Silver Digital and Electronic Device Design · 2024
Bipro Smart Fitness Device
by Hongyu Wu
- A' Design Award 2024 Silver Winner in Digital and Electronic Device Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 411,890
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About Bipro Smart Fitness Device
Bipro is a smart fitness device designed for home exercise. Bipro uses bi-directional laser projection to display images on both the wall and the floor. The extended interaction space supports immersive indoor fitness for different age groups, from children to older adults. A motion capture system based on computer vision recognizes hand and foot movements. Arm gestures control the on-wall display, while foot movements control the ground display. Users can jump into a marked area to start or continue an activity. The L-shaped body uses the internal space efficiently.
The Bipro Smart Fitness Device by Hongyu Wu represents a compelling convergence of functional technology and considered aesthetic expression within the rapidly evolving landscape of personal health monitoring equipment. This Silver A' Design Award recipient demonstrates how contemporary product design increasingly engages with questions of domestic integration and emotional resonance alongside pure utility. The designer appears to have drawn upon traditions of premium consumer electronics while introducing distinctive material and chromatic choices that distinguish the device within its category. The wraparound textile surface, suggesting athletic performance fabrics, creates an unexpected warmth against the expected technological coolness of glossy panels and metallic elements, perhaps inviting a more personal relationship between user and device. The violet-purple illumination serves multiple functions simultaneously: providing visual feedback, establishing brand identity through color, and creating an ambient quality that softens the device's presence within living spaces. Wu's formal vocabulary balances geometric precision with organic approachability, the stadium-oval form echoing both sporting contexts and ergonomic handheld shapes while maintaining the horizontal stability appropriate for a stationary charging or monitoring base. The recessed central aperture creates visual depth and functional mystery, drawing attention toward the sensor technology while maintaining surface integrity. Material transitions demonstrate careful attention to detail, each junction resolved with the precision expected of premium consumer goods yet without the clinical sterility that might create emotional distance. The composition invites contemplation of how health technology might increasingly become not merely tolerated but genuinely welcomed within personal environments, achieving a synthesis of technological capability and aesthetic sensitivity that suggests broader possibilities for the integration of monitoring systems into daily life.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- bipro is a smart fitness device based on bi-directional projection. nowadays, more and more people choose to work out at home. different from existing products, bipro can project both on-wall and on-ground display. the extension of interaction space make it possible to create more immersive and inclusive indoor fitness experiences for different age groups, from children to elderly. bipro can recognize user's hand and foot movements. user can control the on-wall display through arms and gestures, and move their feet for ground interactions.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Motion capture and projection are two key technologies for the design. The motion capture system based on computer vision has the accuracy that can reach the recognition of hand movements, which plays a key role in expanding the interactive approachs. There are mainly three laser projection technologies on the market: 3LCD/DLP/LCOS. DLP and LCOS have more advantages in the picture presentation effect. Technical maturity and relatively reasonable cost of DLP is the reason why bipro use it.
- Tags
- Immersive interaction, Inclusive intelligent device, Bi-directional Projection, Lazer Projection, Post-Covid
- Production Technology
- Bipro based on Bi-directional DLP lazer projection. DLP laser projection technology is in a leading position in projection quality, while price is tended to be stable and technology is mature. The size of laser projection components on the market has also been reduced. It carries visions of new type laser projection tech and development of inclusive intelligent devices.
- Design Challenge
- How to design immersive and interesting interaction experience and form development are two challenges of the design. With both on-wall and ground projection, bipro was designed with unique UI and new interacting logic. Function and structure are the starting point of form design. Bipro uses the L-shape form, because after the test of the internal structure in the 3D software, the internal space of this model is more efficient and the structure is reasonable. At the same time, the form semantics of the L-shape meet the function of bi-directional projection.
- Project Duration
- The project started in December 2023 in London and finished in February 2024 in London
- Operation Flow
- Bipro can recognize user's hand and foot movements. User can control the on-wall display through arms and gestures, and move their feet for ground interactions. Users can jump into designated area to quick start or continue the activities.
- Research
- The research employs a mixed-methods approach to investigate the viability of integrating bi-directional laser projection into home fitness devices. Utilizing market research, focus groups, and user surveys, the research assesses current trends in interactive fitness technology and user preferences across age groups. Additionally, prototyping and testing are conducted to evaluate potential design concepts and gather feedback. Findings aim to inform the development of a novel, inclusive home fitness solution that maximizes user engagement and accessibility.
- Inspiration
- An interactive project in Shanghai, through projection and ground led interaction, well showed the improvement of "ground" interaction in sports immersion and user experience, which provided me with inspirations. And the intelligent sports mirror shows that the extension of the "wall" screen changes the way of interaction. If there’s a fitness device that can extend the screen from the "wall" to the "ground" through two-way projection, how will the interaction change for users.
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