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Snyearth ورلڈ کلاک by Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao

Snyearth ورلڈ کلاک by Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award لوہے دا انعام in ڈیجیٹل تے الیکٹرانک آلات ڈیزائن Competition Category.


لوہاصارفی الیکٹرانکس· 2023

Snyearth ورلڈ کلاک

by Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao

Client: Zhejiang University

A' Design Award لوہے دا انعام Winner in صارفی الیکٹرانکس Category

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The Design

About Snyearth ورلڈ کلاک

سنائیارتھ اِک ورلڈ کلاک ہے جو ہک تیرندڑے (لیویٹیٹنگ) گلوب تے شہراں دا وقت ڈسیندی ہے۔ کسے شہر دی تھاں تے اِک ڈفہ چھوہ کرن نال ہیٹھاں ٹرے تے اُس شہر دا مقامی وقت ڈسدا ہے۔ جدوں دو یا ودھیک شہر چُنے ون تاں اُنہاں وچکار وقت دا فرق آپے ای ظاہر ہوندا ہے۔ اِک نیم شفاف رِنگ کھڑکی، جیہڑی فُل کلر ایل ای ڈی لائٹاں نال لیس ہے، ہر ٹائم زون وچ آسمان دے رنگاں دا انعکاس کریندی ہے۔ گلوب دے اندر، اِک سمت وار روشنی دا سرچشمہ ڈینھ تے رات دی تبدیلی نوں نقل کریندا ہے۔ ایہ تیرندڑی حالت مستقل مقناطیساں، الیکٹرومقناطیساں تے ہال سینسراں دی مدد نال حاصل کیتی ون٘دی ہے۔

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award لوہے دا انعام

Snyearth ورلڈ کلاک A' Design Award لوہے دا انعام دا جتݨ والا ہے، معزز پچھاݨ جیڑھی انہاں چنگے ڈیزائناں کوں ݙتی ویندی ہے جیڑھے چنگی طرح ڈیزائن کیتیاں ہوئیاں تخلیقاں کنوں متوقع پیشہ ورانہ تے صنعتی ضرورتاں پوریاں کریندے ہن۔ لوہے دے جتݨ والے اپݨے خالقاں دی وݙی مہارت، اعلیٰ ماہری، ماہرانہ سمجھ تے تخلیقی صلاحیت ݙکھیندے ہن۔ Snyearth ورلڈ کلاک کنوں امید کیتی ویندی ہے جو او ہک بہوں قدر کیتی ہوئی، سراہی ہوئی تے پیاری تخلیق ہوسی جیڑھی عملی تے جدت والی ہے۔ ایہ ڈیزائن جنہاں A' Design Award لوہے دا انعام جتیا ہے، صنعت دے بہترین طریقے جمع کریندا ہے تے علم تے صلاحیت نال جڑیاں ہوئیاں قابل تکنیکی خصوصیتاں رکھیندا ہے۔ Snyearth ورلڈ کلاک دی سنجیدگی کنوں عزت کیتی ویندی ہے تے او زندگی دے معیار وچ بہتری آݨݨ کیتے بݨایا گیا ہے جیڑھی دنیا کوں بہتر جاہ بݨاوݨ وچ مدد کریندی ہے۔

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
Snyearth provides a new way of displaying world time. User can intuitively observe the current time of any city in the world. As time goes by, the colorful time wheel reflects the light and shadow of the sky at the current moment,Meanwhile, the lights inside the globe simulate the alternation of day and night. When in use, Snyearth only needs a simple touch to display the accurate local time of the selected city.
Dimensions & Packaging
Dimension: 200mm x 200mm x 150mm
Battery capacity: 4000mAh
Power supply mode: USB type-c
Input: 5V / 2000mA
Tags
World clocks, Home electronics, Smart products, Maglev, Lamps
Production Technology
The gravitational force is provided by permanent magnets, while the repulsive force generated by the electromagnets in the base is controlled precisely and in real-time using three axial Hall sensors to achieve stability of the levitating part in all directions.
Full-color LED lights are placed at the right place under the translucent ring window to achieve a colorful and natural transition display effect, and a directional rotating light source is used inside the globe to ensure a realistic simulation of the earth's day and night effect.
Design Challenge
The biggest problem encountered in the design process of this project is the internal structure design. Due to the use of maglev technology, the internal components must be arranged in a reasonable position to avoid electromagnetic disturbance, and also need to keep the shape as compact and simple as possible, so several iterations of the structure arrangement were made during the design process to complete the existing structure scheme.
Research
Firstly summarized and analyzed the existing world clocks, and found that the existing world clocks are in a single form, and it is difficult to read the time. The product iteration was carried out through the double diamond model. Last, a control experiment was conducted on the product prototype and the traditional world clock, and the results showed that it can help users get time zone information more quickly and intuitively, and also received higher scores on the interactivity dimension.
Inspiration
The current way of displaying the world time is often a combination of multiple traditional clocks, which is not intuitive enough, and the time difference between different places cannot be represented visually. It is also not possible to view the region where you wish to view the time at will. The design is inspired by the hovering globe, and by displaying the world time on the globe, the time of different regions can be displayed more intuitively.
Project Duration
The project starts in Shenzhen in May 2022 and ends in Hangzhou in September 2022.
Operation Flow
When using it, the user can touch the corresponding city location on the globe to display the local time of that city in real-time on the tray below. And if more than two cities are selected by the user, Snyearth can also automatically display the time difference between the cities.
Team Members
Xiaolong Li
Cheng Yao
Yiming Cheng
Zhengke Li
Sizhou Zhang
Shichao Huang
Yan Fang
Haoye Dong

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