The VISION-S Prototype is a glimpse into the future of mobility, encompassing the evolution of safety, comfort, entertainment, and adaptability. Embedded in the car are 33 sensors that detect and recognize people and objects inside and outside and provide highly advanced driving support. The 360 Reality Audio provides a deep and immersive audio experience through speakers built into each seat
Smart home technology has become one of the ways to improve the quality of life inside the home. For ordinary users, however, it can be cumbersome to install and set up such a system, causing many to give up. inSight is a whole-house AI housekeeper featuring a border-less touch screen with a unique knob. It can provide whole-house control, an
The explosion of the COVID-19 pandemic in late winter 2020 revealed a desperate shortage of ventilators to treat a growing number of patients impacted by the disease. In response, a group of Seattle-based volunteer clinicians, designers, engineers, and philanthropists formed the World Ventilator Foundation to design and develop a low-cost emergency-response ventilator. The WorldVent is a streamlined mechanical ICU pandemic
This smart voice recorder provides fast content recording and real-time transcription and translation. It can recognize 10 languages and 12 Chinese dialects with an accuracy as high as 98%.
Cities such as London, Seattle, San Francisco and most urban centers globally are seeing an influx of young professionals. And yet, those urban centers are also becoming more expensive, causing people to seek smaller living spaces. While micro living meshes well with notions of sustainability, ORI, a startup out of MIT Media Lab, sought to tackle the question of how
Square Terminal is a powerful all-in-one handheld device designed for business owners looking for secure and reliable hardware that can handle all payment types and print receipts. It was built in-house by Square in 2018 to replace legacy keypad credit card machines. Square Terminal is the best solution for businesses that use their own point-of-sale device or manually key in
The Zero economy meal tray is a concept product that aims to reduce the amount of plastic waste created by meal service on passenger flights. Each element of the lightweight tray is composed of edible, biodegradable, and/or commercially compostable materials. Made from a range of materials including algae, bamboo, and coffee grounds, the Zero economy meal tray encourages suppliers and
M2 ICU is a mobile medical intensive care unit concept that enables care providers to rapidly increase bed capacity and deliver optimized clinical care during pandemics through an advanced suite of integrated medical technology. The modular, scalable building platform is the result of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between frontline providers, technology engineers, data scientists, and architectural designers in response to the
Blokable at Phoenix Rising is an all-electric permanent housing community in Auburn, Washington, that Valley Cities Behavioral Health Care will rent to residents who earn 30% to 50% of the area mean income. The project comprises two buildings with five studios and seven one-bedroom apartments. The buildings have a 50- to 100-year useful lifespan, a state-of-the-art steel structural system for
