Invitation

The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the wireless communication industry, in partnership with Jakajima in the Netherlands, is pleased to announce the first international CAT-iq Design Competition. CAT-iq provides an open platform for pioneering IP service applications as well as new form factors for non-computing communication devices. The DECT Forum invites design students from all over the world to compete for cash prizes by applying their creativity and engineering skills to trend-setting products and services for tomorrow’s IP based home network.

The CAT-iq Design Competition is aimed at meeting the following main goals:
Provide an opportunity for students from a variety of design backgrounds (industrial design, interactive design, gaming design, etc.) to demonstrate their problem solving and design skills in an international competition, provide the CAT-iq industry with refreshing perspectives on how designers from different disciplines and different parts of the world approach a common design challenge with respect to the new CAT-iq technology.

Students can also benefit from industry leaders who might be interested in taking over their inventions for new classes of products or services.

“For almost 100 years home telephony has not substantially changed. The introduction of cordless phones based on the DECT standard was the latest significant innovation of the industry, which was highly accepted by the consumers”, says Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum. “With the introduction of the broadband era and the emerging new networks connected to millions of homes, the communication equipment is currently in the process of originating new form factors and services.

With this competition we would like to inspire design students to create out of the box products and exciting services. CAT-iq is the technology which offers unique and boundless possibilities to combine voice communication, home networking and multiple IP based applications.”

About DECT Forum
DECT Forum, a non-profit organization, intends to publicize entries to this competition together with other ideas to promote CAT-iq – based products and services. This could give entrants to the competition the opportunity to commercialize the concepts represented by their entries by arrangements with companies which may wish to develop and market products or services based on these concepts.

Categories
The CAT-iq Design Competition 2008 contains two categories;

• Products for the home
• Services for the home

• First prize: €10,000
• Second prize: €5,000
• Runner up prize: €1,000

See also;
Industrial Design Directory
australian design.org
Dexigner
Design in Central and East Europe