Gold Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design · 2023
Exploration 2 Pro Safety Seats
by Hangzhou Buddy Buzzy Co., Ltd.
- A' Design Award 2023 Gold Winner in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Buddybuzzy
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 699,109
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About Exploration 2 Pro Safety Seats
Exploration 2 Pro is a child safety car seat for children aged from birth to eight years. The seat detects sitting postures and gives voice and light feedback to inform parents while driving. Multichannel alarms are triggered if a child is left in the car. The one piece shell reduces spliced parts for higher impact resistance, and a separate side impact protection system is included. An intelligent temperature control system combines carbon nanotube heating with a double duct ventilation system, working automatically or through voice and app control.
The Exploration 2 Pro Safety Seats by Hangzhou Buddy Buzzy Co., Ltd. exemplifies the contemporary evolution of child transportation equipment from purely utilitarian apparatus toward objects of considered aesthetic merit and sophisticated engineering integration. This work participates in a broader design movement that recognizes the emotional dimensions of parenting implements, understanding that objects serving protective functions benefit from visual languages that communicate both technical competence and nurturing intention. The sculptural quality of the enclosing shell suggests influences from aerospace and automotive interior design, where ergonomic research and safety engineering merge with attention to sensory experience and visual harmony. The chromatic strategy demonstrates remarkable restraint, allowing the neutral palette to communicate professional seriousness while the illuminated accent element introduces a technological signature that suggests advanced functionality without overwhelming the composed visual field. The material relationships reveal thoughtful consideration of the sensory experience across different user touchpoints: protective exterior surfaces present appropriate visual and tactile firmness, while interior contact zones offer visual warmth through textile selection that promises comfort during extended use. The integration of mechanical systems, including the rotational base and adjustable stabilization elements, achieves visual cohesion with the protective seat volume, suggesting a unified design vision rather than an assembly of separate components. The five-point restraint system, while serving essential safety functions, contributes to the visual composition through its rhythmic distribution of straps and centralized buckle mechanism. One might consider how the overall form language balances the competing demands of protection, accessibility, and aesthetic appeal, achieving a resolution that serves practical function while honoring the emotional significance of objects entrusted with child safety.
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- Unique Properties
- This safety car seat for children aged from 0 to 8 years features intelligent designs for security and comfort. It can detect sitting postures of children, give voice and light feedback, trigger multichannel alarms if children are left in the car, to safeguard children from the moment they sit down till leaving the seat. Both the temperature control system and the aspiration system for heat dissipation can work automatically, or be controlled by the APP and voice, to make children feel cosy.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 457 mm x Depth 621mm x Height 568mm
- Tags
- Multidimensional Proactive Safety Designs, A Safety Car Seat with Innovative Interaction, Intelligent Voice Interaction, Different Lighting Effects for Visualization, A New Aspiration System for Heat Dissipation
- Production Technology
- The one piece seat shell gains higher resistance to impacts in all directions by minimizing spliced pieces. The built-in intelligent temperature control system combines carbon nanotube heating and a double duct ventilating system, working automatically to keep the seat temperature in a suitable status. In terms of the backrest with closely spaced holes for heat absorbing, this function means that the seat can automatically absorb heat from the back to avoid exposing children to the cold wind.
- Design Challenge
- Exploration 2 Pro is innovative in its proactive safety design concept, to ensure childrens safety from the moment they sit down till leaving the seat. It will make voice alarm to alert parents if children leave the seat accidentally or the safety belt is unfastened during driving. It can also detect whether children leave the seat timely with parents. If not, the red flashes, notification push through the app and the customer service call will be triggered to guarantee the safety of children.
- Project Duration
- The design and development of the safety seat started in Hangzhou, China, in September, 2020. It hit the Chinese market in October, 2022.
- Operation Flow
- Parents can heat and ventilate the seat remotely via the smart app before getting in the car, to make children feel cosy as soon as they are seated. Accordingly, children need not wear many layers, and thus avoid being thrown out of seats in a crash. The heating and ventilating systems also support voice control. Meanwhile, the extending breathing lamp visualizes ventilation and heating status through color changes, and will emit red flashes to prompt passers-by if children are left in the car.
- Research
- Most safety car seats on the market fail to offer children the optimal comfort and reliable protection at the same time. Cases of children being left alone in the car often occur, arousing wide concerns from the public. Meanwhile, children wearing many layers in a running car are exposed to high risks of being thrown out of seats in a crash. To keep children comfortable and safe when traveling, Exploration 2 Pro has been optimized with the targeted designs for both security and comfort.
- Inspiration
- To keep children comfortable and safe when traveling, Exploration 2 Pro comes with multidimensional proactive safety designs, including multichannel alarms that will be triggered if children have not leave the seat timely with parents, the real time sitting posture detection, the voice and light feedback to keep parents informed about the conditions of children in driving, as well as the separate side impact protection system to avoid injuring the passenger aside in a car crash.
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