Energy Rehab

Energy Rehab – this is the final name of our project. It took some time before I get used to it but now I think it’s quite cool.

Basically we extended our idea about stickers indication how much energy device is using into energy prepaid cards. Just like in mobile phones.

You buy a limit of energy, charge devices with some initial amount of energy and them you recharge them based on your needs. If you don’t have energy left on your card you can transfer some energy from other devices or even borrow it from your friends.

And here is some early prototype:

Because of lack of time and human resources (it was already a lot of work for both of us) we didn’t manage to include all features in our video. They were about real word usage of our system and some interface issues. For example we developed a new type of stickers (this with two arrows forming a circle) that can recharge themselves. You don’t want you fridge to run out of electricity, do you? We have also a nice idea about assigning ID’s to our stickers. You could simply flip your energy card, draw a symbol representing you device, tap, and slider you finger on the card towards the sticker to transfer the drawn icon to it.

Here is our final video:

Oh, and I have to mention once again how much I love Inkscape for drawing vectors! This time I really needed some hands for the flash animation for the movie so for the first time I was sketching in Inkscape and the results were surprisingly good in very short time: