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  • Five University Teams Awarded During Student Design Competition

    Posted on September 25th, 2007

    An impressive group of 42 students in 15 teams representing 10 universities comprised this year’s RESNA’s Student Design Competition sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Among the top winners were the University of Texas, University of North Carolina, NJ Institute of Technology, University of Arkansas, and Northwestern University. Each winner was awarded an engraved caliper.

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  • Apple Releases iPhone

    Posted on July 9th, 2007

    Apple released its highly-anticipated, first cell phone, the iPhone, to the market on June 29th, 2007. The iPhone is internet and multi-media enabled and allows users to use touch-screen technology to perform such activities as taking pictures, playing videos and music, checking email and visual voicemail, and browsing the web.
    What are the implications of this […]

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  • Fraser Shein, President and CEO, Quillsoft Ltd.

    Posted on May 29th, 2007

    Join Fraser Shein, the developer behind the successful WordQ and SpeakQ products, to discuss his ideas on design, marketing, and literacy supports. He will be online blogging in response to comments and questions related to his profile between May 30 and June 6. You must be registered to comment on this and any other NCTI postings.

    Read more about Fraser’s background and business development model in the latest NCTI Innovator Profile.

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  • The Pace of Innovation

    Posted on January 8th, 2006

    Developers offer a host of innovative, feature-rich products, but offerings may be too complex for classroom adoption. The relentless pace of technology innovation provides increasing possibilities for new features and affordability of innovative applications and devices.

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  • Ron Hu, President / Designer, Afforda Speech

    Posted on May 5th, 2005

    Ron is a self-described “techno-freak” and has worked with computers and electronics since he was a kid. Until recently, he owned an assistive technology vending company registered with the Canadian government. Through that work, he had a lot of contact with manufacturers of scanners, speech synthesizers, and other technologies that helped spark his desire to get back into design himself. “I was already familiar with the market, so to speak, and when I sold that business, I really wanted to get back into electronics more… this was a very good avenue for me to be able to design and play with new ideas.”

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Articles and Papers

  • CNET News: VMWare Surge Puts Virtualization in the spotlight

    Virtual machines, the technology that VMWare helped pioneer, allow one computer to act as many, whether it’s a Mac running Windows and the Mac operating system at the same time or a massive server running multiple instances of Windows and Linux simultaneously. Once a niche technology, virtualization is expanding rapidly as businesses try to get more bang for their server buck. . . . CNET.com reports.

  • Design: An Iconic Guitar vs. the iPhone - It’s Your Call

    Who decides what’s good news design anyway? For the next few weeks, you can. New York’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is giving the public a chance to nominate and vote on items both humble and high-concept in the second annual People’s Design Award contest. Make accessibility a factor! Voting ends Oct. 16, and the winner will be announced Oct. 18.

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  • INDEX: the Global Non-Profit Network Organization

    INDEX: is a non-profit network organization - based in Copenhagen - that focuses on Design to Improve Life worldwide. The organization works through a global network to ensure access to the best knowledge on design and the cutting edge of contemporary thinking.

    Through a wide range of activities and events, INDEX: is the catalyst for Design to Improve Life: an organization that spurs public and professional awareness of the great – and too often unnoticed – human and commercial potential of Design to Improve Life.

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