Third EYE For City Traveller

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red dot award: design concept 2008

design:
Lim Young Bin	Shin Kijin

The Third EYE is a compact hand-held travel device that provides location details and other information to tourists, and helps people travel in unknown cities without fear.

Curiosity about unknown places is one of the reasons to travel. People keen for new experiences in unknown places will generally put in a great deal of effort to prepare themselves before they leave, collecting information about their destination and packing their luggage with thick guidebooks, maps and devices.

The Third EYE presents a way to avoid the fuss. It is a simple and smart travel device that helps people travel in cities with useful information at their fingertips.

This hand-sized navigation tool provides information including location, history and related explanations for a place. It has two operating modes: C mode (a commercial place finder for places such as restaurants, hotels and shops) and T mode (a scenic/travel place finder for places such as monuments and galleries). The traveller can easily find a place, be it a shopping centre or a tourist attraction, just by turning a pointer. The Third EYE functions as a GPS and as a traditional compass, and it uses stereo vision technology for good quality and accurate image shots.