We’re thrilled to share a couple of nice nods LUNAR has recently received. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Engineering’ Category
LUNAR opens Windy City office
November 9th, 2011
LUNAR has opened a Chicago office in the epicenter for design in the Midwest — the Windy City’s River North area. (more…)
LUNAR client Switch lights up the cover of WIRED
August 19th, 2011
We love working with leaders in their markets, and when they’re standing out by doing something really important, all the better. WIRED in its September 2011 issue proclaims Switch’s 60-watt equivalent LED as the green bulb for design nerds. Awesome. (more…)
A new model for medical device development
July 5th, 2011
LUNAR’s contributions to a new collaborative-development model that reaches across cultures is bringing a low-cost medical device to developing countries where the human need is great and traditional health care products are unaffordable. (more…)
Jay Leno gets charged about AeroVironment
June 27th, 2011
Car enthusiast Jay Leno — a huge fan of the Chevy Volt electric vehicle — praises the easy-to-use AeroVironment home charging dock in a new video episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage”. (more…)
Insights with Illumina
June 16th, 2011
What are the key components that make a successful project and a successful client relationship? (more…)
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7 Years In: Lessons Learned as a Product Design Engineer
May 16th, 2011
I’ve been a mechanical engineer at Lunar for almost 7 years, as well as a project manager and the ME intern coordinator for a good portion of that time. I’ve had the opportunity to work with a number of interesting clients, coworkers, and products. They range from large corporations to small startups, hot-heads to introverts, consumer to medical to unclassifiable, parts as big as a monster truck wheel to those you can barely see. And since that magical summer of 2004, some things have continued to ring true. (more…)
Failure is always an option
March 21st, 2011
At LUNAR we solve difficult problems every single day. Nobody ever comes to us saying, “Hi, we have this really easy thing for you to do. It is totally straight forward and should be really simple.” As a result, we are constantly faced with challenges that nobody anywhere has ever surmounted. We often solve problems like these with prototyping, which in my opinion is by far the most important thing we do at LUNAR. (more…)
An ode to simple product design
March 3rd, 2011
As a product engineer, I often find myself delighted by the little things–an ingenious locking mechanism, a cleverly designed component, a silky smooth hinge – which is why the simplest of designs are sometimes the most fascinating. One everyday object that I find to be particularly (and deliciously) nifty is the McFlurry spoon.
iPad Teardown: An Engineering Design Perspective
January 3rd, 2011
A Solutions Icon-o-Cast
By now you’ve seen technology-focused teardowns of the Apple iPad, but have you seen the insides through the eyes of a product design engineer? (more…)
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Packing for Mars
October 26th, 2010
Humans need a few basic things to survive – air, water, food, heat, shelter – but just surviving isn’t really enough. We also need familiarity, a little comfort, interaction, a small place of our own. (more…)
Demystifying Medical Devices
September 23rd, 2010
A Solutions Icon-o-Cast
In this new era of health care reform and rapidly advancing medical technology, how do devices—from band aids to robotic surgical equipment—get developed? (more…)
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One Word at a Time
July 14th, 2010
LUNAR recently helped design the Intel Reader, a device that helps blind, low vision and dyslexic people read print more easily. (more…)
LUNAR at MD&M West Feb 9-11
February 9th, 2010
