose and mouth, it even guards your eyes against smoke, dust, and harmful chemicals. What’s more, it rather cleverly creates a barrier between the breathing zone and the viewing zone so you don’t have to worry about your visor fogging up with your breath!

Pimoji More Intuitive Pill Design by Jong Hun Choi

The concept behind the Pimoji tackles the two biggest problems of taking meds. Firstly, the ambiguity, given that almost all medicines look the same and their names are usually a complicated bunch of characters that often don’t convey anything, and secondly, the fact that the very act of taking medicines feels slightly daunting, and can often seem scary to most. The Pimoji’s solution to both those problems is simple, and between you and me, pretty innovative! Design each pill around an emoji-esque representation of the ailment they’re trying to cure. Heart meds are shaped like hearts, bone-strengthening meds are shaped like bones, toothache tablets are shaped like teeth, and the list goes on (let us know if you can correctly identify the tablet shapes!) The pills come in cute shapes that make it easy to know what medicine you’re taking, while somewhat making it feel like you’re eating fun-shaped candy, not medication!

Zhiwen Wearable Thermometer by Wei Gu And Di Wu

The Zhiwen thermometer lets you constantly monitor the temperature of its wearer using wireless technology. Designed to be small enough to permanently sit on the skin without causing much discomfort, the thermometer beams its readings to a control unit that allows you to check the wearer’s temperature, as well as the thermometer’s overall battery. When the thermometer runs out of charge, just take it off and slide it into the charging hub located right within the control unit!

Osteoid Medical Cast by Deniz Karasahin

Presenting what is essentially the future of medical rehabilitation in a nutshell, the Osteoid Medical Cast is a significant upgrade over the plaster casts still used up to today. Instead of layering wet plastered gauze onto a broken limb, the Osteoid Medical Cast proposes a neat, bespoke 3D-printed cast that’s breathable, and designed exactly to its wearer’s specifications. Using a generatively designed Voronoi surface, the new cast uses less material while still providing a strong structure, and provides openings so the skin can breathe while more importantly, allowing the patient to itch their skin!

Convenient Urine Bag by Yanqing Lan

Offering a solution that’s comfortable, convenient, and most importantly modular, the Convenient Urine Bag by Yanqing Lan straps to the wearer’s thigh, allowing them to urinate wherever they are without discomfort or pressure. The 100ml bag sports a 3-part design, with 3 individual compartments that fill up as the wearer urinates. As and when each individual bag fills up, they can be unplugged and disposed of, so the wearer/patient isn’t carrying a large sack half-filled with bodily fluids wherever they go. Each individual bag is filled with a water-absorbing polymer that can quickly solidify the urine, thereby reducing the odor and stabilizing the urine stored to prevent any unforeseen or accidental spillage.

Brave Jet Syringe by Ilmo Ahn, Jisu Kim & Juyeon Baek & SeonwooPyo

Dispelling any fear around injections, the Brave Jet Syringe gamifies the vaccination process, turning the syringe jet into a plane, allowing kids to look at it as not a pointy, fearful, medical product, but a good-guy fighter jet that kills diseases! This novel approach attaches basically to any syringe body, making kids less afraid of needles and allowing doctors to administer life-saving vaccines and treatments.

SPH Smart Prosthetic Hand by Young Jo In

The SPH, or Smart Prosthetic Hand is just practical from top to bottom. A mechanized prosthetic hand lets you go about your day to day tasks, while a smartphone is literally integrated into the back of your palm, letting you own and use a smartphone without worrying about having to occupy one hand holding one, forget/lose one, or accidentally drop one. Besides, it literally puts the power of the entire internet in your hands!

Click here to register & participate in the A’ Design Awards 2022. Hurry, the last date for application is the 28th of February 2022!

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This bizarre face mask concept proposes using an air-curtain instead of a physical filter… and it just might work

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Using air to cut off potentially virally infected air sounds a lot like fire fighting fire, but there just might be some truth to it all. Air curtains are undoubtedly effective at creating an invisible barrier that keeps cold air inside an air-conditioned room from mixing with the hot air outside a room. When correctly installed, an air curtain actually saves energy in the long run by providing an essentially open entrance that allows people to pass through but prevents outside air from mixing with inside air (and potentially putting a higher load on your ACs), and it essentially even prevents mosquitoes from passing through too. So if an air curtain can create a very effective air barrier with large spaces, why can’t that technology be scaled down to work on your face too?

What this conceptual face mask proposes isn’t too far-fetched, honestly. Scientists are actually researching the viability of using air curtains to effectively ‘deactivate’ the coronavirus. If successful, maybe that face mask you’re currently wearing goes the way of the dinosaurs, as everyone essentially begins wearing fans on their foreheads that push filtered air towards your face, and keep bad air out.

In this research paper, physicists Alexander S. Sakharov and Konstantin Zhukov even propose a similar head-worn air curtain that essentially cuts off external air flow for the wearer without the discomfort of a fabric or N95 mask pressed against their faces. At least for the aerosol-based transmission of the coronavirus, an air curtain can be reasonably effective at pushing away particles (both from outside as well as from the wearer) to prevent proximal viral transmission… all while still allowing the wearer to breathe air comfortably.

The Airable is, at least on paper, a rather slim AR-headset-shaped device with air vents on the forehead facing downwards, and a clear plastic visor to prevent the gust of wind from blowing directly in your eyes. One could easily imagine that the Airable has a built-in filter of its own, which ensures that the air curtain only blows pure air (another research paper debates the use of ionized air to kill viruses instantly). Sounds pretty great on paper, and I definitely hope a team of designers and engineers are building or prototyping such a device. Unless the folks at Dyson could come up with a solution, my only concern is the overwhelming noise most air curtains currently make.

Airable is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2021.

Designers: Kim Seulgee, Ko Sungchan, Lee Wonho, Park Hyein

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Portable spirometer lets you track lung activity + strength, for people recovering from breathing issues

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Designed to help measure lung activity and strength while on the go, the Airpen is a small handheld pocketable spirometer that tracks how hard you can inhale/exhale. Working pretty much the way a breathalyzer does, the Airpen uses a small module with a fan inside it, which rotates when you breathe in or out. The device calculates the fan’s RPM to basically gauge how strong your lungs are. Working alongside a smartphone app that collects and creates a dashboard of your lung activity data, the Airpen hopes to help rehabilitate people with reduced lung function.

It’s a successor to the Incentive Spirometer, a relatively large device that’s used to help rehabilitate lungs after illness or surgery, keeping them flexible and free of fluid. The Airpen simply condenses it into a small device that can fit into your pocket, effectively allowing people to perform lung activity tests wherever they may be.

The Airpen is a winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award for the year 2021.

Designers: Mitul Lad, Pietro Russomanno & Stefania Pizzichi.

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