Red Dot 2009 Winning Concepts – Protection
Article by Martin Gibson – Twitter – 10.06.2010
The Red Dot 2010 Design Competition is now running! Find out more information about this years competition here.
| Mr Pei Hsiu HUNG, Mr Ciou-Lin LI, Miss Yen-Ling LAI, Miss Chieh-Shih LIN, Dr. Kuohsiang CHEN | Offering an alternative to cumbersome sandbags, Water-Sandwich is a two-part unit that uses water to protect people’s houses from floodwater. |
| Miss SeJin YOON | Transformable Stretcher is a multipurpose safety device that can be used as both a warning sign and a stretcher in times of emergency. |
| Mr Yang HE, Mr Libiao TONG | Sosu Card contains the scents that are most useful to search and rescue dogs in their pursuit of missing or trapped people. It could greatly increase the chances that victims will be found. |
| Mr Jangwoon KIM, Mr Youngmin LEE, Mr Soonho JUNG, Miss Mina NAMGUNG | Solar Rucksack draws on solar energy to keep people warm in cold conditions. |
| Miss Tsui-wei LIN | With its dual function, the inflatable Sleeping Coat makes camping in the great outdoors a little more convenient. |
| Mr Jaeseok HAN | Rescue Balloon is a simple device that can assist rescuers to locate lost or injured people in dense forest. |
| Mr Jaeseok HAN | Doing away with keys and digital complexity, NumLock Handle incorporates a dial-type lock into a door handle for convenient security. |
| Mr Billy MAY | Nike Hindsight augments a cyclist’s field of view with integrated Fresnel lenses, expanding the awareness of approaching vehicles. |
| Fangtian YING, Yijun ZHAO, Jun TAO, Shanshan GAO, Bing LI, Xinrui LI, Zhenpeng LI, Mingya WEI | Life Net is a net-style inflatable rescue system that can be easily inflated and quickly distributed to aid groups of people in the water. |
| Mr Haishan DENG | Jet Spray is a propulsion and water-spraying tool that allows fire fighters to quickly shoot a hose nozzle into a fire zone that is difficult to access, such as a skyscraper’s high floors. After the hose is connected to a water source, the nozzle douses the flames with a 360-degree spray. |
| Mr Yi JIN, Mr Dian Gang WANG, Mr Xu Qi ZHANG, Mr Yu Le LI, Miss Rui Xue YANG | Relying on simple chemistry for its operation, Hope Ball is a beacon for rescue crews who are trying to locate plane crash survivors at sea. |
| Mr Jingwei DANG | Firescuba is designed to protect people from smoke inhalation in the case of a fire. It is low cost, easy to manufacture, and very thin, which makes it easy to distribute or store at appropriate locations. |
| Mr Shaun CRAILL, Mr John LEE, Mr Doug OLLIVER, Mr Anothony GING | This scanning system for sea containers uses air-sampling technology to detect the presence of unwanted organisms without affecting the free movement of goods. |
| Mr Ji Hong MIN, Mr Dong Eon KIM | Danger usually comes without warning. Cognitive Balloon alerts lifeguards to swimmers who find themselves in trouble. |