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In this way, the user can listen to what is being broadcast on the computer, mobile phone or tablet. Bit-N Music aims to be a tool for the inclusion of people with deafness as it facilitates the integration of the group into society.
The prototype is based on bone technology and the sound travels directly to the cochlea, not through the ear or eardrum. That is why Bit-N Music is intended for people with conductive or unilateral deafness, that is, people with hearing impairments but with intact cochlea. With it they can listen to a conversation, music, movies, etc. The prototype is the Final Degree Project of Noelia Martín, a 4th year student of Elisava’s Degree in Design and has been awarded the Chamber Talent Award in the category of Technological Innovation offered by the Talentum XXI Foundation.
PIELVIVA is a graphene wearable that adheres to the skin and is capable of reversing muscle functionality in 16 seconds in a case of partial dysfunction, by means of a biopolymeric matrix activated by a graphene-based system. A design that works on a new concept of exoskeleton following the line of material ecology in a medical context.
The wearable is inspired by bionic science and can work in areas of rehabilitation or muscle reinforcement with the aim of being used at times where precise mobility is needed and those nerves, tendons or muscles in a state of injury are involved.
PIELVIVA is part of Matter make Design, a project by Engineering in Industrial Design degree student Marta Gómez de Gispert, that proposes putting matter to the limit by generating new market opportunities based on the unification of different methodical disciplines.
Beyond Boundaries is a kit for the self-production of compostable and customizable skin patches that help to materialize the different phases of the grieving process due to gestational loss and complement the traditional therapeutic process using texture as an emotional unblocking element, oriented equally towards the pregnant as towards the couple.
Framed within the culture of ‘Look but do not touch’, Beyond Boundaries is the result of an explorative process around the sensory limits of human biology. It proposes how through technology, understood as a transforming element, and more specifically through haptic texture, we can transgress these limits.
Beyond Boundaries explores new, more natural and intuitive languages of interaction for the body through tactile stimulation. The project has been realised by Design and Engineering in Industrial Design degree student Laia Moras Visa in collaboration with Elisava Research and Adidas MakerLab.
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