Grace腕带可用于减缓和监测更年期症状
Grace wristband is designed to alleviate and track menopause symptoms

由专筑网Yumi，李韧编译

拉夫堡大学的研究生Peter Astbury为更年期的女性设计了一款腕带，它能够减轻和调节（妇女更年期时的）不适症状。

Astbury 注意到，当前市场上用于缓解更年期症状的产品属于空白状态，因此他想创造一款能为女士提供有效解决方案的产品，同时这些产品也有助于打破“文化禁忌”。

Loughborough University graduate Peter Astbury has created a wristband for menopausal women, which is designed to regulate and alleviate hot flushes.
Having noticed a gap in the market for menopausal relief products, Astbury aimed to create a design that would provide women with an effective solution, while also helping to break down "cultural taboos".

Grace腕带便应运而生，该产品主要针对潮热（更年期主要症状之一），设计师在其中运用了一个集成的冷却系统。

“潮热发作时，身体的体温调节系统紊乱，体内开始散失热量。这会导致出汗、心率增加、呼吸急促和皮肤发红等症状。”设计者告诉Dezeen记者。

“这种感受不仅难熬，而且也非常尴尬。”

His project resulted in the Grace wristband, which uses an integrated cooling system to specifically target hot flushes – one of the main problems experienced during menopause.
"At the onset of a hot flush, the body's thermoregulatory system is falsely triggered and acts to lose heat. This causes sweating, a rise in heart rate, shortness of breath and a reddening of skin," the designer told Dezeen.
"Besides being a deeply uncomfortable experience, this is also embarrassing and inconvenient, striking at any time – day or night."

该腕带的设计充满时尚气息，它有一个几何的金属外壳和一个可换的皮革表带。

其中包含三个传感器，在穿戴者出现潮热的体感特征之前，它就能够敏锐地探测到。

然后冷却机制便被触发，让你的体温保持正常，Astbury说，这种技术常常应用于女性，它能立即缓解这些不适症状。

Astbury还说与目前的更年期治疗方法相比，这款腕带并不会让女性产生过多的负担，也不会引发其他的并发症。

The wristband to is designed to appear as a "fashion accessory," and is decorated with a geometric metal casing and an interchangeable leather strap.
It incorporates three sensors, which are able to detect a hot flush approximately one minute before it becomes apparent to the wearer.
A cooling mechanism is then triggered on the underside of the wrist to replicate the sensation of running your wrists under cold water – a technique commonly used by women to provide instant relief from flushes, according to Astbury.
Astbury also claims that the wristband offers a less invasive alternative to current menopause treatments available, such as hormone replacement therapy, which he notes has been linked to breast cancer.

腕带有相应的智能手机应用程序，让用户对他们的症状有了更详细的了解。

“APP可与Grace腕带同步更新，记录身体的健康状态，例如热潮强度、睡眠质量。这些数据能让女性直观地了解自己的身体状况。”Astbury 告诉Dezeen记者。

“我希望使用者能够匿名地分享应用程序中的数据。这些数据有益于更年期状况的研究与分析。”他补充说。

The wristband is aided by an accompanying smartphone app, which gives users a more detailed understanding of their symptoms.

"Syncing with the Grace band, a vast wealth of information is displayed ranging from hot flush intensity to sleep quality. This data will enable women to see patterns and trends that previously went unnoticed," Astbury told Dezeen.

"The hope is to eventually allow women to anonymously share their data from the app. The output of this could facilitate the largest menopause study to date, highlighting global patterns in relation to age, nationality, lifestyle and more," he added.

Grace腕带是英国詹姆士戴森设计奖（James Dyson Award）的提名项目，该奖项主要面向产品设计、工业设计和工程专业的大学生和应届毕业生。

皇家艺术学院（Royal College of Art）的研究生Ryan Mario Yasin 获得该奖项的冠军 ，他的设计作品是“会长大的衣服”，这件衣服会随着小朋友的成长而变大。

Grace was one of the projects nominated for the UK edition of the James Dyson Award, which is open to university-level students and recent graduates in product design, industrial design and engineering.
The award was won by Royal College of Art graduate Ryan Mario Yasin, with his line of expandable children's clothing that is designed to grow with their wearer.

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