Is technology emerging from ‘behind the screen’?
We all love technology but we also hide behind it! How long per day do you spend looking at your phone? your computer? Does living in a digital world mean that we have to experience life through a...
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Creating multisensory experience consumer experiences
The consumer world is full of products designed to attract us and appeal to our different senses. We are surrounded by a plethora of different sights, smells, tastes, textures… But how do you design...
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Reducing the Product Development timeline with new manufacturing technology…
The world’s plastic’s elite descended onto the soils of Düsseldorf this past week for ‘K-Show’ – The industry’s triennial dose of what’s new and upcoming in the plastics and rubber materials and...
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It’s planning all the way down – the importance of specs for product development
So the French railway industry has recently discovered their new trains are too wide for their older stations. An embarrassing and very expensive mistake, but sadly not the first or the last time such...
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TRIZ Innovative Principles of the Designs of the Year 2014
Innovative Principles of the Designs of the Year 2014 We routinely return to TRIZ as one of the many structured innovation tools that we apply to the problems we solve at Cambridge Consultants. I...
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Consumer product development and disability – Kicking off the discussion
You may have missed it, as it was about 3 seconds long, but the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup featured a clip of Juliano Pinto, who happens to have a mobility disability, making the first kick...
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Design of the Year 2014 – the importance of understanding manufacturing for...
The Design Museum in London is currently hosting an exhibition of designs nominated for the award of Design of the Year 2014. The range covers everything from architecture, graphics, and communication...
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Trends shaping the future of consumer product development
I’ve always loved exploring and understanding consumer trends, and thinking through how technology can be used to respond to deliver new consumer products and services or vice versa. Luckily for me,...
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The one question that helps you to satisfy your users
Anyone in a problem-solving discipline knows it’s sometimes hard to understand the real source of a problem. A friend comes to you with a question: say, “How can I fix a broken heating element?” It...
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The Spitfire – An icon of innovation
The footage of the recent flypast marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33970545) is inspiring stuff for any engineer, but I think it also offers a lesson...
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Me, one giant leap for Cambridge Consultants and the IDEC group. I want to express my excitement with joining Cambridge Consultants’ IDEC group in Boston, and being the first American to do so. While...
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Sensorial is everything – just make sure it’s natural
We attended the new look Formulation Summit for cosmetic products in London which was hosted by the team that brings us the well-known annual InCosmetics trade fairs across Europe, Asia and South...
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Changes at CES and the world of connected product development
Earlier this month saw the doors of CES open for yet another year. It was my 8th year at the show (Gezzz I am getting old!), and it was bigger and louder than ever. It has been fascinating being part...
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Why is Cambridge Consultants such a great place to work?
As I close in on my six-month anniversary here at Cambridge Consultants I wanted to express some of the thoughts that I’ve conveyed to both friends asking how the new job is as well as potential...
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Unbearable lightness of a breaching whale and epical endurance of a monach...
Rightly you are wondering what this is about… Well, it was just for attracting your attention and borrowed some wording from Milan Kundera and Mother Natures’ wonders and it looks as if it is working…...
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The future’s bright, so bright it might just wake you up….
“I’ll take my torch and shine it in her eye.” “What about an elephant trumpeting in her ear.” “I’ll jump on her.” “Can we just flip the bed?” The Post-It notes came thick and fast – concept fragments...
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Shockingly simple – haptics, a touch of genius
Touch is arguably the most underappreciated of all our senses. Our fingertips can give us amazing and subtle detail about the surface in front of us- is it rough? soft? fluffy? Your fingertips can tell...
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IoT and FMCG – it’s not just about the Pork Pies
In June, delegates from the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry and some very excited CC’ers ventured to Melton Mowbray (the rural capital of the Pork Pie) to enjoy a two day workshop centred on...
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The Beaujolais Nouveau clock is ticking
The clock is ticking! After a better than expected summer it looks like the harvest of the grapes for this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau may start a little early at around the 15th of September. This...
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A world of hidden colour
Think of a situation where you want to ‘see more’ than your eyes can reveal; to spot the early signs of mildew or aphid damage in crops, or to discover the health and condition of your skin. The human...
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