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BIUM
BIUM
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2019

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BIUM

Wi-Fi router

'BIUM’ means ‘emptiness’ in Korean, which symbolizes and visualizes the spirit of Buddhism. I noticed the problem of 21st century that people are overloaded too much by digital environment, so I tried to make emptiness in their daily life by Wi-Fi router. For being unconnected to the digital world and clear useless stuffs in mind, this Wi-Fi router is turned off by itself periodically for a moment. And I called this situation 'Black out'. Inspired from incense, BIUM visualizes emptiness with lighting. By designing Wi-Fi router as a interior lighting, users can be given feedback on their data usage easily in daily life.

WINNER STATEMENT

I will take this award as a turning point in my student life to go to next level, and keep moving on studying how to make a better tomorrow for people.

UNIVERSITY

Kookmin university

Seoul, KR
WINNER

Kookmin university

Jong Hoon Yoon

Kookmin university

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