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How invisible teeth aligners can help make more sustainable cars

HP and Ford are recycling waste from 3D printers into new car parts.

I’m an expert on complex design systems. Even I can’t figure out recycling

Don Norman wrote the book on complex design systems. He’s as mystified by recycling as the rest of us.

HP is paying $11 million to protect a New York City-size amount of forests

The company will support conservation efforts in Brazil and China, to help offset the paper that goes into the company’s printers.

HP sent me hurling through zero-gravity space to sell me a laptop

Zero G + tech journalists = lots of fun.

This new HP laptop is the first computer to use ocean-bound plastic

Just a small bit of the computer is made from recycled bottles picked up from Haiti’s streets and waterways, but it signals the possibility of changing where we get the plastics for our electronics.

Museum of Plastic is an Instagramable pop-up on a mission to save the world through selfies

The Museum of Plastic is perfect for snapping selfies and coming up with solutions.

The Pope’s guards are 3D printing their helmets now

It may not be cool shiny metal, but the helmets provide comfort and protection against water and UV radiation.

The origins of Silicon Valley’s garage myth

To understand the enduring mythology of the Silicon Valley garage, you have to go back to the one that started it all: a converted shed in suburban Palo Alto, where in 1938 William R. Hewlett and David Packard began developing their first product.

How Ikea and HP want to help keep plastic out of the ocean: make stuff from it

The two companies are the latest members of a coalition called NextWave Plastics, which is committed to finding uses for recycled plastics.

Top 5 Ads of the Week: Burger King’s nightmare, Ted Cruz loves White Castle

Yeti’s latest short film, HP brings back The Wolf, and you’d never know Pilsner Urquell made this feature beer doc.

Google’s melding of Chromebooks and Android is still a mess

I was excited when the company enabled Android apps to run on Chrome OS, but the end result isn’t worth the effort.

Top 5 Ads Of The Week: Serena’s Nike flashback, Elton John raps for Snickers

HP’s all-American family portrait, the Terry Fox Foundation’s pre-social media followers, and a little girl’s adorably complicated relationship with soup.

If The Shoe Fits: How HP Is Helping NFL Players Avoid Injury

Now installed in all 32 NFL teams’ locker rooms, HP’s FitStation technology helps players find the best cleat models for their feet in a few seconds.

Meg Whitman is stepping down from HP Enterprise

Four months after Meg Whitman said she had no plans to leave Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the company announced that she’s stepping down. She’ll be replaced by Antonio Neri, who is currently HPE’s president. Whitman joined HP in 2011, and in 2015 she famously split the enterprise and consumer businesses into separate companies. Over the summer, … Continue reading “Meg Whitman is stepping down from HP Enterprise”

HP reports agencies made significant progress hiring with women in workforce

Samsung Is Out Of Context, HP Goes Back To School: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week

Von Miller gets surreal for Old Spice, Lowe’s gets DIY with Instagram Stories, and Sweden invites stressed tourists to live in a glass cabin in the woods.

Designers Are Forgetting One Major Element Of The Design Process

What do you do with broken products? You fix them.

Don’t Be Too Chatty? Dads And Daughters Talk About Outdated And Sexist Job Interview Advice

For Father’s Day, HP got fathers and daughters to talk about some of the most common job interview “tips” out there for women.

If These Giant Companies Can Switch To The Circular Economy, So Can Anyone

Overhauling the traditional take-make-waste business model can be daunting, but these initiatives demonstrate that the payoff for experimentation and boundary-pushing is worth it.