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Soft cream and warm peach tones dominate this overhead view of Peng Ren's Smart Box Educational Building Blocks, where a child's delicate hands orchestrate a mathematical equation across a pristine…

Smart Box Educational Building Blocks by Peng Ren is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design Competition Category.


GoldToy· 2021

Smart Box Educational Building Blocks

by Peng Ren

Client: Shenzhen Explore Home Industrial Design Co., Ltd

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Toy Category

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Verified Award Winner

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The Design

About Smart Box Educational Building Blocks

Smart Box is a set of modular educational building blocks made to teach basic mathematics to children. The set includes four modules linked by near field communication technology: two number modules, one operation module and one display module. When the modules are brought together correctly, the display module shows the answer and plays a matching sound. The difficulty of the calculation is adjusted by adding or removing modules. Each module measures 35 millimeters. Smart Box combines play and learning to support early education.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Smart Box Educational Building Blocks is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Smart Box Educational Building Blocks is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Smart Box Educational Building Blocks creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Smartbox is a modular educational toy with a basic math algorithm for Children. It has four NFC algorithm modules, which are two digital modules, one algorithm module, and one display module. When a group of modules gets close to the other correctly, the display module will show the answer of the corresponding algorithm and plays the prompt tone of the answer. Users could adjust the difficulty of the algorithm by increase or decrease the number of modules appropriately.
Dimensions & Packaging
Product Size: 35mm
Product Weight: 100 grams
Packaging: according to the quantity purchased (modularization)
Energy Consumption: safe weak current
Tags
Toys, Children, Blocks, Souptoys, Mathematics, Initiation, Game
Production Technology
Core Technology: Mainly using the NFC technology to achieve the information receiving and calculation, and traditional digital display and sound horn are used to achieve the information feedback.
Design Challenge
Correct induction, long-endurance, and power supply are the difficulties.
Research
Education is an essential subject for every family in every country. So enlightenment education can not be ignored, children not only need to absorb knowledge but also stimulate their creativity. Compare to deliberately instill knowledge, playing with learning makes children more active in learning and thinking, more natural to absorb knowledge, which is another form of early childhood enlightenment education! In the future, we hope that more online data analysis can be realized, and the user of information of children can be shared with parents to make parents and children closer!
Inspiration
The inspiration comes from Children's behavior. Children are willing to absorb knowledge with playing, boring teaching makes their acceptance more difficult and slower. Children not only need to absorb knowledge but also stimulate their creativity. Rather than deliberately instill knowledge, the combination of playing and learning makes children more active in learning and thinking, more natural to absorb knowledge, which is another form of early childhood enlightenment education!
Project Duration
2020: Come Up with Ideas
2021: Deepening Design and Manufacturing in Shenzhen
Operation Flow
Digital Symbols Modular - free permutation and combination. Display and play the accumulated calculation answer. Intelligent Computing - information reading.
Patents
Appearance Patent No:202030742136.6
Team Members
Chu Dongdong
Nancy
Image Credits
Appearance Patent:202030742136.6

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