Competition Lets Children Design Their Own Car Seat

September 27th, 2009 HELMOND, The Netherlands - - Awarded Best Innovative Baby Product 2009 25 Years after the launch of the first Maxi-Cosi infant car seat, the Maxi-Cosi Car Seat Family sets a new standard in child in-car safety. The embodiment of a quarter century of safety, technical and ergonomic innovation, parental user experiences and testing in excess of legal safety requirements, the new Car Seat Family represents the most advanced safety concept today.

September 6th, 2009 LONDON - Do you struggle to keep your 5-12 year olds on task at homework time? Help is now at hand with the launch of The Learning Bubble (tlb), a powerful piece of software featuring a special learning desktop that creates an interruption-free environment in which children can learn - similar to a quiet study at home. The Learning Bubble lets parents have complete control over which internet sites their children can visit between specific times, preventing unwanted interruptions by blocking instant messaging, unauthorised websites, games and email during homework time.

August 16th, 2009 NEW YORK - GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced a global design competition to develop the website's new logo. Here's your chance to redesign the logo for the world's number one freelancing website, and win US$10,000 cold hard cash in the process! We've almost hit our first million registered users, and we need an exciting, vibrant image which will propel us to the next level! Amazing prizes can be won including cash, Adobe Illustrator CS4, an Apple iPod Touch 16GB or iTunes Vouchers! The winner of the competition will also be awarded the coveted Master Logo Designer insignia! Matt Barrie, Chief Executive of GetAFreelancer.com says, "It's an exciting time at GetAFreelancer.

June 11th, 2009 LONDON - Dorel (UK) Ltd, the world's biggest manufacturer of nursery and children's products and makers of Maxi-Cosi seats, has responded to today's report - published in the British Medical Journal - which suggests that children should stay in a rear-facing child car seat until the age of four: "There are some pure safety arguments for the benefit of travelling backwards in the event of an accident. This also applies to adults travelling by rail, for example.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - This week sees the official launch of the 'Watch Them Grow' campaign and sunflower growing competition from Renaissance Learning. Every primary and secondary school in the UK has been sent a packet of seeds and a poster containing hints and tips on how to get their sunflowers off to the best possible start.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - 1st Airline Company Seat "Pitch" Comparison "Pitch", also known as "seat pitch" is the distance that the airline leaves between two plane seats. It can vary depending on the reservation class and the type of plane offered by the airline for any particular journey.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - David White, Chief Executive, The Children's Mutual (www.thechildrensmutual.co.uk) welcomed today's Budget announcement, "Children who receive disability living allowance in a tax year will qualify for additional annual payments of GBP100 or GBP200 into their Child Trust Funds. This means that next year approximately 100,000 children will benefit from the additional annual payments of which an estimated 40,000 will qualify for the higher GBP200 allowance.

March 31st, 2009 HAMBURG, Germany - The competition at this year's Crystal Cabin Award for aircraft cabin interiors innovations had strong entries in six different categories from 51 renowned companies. Winners are: Boeing, Lufthansa-Technik, B/E Aerospace and Recaro This truly unique prize was initiated two years ago by the "Joint-Initiative Hamburg - The place for aviation".

March 26th, 2009 COPENHAGEN - In one of the most renowned and hardest international design competitions, the red dot design award, the JX20 Pura by Jabra has just received an honourable mention from the top-class expert jury. With 3,231 products submitted to the competition, the product clearly stands out from the masses, because the design experts awarded 194 honourable mentions to those products which distinguished themselves with particularly successful design details.

March 16th, 2009 OTTAWA, Canada - Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and Council of Canadians chairperson, says the Harper government's goal of a seat on the UN Security Council should be denied until Canada formally recognizes water as a human right. Ms. Barlow is currently in Istanbul for the week-long World Water Forum at which government ministers from 120 countries will discuss global water issues.

June 10th, 2009 KOLAR - Engineering students from across the country participated in a design competition for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), organised by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) here on Tuesday. The competition was organised to nurture the spirit of innovation among the engineering students.

April 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new design for aircraft armrests could finally end the misery of in-flight elbow hockey. Called the 'Paperclip Armrest Concept,' it's a double-levelled armrest that allows airline passengers to share a single armrest without touching.

March 4th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actress Katie Holmes will soon expand her fashion portfolio by designing for children. The actress, who has modelled for Italian design house Miu Miu, said she is working on the clothing line with her stylist and is inspired by her daughter Suri, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A British company has come up with new airplane designs that have interiors like a tube train. The most striking feature of the design is its seating arrangement where passengers would sit on seats with their backs towards the windows.

March 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - No more back aches and lack of sleep on long flights, for now Thompson Solutions has designed a new type of seats in an aircraft that may help travellers sleep and provide more privacy. According to the designers, the new "Cozy Suite" seats are "a major step forward in passenger comfort" and cater towards the growing size of passengers.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - It's time to bid adieu to those traditional washing machines that required you to make multiple rounds of the bathroom carrying that basket of dirty clothes, thanks to a Wi-Fi washing basket that would do all your laundry on its own. The see-through basket would automatically start when the dirty clothes placed in the basket hit a certain weight.

April 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Naga design student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) of Delhi has designed a single-seater vehicle for the elderly. Ringlarei, who is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and is currently pursuing Master of Design (Industrial Design) in IIT in New Delhi, has designed Ol'Boy, the small car.

August 11th, 2009 Designs sought for mural on WTC construction fenceNEW YORK — Artists looking for somewhere to display their work now have a chance to be seen at one of the city's most high-profile places — the World Trade Center site. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the city Department of Transportation are asking artists to submit designs for a new mural.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - Soccer ace Cristiano Ronaldo likes to be dominated in bed, according to his ex girlfriend, Brazilian model Gabriela Endringer. The 28-year-old stunning fitness instructor has revealed that Ronaldo is a passive lover who lets the girl dictate all the play during sex.

April 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore has a designer pet dog. The 'Charlie's Angels' star lets her yellow Labrador-Chow mix pet Flossie customise her jeans, reports China Daily.