Design research for innovations in sport

The project of designing an innovative respiratory simulator “New Breath” for Sport Technology became a real success. SmirnovDesign specialists spent only eight months on the whole project – from product to molds designing and production.

The story of designing this product is quite interesting. The claient obtained patentmore than six years ago, but contacting many different organizations didn’t help realizing the idea into an intuitive and technically perfect product. Only after addressing the group of companies SmirnovDesign and SmirnovTechnology the unique simulator got second wind.

By the moment of addressing our designers there existed two variants of the product and thus the work on the product design started from thorough examination of the existing samples. A number of defects that had to be eliminated were discovered. For example on the first sample the working angle of the device could not be changed, so it could be used only when swimming on the stomach. Besides, the device was literally assembled by hand using any material available and thus was not suitable for mass production. The drawbacks of the second sample varied also from device’s unsuitability for mass production to the complexity of the heavy construction (the product was made on a war factory) and impossibility of using the device in action.| Next...