Innovation Automation & Design: Practically Living & Working in the Future [Trend! Review]

About how the world of work and Society of the future, much is said and written. The right Innovation can improve life tremendously. But how practical are many technical innovations really?

Sustainable innovations

With all the forecasts that often go wrong, one thing is likely clear be: Work and life will merge more and more in the future. It is therefore essential to look at both areas of life together.

As with this sustainable, design idea from Philipps, which with its Projects “The Microbial Home” presented different approaches to domestic ecosystems. The project aims to encourage People to be closer to nature again. It hits Strategies for the development of a balanced ecosystem.

Sustainability trend: the apartment as a biological machine

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The human home becomes a biological machine in which the residual products of a domestic process become the input materials for the next process. The house filters, processes and recycles what we usually consider to be waste, such as untreated water and rubbish.

There is also a biogas plant kitchen that uses methane gas from organic waste and excrement for cooking. The toilet that automatically filters the same. Biolight from bio-luminiscenten bacteria, which are operated with methane. Or the table where food in terracotta vessels is kept at an optimal temperature - by the way, an ancient cooling technique that has been brought back to life here.

Sensitive clothing or image project: How realistic are innovative ideas?

The “Microbial Home” had that Objectiveto anticipate and examine socio-culturally significant technological changes in the distant future in order to develop medium-term life scenarios on this basis - from feeling clothing to sustainable living space, inspiration and innovation should be conveyed.

Tolle ideasthat sound great, no doubt. It's also for Companys important to think ahead, it can be big and a little crazy. Just don't forget: Sustainability is very “in” right now and an important image factor for companies.

Image project vs. practical everyday use: How automation makes life easier

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And these ideas ended up sounding like a pure image project. especially since the company, as it announced itself, did not expect such ideas to be further developed into marketable products. It was more about the innovative spirit of the Company to promote. To whom does Philipps want his refrigerators? merchandisewhen people start to cool their things in terracotta jars again?

Automation, if used correctly, can make life a lot easier. I didn't believe it myself until eufy temporarily made a RoboVac X8 Hybrid available to me for a test. For a long time I was of the opinion that the small vacuum robots must be an additional burden, because you probably have to maintain and clean them all the time, while I rated the cleaning performance and thus the workload as rather low.

How technology forces you to rethink your own life

That was before my test: The RoboVac X8 Hybrid taught me better: Not only did it vacuum and wipe all workspaces down to the smallest corners in no time at all, it also manages to cope with obstacles with ease.

The actual innovative strength of the practical helper does not lie in its cleaning performance alone, but in how it makes you rethink your own work and living environment and your habits. So you think twice, for example, whether there really have to be so many things standing around on the floor and whether you would rather store them on the shelf to save space - or dispose of them straight away. And even if you have a cleaner, the RoboVac is a great advantage, because she can now devote time to completely different things. Lived innovation, so to speak.

Not every hype device is useful for everyone

I'm really not the type of person who breaks out in delight at every technical innovation. Despite a few tests, I was never really able to get used to tablets, especially the iPad. My conclusion was and is: It is rather unsuitable for editorial work in this form. However, there are other areas where the iPad is better used. For example in Sales-Marketing, In the Further Training. And even in construction!

Some time ago, when I was invited to GoMedia in Edmonton at the invitation of the Canadian Tourist Commission, I met Stacy Chala, Communications Manager at Capilano Group in Vancouver, Canada. Around customers and media representatives, she uses the iPad to make her product palatable. And says: “There is no better tool for the sales area”. Because instead of presenting photos and brochures as before (and therefore also lugging them around), she can now simply show everything on the iPad and give people material on the USB stick. And just respond to questions.

Each device can be used in a wide variety of ways, from further training to the electronic menu to construction

I noticed that Apple itself uses the iPad as a sales device in the Apple store in Toronto: Funnily enough, the iPad is used there to advertise the iPhone and the Mac Book Air and all of its Features to explain. A good idea actually, but only Apple can come up with such a self-referential advertising idea. But it has long since ceased to be just the usual suspects Internet– and the freelancer industry that uses such digital helpers.

There are other areas in which the iPad is used. Approximately in the Further Training, at workshops for presentations, for surveys or for mind maps and brainstorming. It is also useful for the menu, checking in at the hotel and for geolocation. But what I found really interesting, because it was unusual, was this comment by an electrician on the construction site, which was published in a reader's comment on Best of HR - Berufebilder.de® writes:

Work as a site manager electrician. Thanks to the iPad I finally have all the documents with me ad hoc. The rest is available by email Photos via iPhone to the company Written via penultimate via iPad Oh yes, everything in an A5 shoulder bag. What did I carry around in the past?

How digital change promotes more sustainable life

The examples show that digital change is on the rise and with it newer, more mobile forms of life with fewer possessions and faster opportunities for change. Last but not least, the RoboVac also impressively demonstrated to me how useful and time-saving minimalism is.

But what applies to home furnishing could also be one Solution for the entire living environment. I mean one of the most pressing Problems of our western civilisation: the shortage of living space in large cities and metropolitan areas.

Innovation that changes the whole living environment

This is particularly extreme in Tokyo. This is exactly what must have inspired the architects from Atelier Bow-Wow to come up with their innovative living idea according to the motto “there is space in the smallest gap”: A house that looks like a bookshelf and fits into the smallest of spaces. The building, inspired by traditional Japanese wooden houses, stands at just 18,6 square meters but has a living area of ​​58,17 square meters.

Necessity makes you inventive! And it's true: Innovations are often born out of the pressure of an emergency situation - as is the case with this example. And flexible mini-houses could be a solution to expensive living space. And these innovative living cultures have another advantage: around four million private households move to Germany every year - that is around 10 percent of the German population. It would be useful if you could just take your little house with you or if you only had a few things.

What remains of the good ideas?

The question that arises at the end: what remains of all these good ideas? Actually a pity that you have a bunch Money spends on innovation research, which then probably often fizzles out or is discussed to death.

It has long been clear that digitization and automation are not just about technical gimmicks, but above all about finding new ecological and sustainable approaches that make people's lives more beautiful, better and more pleasant. We can look forward to what the future will bring.

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