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Design Lab
Every year, since 2003, Electrolux has been holding an international design competition for students and industrial design graduates Design Lab. They are invited to present innovative ideas for household appliances of the future. All the time of the competition, thousands of students from 100 countries took part in it. The winners of the competition are awarded good prizes. So, in the first place the finalist receives 5 thousand euros and the opportunity to intervene in one of the design centers of Electrolux for half a year. For the second place - 3 thousand euros, for the third - 2 thousand. All 8 projects of finalists are embodied in high -quality layouts by the organizers. The theme for the 2010 contest - The 2nd Space Age, projects are accepted until May 1.
The following projects were included in the final of 2009:
The audience sympathy, according to the results of the Online voting, received Dulywat Wongnawa for Teleport Fridge-a refrigerator that teleports products.
The third place was taken by Louis Filosa from the USA. He presented to the competition a model of a steam generator for cleaning Renew clothes.
The second place went to the Penghao Shan designer from China for a flying Water Catcher rain.
The favorite was the Cocoon project of a student of the Lund Technological Institute in Sweden Rickard Hederstierna. Cocoon prepares genetic-curled and pre-packaged dishes of fish and meat by heating the muscle tissues of products detected by RFID signals (radio frequency identification). This approach to cooking allows us to solve the problem of reducing biological resources on Earth, to stop the process of depletion of land and destroying ecosystems. 
