Concept:
When I think of prosthetics, I think of wearable devices that bridge the gap between someone's disability and the rest of the world. Band Zero Is my concept for a device that helps people with vision issues navigate in areas where a cane may be a nuisance. It has a capacitive touchpad on top to turn the watch on and off, and a forward facing distance sensor so that the user can hold their arm up and the haptics in the watch change buzz intensity based on how close the detected object is to the watch.
I decided to give Band Zero a simplistic design so that the visually impaired could easily differentiate between the touch pad and the rest of the watch. I started out with a basic rectangle and created a touchpad by boolean differencing the body and a filleted rectangle. The touchpad bumps were made by creating a grid of points and creating then extruding circle curves at each of them. The band was created by using sweep along a curve to connect either side of the band. The band texture are rectangles mapped on to the bands surface. The distance sensor is a union between the body and a filleted rectangle with two cylinders inside of it. The leather pads on the inside of the band were created by mapping rectangles to the inside surface, extruding them then filleting the edges.
Materials:
For a modern simplistic look, I used aluminum for the body which is lightweight so the band wouldn't be too heavy. Inside the band are leather pads, the idea was to find a way that the band could slide on and fit snug on the wrist without the user having to feel around to buckle or click it closed. I used a red velvet material for the touchpad to add contrast to the design as well as to create a surface that is pleasant to touch.
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