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Create the Future Design Contest - reinvent the wheel
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — The NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest began in 2002 as a platform for encouraging innovation in product design among engineers, entrepreneurs, and students around the globe. The 2008 competition is open until October 17, but already this year's entries have produced some very thought provoking product ideas and we'll be exploring some of the standouts in detail over coming weeks. The first cab off the rank is an attempt, in fact two attempts, to do what else but reinvent the wheel. German student Caspar Schmitz has designed a castor with an ...

Power Dam: wireless, plug and play power management concept
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Arizona State University student Travis Andren's entry for the Sustainable Technologies category of the Create the Future Design Contest is a plug and play system designed to combat the phenomena known as “vampire power” or “power leakage”, which causes power loss through plugged in appliances. .. ...

Giving a Dam about Power
Core77 — ... a day you spend at work, your electricity bill would be lower and the planet would be a little greener. Here are some solutions, in order of convenience: 1. Before you leave, you hunt down and unplug everything. 2. Everything is plugged into power strips, and before you leave, you hunt down and switch them all off. 3. You use a system like Arizona State University student Travis Andren's proposed Power Dam system (photo above), his entry into the 2008 Create the Future design contest. That last one is a simple concept--you've got ...

More comfortable flights: the Airborne Hotel concept
Core77 — ... --another nifty entry in the Create the Future contest--purports to increase airplane capacity while affording more individual comfort. ...

Aircraft seat-bed design offers a comfortable journey for all travelers
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Another stand-out entry in the Create the Future Design Contest is the aircraft seat-bed design entered in the transportation section by Mario Martinez Celis from Mexico City. The concept design allows for 594 seats on the Airbus A380 which normally seats 555 but the real beauty of the configuration is that ALL passengers would be given the comfort of seat-beds with more space than ever before. .. ...

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Modelmaking: camera out of balsa wood
Core77 — ... Advertising Contact Us Newsletter Get Our RSS Feed Coroflot Design Job o' the day Carnegie Mellon is seeking a Head of the School of Design in Pittsburgh Core77 c77 coroflot articles photo galleries calendar books + links design schools discussions Our Other Sites design firms design jobs Advertisement FEATURED EVENTS See All Events NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Deadline: Oct. 17, 2008 Design September Sept. 7-30, ...

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Core77 — ... Advertising Contact Us Newsletter Get Our RSS Feed Coroflot Design Job o' the day Carnegie Mellon is seeking a Head of the School of Design in Pittsburgh Core77 c77 coroflot articles photo galleries calendar books + links design schools discussions Our Other Sites design firms design jobs Advertisement FEATURED EVENTS See All Events NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Deadline: Oct. 17, 2008 Design September Sept. 7-30, ...

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Core77 — ... Advertising Contact Us Newsletter Get Our RSS Feed Coroflot Design Job o' the day Carnegie Mellon is seeking a Head of the School of Design in Pittsburgh Core77 c77 coroflot articles photo galleries calendar books + links design schools discussions Our Other Sites design firms design jobs Advertisement FEATURED EVENTS See All Events NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Deadline: Oct. 17, 2008 Design September Sept. 7-30, ...