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For incorporating a human body recognition algorithm as a method to visualize the "quality" of an "action," and for their challenge in collaborating technology and mechanism.

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While there are many initiatives using drones for disaster relief, this project was recognized for its novel approach of focusing on "sound," an area where drones typically struggle, and attempting to make it a reality.

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The idea of combining MR technology with the sense of "touch" to challenge the concept of touching something that doesn't exist anywhere was highly evaluated. It also has the potential for expansion, possibly being applied to simulations when creating something new.

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The approach of focusing on a specific part, the "tail," to achieve a healing effect through touch and sight is fresh. They are also working on commercializing the idea, not just leaving it as a concept.

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This project realizes a new form of communication through scent, which has been forgotten in the course of human civilization, by combining it with familiar smartphones and AI technology.

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This can contribute to society by analyzing the sensation of "intoxication" from various angles using sensing technology and applying it to the real world. Its potential application to taste evaluation was also highly rated.

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By combining communication technology with the "pen," a tool long used for learning, and the act of "writing," it is expected to encourage children's autonomy in tackling the act of "writing" on their own.

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By expanding on "playing with cars," an experience that nearly every small child has, this has the potential to further nurture children's creativity.

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This project proposes what at first glance seems like a wasteful use of technology to solve the stress of drawing white lines, an experience many had in childhood, making us believe it could be a cornerstone of technological development.

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This initiative was praised for being a model that shows even non-experts can take on the challenge of space development.

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By combining location and weather information, this app accurately gathers information during disasters, realizing and developing the concept of connecting with the people you want to reach in an emergency.

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While the number of foreign visitors to Japan continues to grow, there are many challenges when considering sustainable growth. The winner was recognized for focusing on the information gap for Muslim travelers, for whom the environment is not yet fully accommodating, and for proposing to solve this using IT.
We hope that through this service, many Muslim travelers will experience the charm of Japan and become repeat visitors.

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As health promotion is a critical issue, cutting-edge technologies tend to be used.
The technologies listed here are currently at the forefront, and since they are part of the mainstream of technological innovation, we can expect their application to expand and new technologies to emerge in the future.

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In the airline industry, "women-only seating" is surprisingly not yet a common practice. As a company that promotes "innovation in mobility" and solves customer problems, this proposal was deeply relatable as an idea that directly expresses the "I wish we had this" insight of people around the world.

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If customer traffic prediction becomes a reality, the approximately 28.42 million tons of food waste and 6.46 million tons of food loss per year would be drastically reduced. It would also allow for the appropriate allocation of human resources, such as part-time staff, leading to significant cost cuts. We believe this is a dream-like idea where the saved costs can be reinvested for further expansion, and we have chosen it for this award.

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While considering marketing using UGC (User-Generated Content) internally, we, as a sponsoring company of this program, were reminded by this proposal of the need that "consumers have many menus they want to see commercialized, but they don't know how to do it." We took this as a sign that the ball is in our court and decided to award the S&B Prize with the hope of creating a platform for commercializing products based on UGC together.

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"Emoji," originating from Japan, are now used worldwide as a matter of course. While text messages can be impersonal, "Emoji" are convenient for expressing things and feelings, creating a fun atmosphere.
We expect "Text Emotion!" to be used worldwide as a tool for conveying emotions, not limited to Japan, just like "Emoji."

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This solution, which provides safe and secure childbirth to mothers around the world, is realized in an easy-to-use device. It strongly resonates with our corporate philosophy of contributing to society as a whole through user-friendly systems, which is why we selected it.

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You install various apps on a whim, and your smartphone screen becomes filled with them. It would be convenient to have an app that manages them and suggests effective ways to use them at any given time, guided by AI.
Radio, YouTube, music, comedy... all as extensions of the same app. An era like that will surely come soon.

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Obun Printing Co., Inc. is developing new solutions to broaden the lives of people with disabilities, including the visually impaired.
We believe that "The Potential for Language Acquisition in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children through Subtitling of Descriptive Broadcasts for the Visually Impaired" could become a new learning method with great potential, and we wanted to support this service.

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In response to the sensitive issue of odors like tobacco and aging, which are hard to mention to someone directly, we want to support this never-say-die idea. It not only uses nose glasses, a party gag, for an "icebreaker" but also incorporates IoT to give them practical functions.

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This aligns with our company's vision of supporting family health and increasing smiles, and we empathized with the new discovery of achieving a pleasant state of health through heart sounds.
We believe that mental control using heart sounds can be utilized in the "Kosodatech" (Parenting × Technology) field that our company advocates, and we have high expectations.

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At Kubireya Inc., we support a healthy and high-performance lifestyle through training and body care.
We expect the smart apparel "e-skin" to be a powerful ally in next-generation health and rehabilitation management, with the potential to visualize the unconscious, and we support this idea.

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In our country, the act of donation is less advanced than in the West, partly because most donations do not receive tax incentives and there is a lack of a religious concept of giving.
In this context, we empathize with this proposal for its potential to foster interest and curiosity in donations.
We are awarding this proposal because its implementation could involve collaboration with new technologies like blockchain and IoT.

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At Sosu Co., Ltd., we develop novel products that make personal care fun.
This idea of being able to brush your teeth while looking inside your mouth—a place you couldn't see yourself—combines fun with practicality.
We believe this product idea will add a sense of accomplishment and enjoyment to teeth brushing, leading to more white and healthy teeth.

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Timeworld Inc. is the first manufacturer in Japan of oxygen capsules, which have become famous through their use by athletes.
The primary benefit of an oxygen capsule is that sleeping inside it for two hours has the same effect as sleeping for five to six hours.
We support this idea of a battery-operated air conditioner with the expectation that it can be easily brought into an oxygen capsule.

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DaVinciBrains Inc. discovers the brilliant technologies of small and medium-sized enterprises and promotes "Feel-ware," a third type of wear after hardware and software that merges with sensibility, to the world.
This idea was truly a "Feel-ware" proposal, offering the "emotion of re-experiencing" by fusing the five senses with technology.
We support the global promotion of "Mioku," which awakens memories!

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ALS, one of the designated intractable diseases, has a high incidence rate among the elderly, and the number of patients has increased 3.7 times over the past 30 years, a trend expected to continue. As society continues to age, we are presenting this award to raise awareness of ALS and to support the researchers who are working to develop a cure for it.

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The T-ARTS Award selection was focused on "ideas that make daily life more enjoyable." We are presenting this award to "A Hole Connected to Brazil" in recognition of the quirky and fun idea of bringing an entrance to the other side of the world into everyday scenes, as well as the proactive effort in actually creating the device.

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T-Gaia Corporation operates mobile phone shops, smartphone accessory shops, and provides payment services.
With the rapid increase in foreign visitors to Japan and the growing inbound demand, we selected this proposal for its potential to solve the problems of interpreter and tour guide shortages at once.

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This technology is linked to sensing technologies that will contribute to the realization of future smart cities, and it holds promise for future urban and service development.
We selected it because further development is expected through collaboration with Knowledge Capital's participating companies and through demonstration experiments in collaboration with our company.

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We think this is a groundbreaking idea that uses established beacon technology to easily connect people who need volunteers with those who want to volunteer.
Although there are many challenges, we decided to select this work because we are excited about its practical application for the upcoming 2020 Olympics.

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We judged the service, which uses AI to automatically collect images, videos, and text of accidents and disasters, to be a highly public and innovative idea. It is also highly practical, and we feel it has great potential for future development.
We also selected it because we feel it is a system that can collaborate with the policy information analysis system provided by the Japan Mirai Research Institute.

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At Nextwel Inc., we operate a welfare web media and commission work to people with disabilities nationwide to change the current situation where the average monthly income for people with disabilities is 15,000 yen.
This could create a system that fulfills the desires of many who want to work and connect with people, allowing those with disabilities to provide value to society and become taxpayers. We support this idea, anticipating its potential to bring about innovation.

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Because it is an innovative technology related to the human sense of touch, much like the internet was an information revolution for human perception, it feels truly futuristic and holds infinite possibilities.

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Although organic vegetables are more expensive than conventional ones, their sales and shipments are increasing year by year because they are gentle on the body and nutritious.
In this context, the "Tabechoku" service, which allows direct connection with farmers and same-day shipping of freshly picked vegetables, is attractive. We support this idea, convinced that it will be useful to more and more people in the future.

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At FuRyu, we operate "girls mignon," a specialty store for print sticker machines.
In our efforts to create a store that customers want to visit, we resonated with this work, which deepens the relationship between the point issuer and the fans. The consideration for issuing points via ID, not only in urban areas but also in rural regions, was another decisive factor in our selection.

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As a company that promotes new ways of working, we provide business matching services for freelance professionals and career change support. Many of our projects specialize in "upstream processes" such as planning, research, and analysis, which aligns with the worldview of "SkillShift." Many of our registrants on our main service, "FreeConsultant.jp," are interested in regional revitalization but often give up due to barriers like job changes or relocation. We felt this is a project with a high degree of contribution to Japan's future, connecting such ambitious talent with regional companies. Increasing the options for ways of working plays an important role in addressing Japan's labor shortage, and we expect this project to spread the idea of "side-job full-time employees" and broaden the scope of "new ways of working."

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Our company holds dog events under the slogan "Let's have endless fun with our dogs."
Recently, the number of owners who want to contribute to society with their beloved dogs is increasing, and we often hear them say they want to do it "while having fun with my dog."
We felt that by combining with the philosophy of "Ridilover," we could realize that desire.