In photo above: The Contactless Door Opener by Xeproto Design, 3D Printed: to turn doorknobs, open cardoors and ring doorbells without touching their surface! Made In Canada. Check more of this company's truly great designs and purchase the CDO here.
New design solutions emerge face to the pandemic, (or they already were there all along but we did not care enough to discover them). Apart from new, everyday tools for all stepping into our lives here we come with a list of items, technologies and services, designed to do things differently and helping us enjoy life through a whole new prespective.
For spectacle-wearers, Tokujin Yoshioka has come up with a template for an essential and minimalist mask, in perfect Japanese style, which only takes minutes to make by simply cutting a sheet of PET or PVC to the shape of the face and making two incisions where indicated for the arms of the spectacles. Seeing (the video) is believing! Lego has also modified some of the machines normally used to fabricate its famous blocks to produce visors for front-line health workers.
The electric control plate developed by the Milanese studio PLH ,(in photo bellow) eliminates the proliferation of bacteria from the surface of switches and support frames in just a few hours. This is achieved thanks to the Abaco finish, a process invented by the Italian company Protim®, as part of its PVD-Physical Vapour Deposition. Treatments. It is available in three different finishes – Gun metal, Grey05 and Gold and carries Japanese Industrial Standard JIS Z 2801/A12012 certification, the most rigorous and widely-applied in the world.
Manuela Simonelli and Andrea Quaglio have developed a bacteria-proof solution for mobile phones, for the French company Lexon. The Oblio (in photo bellow) wireless charging station with built-in sanitiser looks like an elegant small vase and is capable of fully charging telephones in 20 minutes, while a UV-C LED sterilises the screen.
In order to bust the domestic stress caused by Coronavirus-forced home isolation, the global studio Woods Bagot has designed a modular AD-APT system that can be used to divide open-plan living spaces into areas for work, play, fitness, rest areas and so on. This series of walls and screens is a response to the new demands of being at home 24/7 (an idea of the system in photo bellow).
Design your own intimate contemporary jewellery dream ring with the 3D-Maker Ringz app developed by Miro Straka, like she gorgeously did in the photo bellow:
VIROFORMULA™ is the new Albini Group fabric which effectively protects against viruses and bacteriathanks to the HeiQ Viroblock cutting-edge technology. The latter prevents the fabrics from becoming a host for harmful viruses and bacteria and as a consequence reducing the risk and speed of contamination and re-transmission.
VIROFORMULA™ fabrics actively inhibit viruses and kill bacteria upon contact on the surface in a few minutes. It has been created for all types of clothing, making them ideal for the production of shirts, jackets and trousers, as well as for masks, gowns and any other garment.
The application of this treatment does not change the physical and mechanical properties of the fabrics. The effect of textile finishing lasts up to 30 washes at a mild temperature.
The products used in the VIROFORMULA ™ treatment are certified by HeiQ according to the ISO 20743, ISO 18184 and AATCC 100 standards for their antibacterial and antiviral characteristics.They have also been tested for the safety of people and are dermatologically non-irritating, harmless to the skin and body and environmentally sustainable.
Art and design exhibitions from the safety of your home can be another exciting, yet different experience with the virtual gallery app artland (to discover in artland.com).
Spanish SAS launches e-learning platform: SAS 'new Do Great Things From Home hub offers content and virtual experiences to help public bodies, companies and employees reinvent themselves in this moment of confinement. That is how Do Great Things From Home is born, a hub full of free content with which executives, IT professionals, data scientists or citizens in general can take advantage of innovative resources, grow in their professional careers, add value to their companies and keep get up to date on the main technological trends and news in your sector of activity.
The website presents itself as the digital alternative to face-to-face meetings, which were the usual focus in the technology sector until the beginning of the pandemic. On the online site, designed to inspire and motivate people to do extraordinary things for society, in companies and in the world in general, you can find Webinars Live and OnDemand, courses on advanced analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, live demonstrations and blogs specialized.
Do Great Things From Home is organized into four key areas: 4Business, 4Data Scientists, 4Social, and 4Life.
That's all for now. We will expand this very list with more new design to help us out with the challenge of the pandemic - and not only that- the following weeks. Until then, take care of yourselves and each other.
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