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Award-winning item: Activity Monitor [Activity Monitor[AM-250]]
Business Owner: TANITA Corporation
Category: Health care items
Company: TANITA CORPORATION (Japan)
Award Number: 20G020039
Outline of Good Design Award winners: Outline of Good Design Award winners 2020

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Outline: This product automatically measures the number of steps and energy consumed and plays the role of an authentication key that links other measuring devices and the health database. The shape is a card, and it can be linked with various card infrastructure such as employee ID cards, membership cards, and medical examination tickets. Create unprecedented medical and health services and applications.
Producer: Takao Tsutaya, R&D Department, Business Strategy H. Q., TANITA Corporation
Director: Tatsutoshi Kobayakawa, Design Department, Business Strategy H. Q., TANITA Corporation
Designer: Miho Kato, Design Department, Business Strategy H. Q., TANITA Corporation
More information: https://www.tanita.co.jp/press/detail/2019/0129/
Market release pending: 2021/9

Evaluation

Evolving from a manufacturer of weighing scales into a company that creates health for people. Having transformed itself into a lifestyle company, this corporation needed a comprehensive design strategy aimed at guiding people to better health and this product could become the basis of such a strategy. As a card-sized device far slimmer and lighter than anything previously available, this item can be combined with a variety of other card infrastructure, including employee ID cards, membership cards, and patient registration cards. The resultant potential for its use in medical care and health service and applications was highly praised.