AI-Powered Smart Voice Recorder "Comulytic Note Pro" Wins Double Honors at World's Top 3 Design Awards: "iF DESIGN AWARD 2026" and "Red Dot Design Award 2026"

YScope Inc., the Japanese distributor for Silicon Valley-based smart office solution company Comulytic, is pleased to announce that the AI-powered smart voice recorder "Comulytic Note Pro" has won two internationally prestigious design awards: the "iF DESIGN AWARD 2026" (announced in March 2026, Audio category) and the "Red Dot Design Award 2026" (announced in May 2026). The product was launched on Amazon on Thursday, April 2, 2026, and is currently available for purchase.

*Note: "iF DESIGN AWARD," "Red Dot Design Award," and "IDEA" are recognized as the world's top three design awards.

■ Award Overview

iF DESIGN AWARD 2026
Organizer: iF International Forum Design GmbH (Hannover, Germany)
Award Period: March 2026
Award Category: Audio
Judging Scale: Selected through a rigorous screening process by 129 design experts from approximately 10,000 entries from 68 countries and regions.

Red Dot Design Award 2026
Organizer: Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen (Essen, Germany)
Award Period: May 2026 (Officially announced on May 18, 2026, to be included in the Red Dot Design Yearbook)
Red Dot — the distinction for high design quality
"The Red Dot stands for excellent product design. The international jury presents this coveted seal of quality exclusively to products that demonstrate outstanding design. Receiving this award proves that the product is convincing in terms of form, function or innovation — or a combination of these criteria."

The simultaneous receipt of these two prestigious international design awards for our flagship product, Comulytic Note Pro, is a testament to the international acclaim of the product's design philosophy.

■ About the Design Philosophy

"Guiding professional dialogue to refined intelligence" — this is the message embodied in the Comulytic Note Pro.

In recent years, many AI voice devices have competed on the number of features and physical presence, often resulting in cold, angular designs. What we aimed for was the exact opposite.

It is the concept of a "tool that makes you unaware you are holding it."

In business settings, valuable information resides in every casual conversation during negotiations, meetings, and client visits. However, if the awareness of "being recorded" changes the atmosphere, the truly important voices will be lost. That is precisely why we aimed to minimize the physical presence of the device itself to the utmost limit.

The overall shape is smooth, with soft corners. It does not jab when held, nor does it catch when placed in a pocket. What is transmitted to the fingertips is not the cold hardness of metal, but a warm, tactile sensation that fits comfortably in the hand. Rather than a "hard technological product," we pursued the appearance of a "tool that naturally fits in the hand" down to the millimeter.

It is not a coldness born from subtraction, but a gentleness carefully selected to quietly support the user. This is the design philosophy of the Comulytic Note Pro. Rather than flaunting technology, it quietly blends into daily life and reliably performs its job only when needed — this is the new paradigm for AI products that we propose.

■ 3 Design Commitments that Supported the Awards

1. Thin and Lightweight Design: 3mm Thick and 27g
The ultra-thin body, which can be magnetically attached to the back of a smartphone, is a mere 3mm thick and weighs only 27g.