Not so sci-fi future? - page 2

13-02-2008 11:40

Maxine Soghmanian, Ideal Home Show said: “We have a 100 year history of home innovation and have launched countless household products from the first ever electric kettle (1920) to largest home plasma screen (2006), but we have to admit some of the predictions in the fifties were a bit off the mark!

“To mark our centenary and our commitment to home innovation this year we are hunting for the best original home invention, so get designing if you think you can do better than the 1956 experts!”

TV scientist and invention enthusiast Adam Hart Davies, said, “If you can do better than the fifties experts – I want to your ideas! There is a budding inventor or designer in all of us and you don’t need any design qualifications to get involved. So if you have a flash of inspiration for a product that you think would work, then draw it, describe it and send it in.”

A short list of inventions to the Innovation Nation challenge will be voted on by visitors to the Ideal Home Show. The winning design will be crowned ‘Home Invention of the Year’. The designer will receive a £2,000 cash prize and year long contract with Inventor Link, specialists in commercialising new ideas.

For entry details to the Innovation Nation competition visit . Advice on protecting the Intellectual Property rights to your products can also be found on the website.

High resolution images of the 1956 House of The Future are available on request.