Project Overview
Protect Your Child’s Eyesight with Smart Eyeglasses
Organisation
Team
Derek Yau
Dickson Tam
Project Brief
Young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens. But when screen time constantly builds up as children are increasingly engaged in electronic devices, protecting their eyes becomes all the more essential. Smart Eyeglasses aim to take preventive measures against vision deterioration by detecting the light intensity and distance from the reading object to ensure that these are adequate. A timer also alerts the reader to take regular breaks at a preset interval to avoid long periods of screen time.
Project Innovation/Need
Light and distance sensors with Bluetooth are being applied to eyeglasses. A mobile App can set the timer for breaks, and sends alerts to the adult simultaneously about the light and distance. Statistics of the child’s reading time and habit are also made available for adjustment. The eyeglasses come in a box with a docking station for charging.
Design Challenge
The frame with the sensors must be lightweight, not bulky, and ATTRACTIVE to kids, whether or not they already need eyeglasses (a Spiderman frame…?)
Sustainability
Smart Eyeglasses can reduce eyesight deterioration. The frame is also reusable even when lenses need to be changed.
Product Design - Concept
This award celebrates creativity and innovation for either a product design at conceptual stage - an early sample or model of a product that has not reached the manufacture stage nor available to the market.
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