The bike helmet is certainly a topic of current interest. From January the 1st 2005 it is mandated by law that children under 15 years old must use bike helmet when biking or being given a lift on a bike. There is an ongoing debate about the next step, to develop the law on bike helmet to apply for adult bicyclists as well. If a law like this would be established, the request on bike helmets would

My diploma work is a design of a "walk behind" concept. The concept is an "all season outdoor product". The idea is to give a first time house owner a product that can do the mayor chores in the yard during the different seasons. It is 3 products in one. It's a lawn mower, a snow thrower and a power brush. I attacked the design of the product from 3 different angles. From

The overall aim of this project was to make an everyday life for people with reduced mobility better. This crutch helps its users to perform everyday activities easier and feel more comfortable. It provides: - Better mobility; - Better stability, - Comfort; - Possibility to switch from one type of the crutch to another that not only allows stressed body parts to relax but also helps a user to be

The world we live in is rapidly changing, presenting us with new, environmentally complex issues. Many signs around us show that something is wrong. Large scale air and water pollution, together with groing landfills, declining energy sources and extreme climate changes are pointing to the need for change. We all know that we need to take our responsibility, but instead we tend to blame the proble

Master project made at Lund Institute of Technology Department of Design Sciences, division of Industrial Design in cooperation with Basecamp Explorer. Basecamp Explorer wanted me to be involved in the development of the interior of the guest tents in their camp in Masai Mara, Kenya and the Pyrenees, France. Basecamp Explorer runs ecological tourism destinations on a handful of places in the world

The purpose with this diploma work is to find solutions that facilitate the manual demining process by designing tools and equipment used by manual deminers. Manual demining is a part of humanitarian demining that has been neglected for a long time even though its a vital part of mine action programs around the world and very important for humanitarian demining in general. The main idea is to prov

This paper examines the income differentials and characteristics relevant to the labour market of East-West migrants, West Germans and East-German stayers in Germany in 2006. This is done by using descriptive statistics as well as regression models based on the Human Capital theory by Becker and Mincer. The data used in this paper comes from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) of the German Institute

This thesis investigates the role states play in promoting and directing a country’s development. More specifically, it is examined, which factors determine differences in state performance and why different types of states form. This is done through a comparative case study of Botswana and Zambia, two southern African countries that after a similar start into independence developed very different

Det är i mötet – idag framför allt det medierade mötet – mellan journalisten och politikern som nyheter om politik uppstår och som vi medborgare bygger merparten av våra uppfattningar om politiken kring. Som en ingrediens i detta möte kan medieträning ha betydelse för vad som sker och sägs. Medieträning som bruk och verktyg är dock ömsom ifrågasatt och kritiserat, ömsom förklarat som nödvändigt i

Improving an inhalation device so that the patient has full control of his health status, is the #1 objective of the project. Being a futuristic project, carried out from a patien's prespective, the ambition is still to perform a realistic industrial design assignment. The project concentrates on aesthetical qualities, as well as matching them with the fundamental functions of the device. Th