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1. Boost Boost is a hearing aid for a younger generation designed to improve current hearing technology and destigmatize the look and feel of hearing aids. It is intended to help young users feel comfortable wearing a hearing aid and to create a welcoming medical product that isn’t judged by the outside world. Boost is designed with standard hearing-aid components like an amplifier, microphone, battery, and receiver with additional technology such as Bluetooth device connection, AI, and language translation. Boost’s internal components use skin-safe metals, commonly used in jewelry, and plant-based biodegradable PLA plastic. Designed by Taylor Spencer, IDSA of College for Creative Studies 2. Cookidlike Cookidlike is a set of kitchen tools and a picture book to teach children aged 4–6 how to bake. It takes normal baking tools, which are too large and cumbersome for children, and reimagines them into a friendlier child-focused form. The marine-animals motif makes learning easier and more intuitive. The design of the Cookidlike tools emphasizes the skills of grasping, pinching, holding, pressing, and mixing to train children’s muscles and hand-eye coordination, and the picture book teaches them how to use the baking tools and how to bake step-by-step. Designed by Chih-Lin Tsai, S/IDSA, Chih-Ying Cheng, Yung-Hsiang Yang, Wei-Sheng Tu, and Wen-Ling Lee of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology 3. Embrace 2025 Embrace 2025 is a vision for the future of the medical footwear industry. It’s a speculative design approach for enhanced mobility for children with foot equinus, a common condition found in those with cerebral palsy. Foot equinus leads to an imbalance of gait and in-toeing of the foot, making walking difficult. Embrace uses an adaptive smart brace to stimulate muscles during imbalanced movement while facilitating natural gait through a posture-control mechanism. Embrace aims to facilitate faster therapy results and ankle-foot brace recovery while conditioning users to turn their limitations into capabilities. Designed by Vidit Singh Chhikara, S/IDSA, and Shun Ping Pek of College for Creative Studies
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4. INTEGRATOR: 5G-IoT Integrated Instrument of Fire Rescue The aim of INTEGRATOR is to protect people in public when they encounter a fire. INTEGRATOR consists of a floor map, face masks, two fire extinguishers, and a camera and alarm. Its bold color and design make it visible so people can easily locate it in case of a fire. The map helps people find a safe route out of the building with masks to protect them from smoke, while illustrated instructions make operating the fire extinguishers easy. INTEGRATOR can provide people with valuable time to safely escape, minimizing casualties. Designed by Sun Huajie, S/IDSA, Liu Yichen, and Qin Zugan of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute