2023 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Bone Conduction Sleeping Pillow

Entrant Company

East China Normal University

Category

Product Design - Medical Devices

Client's Name

Xinran Wang, Xinchen Yang

Country / Region

China

This sleeping pillow adopts an irregular design based on ergonomics with built-in bone conduction device, pressure sensor and piezoelectric sensor. The function sections are distinguished by color, making them immediately visible and facilitating easy operation. The high-quality, affordable sleep pillow offers users a comfortable night's sleep at the same time. The bone conduction device's contours suit the user's temporal bone, enabling effective transmission of Notch music to reduce tinnitus symptoms, which is also suitable for the hearing-impaired. The user's breathing and pulse frequency may be continuously monitored by the internal piezoelectric sensor, which can automatically stop playing music after the user deeply falls asleep. To continue playing music, just tap a corner of the pillow, the pressure sensor makes human-computer interaction simple and intuitive, giving users the best possible experience. As an incurable condition, tinnitus need for costly long-term medication support, behavioral therapy, and TRT. This pillow addresses this issue by doing away with the conventional speaker-type white noise sounder and ingeniously integrating bone conduction devices to play Notch music while sleeping, thus helping users reduce tinnitus symptoms, and lower production expenses. In contrast to in-ear earphones, this sleeping pillow uses vibration transmission to prevent bacterial infection caused by blockage of the ear canal, and is clean and sanitary. It can also effectively relieve the pressure of the ear canal caused by long-term wearing, protect the hearing while not disturbing the sleep of the family, and the ingenious details bring the user care. The pillow combines the qualities of solid support, tinnitus relief, and regulating sleeping posture to create a multifunctional cushion. It employs a distinctive shaped look together with color zoning to visually represent functional areas. The ergonomic design philosophy throughout the entire shape and flawlessly complements the physiological curve of the head, neck, and shoulder. It is possible to support the non-falling pillow and bring an incredibly comfortable "light sleep" by sleeping on your back and your side. This product incorporates the design principle of "form follows function" to provide a sleep pillow that is of exceptional quality, easy to use, safe.

Credits

East China Normal University
Xinran Wang
East China Normal University
Xinchen Yang
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