Hi everyone,
These are a few pictures of my Good Measure design so far. The concept is a wristband, looking a bit like a watch, which measures various vital signs of the user to give them warnings about their health, and help them track their blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and temperature. It also includes a base station to store the device, and data from it, whilst also recharging it.
The first picture shows the basic wristband form that I'm going for, in a rough orthographic and a perspective view. It is a cylinder that runs along the arm, with a gap at the back to allow it to stretch t fit different sized arms. This particular feature is important, because to function properly it has to be tightly fit around anyone who uses it. The band tapers off towards the back to avoid digging into the hands and arm. It also features a face section that is removable. The idea is that a family, or sports team, can use different faces for different users, and only need the one band.
The next picture shows two rendered drawings of the wristband. In both they are the same materials: two metal rings separated by a padded fabric or rubber body. As you can see I have moved the gap to a different position, so that the band can contact the base of the wrist, where the pulse is read, when being worn in the intended way.
The third picture is a photo of an older soft model I made for the design. This helped me a lot, because it gave me a good idea of the scale the band should be. I found the model shown to be much too bulky, and also it was not adjustable, which needed to be changed.
The last picture is a version of my device in a possible base station. I still haven't quite found a successful form for the base station, but this is getting there.
Thanks for reading, Scott Everitt
drawings are looking good scott, i really like the bottom dock render, the blending of marker gives a really sweet effect. On the watch itself, what will the display read? will it act as a watch the majority of the time and warn the user when vital signs are off or constantly display the user's vital signs?
ReplyDeleteLooks good tho.
Ed
Thanks Ed.
ReplyDeleteThat rendering of the dock is pretty loose actually. Was just a quick one to check out the materials. Glad you like it though.
Originally the concept was to show the vital signs constantly, and i did consider a clock face when not in use, but I think a more elegant solution would be to incorporate the vital signs into the clock face so all that information can be gathered at a glance. So, for example, an analog clock face is broken up in to sectors, each being a different color and changing in size depending on the status of that particular sensor. At the hit of a button labels for each segment and a value can be displayed, but otherwise these would be hidden, hopefully giving a clean and simple display. Sound good?
Scott