Month: January 2017

Alo features no screen and instead relies on holograms, voice control and haptic feedback Famed French designer Philippe Starck is known for being a bit radical and ‘out there’ with his designs and now he was co-created a smartphone called Alo that, well, doesn’t look like a phone at all. Working with fellow French industrial…

How should you find an optimum utilisation of space with minimum space requirements? (M20 / M30 /  M40 / M50) X = 710 / 710 / 1210 / 1210 mm, Y = 610 / 910 / 910 / 1410 mm, Z = 310 mm Opening = 340 (590) mm OverHead Gantry – our flexible space-saving…

The Engineers website poll of 2016 focused on automation and was prompted by Bank of England governor Mark Carney’s warning that technology will put millions of jobs at risk. Carney’s comments followed research published in 2016 by Citi and Oxford University claiming that 57 per cent of jobs across the OECD are at risk from automation....

Four Formlabs Form 2 3D printers make up the production facility, allowing design, prototyping and manufacturing to happen all in the same space. A General Electric software engineer is aiming to make a global impact with 3D-printed custom prosthetic hands after fitting his first patient at the end of 2016. A General Electric software engineer...

Austria-headquartered Emco has had a UK presence since the 1970s, varying between direct, indirect and combined representation. But this August, sole direct UK coverage returned to Emco Education and the company has production applications in its sights, as Andrew Allcock heard With the word ‘Education’ in its title, Emco’s UK operation (02392 637100) is reinforcing a...

Top swimming gear brand Speedo has used its Stratasys Objet350 Connex 3D Printer for over half a decade. Famous for both kitting out top swimmers and its supremely secret product development process, Speedo gave Stratasys UK reseller SYS Systems a small glimpse inside. The product development arm of Speedo is focused at their research and...