red dot design concept award 2009

red dot design concept award 2009 winner

I can’t believe I won the red dot design concept award for the Looking Glass concept!! (I added some photos of the awarding ceremony on my Flickr.)

First of all, let me thank Radhika Seth (for everything), Mika Ueno and *momoc (for beautiful photos), Takashi Yamada (for first picking up and naming this gadget), Regina Teh (for inviting me for the competition) and my family (for letting me keep doing this crazy hobby).
This is really exciting for me because it’s the first award I won since I became a designer.

I added some new images and fixed a few old ones.

future of internet search augmented reality

future of internet search augmented reality

future of internet search augmented reality

future of internet search augmented reality
Dragging stuff like a building floor to see its floor map would be useful and fun.

future of internet search augmented reality

future of internet search augmented reality

future of internet search augmented reality

future of internet search augmented reality

future of internet search augmented reality

And here’s the presentation sheet I submitted to the red dot.

future of internet search augmented reality presentation

future of internet search augmented reality presentation

future of internet search augmented reality presentation

I also appreciate all the support I’ve got from the readers and magazine/newspaper editors who wrote articles of this gadget.
I’m planning to attend the award ceremony on November 24th in Singapore, so anyone who happens to be there, please talk to me. I’ll post some photos on my Flickr if I can shoot good ones there. And of course I’ll keep twitting in Singapore, too.

57 thoughts on “red dot design concept award 2009

  1. Awesome! I totally agree with the others that you so totally deserved the award! Your designs are awesome!

    Need someone to take you around Singapore when you are here?

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  3. Wow, congratulations Mac! If this doesn’t kickstart your professional career, I don’t know what will!

    The improvements in pattern recognition and molecular nanotechnology (the end point of miniaturisation) that will make augmented reality devices like yours possible, will inevitably make them obsolete soon afterwards. When you find these in the bargain bin at your local supermarket, you can be sure that 200 dollars will buy you something even more awesome!

    Let’s say a handheld device held at 30 cm from your face occupies around one third of the surface of your retina. That leaves two thirds stuck with sensing boring old ‘real’ reality, even though probably the most part of your visual cortex is processing virtual reality because you are concentrating on the device. Glasses, and especially contact lenses with retinal lasers (spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens), allow you to devote your whole visual cortex to augmented reality.

    But why stop at just vision (and hearing, if you use earplugs)? Nanobots attached to every sensory neuron in your body could control the transmission of all kinds of information, allowing you to replace every real sensation (i.e. sight, sound, taste, smell and the somatic senses) by a virtual simulation. We might even be able to process completely new sensations which our bodies are not equipped to sense.

    Have you heard of Raymond Kurzweil (www.kurzweilai.net)? A futurist like yourself can’t afford to ignore his ‘law of accelerating returns’.

  4. 来自中国的问候。

    We are doing Location Based Service in China and US. Next week, I may visit Tokyo for a conference.

    Amazed to see your design, which is quite inspiring.

    Augmented Reality (AR) is not a brand-new concept. However, due to technical difficulty it has not yet become reality.

    If the real AR is too hard to implement, how about a quasi-AR. Strictly speaking, a quasi-AR is not an real AR, but it looks and behaves similar to an AR.

  5. Very Impressive design!
    I wanna get this one! (in the future…)
    Awesome. you deserved to get the prize!

    I’ve link it to my twitter and blog.

  6. Mac, just stumbled across this and was inspired by your concept. Congratulations on the award. I used one of your images on my site with a credit to you in the title and link back to your site (I hope that is the way the Creative Common License was intended or that was your intention).

    Also, love reading Jasper’s comment too. Best of luck to you Mac.

  7. naturally like your website however you need to test the spelling on several of your posts. A number of them are rife with spelling problems and I find it very troublesome to inform the reality however I’ll certainly come again again.

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