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1.) Smile key (262-122593)

Category: 01.08 kitchen / household / living

key

Using the intuition of the shape and direction of how our hands grabkeys helps us distinguish and open doors in dark places. A substitute oftouch instead of sight may allow people grab keys in dark places,convenient for women coming home late and the blind.

Design agency

National Taipei University of TechnologyYu, Bo-CongTaipei, Taiwan

University

National Taipei University of TechnologyTaipei, Taiwan


2.) Contact / Stool (262-121371)

Category: 01.07 furniture / home textiles / fabrics

Furniture

"Contact" is designed to serve as a functional, straightforward yet engagingseating element in modern living spaces. It is a stackable stool manufactured bymoulded plywood, which is designed to have the minimal footprint possible to leadviable and hopefully a sustainable production. In terms of form language, itsaesthetics are refined for a genuine and unpretentious form. My goal was to refineaesthetics without ignoring the functional necessities.

Design agency

-S. Dogan SekerciogluIstanbul, Turkey

University

Umeå Institute of DesignUmeå, Sweden


3.) Button stapler (262-120595)


Sewing tools

when button com off, it is convernient because threads and needles do not have to be used. this is a button-staplingsrapler that allows everyone to easily and quickly put on a buttton. A small form of button stapler is easy to carry andremoces the hassle of needlework. it also can be used by people who cannot sew well.

Design agency

Hoseo Univ.,Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

University

Hoseo UniversityChungcheongnam-do, South Korea


4.) Super Battery (262-120575)

Category: 01.11 survival+emergency / eco solutions

Battery

"The Super battery" is a free combination of solar cells. The solar energy could be transformed into the electrical energythrough the flexible solar panels and used permanently .Meanwhile,according to people's different requires,"The Superbattery"could be rolled into various kinds of types . The energy in one is no less than three ordinary batteries. We savethe money, protect the environment and most of all,we reduce the pollution of heavy metals.

Design agency

Huazhong University of Science & TechnologyCao Yuan (HuNan University); Cao Wenqi, Wu Hao, Xiong Luyao and Xu Wen (Huazhong University ofScience&Technology)

Wuhan, China

University

Huazhong University of Science & TechnologyWuhan, China


5.) Screw pot (262-119515)

Category: 01.12 packaging

plant pot

The Screw Pot can be easily planted straight into the ground withoutthe use of tools. Natural pulp materials from the ground are used toallow natural decomposition. This helps young seedlings easily adapt toa new environment. Whilst melting, the pot supplies nutrients to theground. The surroundings of the Screw pot's screw are included withnutrients (not sure about this) The Screw was designed with a motivein mind. While the pot can be easily planted it can also be easily fixedin the ground.

Design agency

KOOKMIN univ.Tae Eun KimSeoul, South Korea KOOKMIN univ.Chae Rin KimSeoul, South Korea

University

KOOKMIN univ.Seoul, South Korea


6.) Rice pack (262-119271)

Category: 01.12 packaging

Rice package

As the number of single household is gradually increasing now, thereare many kinds food designed for the single person. In cookingsteamed rice, the quantity of water is a key factor. Our team hasdesigned this 'Rice Pack' for every single person who has difficultycontrolling the appropriate quantity of water. This package containsrice for a person or two and a line is marked to make it easy for thosecooking beginners to get appropriate water. On the package, theproper quantity of water is marked. Therefore, anybody can easilyadjust the quantity of water.

Design agency

Korea Design MembershipKyungran ParkMiyeon KimHyejin GhoDaegu, South Korea

University

Keimyung universityDaegu, South Korea


7.) Grow-slip (262-118943)

Category: 03.01 fashion / accessories

Slippers

GROW-SLIP is indoor slippers for 12 ~ 24 month old infants whose feet grow very quickly and whoneed shoes when they start taking their first steps. They can adapt to the growth of feet and sothere is no need to buy new shoes every time an infant's feet become bigger.

Design agency

Korea Design MembershipGwangju, South Korea

University

Chosun UniversityGwangju, South Korea


8.) Taroko Folding Paper (262-118145)

Category: 02.02 print media

Graphic design

The idea of designing this folding paper book is on caring andpreserving the animals in Taiwan. The kit includes the introduction ofthe animals in Taroko National Park in Taiwan, double-sided foldingpapers, and an instruction manual. Users or readers of this book canget to know more types of animal species through hand-on foldingpapers, which in turn gaining insight into natural and animalpreservation.

Design agency

SHU-TE UNIVERSITYGUAN-LING LU, YING-TING LYOU, YU-JHEN GUO, TIAN-YU GUOKaohsiung, Taiwan

University

SHU-TE UNIVERSITYKaohsiung, Taiwan


9.) kangaroo incubator (262-117036)

Category: 01.10 medicine / health+care

medical device

Kangaroo mother care Like the kangaroo which carries their baby in itstummy pouch, the Kangaroo care which looks after the premature babyon mother's tummy recently get a attention as it is proved to beeffective on treatment and be helpful for baby's emotional stabilizationand development. Kangaroo Mother Care + Incubator With realizationof mother's body shape, heat and heartbeat within the incubator, it hassame effect with Kangaroo care with mother The sheet goes up anddown like mother's heartbeat and changes the shape like mother' body

Design agency

Sookmyung Women's Universityseoul, South Korea

University

Sookmyung Women's Universityseoul, South Korea


10.) RE GARBAGE (262-116709)


RE GARBAGE

We normally feel tired of pulling trashes out of the wastebasket tothrow away and covering it with a garbage bag again. TheRE-GARBAGE solves this problem out simply.This design appliedprinciples of a tissue box to the existing wastebasket, so users can pullgarbage bags out of it easily to cover it. It is so tiresome to find astored garbage bag and then cover the wastebasket with it again,whenever replacing it. For settling this problem, it was designed tostore several garbage bags in the wastebasket and to pull it out liketissues easily to cover it.

Design agency

JongSoo_KimHee Tae / YangJong Soo / KimSeoul, South Korea

University

Myongji UniversityKYOUNGGI YOUNGIN, South Korea


11.) Life Tire (262-115429)


Product

In Africa, where water is hard to get, many children walk 5 hours dailyon average to obtain water. Life Tire was designed for African childrenwho cannot play nor learn but have to get water every day. Used wastetires are the only toys of African children. This product was designed byrecycling them so that they can be used by children to play whiletransporting water more quickly. While the tire moves rotating, thenanofilter balls in the tube clean the water of various parasites andcontaminants; the children can share clean water at home with theirfamily.

Design agency

Daegu UnivInseok OhPohang-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea Daegu UnivGyuri BaeSeogu - Daegu, South Korea

University

Daegu Univ.Gyeongsan, South Korea


12.) Green Table (262-114549)


kitchen facilities

The traditional sink sets only vegetables, vegetable, cooking functions,but it ignores the vegetables washing water, rice washing water, andfood residue can actually be recycled. "green table" providing organicvegetable dishes,and use of nutritionally adequate irrigation water forrecycling, as well as LED lights to cultivate, completely free weatherconstraints, system uses food waste into biogas, So that the futuristic"Green Table" to green our lives sustainable.

Design agency

Ming Chuan UniversityYa-Chi ChiaoShin-Yi LiCity,Taoyuan, Taiwan


13.) Retaining Water Hump (262-113608)


survival infrastructure

Once the city is suffered a strong storm and the drastically increase ofthe rain have no where to go, the underground parkings will inevitablybecome the first place of the adverse impacts. Although the drainagesystem within it is no doubt favorable, parking is difficult to avoidbecoming the hardest hit. This device aims to combine with the speedhump which is located at the entrance of the underground carpark,being designed as a water retaining device. And in order to helpthe drainage system to play a better role, it focus on preventing thewater from entering the underground parking too quickly andmitigating the burden on the system.

Design agency

BrainstormingJian Zhu, Xiru Chen,Jianping LuoChangsha City, China

University

Kunming University of Science and TechnologyKunming City,Xiangtan City, China


14.) Baby Shower Nozzle (262-111865)

Category: 01.09 bathroom / wellness

Shower Nozzle

Baby Shower Nozzle is a new product which is unlike the recent showernozzle. This is designed specifically targeted to the baby shower whichis the problem of troubling parents. The sprinkler head could bedirectly set in parents' hands, which make the shower heads, palm,and the infant bath with sponge integrate well together, which makethe process of parents' gently stroking children finish the process ofbaby shower. At the same time, the water flow ejected from thesprinklers could first contact with the hands of parents, which isconvenient for parents to perceive water temperature in advance. Thisgreatly increases the security.

Design agency

Dalian Nationalities UniversityHaoyu Pei, Na Jin, Kun Xu , Song Qiao , Haimo BaoDalian, China

University

Dalian Nationalities UniversityDalian, China


15.) Biodiversity (262-111719)

Category: 02.02 print media

Poster

The human body is made up of many units, as does the Earth. The human circulatory system consists of many components such asblood vessels, lungs, stomach and bones; the natural ecosystem of the Earth also consists of many components, mammals, insects,arthropod, plants, etc., which is called "biodiversity." If human beings keep making species extinct, the natural ecosystem will bebroken. When the damage is too serious to repair, human who shut down the functions of ecosystem would die out as well.

Design agency

Chuan-Bin Chung OB DesignTainan City, Taiwan, Taiwan

University

National Yunlin University of Science & TechnologyDouliu City, Yunlin County, Taiwan


16.) Clear light (262-108934)

Category: 01.06 lighting

Lamp

Use saline water conducts electricity principle,apply saline waterinstead of the wire. Reduce metal consumption.

Design agency

Beijing Technology and Business UniversitySiyu Huang, Jiahui Song

Beijing, China

University

Beijing Technology and Business UniversityBeijing, China


17.) Eco Popsicle Sticks (262-108550)


Eco Popsicle Sticks

We always enjoy having Popsicles in summer. The wood of Popsicle sticks will be wasted if we keep littering them awayeveryday. This design of mine is aim to save our limited timber resources as well as protect our environment. To save ourresources is to save ourselves!popsicle.this design helping us saving trees and protecting our environment.Saving treesis saving ourselves.

Design agency

Zhengzhou University of light industryZhengZhou, China

University

Zhengzhou University of light industryZhengZhou, China

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