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Nine tips for choosing the right manufacturing partner for your product Posted by Ben Mazur 10.01.2019  With your product designed and ready for manufacture, you need to find a manufacturing partner you can trust. But that can be fraught with difficulty. Here are...

Five ideation techniques that will boost your team’s creative-idea generation Posted by Rob Hall, Nov 7, 2018Ideation is the middle phase of the five-step design-thinking process. It bridges the gap between understanding, defining the problem and building prototypes...

What is industry 4.0? Posted by Angelo D'Onofrio | Oct 1, 2018Every major change in the status quo comes with a buzzword and the one currently littering blog posts and press releases from manufacturing companies is Industry 4.0. But what does it actually mean? The...

Voice control to become “bedrock” of the smart home by Charley Millard | Sep 25, 2018The smart home market has flattered to deceive. Despite promises to simplify our lives and countless Kickstarter campaigns most homes remain decidedly un-smart. That’s because many of...

Ultra thin electronics could thin out the wearables herdPosted by Lee Chantrey | 18.09.2018 At present wearables face a difficult balancing act between two features that will be critical to their success – function and form. Enhancing the capabilities of a device...

Is your office job safe from artificial intelligence? Posted by Angelo D'Onofrio | 12.09.2018 The spectre of artificial intelligence and machines taking over office jobs long considered immune to automation has entered the mainstream consciousness in recent years....

What will Brexit mean for UK businesses that manufacture in ChinaPosted by Rob Hall | 03.09.2018Newspapers are full of stories about Brexit and early trade agreement talks between the UK and China. What should business do in the meantime? The British vote to leave the...

Combining energy harvesting to power the Internet of Things Posted by Rob Hall | 19.08.2018One of the main promises of the Internet of Things is the ability to monitor everything, thanks to nearly ubiquitous sensors attached to everything from our lamps to our...

iRobot: AI robot developed that can choose to inflict pain Posted by Charley Millard | 15.09.2018Artificial intelligence, how will it affect us in the future? Will it enable the automation of mundane tasks or is it something we should be seriously concerned about? In...

Powering wearables will require a more flexible approach Posted by Christian Thorne | 14.08.2018Powering wearables – From stick-on patches for medical monitoring, activity tracking armbands and sensors, circuits and screens stitched into our clothes will soon be...