Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award i Sølv in Køretøjsdele, Autotilbehør og Plejeprodukter Design Competition Category.
SølvKøretøjstilbehør· 2020
Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor
by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu
Client: Theunique
A' Design Award i Sølv Winner in Køretøjstilbehør Category
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The Design
About Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor
Agarwood er sjældent og dyrt. Dens aroma kan kun opnås ved forbrænding eller ekstraktion, anvendes indendørs og ydes af få brugere. For at bryde disse begrænsninger oprettes en smart aromadiffusor og naturlige håndlavede agarwoodtabletter efter 3 års indsats med over 60 designs, 10 prototyper og 200 eksperimenter. Det demonstrerer en ny mulig forretningsmodel og bruger kontekst til agarwood industri. Brugere kan blot indsætte diffusor inde i en bil, tilpasse tid, tæthed og variation af aroma med lethed og nyde den overvældende aromaterapi, uanset hvor de går, og når de kører.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award i Sølv
Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor er vinder af A' Design Award i Sølv, en usædvanligt prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles designs i topklasse, som er pragtfulde og imponerende. Sølvvinderne er enormt geniale og overordentlig kreative værker, der illustrerer deres designeres fremragende ekspertise, talent og skarpsindighed. Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor forventes at være et vidunderligt udstillingsværk, der er bemærkelsesværdigt professionelt og dybt innovativt. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Sølv, er en højst bemærkelsesværdig, beundret opfindelse, som gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. Theunique Smart Aroma Diffusor er en skabelse, som mange misunder, og som vækker begær, bringer positive følelser og antænder forundring og undren.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The product set consists of a smart aroma diffuser and several natural and hand-made agarwood tablets, which can be used inside of a vehicle. When turning on the diffusor, the tablet inside can be heated multi-dimensionally, creating an immersive aroma environment, wherever and whenever a user drives. Agarwood tablet created and heated this way can volatilise stably with longer time and higher efficiency, compared with the traditional way of burning. It revolutionises agarwood industry with an easy to use, customised, affordable and sustainable solution.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 32mm x 100mm
- Tags
- Smart Aroma Diffusor, Natural Arwarwood Product, Vehicle-mounted, Immersive Experience, New Using Context
- Production Technology
- The product set is granted with design and technology patents and qualified with international safety standards of SGS and ROHS. The making of portable natural agarwood tablet takes 6 months of perfection using biotechnology, physical thermostat control, fine grinding and carefully multi-dimensional moulding by hand. The tablet maintains its precious and unique ingredients, like spirulin, furan, white wood sulphuric acid and so on. The diffusor is consisted of magnetic heat-absorbed insulation cover, polymer insulation product body and anodised aluminium casing to improve the time, efficiency, and effectiveness of volatilisation.
- Design Challenge
- One challenge of the project is to maximise the efficiency of aroma volatilisation. The space inside of a vehicle, duration and speed of volatilisation, density of aroma, and temperature of heating is calculated and tested carefully. Besides, as the diffusor is inserted inside of the cigarette lighter, different vehicles have different standards, it is quite hard to adjust to them.
- Research
- To modernise the traditional agarwood industry and let more people afford and enjoy it, the first industry-university collaborated agarwood Bio-Technology Lab is set up in China to study its new integration, using scenario and context. The R&D process takes 3 years, with 60 designs and 10 prototypes created, and over 200 experiments conducted to ensure the performance, efficiency and experience of the product.
- Inspiration
- Agarwood has significant meaning in culture, arts, literature and religious ceremony in China. Its aroma is rare and expensive, which can be obtained merely from burning or extraction and afforded by few users. Its usage is strictly limited by time and space. To explore its modern using context and new market possibilities, a project was launched to study agarwood with modern Bio-Technology and a product set was developed based on it.
- Project Duration
- The research of this project began in 2014. The product set was launched in the market in 2017. The project achieves great success in the design industry and in the market. Its series of products have won international awards like IF and Red Dot. Partners and clients include Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Accor Hotels, InterContinental Hotels, Bank of China, etc.
- Operation Flow
- First, put an agarwood tablet inside of a smart aroma diffuser. Then, insert the diffuser into the cigarette lighter inside of a vehicle. After turning on the diffusor, the tablet inside can be heated multi-dimensionally, creating an immersive aroma environment. Users can customised time, density and variety of aroma volatilisation with ease.
- Patents
- Technology Patents: 201721205892.4;201721207501.2
Design Patents: 201730355919.7 - Team Members
- Zhang Mengting
Li Xiaolin
Yang Chunxu - Image Credits
- Zhang Mengting
Li Xiaolin
Yang Chunxu
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