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Levi’s has just launched the first social networking and public chat-branded virtual world (LevisWorld) in Hong Kong and China. A virtual world is simply a computer simulated environment that its users inhabit and interact via avatars, which are active and available 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The avatar is you, or indeed a version of ...

Interantional design competition open to all deadline: 08.01.08 Citroën launches the first edition of “ C Design - Combine Connect Create”International Design Competition open to all designers without limitations of age or nationality, taking place exclusively on-line. subject Design products for everyday life using three-dimensional ...

Date: 6 December 2007Time: 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Venue: University Cultural Centre Hall, NUS Today, designers approach their work from a different perspective. A poetic design of products has evolved based on a plethora of complex criteria -- human experience; social, global, economic and political issues; physical and mental interaction, form, ...

Deadline: April 2008 The competition invites design students and individuals to create a broad range of design concepts and innovations for technology products that demonstrate refreshed approaches and responsible solutions for green computing technologies. The goal is to facilitate an open exchange among all peoples of the Earth and ...

This year, Time Magazine's Invention of the Year title goes to the iPhone, as: 1. The iPhone is pretty2. It's touchy-feely3. It will make other phones better4. It's not a phone, it's a platform5. It is but the ghost of iPhones yet to come Below are others selected on the list:  Autonomous Automobile  The trouble with ...

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase investigates the ways we interact with technology -- a quest that has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he's made some unexpected discoveries: about the ways illiterate people use their mobile phones, the new roles the mobile can play in global commerce, and the deep ...

''In China, a Lake’s Champion Imperils Himself,'' by Joseph Kahn. New York Times, 14 Oct 2007. [link] Read about Wu Lihong, a 40-year-old former factory salesman who ''pioneered a style of intrepid, media-savvy environmental work that made Lake Tai, and the hundreds of chemical factories on its shores, the focus of intense regulatory ...

This Award aims to stimulate creativity and to promote scientific and technological research among young Singaporeans. The online system for entry submission is open from 15 October till 31 December 2007.  Further details on the award and online system are available at www.tkk.wspc.com.sg .  

Our industrial design program's alumna Mr. Joe Tan (AY04/05) has won the Gold Prize in the Opus Design Award 2007 which is considered one of the top eyeware design competitions around the world. The Competition attracted 756 works from 54 countries in the world this year. Below is his winning design work: blue is inspired by the ...

See the press release at Science Daily.