Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
From the wire: Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy. The program allows the designer to sketch a rough concept of the part and then analyse the part's characteristics while it is still only a ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
The Z?n hearing aid has been getting a lot of attention lately. Last October, we reported that the hearing aid designed by Stuart Karten Design (SKD) had won the Spark Design Award and the People's Design Award from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Now, the most recent accolade presented ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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The Z?n Hearing Aid, which was designed by Stuart Karten Design for Starkey Laboratories, has been honoured with two prestigious design awards: the People's Design Award, presented by the Smithsonian's ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
At the Medical Moulding & Extrusion Conference in Cologne, Germany, last month I learned about plasticizers, PVC, DEHP, TEHTM, polyolefins, and more. Aside from how DEHP-plasticized PVC influences the blood, its negative health effects, and how difficult it is to replace, I heard about something else relating to plastics that ...
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