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DESIGN TOUCHSTONE "Ultimately, you can't really convert people unless they like the way the products look," he says. So Onysko worked with Ideo, a design firm based in Palo Alto, Calif., to give mass appeal to the organic lifestyle. Result: a great-looking soap box made of 100% postconsumer materials. "You can throw it in your yard, and it will just melt away," says Onysko...
...BREAK After earning an architecture degree at Carleton University and studying industrial design at the Emily Carr Institute, Hill started ExceptionLab, a product-design firm (imagine lamps made from old blinds) that, along with Treehugger, is a subsidiary of his holding company, Utopia Manufacturing...
...invention by adding a video projector to the glasses to view Internet searches and text messages on the lenses themselves. Even without that extra feature, though, Rapoport is already on his way to early retirement. A 2002 Intel Science Talent Search winner and CEO of his own acoustic engineering firm LONO, Rapoport has earned his bragging rights. LONO, also run by Nicholas P. Orenstein ’05, David J. Jakus ’06, and James D. Moran ’05, is working on a wireless fetal heart monitor, a project which has put the team...
This doesn’t mean we all need a firm background in the intricacies of fiscal policy. In fact, part of the beauty of this type of literacy is that both a specialist and a generalist can gain insight from the same set of facts. The former may understand the implications for future research in far greater detail, but the latter can still appreciate the contribution to the big picture...
...Game Cube and Playstation 2. The two top-selling games of 2004 were “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and “Halo 2,” both rated “M,” according to the NPD Group, a market research firm. “We found that [these] video games were correctly labeled with the violence and blood content,” said Thompson. “However, we are finding sexual content, substances, and language that is not listed on the box.” For example, one game...