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MIT resuscitates 10-year-old design to create open source respirator

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Kathleen Maher

Submitted for fast track approval An MIT design has resulted in the E-Vent respirator-design that can be brought online quickly ...

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3D printing personalized heart models for surgical planning

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Randall Newton

MIT researchers say their system can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours. Researchers at MIT ...

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Computer graphics changed our lives and the course of history; can it save the PC?

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Jon Peddie

The computer graphics industry is hitting an inflection point as consumers adopt tablets at the expense of PCs with higher end computer graphics chips. This transition has the potential to slow the development of high end graphics processors.

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MIT team invents cheap way to add 3D cameras to cellphones

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GfxS staff

A one-pixel pulse is tricked into decoding 3D data. Qualcomm is taking a close look. [Editor’s Note: A video explaining ...

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SMBs and the rise of global product development

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GfxS staff

For several years debate has raged in product development over the benefits vs. drawbacks of outsourcing and/or offshoring. This article ...

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The Outsourcing Trap: Eppinger Takes a Second Look at Global Product Development

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Randall Newton

One of the authors of the highly influential 2006 article “The New Practice of Global Product Development” has updated it ...