lufdesign founder Tsunho Wang has been nominated for the Prestigious World Technology Award.
The World Technology Award Honors individuals for their Innovative work with the Greatest Likely Long-Term Significance.
New York (April 14, 2009) - The World Technology Network (WTN) announced that Tsunho Wang has been selected as a nominee for a 2009 World Technology Award, presented by the World Technology Network, in association with TIME magazine, Fortune magazine, and Science magazine, among others. Tsunho is eligible to be selected as the Winner of the 2009 World Technology Award in the category of “Design.”
James P. Clark, founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network, commented “The World Technology Awards program is not only a very inspiring way to identify and honor the most innovative people and organizations in the technology world, but it also is a truly disciplined way for the WTN membership to identify those who will formally join them as part of our global community. By working to make useful connections among our members, we look forward to assisting the nominee to continue to help create our collective future and change our world."
Winners will be announced on July 16, 2009, in New York, at the World Technology Awards gala ceremony at the TIME & Life Building at the conclusion of the two-day World Technology Summit. The World Technology Awards honor individuals and corporations from twenty technology-related sectors viewed by peers as being the most innovative and doing the work of the greatest likely long-term significance. Award categories range from communications, biotechnology, space and energy through to ethics, design and entertainment.
Nominees for the 2009 World Technology Awards were identified based on an intensive, global process over a period of many months in which current individual WTN members (primarily elected WTN Fellows from previous Awards cycles, who now number over 1000, spread out over 60 countries) made their nominations based on who they think is doing the innovative work in their field of the greatest likely long-term significance. After the WTN gathers further information from nominees, WTN individual member then vote on their preferences within their category. The top five selections in each category are announced from the podium on stage at the Awards ceremony, and inducted into the WTN membership as Corporate Members. The Winner receives an Award on stage and makes comments about their innovative work to those assembled.
A selection of WTN members in the 20 different award categories who nominated/judged/voted in recent years includes:
- Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3c)
- Niklas Zennstrom, CEO & Founder, Skype
- Gordon Moore, Co-Founder, Intel
- Kilnam Chon, Professor, Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology (Kaist)
- Richard Marks, Manager, Special Projects, Sony Computer Entertainment
- Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School; Author “The Future Of Ideas”
- Philippe Van Nedervelde, Executive Director, Foresight Institute Europe
- Calestous Juma, Professor Of The Practice Of International Development, Kennedy School Of Government, Harvard University
- Gary Shapiro, President, Consumer Electronics Association Of America
- Don Peppers, Co-Founder, Peppers & Rogers Group; Author “One To One Future”
- Dan Gillmor, Author, “We The Media; Grassroots Journalism By The People, For The People”; Former Technology Columnist, San Jose Mercury News
- Gregory Stock, Director, Program On Medicine, Technology, & Society, UCLA
- Fred Von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Leslie Vadascz, Former President, Intel Capital
- Ann Winblad, Co-Founder, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
- Richard Dasher, Executive Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center, Stanford University
- Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital
- Albert Teich, Director, Science And Policy Programs, American Association For The Advancement Of Science (Aaas)
- Daniel Goldin, Chairman, The Intellisis Corporation; Former Administrator, NASA
- Molly Coye, President, Health Technology Center
- Bert Keely, Architect, Tablet Pc, Microsoft
- Jim Fruchterman, President & CEO, The Benetech Initiative
- Alexandra Weber Morales, Editor In Chief, Software Development Magazine
This year’s World Technology Awards ceremony will cap the 2009 World Technology Summit taking place on the 15th and 16th of July at the TIME Conference Center in the historic TIME & Life Building in New York City. This year’s Summit -- which has as its theme "How to Save the Future,” will also include demos from the stage, and exhibits from the floor. For more information on the World Technology Network, World Technology Awards and World Technology Summit, please visit www.wtn.net .
About The World Technology Network
The World Technology Network is a New York-headquartered organization that was created to "encourage serendipity” - happy accidents - amongst those individuals and companies deemed by their peers to be the most innovative in the science and technology world. WTN's areas of interest range from IT and communications to biotech, energy, materials, space, and related fields such as finance, marketing, policy, law, design, and ethics. Each year, WTN members are brought together through an ongoing global series of regional roundtables, global Summits, and other events. The WTN has also convened the World Energy Technologies Summit at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The central events in the WTN calendar include the annual World Technology Summit and World Technology Awards - the culmination of a global judging program through which new members are nominated and selected and by which the network grows and is refreshed.
Nomination for World Technology Award
Tinkling
We call it the Wind-bell, which hanging under the roof of building and roof tile. This Wind-bell is made with a small still bell with a pendulum in it. When the wind blows, the wind swing the bell and rings with a clear sound. We exchange a bunch of data and emails every day. I would like to express the flow of data which represent the all new future life style.
Among the many figures in Korean the Wind-bell is made after fishes which are swimming in blue sea.
The clear sound of Wind-bell with the gentle breeze makes people satisfy their desires to feel the nature.
We are living in the flood of data.
My design concept is as follows;
Wind: Data flow
Wind that swings the Wind-bell: Data or message that related to the users
Sound of Wind-bell : Transmission of feedback to the users
There are emerging desires to feel like living in the nature even in man-made living space.
Rather than messages from cold digital equipment, people more want the message from the equipment that enables them to feel the aroma of nature nostalgia.
Beyond presenting the simple informant, the aroma of nature can be felt between PC and user.
The pendulum of Wind-bell rings with clear sound and gives the message that the user has just received the email.
The body of Wind-bell shows the name of sender and the summarized message.
When someone sees the Youtube video clip and he or she posted a reply, then the sound of Wind-bell is heard and the Wind-bell appear on the screen.
The data flow that related to the user is transmitted with a clear sound by swinging Wind-bell, not with a digital sound. 
The new flow of information is like an air current. By this unilateral or bilateral air current, people can escape from the digitalized information and fulfill the desire to be out of civilization.
The more the digital technology develops quickly, the more people look for the analogue factors. Thus, it is important to make the living space as similar to nature.
The representation of Wind-bell transforms the monotonous PC and digital information into romantic information which contain the naturalism.
DustPan+Bin
The Tidy Way To Be Messy
: By morphing the function of the DustPan+Bin with that of the trash-can, a new hybrid is born: this DustPan+Bin that has a function, even when not in use, to put waste as a trashcan. 
This DustPan+Bin seem like just DustPan, but it’s not only a DustPan but also trash can. It would be easier to sweep waste and dust. when you finish sweeping a room clean, you just turn the bottom of “Triangle” at an angle of 90 degrees
It will be a trash can. Maybe your sweeping is too so quit being lazy and you empty the trash bin already!.
ECord
ECORD is a compound word of Economy and Electric cord which has significance of ‘Eco-Design’.
ECORD protects environment by efficiently reducing energy waste due to the ‘Standby Power’. ECORD is designed environment-friendly, and is competitive product with its function and quality.
If there is a leaking tap, anyone would like to close it. In the same way, if there is leaking electric power, anyone would like to cut it off. However, unfortunately, we do not even notice the leaking, or wasted energy due to standby power, because we cannot see, or hear it.
An ordinary electric cord that we can see everyday is simply regarded as a connecting device for transferring electric power.
It seems to have no particular function and just left on the floor.
However electric cord has been, and will be necessary for carrying electric power for a long time.
Invention of ECORD is started from the idea to utilize the PVC-covered surface of electric cord by implementing some clever technology to feedback users with information about such as power waste, overload.
ECORD makes users aware of their standby power waste by display current flow, and therefore helps them to cut down the leak.
ECORD has a patterned new composition on its PVC covering. This composition stays invisible, but appears when the specific range (From 1 to 15W) of current is provided. If there is any loss due to standby power, the pattern (or any graphics made of the composition) appears on the ECORD surface, therefore users are easily able to notice it. Any information of unusual current, such as overload can be provided in the same way.
Using ECORD in not merely using electric cord, but saving environment, and further, saving the earth by reducing energy consumption. 
Many countries are trying to cut down the standby power by encouraging people to pull out their plug, or turn off multi-tab, which is very inconvenient, and even bothersome. However, if any electric device is plugged on, energy waste due to standby power will be continued.
To eliminate this inconvenience, ECORD is equipped on-off switch on it plug.
FlyingStick
Just like a toy propeller, we make ‘Flying STICK’ flying by our hands.
We put the ‘Flying STICK’ between the palm of the hand and rub our hands, then ‘Flying STICK’ flies in the sky with the spin.
Most people who see the flying ‘Flying STICK’ want to catch the ‘Flying STICK’.
So they probably run and jump to catch it.
‘Flying STICK’ has a camera at the bottom of the body.
It can take a picture through being in the sky.
‘Flying STICK’ continuous takes a photograph from beginning to fly to landing in hand.
We discover our pure and natural smile using the ‘Flying STICK’.
People usually get stiff when they take pictures.
‘CHEESE’ or ‘3,2,,,,,1’ make people more and more stiff but ‘Flying STICK’ doesn’t need to have any signs.
‘Flying STICK’ continuous takes a photograph through being in the sky.
People can’t touch the ‘Flying STICK’ when it is on the air, namely ‘Flying STICK’ takes a picture by itself.
People can’t know when the shutter is pressed.
They just run and jump to hold the ‘Flying STICK’.
At that moment, we can get the most natural pictures.
Find your natural and pure childhood by the Flying STICK.
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