Project name: ‘New Asia New You’

Concept:

Create a future ( say 25 years later ) self-guided tool to precisely know our bodies’ health phase everyday by detecting hands. The tool could give the recipe ( food, music, exercise, etc. ) in terms of the
diagnostic results to keep people healthy and happy.

The portable object is a concept of multi-cross
fertilisation across disciplines of Industrial Design,
Chinese Medicine, technologies ( Biometrics,
Bluetooth, video phone, etc.), Nutriology,
Media (Windows XP embedded OS and Flash player), Psychology and Physiology, etc.

In modern society, We get more and more stress,
we tend to get depressed and sick.Many of us have no ideas how to get out from bad mood when get depressed; We go to hospital when we get sick, but some sickness is too late to be treated when revealing clinical symptoms.

So, I have been thinking whether it is possible to
create a self-guided tool to help us to know health phase and mood phase. And the tool can tell us ( normal people ) how to prevent sickness and bad mood, or how to deal with sickness and bad mood if they have happened.

What technologies and disciplines can be imbedded
into the tool?
1. Chinese Medicine. According to Chinese Medicine,
if Yin Yang in body is broke, we tend to get sick,
and meanwhile, the signs of sickness are revealed
through the external of body, especially in hands,
faces and feet.
2. Using Biometrics to detect external of body, say
hands, to help normal people know the health phase.
3. Nutriology. Greece doctor Hippocrates said ‘Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food’. Intake right food to make us ( body and mood ) be in Yin Yang status, which is the best way to prevent sickness.
4. Psychology and Physiology. Proper music and
exercises are helpful to keep us happy and healthy.

What will be changed in the society?
1. The mode of selling food and music will be
totally overthrew in terms of the recipes?
2. Many hospitals will be shut up.
3, The multi-disciplines of experts will work together
closely. Chinese medicine , Western medicine,Design,Nutriology, Physiology and Psychology, etc.

THEME FOR 2004

Future Asia 2029

We invite you to imagine Asia's Future. It will be
fascinating to speculate on what Asia will look like then. How will we be living? What will people be listening to? What will they be wearing? Where will the IT revolution have led us? What will change, and what is likely to be timeless? What will we have lost and gained? Or perhaps it is important to consider how we will be remembered. What will survive 25 years from now? What elements of society as we know it are so powerful that they will survive? Will there be anything uniquely Asian left?

Think Asia – imagine the vision of the future.