Logo Design
Prototype:
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Poster Design
Written Statement Paper
The
idea that our group came up with deals with the eye-opening statistics we found
about water usage - specifically that women in developing countries must walk
of average of 3.7 miles a day to get water.
We, on the other hand, have almost unlimited access and often overlook how
much water we use on a daily basis and how much of it is actually wasted. While
it is almost impossible to measure the exact amount of water that is being
wasted everyday, a close estimate would be about 330 litres of water per day,
which translates to about 120,000 litres wasted in a year. The average citizen
uses as much as 8 litres of water per day just on oral hygiene - not including
flushing the toilet or taking showers. Sure, we have to use water daily for
most of our hygienic tasks, but the amount that we use is not the amount that
we need, this is what our product ‘Drip’ is trying to rectify. Drip is a
discursive product that utilizes a pedometer and Near field communication technology;
we combined the two together to help us keep track of how much water we need by
monitoring how many steps we take on our daily lives. For every 500 steps that
we take the pedometer will record that and reward us through the NFC connected
‘Drip’ system and give us about 1 liter of fresh water to use. With this system
in place, people who are willing to make a change are able to. Metaphorically,
Drip is a system inspired from people who live in the third world and
developing countries that need to walk long distances in order to get water and
survive. With Drip, we in the first world country can grasp a feeling of the
lengths people in third world countries have to go in order to get clean water.
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