In light of the recent layoff of Nike FuelBand hardware engineers, a friend pointed us to this recent post from Whipsaw, who did the FuelBand's industrial mechanical design. It's a good refresher course in how hard it is to design good hardware -- especially when the specifications and timeframe are as demanding as the FuelBand's were. Here in 2014, it's a little hard to … [Read more...]
Geek & Fashion Culture Agree: Form is Key For Wearables
The weekend brought a couple of articles about wearables from central journals in geek and fashion culture: Wired and Black Book. Interestingly, they agree: if the wearables revolution is going to take off, product designers had better think hard about the physical form of the technology. Intuitively, this makes sense -- and it's something that the tech world is hearing a … [Read more...]