We’re here early in Singapore to attend the finals for the OPPO Inspiration Challenge Global 2023 and there were a total of 15 finalists that brought their innovations to display at the venue. We got hands-on experience and 5 of them will be winners.
For this year, there are two categories to be tackled – one is “Inspiration for PEople”, and another is “Inspiration for the Planet”. There were also two more additional categories – one is the People’s Choice, and another one is the Media Choice Awards (that’s us).
This challenge was initiated by the OPPO Research Institute and supported by Qualcomm, GSMA 5G IN, Amazon Web Services, and LinkedIn.
So, let us just run through all 15 of them really quickly. I am particularly interested in a few of them – so we might do a video highlighting some of them at a later date.
- EyeLight – a wearable device for the partially sighted people, compensating the loss of sight with auditory and tactile stimuli.
- Anthap haptics – pioneering haptics, can be applied to many different types of devices, ranging from gaming consoles like AYANEO and Pico VR and potentially to other products that require tailored haptic experiences.
- Smart Resilin – bio-based solution for flexible electronics with high elasticity and durability.
- Aiverest – a contactless health monitoring system that is able to read a person’s heart rate, heart rhythm, etc. in the room.
- Bluepha – Blue Crystal PHA, that is a natural polymer that has similar properties to plastic but is fully biodegradable.
- Ertigo – an all-in-one pain relief solution with AI-based posture correction and self-care programs, with online therapy plans from specialists.
- EZSpeech – AI-powered program that provides real-time face recognition and feedback to facilitate development of oral-motor, articulation, and sound production from the user without actual supervision of therapists, hence driving down cost and accessibility.
- Flint paper battery – literally what it says in the name. The battery is as thin as a piece of paper and it can be stacked, is fully expandable to whatever size we want, and is also foldable yet continues to operate even if the battery was cut in half.
- Impulse (non-surgical hearing aid) – for those with congenital hearing loss, it is a risky surgery to attempt to regain the ability to hear, yet it comes with a lot of problems like not being to use a phone or use an MRI machine. So, this Impulse device is worn on the ear to help them hear and attend therapy and gain the ability to hear.
- Ixana – surrealistic Wi-R technology that creates a “bubble” around your skin, and conducts actual data through touch. It’s like having a wired connection to your peripherals but the wire is your skin.
- MindLax – an intelligent sleep aid tool that sends harmonics to the user to help them get better sleep.
- Ommo Technology’s Orbit – 3D tracking technology with the help of permanent magnets, enabling 6DOF tracking with up to 0.1mm in resolution.
- Mobio’s Precision Psychiatry at Scale – a set of biometric tools to objectively measure stress and other vitals and adjust therapeutic programs based on the data.
- SkiteLight – using perovskite crystal in displays to amplify the brightness by 100x, energy efficiency by 10x of LCDs and 50% of OLEDs. It can also be printed using an inkjet, and has a very small pixel size of 0.8µm to pixel.
- Woola – by utilizing all of the otherwise would-be discarded wool as packaging material as a replacement for plastic bubble wraps. It’s 100% wool and has no additional adhesives whatsoever.
The winners for this round of OPPO Inspiration Challenge Awards are as shown below.
Once again, congratulations to all the winners. I am really glad that OPPO is bringing the innovations of these companies to more eyes as I find them particularly interesting. Personally, as someone who has a background in electronics engineering, I geek out at this stuff.
To learn more about the OPPO Inspiration Challenge and the winning proposals from this year’s competition, please visit the official website at https://www.oppo.com/en/proposal/.
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