31 Aug Portable Electronics and the Wicked Witch of the West
Neither does great with water. I dropped my iPhone in a lake this summer and while the phone was recovered, functionality was not....
22 Aug IDSA Annual Report
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) just held their annual international conference in Boston, MA. Jeremy Savage and I attended the 4-day event and had the pleasure of listening to some great presentations, ranging from the informative to the inspirational....
01 Aug Engineering the Crab Feast
Early in July, Key Tech hosted our annual crab feast on a farm north of Baltimore. This event started more than a decade ago when the company had less than 10 employees, and now hosts nearly 100 employees (current, past, and future), family, friends,...
06 Jun Welcoming a New Generation of 3D Printers
Here at Key Tech, we often use physical prototypes in our design process to literally get a feel for the part. While 3D computer models can be helpful, there is simply no substitute for actually holding a part in your hands and feeling it....
23 May Do you Want an iHeart Pump?
It seems that people will buy any of Apple’s “i” products. While some of this is driven by fashion, most of the craze for Apple’s products is the result of a string of exceptionally well designed products. The user delighting design of these products was...
02 May With a Little Luck…
We were in the right place at the right time…and we knew it. About 9 years ago, we were looking to move our company. We were small, but had outgrown our old space. We were literally hours away from signing a new lease deal in a...
29 Feb Cancer Treatment with Electric Fields
Last October, Bill Doyle of the oncological treatment company Novocure gave a TED lecture on a novel cancer treatment method that his company is developing. The therapy involves exposing cancer cells to a low-intensity alternating electric field at a few hundred hertz, which disrupts cell...
31 Oct Jenny Regan Featured as Guest Speaker at UMD Fischell Festival
Recently Jenny was the featured speaker at the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering's Fischell Festival, as part of their Whiting Turner Lecture Series. ...
18 May IDSA Goes to RISD
Every year, Industrial Designers come together for one weekend to attend the regional IDSA (Industrial Design Society of America) conference. This year, the North East chapter was held at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence Rhode Island, and Jeremy Savage and I...
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