FYP Product Design 2016-17

I collected some images to inspire my own design, these designs are all 3D printed.

The use of repeated or similar pattern can save the time during CAD as well as create visual rhythm.

The above two designs have some gestures and patterns that I can relate to my project. Moreover,  the shape of the deer necklace can be a direction how Read more →

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”

-Steve Jobs

The gameplay of these toys starts by making questions Read more →

Source: http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-health-benefits-of-tai-chi

This gentle form of exercise can help maintain strength, flexibilyt, and balance, and could be the perfect activity for the rest of your life.

Tai chi is often described as “meditation in motion,” but it might well be called “medicationin motion.” There is growing evidence that this mind-body practice, which originated in China as a martial art, has value in treating Read more →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGcoCZa-a50

This video has been designed by English Federation of Disability Sport(EFDS) to complement the charity’s successful Inclusive Communications Guide. The video talks about useful communication practices and principles and how the changes will help providers to reach a wider audience in sport and physical activity, including more disabled people.

Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1811282608/functional-core-balance-and-mobility-training-syst/posts/1671520

Video: http://www.businessinsider.com/balance-platform-axius-workout-2016-8?IR=T&r=US&IR=T

AXIUS addresses your body across three planes of motion: tilt, rotation and roll. It allows you to reduce or increase degrees of instability to create safe, controllable stages of progression for building core strength and functional stability. Through this type of instability and balance training, you will recruit deep core and stabilizing muscles, not activated through traditional movements. These Read more →

What is a Capsule Wardrobe?

Collection of clothes and accessories that are considered essential a person’s basic collection of coordinating clothes that can be used to form the basis of outfits for all occasions a set of clothing, normally around 24 items, which can be mixed and matched to create a wide variety of outfits.

Reason to build a Capsule Wardrobe

What really matters

If you Read more →

Building on what is available as an outdoor leisure in urban space:

Safety is an issue in setup;

Multiple layers of engagement after drawing someone into the location to interact with it, how do I make people dwell a little longer? How much privacy shall it give to encourage different types of people who want to interact less? ;

Aesthetics: even when the Read more →

This article is highly relevant to my choice of topic of outdoor recreational activity for young urban professionals, by providing me with keywords and boundaries to the define the scope of my project. This article is most relevant if my product is about creating a product which intentionally creates fun.

Free running is an emerging lifestyle sport which uses urban architecture Read more →

Project Soli:

Using radars to read hand gestures for interaction with computers

Pilot: The first wearable earpiece that translates different languages in real time.

SOUNDglasses:

Use bone conduction technology for sound transmission

Phree:

Drawing on any surface and projecting scribbles on screen

Gest:

Using gestures as a mouse for a computer

MADGaze:

Translation and navigational wearable