Samsung Young Design Award 2009 Finalists

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.

samsung young design awards 2009

PAD is a digital pet family that improves the consumption of energy by monitoring the status of the environment.

samsung young design awards 2009

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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Zero Phone Concept by Josselin Zaigouche

Since time immemorial, zero has been synonymous with bringing in a revolution, be it mathematics or the new concept phone designed by French designer Josselin Zaigouche. The phone is designed in the shape of what else but zero. The phone comes in two color combination which can be separated. Once both the parts come together, it creates a virtual interface wherein the numbers pad, battery meter and signal strength are very much a part of it. Overall the design is simple, nice and easy. The phone is also user friendly and due to its innovative looks it has a long shelf life.

zero concept phone

zero concept phone

Designer : Josselin Zaigouche

Bajca is A Cool Emoticon Keypad and Also Cute Personal Jewelry to Wear

Emotions play a very significant role in communication. You make different faces for different types of emotions. Here comes a new keypad with 16 touch buttons that communicate 16 different emotions. This “Bajca” project is really amazing like a teenage-game. These buttons can also be used to create emotional jewelry for wearing or gifting or exchanging. The need for such a project has always been there because everyone loves to exchange feelings or tell stories about lives. You can anytime change your smiley with other one that has different graphics and meaning to express yourself.

bajca keypad

bajca keypad

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The FuChat, An Environmentally Friendly Phone Concept that Detects Your Emotions

The FuChat is a cordless phone for the home that can make both Internet calls and regular calls. The FuChat is also an interactive tool that allows users to increase their emotional self-awareness. The FuChat phone has sensors that can detect changes of tone in a person’s voice and changes in body temperature, in order to alert the user of their current emotional state. The goal of this function is to make interaction with the phone a more personal experience, improving communication by tying human emotions into an electronic device. The FuChat phone is made from renewable plastic to reduce its impact on the environment. Online account management and support is also included with the FuChat, allowing people to easily configure and manage their phone through the Internet.

fu chat concept phone

fu chat concept phone

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[SÉNS] Mobile Phone Concept for People with Visual Impairment Including Complete Blindness

Mobiles have become a part of our. It is as if life won’t move a step ahead without mobile phones. Now just imagine if you could not clearly see the digits and alphabets on your mobile, hard to even imagine right? Many visually impaired people have the ability to recognize things like light intensity colors. Takumi Yoshida gives the basic phone status to such people through color illumination and identifiable keypad, called SÉNS. With the help of glow of color they will be able to see the tiny texts on screen to at least some extent. The enlightenment is positioned on the sides as the sides are the ones that are exposed when the phone is on a flat surface.

sens mobile phone concept for visual impair

sens mobile phone concept for visual impair

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