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The GAN Switch

Normally if someone would want to take out a electrical plug, they would need to switch off the power and pull it out with a considerate amount of energy.This conceptual but visible idea allows just one finger to do all the job. The ON/ OFF Switch which also as a button to eject the plug, helps to tell you if the plug is connected to the power supply or is it not.

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Projected Path

Turning across traffic at intersections is a disproportionately dangerous maneuver because an error in judgment can result in a head-on collision. People have trouble perceiving the correct speed of oncoming traffic because humans cannot accurately judge the speed of objects going directly towards it. This design uses an augmented reality heads-up display to show the Projected Path of cars, which is where it will be in the next 3 seconds. The faster the car goes, the longer the path. Drivers can now confidently turn across traffic when there are no red paths in the intersection.

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Steganography

A new approach for billboard advertising. Advertising which has the engaging and attractive feature to be invisible, except for the intended viewing target audience. There are many commercial applications from landmarks, shop advertising facades, signs for the visually impaired to name but a few. The world's fourth-largest metropolis and Brazil's most important city, São Paulo, became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical, near-complete ban on outdoor advertising, there is no better time to look for new and exciting solutions to this problem.

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Kaleidoscope

A small metaphor of the lamps DRESSLIGHT Fashion Lamps (new concept that fuses light with fashion, to result in a product unique reflection of the personality owner) made with the same materials that lamps are made (covered on the outside for 50 unique designs of fabrics and stuffed with minimal parts of materials are also used in making them: chopped glass, skin, tulle, beads) Designed exclusively hand-craft in an limited edition. A gift that will allow a select high-level target selected from our bbdd of professional and act as opinion leaders among which are architects and decorators.

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SpaceV

SpaceV is a digitally enabled space vending system for future wellbeing. It offers a variety of customizable spaces via a vending system for individuals to book by the minutes. The design celebrates qualities of automation, modularity and scalability of vending machines and merges spatial, interaction and service design into a holistic physicals experience. High polish 3D visualizations are used to storyteller the human-centered experience. This experience blueprint for future wellbeing in the city leverages the vending system and speculates: what if a vending machine becomes a building?

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