What are Inspiring Products?

Traditional Products vs. Inspiring Products

Most existing products offer utilities by replacing specific human functions to achieve conveniences. But these existing products have many disadvantages:

• Functions are performed via fixed human-machine interfaces
• Products become health hazards as functions are repeated
• Human becomes less capable as more functions are replaced

Inspiring Products, however, adopt a new product design and development concept and thus outperform the existing products by overcoming these traditional disadvantages.

Firstly, by using sensor technologies, an Inspiring Product could proactively detect the product user's various physical and functional parameters, and accordingly regulate its interface to obtain maximal benefits for each individual user. Secondly, by analyzing the detected parameters, an Inspiring Product could give necessary "health-status" suggestions, warnings, and recommendations to the user. Thirdly, by mobilizing the transparently embedded energy generation units, an Inspiring Product could apply beneficial energies, such as electrical energy, magnetic energy, thermal energy, acoustic energy, etc., to improve the user's health status, and in the long run, eventually to inspire the user's physical and functional potentials.

An Example

Traditional computer mouse, for example, if used continuously for a long time, will cause the user's fingers stiff and wrist fatigued. In addition, the stagnated blood circulation in the hand is likely to undermine the hand's functions. In contrast, the inspiring computer mouse has embedded sensors to measure the user's blood circulation, hand temperature, pulse, and other health indicators. By analyzing these parameters and maneuvering the energy generators, the computer mouse could not only provide the user with health status suggestion, but also apply the electrical, mechanical and thermal stimulus to the user's hand. Many benefits can be obtained including stiffness/fatigue avoidance and blood circulation improvement.

Inspiring Production Categorization

Inspiring Products can be widely extended and developed for people's daily activities. According to their applications, the Inspiring Products can be categorized as:

• Computer and communication products,
• Consumer electronics;
• Transportation;
• Furniture;
• Sports facilities

We expect the appearance of more and more Inspiring Products for the excellence of people's life.

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