Date: 22/09/2009

Intel's Design Expo to bridge mobile technology for student designers

Intel sponsored students from several colleges and universities from around the world to explore creative new ways to bridge technology and design across the areas of user interaction, industrial design, and mobile applications and solutions as part of a University Design Expo held in conjunction with the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

The Design Expo is a recurring event that aims to highlight creativity and innovation in technology and explores the perspectives of these talented young designers who have an exciting vision for how technology can affect how we live, work and play. The concepts featured at the Design Expo have the potential to impact a broad spectrum of mobile computing - from next generation laptops to pocketable, handheld devices and beyond.

"As the Internet goes mobile, people are looking for technology that is not only smaller, sleeker and smarter, but also a seamless and intuitive fit for complementing one's lifestyle," said Caleb Rabinowitz, mobile concepts planner, Intel Corporation. "By engaging with student designers, Intel is exploring new perspectives and seeing firsthand how design is increasingly essential to differentiating products and encouraging new applications of technology and user interaction."

"The Design Expo has a legacy that goes back more than 20 years, bringing innovative, fresh thinking from today's youth and tomorrow's leaders to a variety of industries," said S. Joy Mountford, consultant for user interface designs and innovation at Fortune 500 companies. "The Intel-sponsored Design Expo allows us to gain insight into new and creative uses of technology as well as identify talent for future design leaders. As a company that truly believes in sponsoring the best of what tomorrow has to offer, we believe that these students have brought some fresh thinking to technology design, for Intel and the industry-at-large."

The Design Expo is located in the Golden Gate Hall at the San Francisco Marriott, and will be open for viewing from 4-6 p.m. on Sept. 21 and from 10:15 a.m.-1 p.m. on Sept. 22.

For more details visit www.intel.com