One year ago Jakajima and DECT Forum organized the CAT-iq global design competition amongst the design students around the globe. 

Here are some ideas. CAT-iq offers much more than just a phone!

 

 

 

 

For more information go the site of the CAT-iq design competition.

For the thirteenth time the DECT Forum held the international CAT-iq / DECT Conference. Amsterdam was, for the second time, the city where the conference took place.

This video gives a good overview of the conference.

It also shows the winners of the CAT-iq design competition;

• first price, Conrad Croencke
• second price, Werner Helmich
• runner up price, Joris Zaalberg

For more information about the design competition, go to the site.

 

Registration for Participants Closes on September 19, 2008

 

Berne, Switzerland, September 9, 2008. The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the home communication industry, announces the closing of the registration for the CAT-iq Design Competition on September 19, 2008. Design students from all over the world can win cash-prizes as well as market or licence their great ideas to leading companies of the home communication industry.

“The communication business changes dramatically. We call it overall IP communication. With your participation in the CAT-iq Design Competition you have the opportunity to shape the future of home communication. With some luck you can win attractive cash-prizes. But even more, since the
leading global industry players follow this competition very closely, the best ideas have a great chance to be manufactured and seen soon as innovative products on the market, in stores all
over the world”, says Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum.

 

The CAT-iq Design Competition addresses two general categories:
• Leading-edge Products for broadband home communication
      and/or
• Innovative and useful Services for broadband home communication

 

CAT-iq Student Design Competition Prizes:
First prize: 10,000 €
Second prize: 5,000 €
Third runner-up prize: 1,000 €

 

CAT-iq Student Design Competition Checklist:
Close of registration: September 19, 2008.
Submission of entries: October 10, 2008.
Announcement of winners: November 14, 2008.
More information, registration, contacts at: www.catiqdesigncompetition.org

 

About CAT-iq:

CAT-iq, the global technology platform for wireless communication, is the successor of the reliable DECT standard. CAT-iq is designed for the next generation of IP networks, operates in a protected frequency band and is available in almost every region of the world. The most important benefits of the CAT-iq technology are:
full in-house IP connectivity, applicable for CD quality audio and radio, widescreen messaging, intelligent device management and remote control, real plug and play, and energy saving.

 

About DECT Forum and Jakajima:

The DECT Forum and Jakajima arrange the Design Competition. The DECT Forum, located in Berne, Switzerland, is the international industry association representing the worldwide home communication industry. Jury members of the Design competition are: Vincent Buet (Philips), Pieter Hermans (Jakajima), Erich Kamperschroer (DECT Forum), Nicholas Rhodes (St. Martins College London), Erik Stridbaek (Polycom),
Sofia Svanteson (Ocean Observations), Lesley Taylor (SGW Europe), C.H. Tong (VTech).
For more information please visit: www.dect.org www.cat-iq.org www.catiqdesigncompetition.org

Jakajima is an independent market intelligence and innovation company for the telecom, ICT, and consumer-electronics trade chain. Jakajima is based in Nuenen, Netherlands. Please read more at www.jakajima.eu.

 

There has been a great response to the first International CAT-iq Student Design Competition: The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the home communication industry, has received registrations from design students from all over the world.
To enter the competition, students may present either a concept, or a fully realized prototype. The registration period for the competition closes on September 19, 2008
“It is not only the cash prizes that attract students to participate. It is even more that students and their work get exposed to worldwide industry professionals, a terrific path for beginning a career”, says Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum

 

The CAT-iq Student Design Competition solicits innovative approaches for new and leading-edge products and services in the area of home communication. “Students in the field of industrial design, interactive design, gaming design, and electronic engineering, are unique in their ability to impact the quality of people's future in-house communication and cordless telephony”, says Erich Kamperschroer. “Hence, we ask students to face many fascinating challenges in designing usable and enjoyable services, applications, and devices for the consumers.

CAT-iq, the global technology platform for wireless communication, is the successor of the reliable DECT standard. CAT-iq is designed for the next generation of IP networks, operates in a protected frequency band and is available in almost every region of the world. The most important benefits of the CAT-iq technology are: full in-house IP connectivity, applicable for CD quality audio and radio, widescreen messaging, intelligent device management and remote control, real plug and play, and energy saving.

 

CAT-iq Student Design Competition Prizes:
First prize: 10,000 €
Second prize: 5,000 €
Third runner-up prize: 1,000 €

 

 

CAT-iq Student Design Competition Checklist:
Close of registration: September 19, 2008.
Submission of entries: October 10, 2008.
Announcement of winners: November 14, 2008.

 

About DECT Forum and Jakajima:
The DECT Forum and Jakajima arrange the Design Competition.

The DECT Forum, located in Berne, Switzerland, is the international industry association representing the worldwide home communication industry.

 

Jury members of the Design competition are: Vincent Buet (Philips), Pieter Hermans (Jakajima), Erich Kamperschroer (DECT Forum), Nicholas Rhodes (St. Martins College London), Sofia Svanteson (Ocean Observations), Lesley Taylor (SGW Europe), and C.H. Tong (VTech).

 

For more information please visit:
http://www.dect.org/
http://www.cat-iq.org/
http://www.catiqdesigncompetition.org/

 

Jakajima is an independent market intelligence and innovation company for the telecom, ICT, and consumer-electronics value chain. Jakajima is based in Nuenen, Netherlands. Please read more at http://www.jakajima.eu/

I found on the internet this short article in a blog about designing for humans.

 

For those working in productdevelopment en producdesign this could be interesting, specially when we talk about new CAT-iq product concepts. Those who are involved in the CAT-iq design competition might find this article and the blog useful.

 

The article starts promising;

I've got a bias against design standards based on my experiences working with organizations that have tried to set them before, rather than after designing a product.  Standards should be a way to document a proven approach, not a prescription for how to do something that hasn't been done yet.  On the other hand, process standards are useful a priori because they provide guidance on how to do something that you may have not done before.  And like design standards, process standards should be updated over time with experience.

Read the full article

 

 

 

When you are googling for CAT-iq, you will find an increasing number of results related to the standard, but also to the iq of cats.

 

One designer has combined the two and came up with a productconcept, combining both. See his idea.

 

At this this from the company Redesignme.com you will find some other ideas as well.

 

All these ideas can be input for the CAT-iq design competition.

 

 

 

Leading Companies Inspire Students to Exciting Home Communication Devices

 

Berne, Switzerland, July 10, 2008. Leading global companies of the home communication industry are pleased to sponsor the international CAT-iq Design Competition for the next generation of communication devices and services. The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the home communication industry, arranges this competition in collaboration with Jakajima. “Surprise the customers, excite them!” says Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum, in his video message of the global CAT-iq Design Competition.

 

The new video message of the Chairman can be watched at: www.cat-iq.org and www.catiqdesigncompetition.org. 

 

The CAT-iq Design Competition addresses students from various disciplines: industrial design, interactive design, electronic engineering and gaming design.

 

Additionally the DECT Forum has initiated a CAT-iq Blog in order to start a public discussion with comments and short articles about the unlimited opportunities of the CAT-iq technology. The new CAT-iq Blog is aiming at becoming the interactive tool towards the designer and developer world: hardware, software, network operators and designers. The CAT-iq Blog is available at: http://blog.cat-iq.org

 

The home communication industry is challenging participants in the CAT-iq Design Competition in two basic areas:
• Products – stylish non-computing hardware devices
• Innovative and new services that can be offered by telecom network operators

 

For the winners of the CAT-iq Design Competition these prizes are available:
• First prize: 10,000 €
• Second prize: 5,000 €
• Third runner-up prize: 1,000 €

The registration closes on September 19, 2008.

 

The deadline for the submission of entries is October 10, 2008. Winners will be announced on November 14, 2008. Interested design students find all details and contacts at www.catiqdesigncompetition.org

or www.cat-iq.org.

About DECT Forum and Jakajima:

The DECT Forum and Jakajima arrange the Design Competition. The DECT Forum, located in Berne, Switzerland, is the international industry association representing the worldwide home communication industry. Jury members of the Design competition are: Vincent Buet (Philips), Pieter Hermans (Jakajima), Erich Kamperschroer (DECT Forum), Nicholas Rhodes (St. Martins College London), Sofia Svanteson (Ocean Observations), Lesley Taylor (SGW Europe), C.H. Tong (VTech).
For more information please visit: www.cat-iq.org,  www.dect.org, www.catiqdesigncompetition.org.

Jakajima is an independent market intelligence and innovation company for the telecom, ICT, and consumer-electronics trade chain. Jakajima is based in Nuenen, Netherlands. Please read more at www.jakajima.eu.

The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the wireless home 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.”

For more information go to the site.