The Red Dot awards are an amazing collection of inspiring, thought-provoking designs. This is:

Red Dot Series Number 1 - Concept Winners

We can envisage at least 10 newsletters covering these wonderful designs, so we will spread them out over the next coming months to continue giving you the most up to date sports design news. Enjoy!

Solving big issues with ping pong

Who hates setting up a ping pong net and keeping score? We do!

SMART NET is a LED net that keeps track of the scores and the game situation through infrared ray sensor recognition. The information is displayed via the optical fibre net.

This LED net is also more durable and sustainable than regular table tennis nets as it utilises a flexible LED sheet.

Furthermore, its module parts can be replaced without replacing the whole net. Simply set up the SMART NET and use like you would a regular table tennis net.

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Twrist your way to fitness

TWRIST is an adjustable dumbbells design that is targeted at women, so that they can start lifting with lightweights and gradually increase the weight as they progress. The starting dumbbells should weigh between 2 and 4 lbs. and more weight plates can be added to the two ends.

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Flatpack fracture protection

BoneAid is a flat-packed board for fixing fractures. It is a simple design for fixing arms, legs and ankles fracture.

It can be deployed to disasters or in developing regions with insufficient medical resources.

To satisfy three different conditions of a fracture, BoneAid can change its structure via a folding crease on the board.

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Adjust your bike frame according to terrain

Extramuros is a fully suspended bicycle that adapts to different types of terrains, be it an easy asphalt bike-path, sketchy singletracks or gnarly downhills.

A quick release of the lever allows the user to choose between three different frame positions.

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Focussed ice packs

The purpose of ice therapy is to narrow blood vessels of the injuries and localised areas. This not only slows down blood flow but circulation as well, thus reducing inflammation, muscle spasm, and pain. Current ice packs are unable to zoom in precisely on the exact area of injury, which may cause frostbite or numbness to certain nerves.

However, Nice Tri is able to precisely compose the “ice” position. To apply, simply wear the sleeve and attach the individual gel packs to the slots in a meshed sleeve until they cover the size of the injury.

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Spring loaded mountain bike tyres

When the tyres come into contact with obstacles at high speed, the contact module experiences a lot of pressure. At this time, the spring module deforms to absorb some of the pressure.

Meanwhile, the deformed tyre provides a bigger surface area of contact with the road, and the traction is increased. The spring module then recovers quickly once it moves past the obstacle. Soft Creeper’s novel design is believed to bring great improvement to biking performance.

Changing the form of the spring module will absorb a large part of the force of contact, and increase the surface area of contact with the ground. This increases both the capability of damping and traction in the tyre.

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Flatpack Tea

Flatpack tea (or smoothie, or soup, or supplement, etc) is an interesting idea for the travelling fitness freak.

Take all of your nutrition with you on holiday or to the gym with this neat design.

Also good for the store shelf!

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Glow-in-the-dark super-bike for kids

This bicycle is equipped with a smart board (3G or LTE) that has a communication function, GPS positioning function and a camera that allows the child to take pictures.

It is built with a front lamp and built-in speakers for music, which increases the fun in riding.

Parents can also track child's location through a mobile phone application, see the child through the camera, and call the child any time.

And it glows in the dark! I just can't decide if this is a good idea or not - should we be riding in the dark with children?

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Stealth shoe tracking technology for children

SemsX Smart Shoes is a tracking device as well as a cool pair of shoes.

Instead of making this tracking device just another extra accessory that children will find burdensome to wear, SemsX Smart Shoes cleverly embeds the tracking technology in wearable footwear that will be attached to a child’s feet.

This product allows parents and family members to keep track of the whereabouts of their children and ensure their safety.

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Live joint position monitoring technology

SaFePlay is a portable, self-operating and smart feedback wearable health promotion system.

It monitors knee joint condition and provides gait adjustment suggestions instantly to the user during all kind of activities. The aim is to reduce the pressure exerted on the knee joints, in order to prevent knee osteoarthritis (OA) or mitigate the pain for knee OA patients.

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