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From a smart faucet to a more enlightening museum experience, prototypes by IDSA members and other students in Drexel University’s Senior Showcase are envisioning innovative approaches to age-old dilemmas.

IDSA Student Member Connor White teamed up with a mechanical engineering student on the Smart Faucet, which not only would purify and conserve water, but also provide detailed information on water quality, average usage rates and efficient usage suggestions.

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is launching a “Wearables for Good Challenge” to find new technology can be used to solve problems in developing countries and drive meaningful change in the lives of women and children.

Global news outlets are reporting on a US federal appeals court decision that has left intact much of Apple's legal win against Samsung, but overturned one finding.

“The arrival of improved sensing, processing and prototyping technologies helped usher in the smartphone era and the new DIY economy…. Three technologies in particular could transform not just how we design but how we make the decisions that tell us what to design. Properly applied, they could spell the end of failed consumer products.” —Chris Murray, IDSA, director of industrial design at Bresslergroup