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How Car Crash Modeling Technology Could Predict Offshore Drilling Disasters

We put cars under rigorous tests to determine if and how they will break. Can the same techniques help show the weakest parts of an oil rig?READ MORE

IBM Partners With Portland To Play SimCity For Real

The Oregon city is the first to use IBM's app to help cities figure out how policy can affect the lives of their citizens. But can any algorithm quantify the whole experience of city living? READ MORE

Zero-E Adds Eco-Bling to Architectural Modeling

Woods Bagot and Buro Happold have invented a design program that helps architects and engineers create zero-emissions buildings.READ MORE

Creating Quick Prototypes: An Elicitation Tool for Obtaining Product Requirements

One of the most important goals of elicitation is to find out what concerns need to be solved through system boundary identification. A key development tool that can tremendously help in this “capturing good requirements” endeavor ...READ MORE

System Modeling: A Design Methodology for Capturing Product Features and Functions

A critical step in Requirements Engineering is the ability to capture a new product’s features and functions. The criticality of this step is based on not creating GIGO (Garbage-In- Garbage Out) of the intended product’s ...READ MORE

Goal-Oriented Requirements: Key to Developing Quality Products

The old computer adage “Garbage –In- Garbage Out (GIGO) is quite true when developing new consumer products. One of the key reasons new products fail in the marketplace is because of bad feature/function set requirements presented ...READ MORE

Personal Fabrication

Personal Fabrication is what Neil Gershenfield sees as the next evoution for Digital Technology. By merging the desktop pc or notebook with automation tools such as laser printers that can etch circuits onto paper, the lone inventor ...READ MORE

Brainstorming and Mind Maps

The technique of generating New Product Ideas via Brainstorming is not new to the Creativity Industry. Brainstorming was conceived back in the 1930's when Alex Osborne of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne ...READ MORE

Rapid Prototyping using Evaluation Boards

Creating electronic products is as easy as installing software and connecting an electronic circuit board (Evaluation Board)to your desktop or notebook computer's USB port. Semiconductor manufacturers are developing and selling ...READ MORE

Low Fidelity Prototyping

In creating the next "Big Thing", the main question asked by novice Entrepreneurs is, "How to Build a Working Prototype?" Well, the answer is by using parts from existing devices that have elements your design ...READ MORE

Product Specifications

In creating a new product or modifiying an existing one, the physical attributes, function/feature sets, and ID (Industrial Design) must be contained in one document, the Product Specification. The specs I write for wireless ...READ MORE

New Product Development Tools

According to Don Debelak in his book, How to Bring a Product  To Market for Less Than $5,000,  a product can be developed by "taking apart existing products and use their parts to  make a new product."  Well, that ...READ MORE