He is a creator of numerous products and basic technologies—from automobiles, cameras, watches, robots, mobile phones, furniture to the design of interface for mass-transit smart card machines—based on a design approach fusing art and technology. He has received many awards including the 2004 Mainichi Design Award, iF Product Design Award (Germany) and Good Design Award ‘Gold Prize’ (Japan). Tagtype keyboard was selected for the collection of New York MoMA in 2009.