Microsoft Office Labs showcases the possibilities of what can happen when you make collaboration the centerpiece of defining the future of work. Equipping individual contributors and product teams with the tools to create and explore new frontiers leads to new ways to envision the future of how people utilize software at home and at work. The best software ideas are given free rein, nurtured and refined so our customers can work smarter, now and in the future. Office Labs blends art and science in ways that push the possibilities of software through exploration, envisioning and rapid innovation.
Design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.
About Don Norman
Don Norman studies how real people interact with design, exploring the gulf between what a designer intends and what a regular person actually wants.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine “Minority Report” and then some.
About Pattie Maes
At the MIT Media Lab’s new Fluid Interfaces Group, Pattie Maes researches the tools we use to work with information and connect with one another.
About Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry is the genius behind Sixth Sense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn’t expect, as he shares evolution’s counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things. For a topping, try his new theory on why jokes are funny.
About Dan Dennett
Philosopher and scientist Dan Dennett argues that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes and are not what we traditionally think they are.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
For some time now, shifting from its original functional means, eyewear have become a fashion item. It is a tool to express oneself. While there are now diverse options to suit preferences and reflect different lifestyles, another alternative possibility may be “sensuality.” What is emotion provoking sensual form? How could sensual form achieved through design?
Prize:
Gold Prize:
1 award 1,000,000yen in prize money
Silver Prize:
2 awards 250,000yen in prize money
Committee’s Special Prize:
5 awards 50,000yen in prize money
Winning Entries:
Approx 20 awards
Below are the winning entries of last year:
Gold Prize:
Traditional photochromic eyewear suffers from the problem that the overall design of
the eyewear is usually biased towards one typology: normal glasses or sunglasses. When in tinted mode, normal glasses do not look like convincing sunglasses and therefore can appear compromised. This limits the appeal, which considering how practical it is, is a great shame. Switch addresses this by making a more complete transformation between states. Rather than just the lenses reacting to light, the arms and nose bridge do also, making a distinction between 100% normal glasses and 100% sunglasses.
Silver Prize
“White glass” is glasses for totally blind people. The surface of the lens is pure white and maintains only light. The shape prominent forward is impressive and has a symbolic meaning. The white stick for the visually impaired does not function at the place where there is an unpleasant illegally parked bicycle in a crowd. A purpose of “white glass” is to make up for the weak point of the white stick, and deepen understanding to the visually impaired as the item which is next to the white stick more. Further they promote an advance to the society. “White glass” is glasses for totally blind people. The surface of the lens is pure white and maintains only light. The shape prominent forward is impressive and has a symbolic meaning. The white stick for the visually impaired does not function at the place where there is an unpleasant illegally parked bicycle in a crowd. A purpose of “white glass” is to make up for the weak point of the white stick, and deepen understanding to the visually impaired as the item which is next to the white stick more. Further they promote an advance to the society.
It is difficult to attach eyewear with one hand. However, anyone wants to perform the movement in with one hand and one movement. This work protection glasses and sunglasses when driving can be simply installed without obstructing work. Furthermore, the storing characteristics are good because it is possibility to catch it in somewhere by inserted metal spring characteristics.
Do you have an idea for an innovative new diabetes device or web application? This is your chance to win up to $10,000 to realize your design concept, and potentially help transform life with diabetes for millions of people.
Three winners will be selected to receive the following prizes:
$10,000 in cash for the Grand Prize winner;
- plus a mini-workshop with Health and Wellness experts at the global design and innovation firm IDEO;
- and one free access ticket to the “innovation incubator” Health 2.0 Conference planned for October 2009 in San Francisco, CA
$5,000 cash for the “Most Creative Idea” category winner;
– plus a consulting session with IDEO design experts
$2,000 cash for the winner of the Kids’ Category
This competition is generously sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), an independent philanthropy organization committed to improving the way health care is delivered and financed in California and beyond.
It is also endorsed by Medgadget.com, the Internet journal of emerging medical technologies, and supported by the world-renowned design and innovation firm IDEO, with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.
Change the psychological state of living in crisis, and expect everything to have a turning point. Restore is used to reconstruct and renew; it is the expectation of returning to a prosperous life.
Let design become an action and a measure that restores a good life, and create new opportunities through creativity.
Qualification
Designers; teachers or students of design related departments or schools;
people who are interested in design. (No age limitation)
*Participants can participate in the competition as individuals or in teams. There is no limit to the
number of pieces, however, the same work cannot be entered into multiple competition
categories.
Participating Works
The creative product design of the competition theme “Restore” must be expressed in the participating pieces.
Electrolux Design Lab invites undergraduate and graduate industrial design students around the world to create home appliances that will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes over the next nine decades. The design ideas should address key consumer insights such as being adaptive to time and space, provide learning and allow for individualization.
A limited number of finalists will be invited to participate in the final event in London September 24, 2009, to present their entries to a jury of high-level designers and experts. The jury will review the entries based on intuitive design, innovation and consumer insight and then select a winner.
he brief for the competition’s 7th edition is to create thoughtfully-designed home appliances that will shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes over the next nine decades.
The design ideas should address key consumer insights such as being adaptive to time and space, provide learning and allow for individualization.
“We’re looking for really daring ideas and solutions,” says Henrik Otto, Sr VP of Global Design at Electrolux who explains more about the competition in his “Call for entries” video.
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