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The Design Council is part of the Design & Technology Alliance Against Crime – aimed at developing technology solutions to stop the baddies from beating us up and nicking our stuff. As part of this they are running a competition to find a way to make mobile phones “non-nickable”. This is great idea, and the best thing is they are throwing some proper money behind it with a total of £400,000 worth of funding for the four winning teams. The requirements are also very clear that each team must consist of technology experts and designers, with a proper design plan for how they are going to develop and implement the idea. (more…)
