Theunique 智能香氣擴散器 by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 車輛配件設計 Competition Category.
銀車輛配件· 2020
Theunique 智能香氣擴散器
by Zhang Mengting, Li Xiaolin and Yang Chunxu
Client: Theunique
A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 車輛配件 Category
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About Theunique 智能香氣擴散器
沉香是稀有且昂貴的。它的香氣只能通過燃燒或提取獲得，只能在室內使用，並且很少有用戶提供。為了克服這些限制，經過3年的努力，通過60多個設計，10個原型和200個實驗，創建了一種智能香氣擴散器和天然手工沉香片。它展示了一種新的可能的商業模式，並為沈香業使用了上下文。用戶只需將擴散器插入車內，即可輕鬆自定義時間，密度和各種香氣，無論身在何處，何時開車，都可以享受沉浸式香薰療法。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀獎
Theunique 智能香氣擴散器是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Theunique 智能香氣擴散器將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Theunique 智能香氣擴散器是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。
Behind the Design
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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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