The "Design Your Own App" competition has almost drawn to a close. Today is the last day to submit your sketches, models, drawings, or animations for OSWall App designs. Remember, we're not necessarily looking for extensive documentation of your idea, just a quality idea. If we pick your design, you will have time to develop it more later. So, head over to the "OSWall App Design Competition" page to review the details and upload your work. 

Thanks to those of you who have already submitted! The ideas are wide-ranging, innovative, and exciting. Coming up soon, we will post the ideas for your viewing and solicit comments on what you think are the best strategies. Until then...we want your ideas!

As you can see, we're a bit behind on things, and we bet you are, too. We've heard from many interested people that they want to enter the OSWall "Design Your Own App" competition, but with end-of-semester / end-of-year deadlines coming up, they need a little extra time. So, we're extending the OSWall deadline to January 15th. We hope this allows more of you submit your brilliant ideas...once you have rested and filled your bellies over the Holidays. Looking forward to hearing from you! Drop us a line if you have questions.

Read about OSWall HERE.

Read about the Design Your Own App Competition HERE.

We have just launched a new section of our website called "Design Your Own App." This page outlines a competition we are holding for students, designers, or any other curious, creative people to design a smart wall panel, or "app" (short for "application") for our latest wall prototype project, OSWall (Open Source Wall). Can you come up with an app that collects and recycles rainwater, passively cools an interior, generates electricity from wind, grows plants, insulates, or provides natural light for a residential wall? What other hair brained ideas do you have? Winners will have their design schemes prototyped for an upcoming exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery called "Envelop{e}s" curated by Christopher Height, Associate Professor at Rice University's School of Architecture. Money and fame awaits the winners, so head over to the "Design Your Own App" competition page for details.

DUE DATE: 01 DECEMBER 2009