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Created by brand consulting firm Landor&Fitch for people with hand dexterity issues, this adaptive toothbrush includes more than 142 different handle designs.   The textured grip accessory handles with chunky grips, grips that bulge outward like a tennis ball wrapped around, lattices, ridges, and other textures are custom-made and 3D printed for each customer based on an online questionnaire. They are also designed to attach to the handle of a regular toothbrush or electric toothbrush to create a larger grip. Refusing to be ordinary, the toothbrush is reminiscent of a sculpture in its shape, texture, and color, which makes it a great decorative object.   According to Landor&Fitch, there are an estimated 360 million people around the world who live with problems using their hands, and Jack Holloway, head of industrial design at Landor&Fitch, told Dezeen: "While researching accessible design, we came across users who were using toothbrushes in a functional but very uncomfortable way - using dog toys, lollipop sticks and damp cloths to attach the toothbrush to their hands via an elastic band, which we realized as a creative team we could solve." To develop the product, Landor&Fitch brought together people with hand movement issues due to conditions such as arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome and essential tremor. They invited them to co-design the product in a series of maker labs, hands-on workshops where participants could create shapes, test prototypes and share their experiences.   Participants were involved in the entire process, testing and providing feedback on the final prototype, resulting in a toothbrush with 3D-printed handles that adapt to the movements of people with hand issues.   

Designer Tom Dixon s eponymous homeware brand has created portable lamps that run off of rechargeable batteries for three of its most popular lamps. The tantalizingly named Melt, Bell, and Stone designs are cordless. Shortlisted in the Lighting Design category > Finalist, they are designed to make living spaces more flexible. They combine battery power and low-energy LEDs to deliver nine hours of battery life per full charge.   "We increasingly want our lighting to move with us because we no longer want to be tied to a fixed desk or power outlet," said Dixon, who founded the London-based brand in 2002.   "Fortunately, the magic of technology has been realized with the combination of powerful batteries and low-energy light sources that allow us to shine light anywhere with complete adaptability," Dixon added.   All of the portables have three dimmable settings for even more versatility and can be used indoors or outdoors. Among them, the Melt Portables were first unveiled in 2015 in collaboration with Swedish design studio Front and feature one of the brand's most unique designs.   The fluidly shaped, seemingly air-blown glass table lamp is available in gold, silver, copper, or black metallic finishes.   The Bell Portable is also made of pressed steel, and this design, first released in 2013, features a curved mirror surface. Finally, Stone Portable is the latest addition to the collection of lamps and accessories made from white Morwad marble. Tom Dixon first showcased the portables at the brand's Salone del Mobile exhibition during Milan Design Week in April, before officially launching them in August. Unlike the brand s previous Milan shows, the showcase focused on expanding the functionality and flexibility of existing products rather than launching new designs.   Link to original article: https://www.dezeen.com/2023/11/17/tom-dixon-portable-lamps/ 

Hyundai Elevator has won the Main Prize at the Good Design Award 2023, one of the world's top four design competitions.   Launched in November 2022, the Air Sterilizer-Disinfector (PI-DD) combines air sterilization and cleaning functions in the floor indicator inside the elevator, with a perforated hole design that allows passengers and managers to naturally recognize the operating status without removing the display. In addition, the air inlet and outlet are located at the top to enhance aesthetics, and a magnetic cover is applied for easy maintenance. Hyundai Elevator Design Lab Manager Haknam Yoon, who designed PI-DD, said, "The idea was based on the increased awareness of the need for air purification and sterilization in elevators used by an unspecified number of people due to COVID-19." "Previously, the method of installing a separate sterilizer was used, but PI-DD incorporates it into the floor indicator to improve space efficiency and aesthetics."   The judges noted that air purifiers and sterilizers are in high demand, but existing attachable products detract from the elevator's interior design, and the PI-DD was praised for its ease of management without detracting from the overall design.   Organized by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion since 1957, the Good Design Award is a competition that comprehensively evaluates the design, usability, and innovation of a wide range of products, from general consumer goods to systems, services, and architecture. It is considered one of the world s four major design awards, along with Germany s Red Dot and iF Design Awards, and IDEA in the United States. With this award, Hyundai Elevator has won all four of the four major awards in the world.   Website: http://www.hyundaielevator.co.kr Link to original article: https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=976882

Waste-free, plastic-free packaging. That‘s what online grocery delivery company Dizzie set out to make when it said goodbye to plastic single-use containers. The result is a biocomposite, multi-use refillable packaging that says goodbye to fossil fuel-based plastics and the thoughtlessness of single-use disposal. London-based design studio Blond are the creators of this circular packaging. The groceries ordered from Dizzie are delivered to the customer‘s doorstep in a round tub. It‘s a deceptively simple cylindrical container, but it‘s not as simple as it looks. It had to be suitable for a variety of foods, and for transportation purposes, the containers had to be stackable with different capacities. It was Blond‘s job to make them simple and strong enough to be washed and reused over and over again, all with a non-plastic material. The seemingly plastic containers are made from wood fiber, a byproduct of wood processing, and biopolypropylene, which is derived from waste and residual oils. Thanks to this biocomposite, Dizzie‘s container is made of 98% renewable materials. The shape of the containers is cylindrical and stackable vertically. The stackable design is inspired by bento boxes, where the capacity is divided into thirds, but the diameter of the container remains the same and the height varies. So the largest container is the same height as the three smallest, and the middle container is the same height as the two smallest.    While these plastic-free containers are designed for easy storage and transportation, they‘re not just another piece of disposable packaging to be used once and thrown away. It‘s a multi-use container designed and built for circulation, and once consumers have accumulated their containers, they are collected by Dizzie and washed in an industrial-scale dishwasher before being reused. Initially, the goal was to reuse them 200 times before they reach the end of their life cycle and are returned to the manufacturing plant to be remade into packaging. Dizzie discloses the number of plastic containers and the amount of carbion dioxide emissions that have been saved through this circular packaging in real time on its website.   *Source: Design Korea 2022-2022 Design Trendsdesignkorea.kidp.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=trend&wr_id=56&page=2Blond Website: blond.ccDizzie Website: getdizzie.com    

 If you sleep eight hours a night, sleep is a third of your life. There was a time when sleep was considered a waste of time, a flight from productivity, but as the importance of sleep for a healthy life has been increasingly recognized, interest in sleep has grown. Add to that the availability of sleep-tracking features on cell phones and wearables, and it‘s no wonder that now anyone can track their sleep.Amazon‘s upcoming Halo Rise product is also centered around sleep tracking. What makes it unique is that it‘s not a wearable device that you have to put on your body to measure. Sure, cell phones are contactless, but their sleep analysis is limited to sound. Halo Rise is a contactless device that sits on your bedside table and functions as both an alarm clock and a light, while detecting your breathing, movement patterns, and more with low-energy sensors built into the device to determine what stage of sleep you‘re in.Halo Rise also detects environmental factors that affect sleep, such as room temperature, humidity, and light levels. The data collected in this comprehensive way is analyzed by a sleep algorithm that has been trained and validated to be comparable to polysomnography in a medical setting, Amazon says. The Halo app provides a detailed summary analysis of how much time you spend in each stage of sleep - REM, light sleep, and deep sleep - and what your sleep environment is like, and recommends areas to improve for better sleep.   Meanwhile, when you wake up is also an important part of healthy sleep. Halo Rise‘s smart alarm analyzes your sleep stages to help you wake up at the optimal time, replicating the color and light levels of the morning sun as it slowly dawns to give you a fresh start to your day. This clever device for healthy sleep, the backbone of healthy living, will be available in the U.S. first for $140.*Source: Design Korea 2022-2022 Design Trendsdesignkorea.kidp.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=trend&wr_id=58&page=2Halo Rise Website: amazon.com/halorise   

Pasta giant Barilla recommends passive cooking of pasta. Passive in the sense that it utilizes the residual heat after a period of cooking, rather than active heating, which involves keeping the heat on the entire time the pasta is being cooked. To this end, Barilla has released a device called the Passive Cooker and a dedicated mobile app to help you cook passively.Here‘s how it works. You place the Passive Cooker on the lid of a pot, and the device notifies you via the app when the water is boiling. This means it‘s time to add the pasta to the water. After two minutes, the app will notify you again to let you know it‘s time to turn off the heat. After two minutes of active heating, it‘s time for passive residual heat. The residual heat from the boiling water will finish cooking the pasta. At this point, the passive cooker on the lid of the pot will detect the residual heat and let you know how long it will take for the pasta to be fully cooked, again via the app.In fact, there‘s not much difference between the normal cooking time and the passive cooking time. If you‘re cooking macaroni, for example, it takes 7 minutes to cook conventionally, but with passive cooking it takes 2+6 minutes, or only 1 minute more. Instead, you only need to turn on the stove for two minutes, which means your gas or electricity bill will be much lower, and your carbon footprint will be reduced by up to 80%, says Barilla.Barilla has open-sourced the manufacturing information for the Passive Cooker, which will notify you when it‘s time to passively cook. The 3D printed case, printed with 100% biodegradable filament, houses two AAA batteries, a temperature sensor, and an Arduino board. Barilla has made the device‘s open source files and instructions available for download on its website. However, if you don‘t want to build your own passive cooker, Barilla offers a chatbot via WhatsApp. It guides you step-by-step on how to passively cook pasta.*Source: Design Korea 2022-2022 Design Trendsdesignkorea.kidp.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=trend&wr_id=64 barilla.com/en-gb/passive-cooking 

 Teenage Engineering should be a familiar name to anyone interested in music. The Stockholm company was born out of a love of music and electronics. Since the success of its first product, the OP-1 synthesizer, in 2010, Teenage Engineering has developed sound equipment sought after by professional musicians such as Thom Yorke, Depeche Mode, Beck, and Bon Iver, as well as consumer products such as hardware for game consoles, hi-fi radios, instant cameras, and AI speakers. Teenage Engineering is also the type of company that IKEA would collaborate with, as evidenced by their Frekvens light and sound system for home parties. Teenage Engineering is in a unique position where their sound engineering skills and product design are inextricably linked. Their new product, the PO-80, is the crystallization of exactly what they do best, but for a very special user: the PO-80 Record Factory Kit, is a DIY vinyl record-making machine for kids that‘s a combination turntable and record cutter. Teenage Engineering collaborated with Yuri Suzuki, an up-and-coming designer, to create the PO-80. This small, refreshingly colored device allows anyone to connect their own audio equipment via a 3.5mm jack to imprint music onto a record, record it, and play it right back. The resulting 5-inch records have the warm, lo-fi, analog sound of those early records. As a DIY music-making device, the PO-80 is meant to be assembled and completed by the user.    An impressive product that will introduce children to the joy of music that they can physically touch and create, the TP-80 also comes with accessories such as blank records, a record cutting head, and a storage bag.   *Source: Design Korea 2022-2022 Design Trendsdesignkorea.kidp.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=trend&wr_id=55&page=2Teenage Engineering website: teenage.engineeringVideo on the P0-80: youtube.com/watch?v=p4Syxl8lKOA  

Water efficiency is becoming an increasingly important issue. One third of the world‘s population does not have access to safe drinking water, and by 2030, billions of people are expected to lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation. Currently, 10% of the world‘s fresh water is used at home, so IKEA has come up with a small add-on tool to help you save water at home. It’s called Åbächen and it’s a water-saving nozzle. All of Ikea‘s showerheads and faucets already have built-in controls to make them more water-efficient, but now the company has introduced a separate nozzle that fits onto your existing faucet. IKEA collaborated with Swedish innovation startup Altered Company to create Åbächen, a universal nozzle that fits most standard faucets on the market, as well as existing IKEA faucets, and reduces water consumption by 0.25 liters per minute in mist mode and 1.9 liters per minute in spray mode. With the existing faucet flowing at 5.7 liters per minute, that‘s a saving of at least 66% and as much as 95%. The reduced flow rate naturally saves energy used for hot water as well.    "We know that most of the people who are experiencing water shortages are also struggling financially. That‘s why it‘s important to develop solutions that are affordable for households. This cannot be achieved without innovation and collaboration," says Hanna Carleke, Business Leader Bathroom at IKEA. The Åbächen will go on sale this October and is a small step towards saving water.   *Source: Design Korea 2022-2022 Design Trendsdesignkorea.kidp.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=trend&wr_id=47&page=3IKEA website: ikea.comAltered Company website: alteredcompany.com