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Truly hands-free! through user-driven innovation.
LOTS, in partnership with Brusell Dental A / S, HMC and PRO, develops and designs a tongue-controlled interface, called CapMouse, that allows people with difficulties using their hands due to disability or in situations where hands are already occupied, to handle communication technology. CapMouse has attracted attention for its potential to address user needs in many different applications and fields. Initially, CapMouse is developed through support by VINNOVA within the EU-funded program AAL, which aims to improve older people's living situations. The goal is to include older people with disabilities in an active social life through better being able to handle modern communications technology, as mobile phones, computers, etc. The next application area will turn to dentists and surgeons, to allow more freedom in the working situation.

In the project, LOTS carry out user studies through workshops, physical tests and interviews, analyzes and identifies market requirements and opportunities, are designing the products and adapting them for industrialization.

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The first master graduates from Business and Design!
As one of the initiators of the new master level course Business and Design, LOTS are happy and proud to congratulate the first students to their degrees. LOTS have participated as tutors, course responsible and lecturers.

The Master course Business and Design is a collaboration between HDK (School of Arts and Crafts) and School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, and aims to establish design skills as a strategic resource in business and community organizations. Read more

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LOTS welcomes Jesper Jonsson!
With Jespers understanding of complex product development combined with excellent visualization and design skills, he will contribute in the further development of LOTS industrial design operations. Jesper has a BA in Industrial Design from Växjö University and originates from Småland.

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LOTS moves in!
Since the beginning of February, LOTS is up and running in a brand new studio. Kastellgatan 1, in the corner of Skanstorget, is our new adress.

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LOTS wins gold!
LOTS recieves first prize for the OPENbike concept in The City of Copenhagen open design competition. 127 entries from five continents participated in the competition. The OPENbike concept have been developed in cooperation with Koucky & partners and Green Idea Factory.
High resolution images available here!

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Cochlear Baha BP100 sound processor allows hearing impaired back into society
Today, a state-of-the-art sound processor, the Cochlear Baha BP100, is using the body’s natural ability to conduct sound via direct bone conduction, making the delivery of refined sound a thing of simplicity.

Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions, Sweden, have been leading the research field in bone conduction hearing solutions for decades. The Baha system is the most advanced implantable bone conduction hearing solution available.
The Cochlear Baha BP100, the newest sound processor for the Baha system, offers a substantial increase in quality of life for people suffering conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss or single-sided sensorineural deafness. The outcome of our research is a Baha sound processor that delivers more than 25% improvement in speech understanding in noise compared to previous Baha sound processors, says Mark Flynn, PhD., Director of Research and Applications for Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions.

LOTS Design has worked with Cochlear since 2004 on the external design of Baha sound processors, including the Cochlear Baha BP100.

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ÄKTAdesign™ - the most well-reputed platform for purifying proteins in the market.
Before the start of product design development of the next generation ÄKTA by GE Healthcare, LOTS was entrusted with the task of analyzing the platform in a future tendency context. In the vision study we present the next generation of user group and their expectations on interface communication, expressions in shape, colour and materials through illustrated core values and reports from future research.
The vision study has meant inspiring directions for ÄKTA's future product identity and a substantial material to GE Healthcares Design Management for continued positioning on the market. As a first result of the collaboration is ÄKTA avant, with design of Sven Wounder, newly released, with a leading design identity for the new generation ÄKTA products.

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Algae Power for sustainable living
Continously LOTS takes initiatives to develop innovative concepts to highlight opportunities for sustainable future product development and sustainable society as a whole.

What will the fuel of the future be?
There are many candidates but one of the most promising is the initiative with fast-growing algae to produce hydrogen. Scientific research has come quite far and we at LOTS like to visualize and explore how algae farms can be a part of the urban landscape. Included in urban objects and structures, the algae farms are creating patterns, colors and forms making an attractive meeting between nature and the urban landscape.

The issue is in focus when researchers and business developers meet up to explore future possibilities with innovations inspired by nature at Bioinspired Forum at Albanova/KTH in Stockholm on October 15. The aim of this event is to catalyze both design and technology transfer among science, entrepreneurship, design, and architecture. It will allow business developers and investors to identify a vast new field for investments.

Article also published on David Report.

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Teaching Design Thinking - Business & Design at Gothenburg University one of the best
BusinessWeek has in a recent issue listed thirty educations considered to be the best in the interdisciplinary field of design and business, and the two-year master education Business & Design is one of them. The education is a partnership between HDK School of Design and Crafts and the School of Business, Economics and Law at Gothenburg University. The program, started in 2008, is targeted at professionals interested in using the design process to build smarter businesses.

LOTS Iréne Stewart Claesson was leading the project between 2004-2007 to establish contacts between the two education systems and is one of the initiators to the education.
As the world's business landscape evolves, an interdisciplinary approach to solving problems is demanded. BusinessWeek means design thinking brings creative techniques and innovation to business, and rises the question; how to best educate the design thinkers and innovators of the future?
LOTS has an active part in the education program, being responsible for the course of integrated projects, lecturing about design strategy and coaching in projects.

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Welcome Erik Nohlin!

LOTS has busy days and are therefore happy to welcome Erik Nohlin to our team. Erik holds an industrial design degree from HDK and has made a name for himself as a talented bicycle designer for Peak Cycle. He is also a passionate cyclist and competes using his own bikes – often without gears to optimise the challenge!