By snoadmin
An Internet-connected coffee mug concept has caused quite a stir in the technological world and it just might win an award for its designer, a Cal State Long Beach senior.
Photos and reviews of Jason Farsai’s design concept for the Yuno PC, a coffee mug with stock reports, weather and traffic updates and e-mail access, have been circulating on technology websites, even making the front page of MSN.com.
Farsai says the Yuno PC’s most important feature is its mobility.
“It frees you so you can get on with your morning and do what you want to do,” Farsai said. “You don’t have to sit at a computer … because in the future we probably won’t be sitting at desktops like we are [now].”
Farsai said he’s thankful for the exposure he’s been getting for his concept, and said it should help him look for a job after his graduation. He added that it’s not every day one sees his work plastered on the front page of a website visited by millions.
“I saw it on MSN and I had people calling me and telling me they were seeing it, too,” Farsai said. “That was really cool.”
Farsai submitted the Yuno PC into the Next Generation PC Design Competition in January. The competition challenges designers to come up with the future of computer technology.
According to a CSULB press release, the Yuno PC is among the finalists being considered the contest’s top awards, which will be announced in May.
The realization that he had something special in his high-tech coffee mug came to Farsai right after he created the now widely seen image of his concept sitting at a breakfast table.
“After I created that image my teacher was saying, ‘That’s a good image,’ and that’s going to be the shot for this project,” Farsai said.
What helped to separate Farsai’s concept from others was that a person can easily understand what the design is for.
Farsai designed the Yuno PC for a project in his fall 2007 industrial design studio class. Jose Rivera-Chang, the professor of the class, made the guidelines of the project the same as those in the competition, which also resulted in two of Farsai’s classmates being finalists within the competition.
