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‘Taiwan by Design: 88 products for better living’
A quiet, battery-powered scooter with a light aluminum chassis. Rather than owning batteries, riders can swap their power cells for fully recharged ones at one of Gogoro’s Taipei battery stations. (GogGoRo © 2011 Gogoro Taiwan Ltd.)
A minimalist coffee machine in which iced water drips down through the ground coffee beans from the top of the cylinder. (bi.du.hæv © 2015 bi.du.hæv)
Made from silicon, which is both flexible and able to resist high temperatures, the kettle can be partially collapsed to reduce the amount of energy required to boil small amounts of water. (Collapsible Kettle © 2009 Ronald Tuan/RiCCO Engineering)
Made from a thermo-conductive material, the knife transfers heat from the user’s hand to the blade, making it easier to cut through cold butter. (SpreadTHAT! © 2015 That Incentions Co.)
Just six centimeters in diameter, the Luna 360° camera creates spherical panoramas, and comes with an in-built gyroscope that acts as a stabilizer. (Luna © 2016 Fon Chiang)
Constructed from two layers of woven material, Fabric Garden is a textile can be used as a replacement for soil. (Fabric Garden © 2015 Taiwan Textile Research Institute)
The helmet is equipped with sensors, voice recognition, a rear-view camera and other hidden electronics. It has been designed to collect road safety and location data to create a “hazard map” for the wearer. (JarvisH © 2016 JarvisH Inc.)
Designed by avid cartographer, Hsi-Yi Peng, these souvenir bowls feature aerial views of real locations from around Taiwan. (Trip View Bowl, ‘Guanxi View Bowl’ © 2009 Xi-Yi Peng/Di-Zhen Zhang/Jia-Rong Wu/Ting-Jun Lin/Qing-Ru Jia)
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