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In 1996, the girl invented a coffee machine using 100% coffee beans and won the "German Red Dot Design Award".

Published: 2026-07-14 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/07/14, For the exchange of professional baristas, please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style). A few days ago, the German Red Dot Design Award (Red Dot Design Award), which is known as the Oscar for design, was presented in Singapore. A team from East China University of Science and Technology won the Red Dot Design concept Award (Red Dot Design Concept Award). There is one in this post-1995 team.

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A few days ago, the German Red Dot Design Award (Red Dot Design Award), known as the "Design Academy Award", was presented in Singapore. A team from East China University of Science and Technology won the Red Dot Design concept Award (Red Dot Design Concept Award). In this post-1995 team, there is a 21-year-old girl from Haining, Zhejiang Province. her name is Xuanzhu. Today we will tell her story.

The second from the left in the lower row, the one with the bear is the permit. This is a photo taken during a visit to the University of Birmingham on behalf of the East China University of Science and Technology.

Observe the life carefully.

"Coffee 100%", one of the award-winning works of the licensing team.

("coffee100%")

"DroneRay", one of the award-winning works of the licensing team.

According to Licensing, "Coffee 100%" is inspired by coffee grounds.

An inspiration for recycling coffee grounds flashed into her mind when she found that her aunt would often dry the filtered coffee grounds, put them in a nonwoven bag and dehumidify them in a shoe closet, wardrobe or refrigerator.

"since coffee grounds have the advantages of purifying the air and absorbing odors, it is a waste to throw them away after filtering the coffee. If you can make a coffee machine, not only can brew coffee, but also can use coffee grounds, that is not 100% use of coffee beans? This is the origin of the name of this work, coffee with coffee grounds, to form a complete coffee bean-"Coffee 100%". Xu said in an interview.

So what does such an idea that comes from life look like?

Huanbao Xiaochuang

Compared with the ordinary coffee machine, "Coffee 100%" has two more functions, one is the function of drying coffee grounds, and the other is the heat sealing function. However, these two additional functions can quickly dry the used coffee grounds and package them in coffee filter paper to form a natural air freshener.

A little knowledge about coffee grounds: the principle of coffee grounds as an air freshener is the same as carbon, which uses its own adsorption capacity to purify the air. If coffee grounds are used reasonably, it can be used to remove odor, make plant fertilizer, maintain skin and so on.

Although this knowledge is not unfamiliar, not everyone can apply inspiration to drawings like Licensing, hoping that one day it can be turned into a product and put on the market.

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