TalkTalk lays on a challenge to design new broadband routers

Internet service provider TalkTalk has called on students from Goldsmith's College, London to think of some new and exciting designs for a futuristic wireless router. Fed up with the router simply being an “unloved and unglamorous bit of kit” TalkTalk (fronted by communications director, Mark Schmid) has collaborated with the students as part of a project dubbed Routers of the Future.

The provider asked Goldsmiths to consider four factors when drafting the designs for their innovative routers; signal strength, home style, energy efficiency and pure enjoyment.

Four concepts have been put forward as part of the Routers of the Future project. The first of these is a router clock which displays signal strength information during various stages of the day, a hybrid router was also presented, doubling up as a piece of furniture for the home. Tackling the environment, an energy-saving router was designed with power-saving properties in the form of key hooks and finally, a concept art piece was also presented in the form of a glowing jellyfish.

All of the final prototypes are being pitched to the pubic at futurerouters.com and visitors to the site are being asked which design they like the most. Once the results have been collection there's a chance that the most popular router could go into production.
 

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