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This clever scratch-card sticker helps people remember to take their medicines everyday

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If I were entirely honest, there isn’t one thing that I can truly say I’ve successfully done every day. I usually brush every day but if you held me at gunpoint and asked me if I’ve ever missed a day, chances are that I probably have. And while missing a day in your brushing schedule isn’t positively life-threatening, missing your daily medicines can be. FabriSol is an adhesive sticker designed to help HIV+ patients take their daily medicines without fail.

Forgetfulness is one of the major reasons HIV+ patients do not adhere to their treatment. It’s difficult to remember to take medication daily, especially when a condition requires lifelong treatment. FabriSol, developed by Ricky Stoch – a student at the Royal College of Art, is an adhesive sticker that goes right on top of the packaging for antiretroviral medicines (ARVs). The sticker uses a series of 28 metallic scratch-patches to help patients keep a daily track of their medicine intake for 4 weeks. When patients take their pills, they scratch off the day’s metallic coating. This action reveals a tick indicating adherence and provides positive reinforcement.

The FabriSol fits on both bottles as well as on pill-boxes, and comes in a pack of multiple stickers that can go on new bottles/packaging after the old ones run out. Apart from allowing patients to remember to take their crucial medicines, the FabriSol even provides a historical record of any days that you potentially miss. While the sticker was initially developed for HIV+ patients, it can easily be modified and used to treat tuberculosis, hypertension, diabetes, depression, and many more chronic conditions that require steady, daily medication.

Designer: Ricky Stoch

This mouse comes with its own “Undo” button because everyone deserves second chances!

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I could really use a Ctrl + Z button in real life, but this mouse gives me the next best thing. Meet the ‘Oops’ mouse, a gadget that respects our human side by encouraging us to undo our mistakes as we learn from them. The conceptual mouse ditches the physical scroll wheel and puts in its place a neat Oops button that activates the Ctrl + Z shortcut when pressed. Designed to sort of humanize the user/computer relationship, the Oops button allows you to make mistakes and swiftly undo them too, whether it’s clicking on a wrong link, accidentally deleting a file, or making a typo in your mail or presentation. To err is human. To forgive is, well, machine!

Designer: Elodie Delassus

This mixed-reality headset was designed to be your virtual tour-guide in foreign cities

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In every way, the Voyager is what the Google Glass project should have aimed at becoming. Designed to enhance the tourism experience by augmenting it with everything the internet has to offer, and to make you self-sufficient in a foreign city so you don’t have to awkwardly ask people for directions, the Voyager is a goggle-shaped mixed-reality headset that lets you explore new cities like never before. The Voyager connects to your phone, bringing elements of smartphone functionality to the mixed-reality space. This means you can navigate cities by seeing directions projected on the road ahead of you, can click pictures and capture videos of everything you see through the glasses, and can interface with real-world objects and buildings like your hotel, restaurants, tourist spots, and heritage monuments. Rather than augmented reality, which just projects virtual elements on the physical world, Voyager’s mixed reality interface means you can interact with elements, tapping on virtual buttons to check into your hotel, program destinations on your maps, and even send videos and images of your PoV to social media just by waving in the air!

The Voyager, just like other MR headsets like the Hololens, Oculus Quest, or the Vive, serves its specific purpose. While some headsets are designed specifically for entertainment, and others for work, the Voyager champions travel and living. The headset is styled to look like a pair of goggles, so people don’t stare at you; it comes with clear eyepieces so your eyesight is never obstructed, and you can wear the headset even when it’s switched off; and pairs with Voyager’s own helmet, which creates the perfect ecosystem of products designed to boost solo tourism and travel. Unlike other MR headsets, though, the Voyager isn’t meant for sale. Designed for temporary use-cases like holidays and quick trips, the Voyager can be rented from tourism offices, kiosks, and e-scooter rental centers.

Designers: Seunghye Han, Sieun Roh & Soomin Son

This ambient LED lamp brings the spectacular gradients of sunsets into your home

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The Arki light plays a fundamentally important role in interior design… far more than what most lamps are designed to be capable of. Most lights are only designed to brighten spaces, not recolor them, but the Arki takes it upon itself to change its surroundings with light, rather than just illuminating them. You see, space plays a fundamental role in design. It’s important for the human eye to see a balance between foreground and background, and while most products in your space play the role of the foreground, your background is almost always left entirely bare, with just the wall color doing its fair share. Arki changes that by decorating your space in a wash of brilliant gradients, making your indoors look as beautiful as the outdoors.

Designed to look like a modern-day chandelier, the Arki comes with four rotating discs with colorful LEDs fitted in. Set the scene using the Arki app and the lamp comes to life, with the discs rotating and moving up and down to wash your walls and ceilings with vibrant hues. The Arki basically uses outdoor settings as cues, so you could turn your favorite sunset into a lighting preset, or even that magical sunrise from your last holiday. The app turns your photos and videos into a 360° panorama and extracts its palette. The lighting discs then orient themselves and illuminate to recreate the magic in your interiors, coloring them with the same hues so you can appreciate the glorious beauty of outdoor gradients in your indoor spaces… because life’s too fleeting to stare at white walls, isn’t it?

Designers: Sohyun An & Hyunji Shi

Why reusable, circular pizza boxes are better for the environment… and even for your pizza!

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I was today years old when I got to know that pizzas used to be transported in stackable, reusable copper containers before the pizza box finally took over. The pizza box was the brainchild of a certain Tom Monaghan, better known as the founder of Dominos Pizza. Invented in the 60s, the pizza box aimed at replacing past solutions with something that was quick to produce, great for scale (especially considering how much of a cult status pizzas have today), and easy to dispose of. What Tom didn’t realize back in the 60s when environmental impact wasn’t a hot button issue, was that just in 2011, Americans would be throwing an average of 3 BILLION pizza boxes each year, generating enough waste to wrap around the earth a whopping 26 times… with boxes weighing as much as 36 times the weight of the Eiffel tower.

You see, Pizza boxes are by virtue of their design, single-use. The box inadvertently gets greasy when a pizza is put inside it, and because of that, can’t be reused a second time; it can only be composted. Besides, we aren’t even addressing the amount of paper that’s wasted in creating a square box for a round pizza pie. PIZZycle (a portmanteau of pizza + cycle) is a closed-loop solution that allows pizza boxes to be used, washed, and recycled. The boxes come molded from a bioplastic, which allows them to be the same shape and size as the pizza. Vents on the rim of the box allow steam to escape, keeping your pizza crisp, fluffy, and delicious, and a slide-to-lock design that allows the packaging to stay closed during transportation. Designed to be reused, the PIZZycle boxes are delivered to customers, who can eat directly out of it (because it’s conveniently plate-shaped) and throw it in the dishwasher to get cleaned. Cleaned boxes are then transported back to the pizzeria (hint: delivery guys), where they’re reused. The bioplastic generates much lesser waste than the single-use paper box does, and just like its predecessor, can be composted if it were to get damaged. It beautifully marries space-saving circular pizza boxes with an environment-saving circular economy, so you can eat your pizza guilt-free, well, at least partially!

Designer: Marlene Bruch & Luise Hornbach

Also Read: Pizza Hut’s eco-friendly round boxes are being used to promote their vegan meat-free pizzas.

Patricia Urquiola’s armchair design for Cassina explores the gender-bias through furniture

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What are the first words you think of when you hear the word ‘masculine’? Chances are those words were a derivative or a synonym of words like hard, rugged, strong. Similarly, when you play the word association test with ‘feminine’, you’re more likely to think about grace, softness, elegance. Patricia Urquiola’s Gender Armchair for Cassina explores these characteristics and how they can coexist in furniture. The Gender armchair aims at addressing the bias of masculinity and femininity being defined the way they are. The chair lets you see what you want to see – it’s both hard, with a strong internal framework, yet soft, with padding. The armchair uses large volumes, which one may consider masculine, but features a gently curved silhouette, a common trait associated with femininity. The armchair, which pairs with a similarly designed leg-rest, explores the dichotomy of gender with colors too, using complementing colors that are a combination of subdued and vibrant.

If the Gender armchair reminds you of the Eames Lounge Chair, it’s perhaps by design. Both chairs approach their design the same way, with a combination of hard and soft – seen in the Eames chair’s hard plywood back and soft leather cushions. Patricia Urquiola, however, addresses it more directly with the Gender armchair, bringing this element of observation into the limelight.

Designer: Patricia Urquiola for Cassina

Move over Guitar Hero, this music-based gaming hardware gives you the entire ‘band experience’

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You play music, you play games… coincidence?

That weird intro aside, Drop is a nifty gaming console ensemble that turns music into a fun, game-like experience. Quite like Guitar-hero, Drop’s instrument-esque controllers allow you to play along with your favorite tracks, but with a wider ensemble. The Drop’s hardware features a MIDI keyboard, a 4-button MIDI controller, a guitar fretboard, a bass-guitar fretboard, and even a microphone for some karaoke-style showdown!

The individual instruments connect to Drop’s smartphone app, which lets you choose the track you want to ‘play’ to. After that, it’s just chaotic, musical fun as you pair up with bandmates or against rivals for a battle of the bands! All the Drop’s gear tie back to its messenger-bag-style carrying case, which plays a pretty big role in the gaming experience. Apart from the case itself working as a controller, filling the role of the kick drum, it also serves as a charging dock for the individual instruments. Besides, a speaker grill running along the side allows the case to work as a wireless speaker so you can quite literally rock out!

Designers: Sigyeong Lee & Sieun Roh

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This artificially intelligent drone wants to be your personal fitness trainer

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Designed by the students of the Hongik University, the Traverse is a conceptual drone powered by AI that’s designed to be a personal trainer for recreational runners. The autonomous drone comes with the quad-propeller layout, and also features multiple fish-eye cameras that help it navigate through spaces without requiring any external controls. A main gimbal-mounted camera focuses on you, the runner, and the camera focuses on you as you run, monitoring your speed, performance, technique, laps, and charts your overall progress. While running, Traverse takes photos and videos of runners to give them Form correction & visual running feedback by tracking their posture with deep learning.

The Traverse drone is accompanied by the Pod, a wearable that sits around your neck. The drone uses the wearable as a tracking tag, while the Pod itself works as your personal coach, giving you audio feedback to improve your form and performance. A simple button-based interface on the Pod lets you toggle between various functions without having to look at your smartphone screen. After your workout’s done, detailed stats are sent to the Traverse’s companion app on the smartphone, allowing you to view every aspect of your run, from your route to your biostats and even your posture.

In keeping with its sports-based focus, the Traverse drone comes with a design that almost resembles the muscular physique of a fit human. The drone’s form is a combination of aerodynamic and curvy, creating something that looks sinewy and energetic – the orange and white paint-job simply reinforces this, and the speckled finish gives it a beautiful contemporary touch! Other interesting details on the drone include fold-out silicone-tipped legs that allow the drone to autonomously land near you after your session is over, and the presence of lights on the rim of the drone that allow it to be visible as it flies around during your night-run!

Designers: Soomin Son & Jinseon Lee

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This frolicking feline-inspired lamp was designed to spark joy!

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There isn’t a universe in which a cat frolicking around with a ball of yarn isn’t fun. Whether you like cats or not, there’s no denying that they’re a curious, entertaining species and if it weren’t for them, the internet would be a very different place.

The Miau lamp by Tati Ferrucio embodies that element of playfulness with a lamp and holder that’s inspired by a cat playing with a ball of wool. “The design concept was developed in order to allow the customer to make an emotional connection to the product. It intends to link user’s emotions to the lamp through their love for animals or even the memories of their first pets”, says Ferrucio. Made from wood, the cat comes with positionable arms, allowing you to make it stand, crouch, or sit down, while the ball-shaped light comes with a cord that literally wraps around the cat in a chaotic fashion, tying the two elements together quite literally! The cord can be unwound to create distance between the cat and the lamp, allowing you to use it as a floor-based light, a tabletop light, or even have the lamp hanging off your mantelpiece. No matter how you position it, there’s always visual drama between the curious cat and the chaotic ball of wool. Ultimately, it evokes a positive emotional connection and sparks joy, no matter how old or young you are!

Designer: Tati Ferrucio

This rocking-horse inspired cookie cutter comes with a festive twist!

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I hope you’ll forgive me for this terrible pun, but OTOTO‘s products are truly ‘deer’ to me! The company, which has established a reputation for making some of the most heartwarming products, does a remarkable job of combining elements of playfulness along with a strong storytelling aspect to create products that are just clever! Take for instance the Sweet Deer – a rocking-horse-inspired cookie cutter. Designed to clearly get children to help with food-prep, the cutter comes in the shape of a reindeer on a rocking base. The rocking base comes with tapered edges that help it cut into dough, allowing kids to cut out cookies while playing with their forest friend! The Sweet Deer is 100% food safe and comes made from High-Quality Silicone. Aside from cutting cookies, it debosses a neat star in the center too, to give the cookie a nice festive touch!

Designer: Jenny Pokryvailo for OTOTO

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