DESIGN NAME: Miio Palette
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Mixing Palette
INSPIRATION: Miio Palette was inspired by a painter's palette, but it was designed for the dental lab. It was created out of necessity, becoming with time a product with functionality and style.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Miio Palette looks like a painter's palette and it was created for dental ceramist technicians. This innovative product comes equipped with an easy to clean, detachable, hygienic glass surface.
One of the distinctive futures Miio Palette has, are the 9 wells where you can store your ceramic jars. With the aid of the mixing plate you can easily set in order all bottles in utter compliance with their distinct characteristics.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: For a dental element the technician uses more colours of ceramics that need to be layered burnt. Everything should be well-organized. No more writing with a marker the name of the product that’s inside. Miio (Corian or Wood) comes with a sandblasted, detachable glass surface to mix the ceramic, perfectly polished, the surface is easy to clean. It has 9 wells to store the ceramic jars and an ergonomic brush holder. Miio makes the work faster and easier for the dental technicians.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Miio Palette project, started n 2013, aiming to help the dental technician to improve their work, 3 years the idea was tested and improved and in 2016 it was released for the laboratory usage. The palette was created and tested in dental technicians labs in Germany, Italy, USA, Costa Rica, Romania.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Miio Corian or Wood comes with a sandblasted, detachable glass surface to mix the ceramic, perfectly polished, the surface is easy to clean
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Width 250 mm x Depth 20 mm x Height 400 mm
TAGS: innovation, ceramics, dentistry, dental, technician
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The research and the development of the product was made in the dental technicians labs. The focus was on the ergonomy of the working space and on the moves the technician does to apply the ceramics, so this product was born out of necessity of a well organised and uncluttered working space, where the technician can put the colors in a specific order
CHALLENGE: The main challenge was to improve the dinamics of the dental technician movements and to minimise the risk of mixing up the colors on the working plate. Among the materials tested for the palette, I tested metal, wooden, compositeand plastic boards, and it was really demanding to find the right material that can fit the ceramic colors
ADDED DATE: 2016-10-30 17:37:09
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IMAGE CREDITS: Gilbert Vasile, 2016.
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: EUIPO CERTIFICATE No. 003059351-0001 Registered 07/04/2016
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