Berne, Switzerland, December 3, 2008. The DECT Forum, the worldwide association of the home communication industry, and Jakajima are pleased to announce the winners of the International CAT-iq Student Design Competition.

 

With the CAT-iq Design Competition 2008 the DECT Forum inspired design students from all over the world to create out of the box products and exciting services for the next generation of home communication. The jury of international experts has made the decision for the first three prizes. Winners will be invited to the DECT CAT-iq Conference 2009 in Amsterdam; the awarded design studies will be presented during the conference (February 3-4, 2008) to industry experts.

Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum, is pleased to disclose the three winners of the CAT-iq Design Competition 2008:

 

The quality of the submitted designs was high but very diverse. The winning concepts were distinctive and well presented. The final decision on the runner up prize was not so easy as there were several ideas that made the choice difficult.

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First prize (10.000 €) goes to: Jelly Web, by Conrad Kroencke, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Comment of the jury for First prize:
Innovation level was very high and a good approach to embed CAT-iq in home entertainment equipment. The idea has a distinctive design language and very good graphic presentation and is a completely thought through concept.

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Second prize (5.000 €) goes to: Spectrum, by Werner Helmich, Twente University, Department Industrial Design Engineering, Enschede, The Netherlands

Comment of the jury for Second prize:
High level of innovation and a great design. Interesting new attempt for sound/voice communication. 

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Runner up price (1.000 €) goes to: Follow Me Phones by Joris Zaalberg, University of Technology, Department Industrial Design, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Comment of the jury for Runner up prize:
Using special awareness to move in and out of conversational areas is very innovative and offers new ways of communication amongst people.

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“I would like to congratulate the winners of the CAT-iq Design competition on behalf of the home communications industry. The jury was very impressed with the creativity and innovative quality of the entries and it was difficult to choose the winners. I would like to thank students from all over the world for their participation”, says Erich Kamperschroer. 

About DECT Forum and Jakajima:
The DECT Forum is the international industry association of the home communication industry. With more than 670 million devices sold and growing to more than 100 million devices per year, DECT, DECT 6.0 and CAT-iq are worldwide-adopted technologies with high relevance for cordless voice and broadband home communication. The DECT Forum is located in Berne, Switzerland. Full members of the DECT Forum are currently: American Telecom, Ascom, Avaya, AVM, Binatone, CCT, DSP Group, Gigaset Communications, GN Netcom, Infineon, Kirk, Panasonic, Philips, Plantronics, RTX, Sagem, SiTel, SGW Electronics, Telematrix, Thomson, Topcom, Unical, Uniden, VTech. For more information please visit us at: 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.

Some weeks ago we started to help in the creation of new CAT-iq product concepts and ideas. This as support for the international CAT-iq design competition for students, organized by DECT Forum and Jakajima.

 

Together with redesignme, we set up a CAT-iq page, end of July. So far 20 ideas came up. Not all of them are great, but some are interesting concepts, and not just telephony related!

 

Go to the CAT-iq page at the Redesignme site, and decide for yourself.

 

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.

 

 

 

I bumped into this product concept, and I thought this is an interesting idea for CAT-iq

 

This is an major Project of Robert Curtis;

'incus' is the name of my recently completed major project; a personal listener and home alert for the hard of hearing. The project has been undertaken in collaboration with the Royal National Institute for the Deaf and seeks to the address the problem of social isolation caused by personal listening products, whereby users are cut off from audible events such as the telephone ringing.

 

You can argue whether the design is great (sorry Robert), but the idea is interesting.

 

The market for the deaf is small, I assume, but if you have a product like this and combine it with Internet and some more intelligence, it opens the opportunity for new services.

 

For the whole story and video go to the site