DESIGN! THE FUTURE: Improving our future through design

Open Kite aims to show people how sharing-based design can have a positive impact on their lives.

People can print the decorative kite with a 3D printer, and create the shape and size they want.

This product uses filter paper to convert polluted water into drinking water.

The filter paper can remove 99.99% of bacteria in water, and just one sheet can purify approximately 100 liters of polluted water.

The Smog Free Project provides a local solution for clean air in public spaces.

Sharing a Smog Free Ring is the equivalent of donating 1,000 cubic meters of clean air to the city.

The Jellyfish Barge is a floating agricultural greenhouse.

It promotes urban agriculture using a system that generates clean water and energy using only solar energy.

Now that everything can be interpreted as data, the future is no longer unpredictable.

Real Prediction Machines use big data and applies it to the home in order to enrich people’s daily lives.

Using a 3D food printer, this product provides specific nutrients needed by patients.

There is also a community platform on which patients can share tasty and nutritious 3D food printer recipes.

The Lumos Helmet makes bicycle riders clearly visible both at night and during the day.

The LED light on the helmet lets drivers know the speed of the bicycle, and has indicators.

The Self Healthcare System is made from real moss.

The Green Wall can control the humidity of a space, purify the air, and generate white noise.

Happy Life works with profiling technology to gather and identify continuously changing data.

It analyzes the emotional state of a family member and shows the results.

The Post/Biotics Toolkit is a set of tools that can be used to make antibiotics using materials collected directly from nature, freeing people from their reliance on pharmaceutical products.

This wearable robot exoskeleton assists the muscle movement of the user, helping empower people with physical disabilities.

This customized mobility solution was created by using 3D printing technology.

The Open Structure Mobility Concept shows the future direction for personal mobility design.

While this exhibition is merely exploratory, it provides a glimpse of how the next industrial revolution will change our lives and the economy.

The GoCart is an autonomous and versatile delivery robot.

It carries out repetitive tasks and can transport heavy loads of up to 300kg at a time.

Google Cardboard was Google's first virtual reality entry.

This inexpensive VR headset provides access to 3D virtual reality by simply attaching a smartphone to a corrugated cardboard frame with two lenses and a magnet.

This project, entitled 'Lost Baggage,' offers an innovative proposal to create a travel kit from a single computer file, using 3D printing.

With a 3D printer, you can print everything you need right where you need it, no matter where you are.

XD‒X8U is a drone created for public safety and disaster relief.

It features a multipurpose operating system capable of monitoring and providing reconnaissance over mountainous terrain, delivering relief aid.

This drop box provides mail, parcel, and courier services, as well as payments and receiving goods.

Conventionally, remote drop boxes required Internet-connectivity.

This clutch bag can harness sunlight and charge portable batteries and smartphones, making sustainable energy technology stylish and easy to use.

The light collecting plate of the photovoltaic power generation system is exposed to the outside of the building.

Generally, it separates from the appearance of the building and follows the inefficient installation method not only from the visual point of view but also economically.

This colored glass generates electricity from daylight, and can even harness diffused sunlight.

The electricity that's generated can be used to power a whole range of electrical appliances.

Solar paper can reliably charge a smartphone in about 2.5 hours on a sunny day－which is about the same capacity as a wall charger.

The Packlite series was first developed to help refugees in Haiti after an earthquake.

it can be charged with sunlight or via USB, and it's waterproof, so it's useful in disaster situations as well as in outdoor activities such as hiking and camping.