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(From Popsci by Stephan Wilkinson). Cory Bird, an engineer at Burt Rutan's remarkable aviation design shop, builds a composite-fiber airplane of Swiss-watch precision. She's a real beauty: Hardly a screwhead or seam interrupts the mirror-perfect surface of Cory Bird's handmade airplane, Symmetry, the product of fanatical attention to detail, materials and design.
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Philips Showcases New Mobile Phones with Built-In Touch Screens that Enable Users to Send Drawings and Handwritten Notes. Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) will showcase its latest 'Emotive Messaging' mobile handsets, multimedia software applications and semiconductor solutions for connected consumer applications at 3GSM, the world's largest 3G cellular event. Philips adds a personal touch to messaging with the 'Snap, Tag & Send' concept creating a new category of mobile phones. Highlighted products within this concept are the new Philips 755 and 759 mobile phones. These phones
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At this year's CeBIT Exhibition in Hannover Germany, Philips Research is demonstrating a unique variable-focus lens system that has no mechanical moving parts. Suited to a wide range of optical imaging applications, including such things as digital cameras, camera phones, endoscopes, home security systems and optical storage drives, Philips' FluidFocus system mimics the action of the human eye using a fluid lens that alters its focal length by changing its shape. The new lens, which lends itself to high volume manufacturing, overcomes the fixed-focus disadvantages of many of today's low-cost
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"Ever fancied taking your favourite possessions with you into the virtual world? Spiral Scratch, a start-up company in Liverpool, UK, has come up with a cheap device that generates three-dimensional computer representation of any object it scans. The design industry already uses 3D scanners, but these machines cost thousands of pounds and are bulky and complex to operate. They typically use an array of cameras to scan an object and then recreate it in three dimensions on a computer." (newscientist.
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by Robert J. Smith, IDSA
Robert Smith is operating manager of AnvilWylde Design, LLC. He is a designer,
inventor, instructor and CAD trench-dweller. E-mail: rjsmith@anvilwylde .com.
Deep in the grim final phase of the mechanical product design-when the
CAD models are nearly complete, the detail drawings bleed red from ECOs
and the prototypes are finally starting to behave-the marketing department
suddenly calls its meeting...
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