Archive for the ‘Engineering’ Category

iPad Teardown: An Engineering Design Perspective

September 3rd, 2010

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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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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

LUNAR will be attending this year’s MD&M West, the world’s largest event for medical design, manufacturing, packaging and green tech, with work on display at the Medical Design Excellence Award Winners Showcase. (more…)

Maker Faire 2009

June 26th, 2009

Solutions: What do you get when you combine 600 inventors and innovators with thousands of people who want to see their work? It's Maker Faire 2009.

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Lunar’s Journey Towards Green

January 9th, 2009

Travis Lee, Lunar's sustainable engineering lead, and Alberto Villarreal, the company's senior lead designer, spoke with GreenBiz Radio last month about clients asking for greener designs, the challenges of lowering product impacts, and how Lunar helped HP reduce materials and save money.  Our Elements initiative guides both the greening of its internal operations and the products it makes.

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Learn more about Elements here.

Back to School

October 17th, 2008

Solutions – Oct. 17, 2008: Lunar engineers Robert Howard, Matt Peterson and Dan Senatore discuss the attributes job candidates should present when applying for any kind of creative career opportunity.

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Engineering the Illumina iScan

September 17th, 2008

Solutions – Sept. 17, 2008: Lunar engineers Robert Howard and Matt Durack discuss the product-development process and challenges associated with creating the Illumina iScan — a sophisticated biotechnology instrument — for long-time client Illumina.

How do engineers and designers juggle the requirements of customers, manufacturers, marketing and service technicians in a context of fierce competition, development calendars, technology risks and other considerations? Listen and learn.

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