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Hardware Weekly | Vol 105

Your source for hardware insights. May 6th, 2016 Products Your Skin as a Touchscreen Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are testing a project called SkinTrack, which lets people use their skin as a touchscreen to play games on a smartwatch. It works the way cell towers triangulate signals to locate your phone: In this case, a […]

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Built Tough, Built Loud: The Development Story Behind the Loudest Speaker On the Market

Some of the products in our world are brand new—they’re the things we “didn’t know we needed,” the innovations that ramp up our experience of life a few notches. You know, like the Internet, the iPhone, and now all those Internet of Things things. Plenty of other products are age-old, traditional, ubiquitous. We also can’t […]

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Hardware Weekly | Vol 104

Your source for hardware insights. April 29th, 2016 Products The Hair Dryer That Costs as Much as Your Smartphone Dyson’s first-ever hairdryer, the Supersonic, is expensive, attractive, and packed with technology, like an air multiplier feature, a digital motor, and heat sensors. Plus, it’s apparently beyond the audible range for humans, so you can blow-dry […]

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Enclosure Design 101

While the power of a hardware product comes from its internal components, a product is typically recognized by its enclosure, the outer shell that encloses electronic products, making them appealing and user-friendly. In this post, I’m going to walk you through the steps for designing a basic enclosure, using the design of a IoT plant […]

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Fictiv Company Values

At Fictiv, we believe there is a right way to build a healthy company and the first step for us is to create a foundation of values that all team members share and uphold in words, thoughts and actions. By creating this shared understanding, we know how to treat each other and also everyone we […]

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Hardware Weekly | Vol 102

The week’s top hardware news. April 15, 2016 Products Your Very Own Butler SmartAll, the first AI butler, features a camera and hub that allow it to ring a security alarm, control the temperature, and change TV channels. Based on machine learning, SmartAll personalizes its services via facial recognition and by interpreting gesture and voice […]

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Using the On Track/Off Track Framework to Drive Results

On track/off track is a “get stuff done” framework shared with us by business coach Kate Purmal, to help us drive projects end-to-end and focus on sharing results-based updates. Meeting fatigue infects many companies, stealing valuable time and status meetings are especially ineffective when people spend too much time reporting activities (“Last week, I worked […]

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Learn by Example: How to Design Light Pipes

Light plays an important role in the design of many hardware products. Often, they are both decorative and functional. Indicator lights are the most minimal user interface: They tell you whether the device is turned on, low on battery, or “thinking” really hard. On modern electronics, the light’s source is almost always an LED. However, […]

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Hardware Weekly | Vol 101

The week’s top hardware news. April 8th, 2016 Products A Modular Sofa An Italian architect has created the first Internet of Things Sofa. The sofa consists of a system of modular seats than can be adjusted via an app or with hand gestures. The versatile modules talk to each other and can be adjusted to […]

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7 Awesome Toys to Inspire Little Makers and Engineers

Well designed toys can have a major impact on a child’s creative and intellectual development. Lots of engineers I speak with have serious nostalgia around LEGOs (some still build LEGOs today) and fondly consider that toy a launching point for their passion and love of building things today. So to inspire the littlest makers and […]