Samsung has organized young design award for the third time this year aiming to find out the creativity of young Italian design students focusing on sustainable and functional digital household solutions to improve the living quality of the future civilization. Following are the 9 finalist projects that was exhibited in the award ceremony held at Triennial in Milan.
PAD is a digital pet family that improves the consumption of energy by monitoring the status of the environment.
The main controller of the ‘Stand Off’ is the accelerometer that can detect the exact location of an object and sends Bluetooth signal to switch the appliance on or off.
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Audi has envisioned two vehicles for the future generations who will born into a complete digital environment with autonomy far away from today’s vision.
Audi eSpira: The Aspiration – This is the most uncompromised form of Audi, acts as an extension of the driver’s body. It utilizes next generation automobile control logic to transform the driver’s every movements and gestures into driving command.
Audi eOra: The Essence – This is an extremely efficient and dynamic sport vehicle that will be a dream of every young and adventurous individual in future. It uses the same control logic of eSpira and can carve the roadscape like a downhill skier with great accuracy.
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The innovative RocStar Bathroom concept has been designed aiming to overcome the limits of the conventional bathrooms and heighten the efficiency of the same. It features three main components that have been differentiated it from others; the faucet or the Rocstar, the basin and the mirror.
The Faucet comprises five arms with different functionality such as three of them are supplying water, liquid soap and toothpaste, and the last two acts as driers. The Rocstar top is made of transparent plastic with lighting underneath which acts as control sensors and allow users activating a particular arm by simply touching it. After being activated that arm will give a magnificent led light and smoothly turns to the user. Other activities such as changing the water temperature, screen savers and profile colors, driers, etc. can be done with the center top touch screen of the Rocstar.
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The Audi Avatar is a 3-seater electric supercar concept specially designed for the drivers of 2032 to enjoy the pleasure of driving that they experienced playing racing games during their childhood days. The appearance of the car is much identical with the science fiction flying cars we used to watch. This futuristic car concept features 4 extremely powerful in-wheel electric motors powered by supercharge-ion batteries. The ultra lightweight aerodynamic body along with the powerful backend, it can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in just 2.9 seconds and can achieve the top speed of over 360km/h with responsive handling.
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For teenagers, an MP3 player can’t be more alluring other than the TicTac, a wrist watch with built-in MP3 player along with a touch sensitive and easy to manipulate display. The display of time can be customized to show both analog and digital time and can also be programmed to show the name of the song it is playing in the moment or its artist’s name. It features touch buttons for play, stop, pause, next and prv at the bottom of the display and two touch scrolls on both sides for adjusting the volume and timeline for the song. A slide button on the side of the watch’s body can lock the display. TicTac has its own memory that stores the songs through USB connectivity and has rechargeable battery. It features both cable headphones and Bluetooth headphones, but cable headphones are recommended for longer back up time of the battery.
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