A POSSIBLE household product of the future — a portable food heating device — was announced as the winner of Electrolux’s 2010 Design Lab competition recently.
The competition focused on predictions that by 2050, 74% of the world’s population would be living in urban spaces; entrants from around the world were tasked to design a household appliance that could be used in smaller domestic spaces. A total of 1,300 undergraduate and graduate design students entered, before being reduced to 25 semi-finalists and eight finalists.