E-Paper
red dot: best of the best
red dot award: design concept 2007
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| Chocolate Agency |
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| Valérie Nomain, Romain Vauchez, Ray Lei |
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The E-Paper Series offers three sustainable and innovative concepts using e-paper to enrich the products of everyday life.
Consumer electronic devices represent a significant part of our everyday lives. The critical state of our natural environment requires deep changes in the way we think about and design these popular products. Sustainable thinking involves being more innovative in how we use things. E-paper is light, thin, supple, cheap and power saving. It is an emerging technology that can play a key role for sustainable design. Chocolate Agency has explored three innovative concepts using e-paper that could improve our everyday products. They take advantage of the suppleness of e-paper to create a bracelet-shaped device that can be wrapped around the wrist for easy transport. Unwrapped, a full-size screen is displayed. The bracelet has an adjustable length with removable inserts, and the kinetic power generator enables a long and sustainable energy supply.
Variant 1: E-Paper MP3-MP4
Enjoy music and pictures with the E-Paper MP3-MP4 player bracelet. Thanks to the e-paper technology, this device allows you to manipulate digital content – MP3-MP4 and images as if they were physical prints.
Variant 2: E-Paper GPS
Move around freely with the E-Paper GPS bracelet. A “fixed map” function, using a movement-based interface with accelerometers, allows you to virtually fix the map in space and explore it by moving the device around, reproducing the traditional way of exploring a map with your finger.
Variant 3: E-Paper Digital Photo Frame
With e-paper, the digital photo frame becomes very creative and can last forever. It lets you play with images, and create new graphical interactions that change through time thanks to multiple slideshows. The glass cube displays three images at once that interact with the play of reflections. The glass cube is on an aluminum base and three sides are e-paper screens. There is an integrated battery with an induction dock. Put two cubes together and the adjacent sides connect themselves to display a panoramic image, enriching the interactions while displaying bigger photos. Put four, six or one hundred cubes together and see what happens.
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