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• Roadside assistance gone awry

  See a funny VIDEO on "failed roadside assistance" Read More... Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 9:55 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• Danger or opportunity?

  One company we interviewed today at the CMEF show here in Schenzen, China was the Perlong Group, which manufactures analog and digital X-ray imaging equipment. Most of the company's sales are in China and it does not yet have CE and FDA approvals to target Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:13 AM by Leslie_Gordon | 1 Comments

• Walking the Schenzen show aisles

  Breakfast for me consisted of vegtables, corn-on-the-cob, and "sticky rice" which comes wrapped in a leaf and parchment paper. This morning we attended the opening ceremonies for the 61'st annual CMEF event currently being held in Schenzen, China. The Read More... Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 1:43 AM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• Live from Beijing and Schenzen, China

  Yesterday's blog item discusses live the first leg of my trip to Schenzen, China, to attend the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF). The flight from Newark, N.J. to Beijing was about 15 hours long (7,000-odd miles). I had to figure out how Read More... Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 7:27 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 1 Comments

• Off to the China International Medical Equipment Fair

  I'm waiting at the Cleveland, Ohio airport for a flight to Newark, N.J. and from there on to Beijing, China. Final destination Shenzhen, China to attend the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) held April 18 to 21. According to the CMEF Web Read More... Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:29 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• More on Autodesk Manufacturing Tech Day

  We spent yesterday learning about new features and advancements in Autodesk's 2010 products: First, the developer stresses how well its programs work together to provide a digital prototype which acts as a master model and lets engineers work concurrently Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:03 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• Manufacturing Tech Day

  I'm attending Autodesk Manufacturing Tech Day in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Just got back from the welcoming dinner at Oba Restaurante in Portland with the rest of the group of technical media and bloggers. Portland stikes me as such a clean city. It is a small Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 7:10 AM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• Perils of social networking

  Social-networking tools allow for more free-for-all communication than traditional publishing methods because users can quickly and creatively collaborate. But — interesting conundrums can arise. For example, what would you think if you are using something Read More... Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 4:48 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 1 Comments

• A plane that turns into a car

  Watch cool videos of the Transition — a plane that turns into a car! http://www.terrafugia.com/videogallery.html Read More... Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:40 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• Shenzhen, again

  Last year, I traveled to Shenzhen, China and am to go again in mid April. The city looks kind of like portions of Florida, with palm trees, wide flower-lined streets, and glittering skyscrapers. It is on the South China Sea, just north of Hong Kong. Important Read More... Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 10:15 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• A soft-skinned car?

  "Let the material do the talking" is one of the ideas behind GINA, BMW's concept sports car. Instead of a metal body, it has one made from stretchable material. Thus, designers don't have to worry about, say, smooth continuity between the wheel wells Read More... Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:14 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments Filed under: industrial design, innovation, mathematics, automotive

• Greener gadgets

  Check out the nifty Power-Hog an entry in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition . According to the site, a white and bright green plug-in piggy bank called the Power-Hog associates power conservation with savings. For example, kids can use their allowance Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:48 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• Engineers who like to cook

  A common stereotype holds that engineers are purely logical, detailed-minded, and obsessesed with function. But some technical types also have a "softer" side, engoying artistic endeavors such as reading literature or building one-person airplanes in Read More... Posted Sunday, February 22, 2009 6:24 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• Vanity can kill you

  This post has nothing at all to do with engineering or machine design. But the news bothered me enough to want to share it as a pre-cautionary tale. An unlicensed, non-medical individual recently allegedly injected two women with a combination of saline Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:24 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments

• CAD in Japan

  I'm at the SolidWorks 2009 conference in Orlando, Florida, looking out my hotel room window, which oversees a lake lined with palm trees, the Swan Resort with giant statures of swans on its rooftop, and blue, sunny skys. I heard it is warmer in Cleveland, Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 4:10 PM by Leslie_Gordon | 0 Comments Filed under: CAD, manufacturing, innovation, 2D, Japan