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Shanghai Rongtai Health Tech Co., Ltd. Receives the Silver A' Design Award for S80 Massage Chair in Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Shanghai Rongtai Health Tech Co., Ltd. for sporting goods, fitness and recreation equipment design
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ S80 Massage Chair by Shanghai Rongtai Health Tech Co., Ltd., designed for Shanghai Rongtai Health Technology Corporation Limited, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About S80 Massage Chair
S80 is a massage chair designed for use by all family members. The form is inspired by first class airplane cabins and combines injection molded parts, a skinned shell and leather surfaces. S80 offers multiple massage programs and 15 massage techniques, and it measures several body indexes to adapt the massage to each person. Fingerprint authentication opens a personal profile for every user. Digital aromatherapy changes the fragrance as the program changes. A folding tablet holder in the armrest and two speakers allow entertainment during use.
About Shanghai Rongtai Health Tech Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Rongtai Health Technology Corporation Limited was founded in 2002. The brand was founded in 1997 and listed on A-share on January 11, 2017 Excellent products and good service, currently Rongtai health in the world cumulative sales of 2600000 + units of massage, "Rongtai, more professional massage chair"
Award Record
This recognition makes Shanghai Rongtai Health Tech Co., Ltd. a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design Award
The A' Sporting Goods Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good sports equipment designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sporting goods designers, fitness equipment designers, recreation equipment designers and industrial designers from all countries. Typical entries include basketballs, tennis rackets, yoga mats, running shoes, dumbbells and bicycles. The awarded sports equipment designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/sporting-goods
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/154149
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/154149
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!154149
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/348360
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.rotai.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- S80 Massage Chair
- Function
- Massage Chair
- Category
- Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sports
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Silver, Dark Gray, Dim Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Shanghai Rongtai Health Technology Corporation Limited
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shanghai Rongtai Health Tech Co., Ltd.
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #154149
Credits
- Team
- Qing Xu and Shibao Yang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- S80 is a massage cabin suitable for the entire family. It creates a quiet encompassing space where users are absorbed in to get reborn and renewed every day. By virtue of the joint work of professional massage techniques, digital aromatherapy, meditation music and voice guide, the product provides an exclusive personal massage service for all family members, helping users realize overall relaxation of body and mind, and own positive attitude and a healthy body.
- Inspiration
- S80 is inspired by first class cabins of airplanes. The design team built on this inspiration adopted an elegant appearance and fresh colors, complemented by injection molded parts and leather, resulting in a sleek and sophisticated design. In addition, the team has incorporated pleasant fragrances, soft lighting, and transcendent music into the design, comprehensively fulfilling consumer desires for high quality and high performance.
- Research
- The services provided by traditional massage chairs are limited to a single, physical level. S80 is defined as A Fantastic Essential to Unlock Staycation, which can help users realize overall relaxation of body and mind. By virtue of the co-works of massage, aromatherapy, meditation music and voice guide, the project allows users to immerse themselves in an enjoyable professional massage service.
- Challenge
- Compared to its competitors, S80 is more intelligent, covers a broader audience, and can adapt to more scenarios. Users can authenticate their identity via fingerprint scanning and access their personalized interface, enjoying a massage experience tailored to each individual. S80 also employs AIM to dynamically learn and model the body data and massage preferences of users, offering a customized massage experience. Considering physiques of Asians, the rail curvature extends its length to 143cm.
- Realization and Technology
- injection molded parts, skinned shell, folded tablet holder, stereo dolby speaker with dual channels, shoulder airbag
- Operation and Interaction
- Boasting multiple massage programs and 15 massage techniques, S80 can detect multiple indexes of the user, and thus offer targeted massage in a way that knows users better. The folded tablet holder in the armrest, coupled with 2 HIFI speakers allows users to enjoy massage and entertainment simultaneously. Digital aromatherapy technology, featuring a database containing thousands of fragrances, enables fragrances to vary as the massage program changes, realizing digital control of fragrances.
- Project Duration and Location
- S80 was developed in May 2021 in Shanghai, and launched in January 2023 in China.
- Specifications
- product dimensions, 1680 mm x 775 mm x 1190 mm
- Keywords
- massage chair, first class cabins of airplanes, customizable massage program, fingerprint authentication, digital aromatherapy technology
