2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

MAAN

Entrant Company

RAY MA

Category

Product Design - Wearable Technologies

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

Three hundred years ago, the saddle ring meets the sensor array of the 21st century on a silicon-based chip, and the genetic code of intangible cultural heritage is being reconstructed with quantum-level precision. Taking "The mind is like a saddle, and courage is like the reins" as its core concept, the MAAN smart ring deconstructs the circular aesthetics of the imperial saddle rings from the Qing Dynasty court into a wearable symbol of Eastern philosophy.
Traditional chiseling techniques and modern precision manufacturing have accomplished a technological revolution on a micro-scale circuit board, interweaving the warmth of handiwork and the precision of machinery to form the fabric of civilization. Equipped with a self-developed circular sensor array and high-precision optoelectronic modules, and combined with AI algorithms, it enables all-weather health monitoring: real-time heart rate tracking, dynamic blood oxygen measurement, sleep stress analysis, and exercise trajectory tracking, infusing technological care with the poetry of the East.
The ultimate challenge of this cross-time dialogue lies in rejuvenating the thousand-year-old cultural genes on a 0.1mm² chip. When the spirit of traditional craftsmanship resonates precisely with modern sensing technology, and the warmth of intangible cultural heritage techniques harmonizes with the rhythm of digital signals, MAAN is creating a new paradigm for cultural inheritance—transforming technological products into active carriers that flow with the blood of civilization.

Credits

Ray Ma
Ziqin Min
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