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We combined a refrigerator,
dishwasher, sink, compostor, cutting area,
herb garden and beverage station all in one compact module.
So imagine the consumer walks up to the sink...is able to access
fresh food from a refrigerated drawer, can place it in the sink,
sensors tell you whether or not there's chemicals or bacteria present,
there's an integrated cutting board that you can prepare your food,
afterwards you slide your cutting board to the side and there's an
in sink dishwasher and then when you have larger loads
you also have a dishwasher below. The faucet is actually a smart faucet.
You are able to touch it and it tells you how hydrated you are,
or you're able to dispense filtered ice, water,
carbonated water, custom beverages ...all at the touch of a button.
We know we're going to have an aging population and more and more of these people
want to stay independent and stay at home.
We developed a medical device for in home use
where the user will put their hand on a sensor,
it will take their vital signs. The cool thing about this is that it's
all in one - it will dispense the proper amount of medicine
for the day. The medicine comes in replaceable cartridges
so the primary caregiver will be able to fill it up as needed.
The three big pain points for consumers when it comes to laundry:
transferring laundry from the washer to the dryer, folding laundry,
and putting them away. Consumers would load individual items into individual
compartments
of our laundry machine. The machine then watches, dries, and compresses those items
and then they're stored in the back of the machine. An RFID sensor
in your clothing tells the machine how to wash and dry the clothes properly
and how to load them into your virtual closet. So, when you're ready to get
dressed for the day,
you can select your outfit from the virtual closet and then the machine
sends the compressed
pellet to the reviving part of the machine that uses steam and optional sense
to revive your clothes to wrinkle free
so you can wear them for the day. Also you can take them with you in a
convenient compact form.
In the future, we think one of the big ideas that's gonna happen is the notion of
3D printing that's already available to the consumer.
The idea is that you can print any object you want,
either edible or non-edible and we thought a great example of an edible
project would be a
dog bone. Something that is very simple in its structure. You can control what
ingredients go into your dog bone and also can emboss the name of your dog into
the bone.
So what if you don't need your objects that you printed out anymore?
What you can do is you can put it into the grinder which will grind down your
unneeded parts into usable pellets and then it will be put into the
reconstitution area and what that does is filter out all the particles that you
don't want. After its been filtered out then I'll be placed into storage, ready
to use for your next printing project.