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Solido unveils desktop printer

FRANKFURT, GERMANY (Feb. 5, 12:55 p.m. ET) -- Solido 3D Ltd. has launched the new SD300 Pro desktop, three-dimensional printer, as well as three accompanying modeling packages that range from 2,950 euros ($4,088) to 5,840 euros ($8,093). February 5, 2010

Britain could call time on the glass pint

LONDON (Feb. 4, 4:15 p.m. ET) -- Two prototype beer glasses designed to reduce the injuries caused by nearly 87,000 glass attacks each year have been unveiled at the Design Council by British Home Secretary Alan Johnson. The pint glasses both use plastics in their construction so as to ensure they do not shatter into loose and dangerous shards. February 4, 2010

America's Cup competitors rely on composites for sailboats

LA JOLLA, CALIF. (Feb. 2, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- Polymer matrix composites pervade the colossal multihull sailboats Alinghi 5 and USA 17, which are vying in the 33rd America’s Cup races, slated Feb. 8, 10 and 12 off the shore of Valencia, Spain. February 2, 2010

Utah's Lifetime launches housing for low-income areas, disasters

XIAMEN, CHINA (Jan. 26, 10:30 a.m. ET) -- Lifetime Products Inc., which claims to be the world’s largest maker of blow molded high density polyethylene folding tables, picnic tables and chairs, is hoping that a visit to its China factory by U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. will help launch a line of mass produced housing for low-income and disaster-stricken regions. January 26, 2010

Converging divergent ideas

MIAMI (Jan. 20, 1:50 p.m. ET) -- Marco Perry is well placed to assess what makes engineers and designers tick — since he’s both. With a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s in industrial design, the principal of New York design firm Pensa LLC addressed the ever-popular issue of facilitating teamwork. Perry spoke at last fall’s annual international conference of the Industrial Designers Society of America in Miami. View a video from his talk. January 20, 2010

Concept car dashboards feature organic LED technology

DETROIT (Jan. 19, 3:10 p.m. ET) -- Organic LED televisions are just hitting end home electronics market now, but carmakers already are looking at the technology for future vehicles. Both Detroit-based General Motors Corp. and Hyundai Motor Co. have debuted concept cars which use OLED technology to replace the standard instrument cluster on the dashboard. January 19, 2010

Carmakers work to fit into that new CAFE standard

DETROIT (Jan. 19, 1:10 p.m. ET) -- A lot of people start off January with New Year’s resolutions: eat better, exercise more, reduce stress, stop smoking … and, for most of the auto industry, lose weight. January 19, 2010

Industrial design is driving change at Dow Corning, Reeves says

MIAMI (Jan. 13, 4:55 p.m. ET) -- What can design-thinking do for a company that is known for its technical and scientific prowess, but which is essentially clueless when it comes to industrial design? About four years ago, Dow Corning Corp. decided to find out. So far, according to one company official, it’s quite pleased with the results. Design and discovery director Chip Reeves shares the journey in this video. January 13, 2010

Can't we all just get along?

MIAMI (Jan. 6, 4:10 p.m. ET) -- Bemis Manufacturing Co.'s Kristin Charlton believes cowboys and farmers should get along. That's her analogy for promoting friendly interaction between designers and engineers -- two groups of professionals that tend to speak different languages, approach problem-solving from differing perspectives and frequently suffer from, shall we say, creative tension. View the video or read on. January 6, 2010

China has lots of design grads, but not enough job opportunities

MIAMI (Dec. 23, 11:30 a.m. ET) -- China’s industrial design industry is still in its infancy, but it is growing fast. That is creating challenges as well as opportunities. Cathy Huang, founder and president of design consulting firm China Bridge International in Shanghai, reflects briefly on some of these issues in a video interview from the Industrial Designers Society of America’s international conference in Miami. December 23, 2009

SkinIt's Tyneski wants to get personal with design

MIAMI (Dec. 16, 11 a.m. ET) — Frank Tyneski wants to get personal. More precisely, he wants to help empower you so that you can customize a vast range of products — from your iPod or laptop to your washing machine or insulin pump. View video. December 16, 2009

Dutch firm looks to work with designers

HONG KONG (Dec. 11, 3:05 p.m. ET) -- Everyone, it seems, wants into the design world these days, even small contract manufacturers like the Dutch firm AMS Group BV. The Amsterdam-based company, which opened a factory in South China in 2006, was at the recent Business of Design Week conference in Hong Kong to try to build strategic partnerships with product design firms. December 11, 2009

EU moves a step closer to single European patent

BRUSSELS (Dec. 10, 1:50 p.m. ET) -- The Council of the European Union has formally adopted a package of recommendations that are intended to see the creation of a single EU-wide patent and EU patent court. The changes are intended to make it more simple and less costly for businesses to protect innovative technology. It is also hoped that they will maker litigation more accessible and predictable. December 10, 2009

Design responsibly, Dent says

MIAMI (Dec. 9, 5:55 p.m. ET) -- Andrew Dent hinged his recent presentation to a large group of designers on this big, thought-provoking question: “If you had to take back every single material that you designed and produced, could you do it — how would you do it?” One easily could pose the same question to the maker of any give product. It does give one reason to pause. View video. December 9, 2009

Chinese designers making progress

SHENZHEN, CHINA (Dec. 9, 12:10 p.m. ET) -- Transforming China’s massive manufacturing industry from “Made in China” to “Created in China” has become a buzzword, a mantra-like evocation, offered as a solution for the industry’s problems at nearly every gathering of designers and manufacturers in the country. China’s industry and government clearly want that to happen, but what is the situation today? December 9, 2009

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