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The Malaysian Design Council is mulling over setting up a "bank of ideas" as a repository of all ideas and designs created by participants of the Young Inventors Award, its Chairman Datuk Dr Ahmad Zainuddin said.
He said this would give opportunities to the industry to pick and choose ideas and designs which they think had commercial pontentials.
"The council will soon brief the industry on the process to commercialise the inventions, the protection of intellectual property right as well as grants offered by the government through the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry," he said at the presentation the Young Inventors Award 2007 today.
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Danish designer Lykke Tarsbol has her finger on all the right buttons when it comes to monitoring mobile phone trends.
As a member of Sony Ericsson's design team in Lund, the 31-year-old from Copenhagen is always in touch with the latest trends in colours and materials.
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Synaptics announced that its ClearPad and ClearArray solutions provide the interface on the LG Secret, the third model from the successful LG Black Label Series.
The LG Secret introduces additional multimedia features to the Black Label Series such as an advanced 5.0 megapixel camera and advanced graphical user interface (UI) that takes advantage of Synaptics' intuitive ClearPad touchscreen technology.
The slimmest handset to carry a 5.0 megapixel camera, the LG Secret has an exterior of sleek and durable carbon fiber and a front slide of tempered glass that has a complete capacitive touch interface.
ClearPad provides more advanced gesture recognition for the main display and ClearArray powers the control navigation area below it, giving the LG Secret intuitive control of the phone's features.
These two touch solutions, comprising the Synaptics ClearTouch family of products, are ideal for thin and elegant design, clearly achieved with the LG Secret mobile phone.
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The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, today announced the winners of its Touching the Future: NFC Forum Global Competition.
The first-place winner in the Commercial Track is VingCard Elsafe of Norway for its "Signature RFID by VingCard - Electronic Lock for Hotels."
This solution enables hotel guests with NFC-enabled mobile phones to completely bypass the check-in process and unlock their hotel room doors using their phones.
The first-place winner in the Research Track is Lancaster University of the UK for "Touch & Interact: Applied to a Tourist Guide Prototype."
This project uses NFC technology to allow mobile phone handsets and public information screens to share display space, thereby overcoming the screen size limitations of mobile phone displays.
"We congratulate VingCard and Lancaster University for prevailing against dozens of very competitive solutions submitted this year," said Gerhard Romen, NFC Forum vice chairman.
"Both winning submissions demonstrate how effective NFC technology can be in supporting creative, yet simple and elegant, solutions to real-world problems - from unlocking hotel doors to enhancing users' interactions with their mobile phones."
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A small San Francisco-based company, We Love Jam is using some creative sustainable packaging for a new series of products it has just added to its lineup.
The company was looking for a sustainable solution to offer single biscotti for sale in coffee shops and also for a box of nine biscotti customers could purchase.
Concerned about the environmental impact of their packaging, co-founder and president Eric Haeberli was looking for a biodegradable alternative to plastic.
Running a two person company means hands on involvement in all aspects of packaging design.
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