Designed to deter home intruders, permanently mounted window bars can also trap residents during a fire — a risk that has led to fatal tragedies. For King, the issue is personal. Members of his own ...

Technically, an open-source ecosystem is “open” in that anyone may contribute to and draw upon the work of an entire community of developers. Interestingly, open source has come to mean that the doors ...

Gaps are widening in the prototyping of large, complex chips because the speed and capacity of the FPGA is not keeping pace with rapid rollout pace of advanced ASICs. This is a new twist for a ...

An infinite number of inventions is waiting to happen. It’s often hard to figure out why one idea succeeds and another falls by the wayside. Many factors can impact success, ranging from the quality ...

The software development industry is currently undergoing a significant paradigm shift, driven in part by the emergence of ...

Lucid Motors’ dream of building its first all-electric car is one step closer to becoming reality. The startup has announced that a beta engineering prototype of the Air luxury EV has performed its ...

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Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. When developing industrial and consumer products, my team ...

Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...