We are absolutely thrilled to share some incredible news! At the renowned Boot Düsseldorf show in Germany, DIVEVOLK was honored with the highly prestigious 2024 Boot Dive Award for Innovation on Friday, January 26, 2024. This award recognizes our revolutionary underwater full touchscreen technology, embodied in products like the SeaTouch 4 Max.
About Boot Düsseldorf & the Esteemed Dive Award
For those unfamiliar, Boot Düsseldorf is one of the world's largest and most important yacht and watersports trade fairs. The 2024 show was massive, welcoming 214,000 visitors from 120 countries and featuring over 1,500 exhibitors. It's a global hub for everything related to boating, diving, surfing, paddling, and more.
Within this major event, the "Boot Dive Award," supported by Curaçao, holds special significance. Introduced to promote excellence and innovation in the global diving industry, awards are given annually across five key categories: Personality, Destination, Innovation, Product, and Climate. The judging process is rigorous, involving a distinguished panel of experts – the editors-in-chief from leading European diving publications like divemaster, TAUCHEN, Taucher.Net, VDSTsporttaucher, and WETNOTES – who shortlist nominees, followed by public voting and final jury judgment. Winning here truly marks industry-leading achievement.
Read more about the awards (external link in German): tauchen.de/news/boot-dive-award-2023/
The Winning Innovation: Underwater Full Touchscreen Technology
INNOVATION says a lot about the future viability of an industry. In this category, we celebrate people, companies, and initiatives that make a special contribution to the sustainability of the diving industry, its foundations and resources. Where are the concepts and projects that make the diving industry fit for the future? Where are the ideas that are shaping the world of tomorrow with a fresh wind and forward-looking energy?
The Innovation award specifically celebrates contributions that significantly advance the diving industry's sustainability, foundations, and future viability. The jury seeks concepts and projects shaping the future with fresh energy. DIVEVOLK's underwater touchscreen technology was recognized for precisely this forward-looking potential.
As Nina Zschische from Wetnotes Magazine eloquently stated when discussing the award:
“DIVEVOLK underwater touchscreen housing for smartphone can be used for fun as well as for research, and offers a lot of possibilities for the future. It has to do with our important tool in today's world, the control panel of life -- the smartphone.
Putting a smartphone in an underwater housing is nothing new. But it's an amazing innovation to provide the housing with a touchscreen, so you can use a smartphone to it's full potential.”
This perfectly captures the essence of our innovation. While smartphone housings existed, DIVEVOLK pioneered the ability to interact with the entire touchscreen underwater, unlocking countless possibilities.
Video demonstrating the DIVEVOLK underwater touchscreen in action.
We are incredibly excited and grateful for this prestigious Innovation Prize! It recognizes the relentless efforts, collaborative spirit, and innovative capabilities of the entire DIVEVOLK team. A huge thank you to the expert jury, the public voters, and everyone who has supported us – your encouragement is the driving force behind our success!
INNOVATION
Divevolk Underwater Touchscreen
More Than Just Photos: Unleashing Smartphone Power Underwater
The Boot Dive Award acknowledges the vast potential unlocked by our technology. The SeaTouch 4 Max, our most updated housing featuring this tech (60 meters waterproof, full touchscreen), enables so much more than just taking pictures:
- Safety: Use underwater typing for communication, access compass apps, make emergency phone calls instantly upon surfacing. You can even set dive timer alarms!
- Research & Education: Easily take notes, run scientific apps, use fish ID software in real-time, or instantly play back training videos for students after a skill practice. For new divers,you can recognize the fish under the water in real time for using the Fish Recognition Software.
- Entertainment: Make decompression stops fly by listening to music or watching preloaded movies.
- DSLR Integration: With accessories like SeaLink, potentially use your phone as an underwater monitor for compatible cameras.
This versatility stems from nearly two years of intensive R&D for the first generation alone, involving over 100 experiments with different materials and processes to perfect the underwater touchscreen experience.
A Team Achievement & Future Focus
Our dive housing technology caught the attention of numerous attendees at Boot Düsseldorf and received high praise from the professional judging panel. This award validates our past work and fuels our confidence for future development. We remain committed to fostering an innovative spirit and delivering superior products and services that meet the evolving needs of the diving community.
A massive shoutout to all members of the DIVEVOLK team – your hard work, dedication, and unity made this incredible achievement possible. We believe that through teamwork and continuous effort, we will reach even greater milestones.
Let's join hands and continue working together to create a brighter future for underwater exploration and communication!
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