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Steam, Iron and Disinfect Your Clothes Anywhere Anytime Without Having to Worry

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In today’s fast-paced world, convenience is key, and innovation often stems from addressing everyday challenges. One such innovation is Steamur, a remarkable product that optimizes the ironing experience with its unique clip-on mechanism. Gone are the days of struggling with bulky irons or risking damage to your clothing. Steamur is designed to make your life easier, offering a portable, efficient, and versatile solution for keeping your clothes crisp and bacteria-free. Let’s delve into the features and design philosophy behind this game-changing product.

Designer: Shelly Tsai

The existing portable travel iron, while convenient to carry, has long been associated with the risk of causing significant damage to delicate fabrics during use. On the other hand, steam-hanging irons, with their single-sided steam outlet mechanism, may not always provide the desired results when it comes to properly flattening clothing. Recognizing these limitations, Steamur introduces a revolutionary clip-on mechanism that optimizes the steam ironing experience.

This innovative feature allows users to securely clamp their clothing between the heated panels, ensuring even heat distribution and minimizing the risk of accidental damage. The clip-on mechanism not only speeds up the ironing process but also provides an effective solution for garments that require gentle handling.

In a post-epidemic society, our daily habits and priorities have evolved. One emerging trend is a heightened focus on daily antibacterial disinfection at home. With frequent interactions in public places and crowded transportation, our clothing can become breeding grounds for bacteria and viruses. Steamur recognizes the need for convenient clothing disinfection and addresses it with its garment ironing machine.

Unlike traditional irons that may damage delicate fabrics, Steamur utilizes a high-temperature steam ironing process that minimizes direct fabric contact while efficiently ironing clothes. This not only ensures the longevity of your garments but also provides a quick and convenient method for disinfecting clothing, promoting better hygiene practices.

Steamur’s thoughtful design extends to its charging mechanism. The main body of the device connects to a charging stand via a magnetic connector located in the middle. This design element allows users to charge the device fully in advance, ensuring that it’s ready to use whenever needed. With a focus on portability, you can carry only the lightweight body of the Steamur, leaving the charging stand behind. This is perfect for those on the go, whether for business trips or leisure travel.

Versatility is a key selling point of Steamur. The reversible ceramic panel adds a unique dimension to the product. Users can switch between two modes: ironing and hanging. The ironing mode enables precise garment care, while the hanging mode allows for easy disinfection without the need for direct contact between the iron and clothing. This dual functionality makes Steamur a versatile tool that can cater to various clothing care needs.

Steamur is a game-changing product that reimagines the ironing experience. Its clip-on mechanism, designed to optimize the steam-ironing process, addresses the shortcomings of traditional irons. Additionally, it caters to the evolving needs of a post-epidemic society by offering an efficient and hygienic solution for disinfecting clothing.

With a separate charging base for ultimate portability and a reversible ceramic panel for added versatility, Steamur is set to become an indispensable tool for those who demand convenience, efficiency, and the highest level of garment care. Say goodbye to the hassles of traditional ironing and embrace the future of clothing care with Steamur.

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This dish rack also disinfects your utensils and crockery, keeping them germ-free

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Serving as storage but also as an anti-bacterial chamber for your tableware, the Utensil Disinfection Cabinet is a nifty countertop appliance that organizes and protects your cutlery. Designed to be used once your utensils come out of the dishwasher or after washing them in the kitchen sink, the appliance organizes your plates and bowls while also giving you the option to dry and disinfect them. A pop-down hood conceals your tableware, and a simple interface on the bottom gives you the ability to access the Utensil Disinfection Cabinet’s multiple features.

Designers: TOP DESIGN & Yǒkai

What’s really attractive about the Utensil Disinfection Cabinet is its simple, sophisticated, and intuitive appearance. The device comes with a built-in rack that houses as many as 6 plates, 2 large bowls, and 8 smaller ones, and its overall clean design allows it to fit well into most interior settings. The hood comes with a wavy texture that ‘blurs’ what’s inside the cabinet, protecting your utensils from the elements while also covering them so they aren’t necessarily visible to everyone.

The Utensil Disinfecting Cabinet comes with a simple touch-sensitive display that offers intuitive controls. Buttons allow you to dry the utensils, disinfect them (bacteriostatic disinfection), or even set the appliance on ‘auto’ mode which lets it operate at regular intervals. A power button switches on/off the Utensil Disinfection Cabinet, and a countdown timer lets you know how much longer the machine has to run until your dishes are dry and germ-free!

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This at-home sanitation device disinfects your dishes using ultraviolet rays

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The Desktop Disinfection Cupboard is a minimalist at-home sanitation micro solution for disinfecting kitchen dishware and utensils.

Sanitizing our household items has become a top priority since the pandemic sent us deeper into our home spaces. Sometimes it feels like our shelves can never be stocked enough with Lysol wipes and disinfectants. On top of that, the past few years have not been short on new sanitation devices to soothe any lingering anxieties.

Designer: Wenhua Xu (许文华 ) & Top Design (托迪 设计)

Ushering in a new wave of household cleaning routines, designers have created their at-home solutions to make them feel a bit more manageable. Designed to clean dishware, a new desktop disinfection cupboard from industrial designer Wenhua Xu scales down the at-home sanitation device to fit on a kitchen countertop or utility shelf.

Wenhua Xu’s desktop disinfection cupboard appears to be about the same size as a toaster oven, equipped with enough space to store some plates, a couple of bowls, and an accessory dish. The device maintains an inviting look with rounded corners and a convex glass covering. The slight incline of the control panel also enhances the device’s usability, allowing users to access the device’s control buttons without having to bend down or look for the panel.

The control panel reveals the device’s array of features, which include hot drying and ultraviolet disinfection functions. Outfitted with 6 UVC dual-modules, the desktop disinfection cupboard is small but mighty. “Not only is it equipped with a powerful hot air drying function and ultraviolet disinfection function,” Wenhua explains, but the desktop device is also “easy to operate” thanks to its inclined control panel and all-around disinfection capacities.

The device is also made from stainless steel to be able to refract ultraviolet rays to all corners of the internal space. Wenhua also goes on to describe the device’s minimalist appeal, “the appearance is simple and can be well integrated into various furniture environments.”

The device’s control panel is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. 

A concealed drawer is integrated into the device’s side for users to access at any time.

The convex glass covering retracts behind the dishrack to provide full access to the dishes and utensils.

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Daan Roosegaarde designed an artificial ‘sun’ that can disinfect public spaces with UV light

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The Urban Sun, designed by Studio Roosegaarde along with a team of scientists and virus experts, aims at bringing the rehabilitating power of the sun to public spaces. The artificial sun hovers above open areas, with a UVC lamp underneath it, creating an eclipse-like halo that disinfects everything within its reach. The Urban Sun uses a special 222nm wavelength of Far-UVC that’s powerful at killing the coronavirus but remains completely safe for human exposure.

The video above begins with a simple premise, “Imagine a place where you could meet again”. The Urban Sun hopes to make public spaces safe again. “The goal is not to say that we don’t need the vaccine or we that don’t need masks,” said Roosegaarde. “Urban Sun doesn’t cure coronavirus, but it does allow social gatherings to be safer.” The UV 222 light, specially calibrated and tested by the Dutch National Metrology Institute VSL, can neutralize 99.9% of all viruses in minutes, making social interactions a possibility, and encouraging people to congregate again, safely.

Urban Sun works by being tethered to overhead cables and suspended over a large area. It comes with two broad parts – a powerful lamp that illuminates akin to an artificial sun, and an orb containing the UV 222 lamp underneath that washes spaces with safe, disinfecting UVC light, allowing people to interact while vastly minimizing the risk of spreading viruses like the Coronavirus or even the influenza virus. The Urban Sun was designed in response to how the world changed overnight in the wake of the pandemic. “Suddenly our world is filled with plastic barriers and distance stickers, our family reduced to pixels on a computer screen. Let’s be the architects of our new normal and create better places to meet”, said Daan Roosegaarde, founder of Studio Roosegaarde. A self-funded project, the Urban Sun began in 2019 and eventually blossomed into an interdisciplinary collaboration between designers, scientists, and researchers from the USA, Japan, Italy, and the Netherlands. The studio developed the first prototype to work in Somerset House in London, although Daan envisions the Urban Sun as being installed at open public spaces to make social interaction safe again, and hopes to take Urban Sun to large-scale events such as the Olympic Games or the Burning Man Festival.

Designer: Daan Roosegaarde (Studio Roosegaarde)

This shoe-sanitizing doormat is a great example of a good/bad idea

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There’s intent, and there’s execution, and while most things are created with good intent, their execution may not necessarily reflect it. The Shuzon, a now-canceled product on Kickstarter is a great example of a good idea that wasn’t perhaps taken to its real potential. Created by 26-year old Ariel Zaksenberg, the Shuzon is a shoe-sanitizing doormat that coats the sole of your shoes with disinfectant when you stand on it. Great idea, no? I thought so too, but the more time I spend looking at this design, the more I feel like maybe the doormat’s design isn’t entirely foolproof.

The Shuzon is a two-part doormat that disinfects your feet as you step on it. A soft foam layer helps evenly distribute disinfectant on the base of your shoes, so you don’t accidentally bring any germs into the house/office/hospital/shop when you enter. That’s the Shuzon’s intent, and given the circumstances, it’s a pretty great design brief and a wonderful alternative to those wasteful shoe-covers that people wear. However, where the Shuzon slightly falls apart is in its execution of that intent. Let me explain.

The Shuzon is a regular-sized doormat with two halves… a pink one, and a blue one. One of those halves dispenses the sanitizer, the other one absorbs any excess. Which one’s which? I wish I knew. The foam on the doormat unfortunately only showcases the branding, so it isn’t entirely clear which foam block I’m supposed to step on first; and that’s just one small problem – here’s the bigger one. The Shuzon is a regular doormat split in two, right down the middle. The average person wouldn’t stand on one half of the doormat, they would probably have one foot in each square (nobody occupies a corner of the doormat when they’re at the door). Unless explicitly explained to, most people would probably end up sanitizing just the one foot that happened to be in the right foam block. The third problem is the horizontal orientation of the Shuzon. Nobody side-steps when they walk into a house. People walk forwards, so it would only make sense to design the doormat in a way where the disinfecting block was kept BEFORE the drying block, and not BESIDE it.

Other minor problems in Shuzon’s design would probably be not considering what happens when pets step on it, or when there’s a group of people standing at your door (and nobody is really standing on the doormat), or when someone leaves a parcel on your doormat and gets its base soggy, or even when the liquid disinfectant at its bottom runs out but you never know. The Shuzon is a product with great intention, but to be honest, it’s a few design tweaks away from being perfect. I hope to see a future iteration from the design community that makes this product better, because heaven knows we really need it!

Designer: Ariel Zaksenberg

Toast the bacteria off of your smartphones!

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We all collectively want to roast this pandemic out of existence, it has truly turned us all into Monica Geller with the constant disinfecting and cleaning things. Our phones are actually dirtier than toilet seats and we obviously use it all the time, so considering the rise of the bacteria we should make sure to also sanitize our phones along with our groceries (what a time to be alive). Combining two of Monica Geller’s favorite things, cooking + cleaning, this neat toaster actually is a smart appliance that disinfects your phone.

This conceptual toaster was designed to make disinfecting your phones a little easier and, honestly, more fun! Instead of the usual wipe down, this turns the task into a small interaction with the product that leaves you with a nice feeling instead of “I have to wipe my phone 25 times a day because there is a pandemic”. It aims to make the interaction between products and people more playful. The toaster also charges your phone while disinfecting it which is a nice way to reduce your screen time, I mean your phone is being “toasted” so you can’t take it out till it’s done! While the concept is still being developed, I assume it uses UV light to disinfect and sanitize the phone while wirelessly charging it.

The physical form is that of a minimal, modern toaster – something we recognize and value. While we are on that topic, we could also have a panini press or grill that does the same job for tablets and laptops! It reminds me of how the fresh plates at a restaurant are always warm and that leaves you with a sense of them being clean. That is the very emotion I gather when I imagine using this smartphone toaster to disinfect and charge my phone. Food and technology are evidently my two favorite things and if they are disinfecting, then its a win-win in this crazy world!

Designer: Lee Sungwook

Smarter Handwash

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Given the current trend of adding electronics to our basic bathing needs like digital controls for the bathtubs and showers; it only makes sense to take it a step further and include it on fittings. Sma Wash is a digitalized faucet that dispenses soap and water in a very unique fashion. I love the play on design and how the water is expected to literally ‘fan’ out. To be honest, the whole touchscreen and automatic era is upon us to encourage cleaner loos and support the gadget freaks! Me included!

Designer: Su Jian Xiong

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