When Loren Lim was still an industrial design student at the National University of Singapore, he had to pick a topic for his final-year project. Rather than choosing something trendy, he chose to design a modular set of kitchenware items for people with only one functioning arm. His project was called Oneware.

“I find designing Oneware to be more meaningful because it solves a need [rather] than is a good-to-have [kind of thing],” Lim tells Enterprise in an interview.

His inspiration was his late uncle, who had suffered a stroke. Lim used to visit him every Sunday as the latter loved to cook meals for the family. Unfortunately, his uncle had only one good arm to rely on. But that did not deter him from cooking.

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