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World's First 3D Printed Metal Jet Engine

Researchers at Monash Univ., in Melbourne have teamed with individuals from Deakin Univ. and CSIRO to 3D print two proof of concept jet engines.
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Do Patents Kill Innovation?

Patents have turned into a bigger CEO time-waster than golf. At this point, the technology industry might be better off without any patents.
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Call for New Holistic Approach to Design

Design Indaba 2015: the design industry has lost touch with its social and cultural values and is producing "too much shit design." according to Hella Jongerius.
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Robots Widen Access to Art at Design Indaba

Imagine Night at the Museum but instead of animals and statues coming to life, four robots roam the darkened halls—robots you could control from the comfort of your home.
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Reinventing the View-Master

Mattel is celebrating at the 2015 Toy Fair by announcing a partnership with Google that will resurrect the View-Master line, harnessing the smartphone-based virtual reality of Google Cardboard.
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Design
Student
Creates
Batsuit

If you compliment Jackson Gordon on his self-made Batsuit, rather than shake your hand he might ask, “You want to give it a punch?”
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Neptune: An Almost-Crazy Idea for Upending the Smartphone Ecosystem

Today, with every other commercial pushing a new phone or tablet, it’s easy to forget how drastically things can change, and how quickly. The iPhone, after all, is just eight years old—and five years ago, almost no one was talking about how mobile computing was going to eat the world. And yet today, the smartphone is the center of our digital lives. Does it have to be? Neptune wants to flip what they call the "master - slave relationship" of our smart devices.
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Jony Ive Is a Redwood

Is Apple’s success reproducible? Is their design culture? Is Jony Ive? The answer transcends a tidy yes or no.
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Kanye vs Creative Director

Have some fun. Who said it? Kanye West or your Creative Director?
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25 Years of Adobe Photoshop

From major motion pictures and magazine covers to architecture, astrophotography and beyond, the impact of Photoshop is everywhere. Here’s a look at the most memorable milestones.
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How to Streamline Creative Dialogue

"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions." —Albert Einstein
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How Pebble Built Its Next Smartwatch

To beat the giants, Pebble puts a platform in its sling. Two of the biggest software platforms in the world are about to make life very difficult for Pebble CEO, Eric Migicovsky. To counter those threats, Pebble is making its most ambitious bet yet. It’s launching the next Pebble as an entirely new hardware and software platform, a hub that can potentially be the center of a whole ecosystem of devices.
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Failing Wisely

The key to success is knowing how to grow from your mistakes.
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IDEO Focuses on Libraries

IDEO partnered with the Chicago Public Library and Denmark’s Aarhus Public Libraries and observed more than 40 librarians in 10 countries whose “lessons learned” helped create the Design Thinking for Libraries toolkit.
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Don't Cut the Cord

The Yanko Design blog is all wrapped up in Hunter & Richards' new twist on the first ceiling hook designed specifically for cable-hung pendant lights.
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How the Inventor of the Polaroid Championed the Patent
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The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2014

Choose Must. Stay Stupid. Say no the right way.
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US Completes Deposit for Hague Agreement for ID
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New ASU Center Mimics Nature to Create Cutting-Edge Technology

Prasad Boradkar, ID professor at The Design School in ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, works with a new batch of students who develop innovative, sustainable products with positive social impact using principles of biomimicry.
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The Shape
of Things
to Come

“So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Jonathan Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.”
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Business Is About People, Not Technology or Profit

“Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world—as in being able to remake ourselves.”—Mahatma Gandhi
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Making
His
Mark

Most boys want to become star athletes when they grow up; rather fewer want to become star designers.
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Happy Meals

SF public-schools estimate 57% of students who qualified for free or reduced-price meals actually took advantage of them. After spending a couple of months with the children, IDEO’s team found uninviting lunchrooms as its central challenge.
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Apple Car?

Cupertino’s Got the Design Talent to Transform Another Industry
As rumors that Apple is making a self-driving car rev up, a peek under the hood of the company’s famed Industrial Design studio reveals a crew of talented automobile designers.
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Fitting to the T

Decades ago, sage advice for college students may have sounded something like this: choose a career, find a job, and stick with it. But those days are long gone.
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Does Anyone Really Want a Smartwatch?

Asking about the state of the smartwatch market makes a big assumption—that there actually is a smartwatch market. This is a much bigger leap than you might think.
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Designers & Investing in Innovation

Design-thinking goes deeper than diagnosing problems in a company. It is a means of generating ideas.
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Iconic Series 7 Chair Turns 60

Arne Jacobsen did for architecture and industrial design what Hans Christian Andersen did for fairy tales.
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‘Made in China’

The “Made in China” label is a cut and dried requirement for anything manufactured in China, but it’s also loaded with implied connotations.
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How To Streamline Creative Dialogue

"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions."—Albert Einstein
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Next Frontier for Surgical Innovation

A new report from Cambridge Consultants indicated that India and China present the largest emerging market growth opportunity for the medical device industry.
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Work Longer Than You Think

Medical advancements and workplace-design innovations at growing numbers of employers are making it easier to work into your 60s and 70s, albeit not for everyone.
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A Card Game To Help Companies Define Their Brand

Now on Kickstarter, the Brand Deck is a simple card game that companies can play to help give them clarity on what they really are.
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In a New Marketing World, the Product Is the Message

Dan Formosa reminds us that the Internet age has returned us to a time when product is the heart of a brand.
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What Human-Centered Design Teaches Us About Making Cities Car-Optional

Here's a bold question—what if there were no need for cars in the world’s biggest cities?
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The Mysterious, Murky Story Behind Soy-Sauce Packets

How Chinese takeout, a Jewish businessman from the Bronx and NASA-approved packaging have shaped the 50-year reign of a well-loved American condiment.
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Print Your Cellphone at Home

British start-up OwnFone launches Kickstarter campaign that offers users the chance to 3D print their own cellphone—and even draw its design by hand.
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UPenn Students Learn a Lesson from Industry

Design education is a crucial topic these days as the boundaries of product design shift to encompass an increasing set of skills and experiences.
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A Beautiful Epilepsy Tracker

Wearables are getting smarter. The wearables coming out of 2015 are going to be considerably more powerful. So powerful, in fact, that they might save lives.
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Designing for the Elderly

Ways Older People Use Digital Technology Differently
Consider this: By 2030, appx. 19% of people in the US will be over 65. Coincidentally, it happens to be about the same number of people in the US who own an iPhone today.
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Why Designers Need to Step Outside Design

It's easy to get trapped in a design clique—but spare a thought for folks outside the bubble, and your work will be all the better for it.
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The London Underline?

It's been suggested that London turn its underground tunnels into cycle paths, connecting parts of the city while reducing traffic above ground and increasing cyclist safety.
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Cooper Hewitt Releases a Free Font Designed by Masters

The Cooper Hewit Smithsonian Design Museum's new font and identity are designed by Pentagram (who also designed the IDSA logo).
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Swatch to Compete Against Apple Watch

Swatch CEO Nick Hayek is ready to go head-to-head with Apple Inc., which has scheduled its smartwatch introduction for April 2015.
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IDEA Winner Makes iPad Drawing Set Free

The iPad app, Paper, now comes bundled with the full set of drawing tools. The Pencil packaging received an IDEA 2014 Gold and the Pencil received a Silver.
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The Design Genius of the Frisbee

Yes, the frisbee.
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4 Tips On Creativity from the Creator Of Calvin & Hobbes
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Human-Centered Approach to Data-Driven Design

Arianna McClain, a senior hybrid design researcher, discusses storytelling through data and the human-centered, data-driven design approach at IDEO in this podcast.
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Kickstarter in the Classroom

University of Illinois at Chicago's new Entrepreneurial Product Development class, taught by Craighton Berman, helps students navigate Kickstarter.
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Smart Design Gives Health a Nudge

A new concept app from Smart Design aims to improve the health of diabetics, a segment for whom weight loss can be a matter of life and death.
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