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Motorola Insider Blame Game: Engineers Shoved Designers Aside [Motorola]

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2008-08-20 11:00:00 by Brendan I. Koerner in Gizmodo
...engineers reign supreme, and are allowed to sneer at their more right-brain-inclined colleagues. Marketers? Designers who focus on usability as opposed to circuitry? At Motorola, they're peons There's this amazing wealth of engineering talent, but there's no system for harnessing that talent for the good of the consumer," says one former...
 
Tags: motorola, phone, software, software path, phone models, consumer research, motorola employee, consumer, freeze-prone software
 
 
 
 
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Japan is running out of engineers!

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2008-05-18 18:49:41 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...engineers, the guys who design all the neat high-tech toys (among other things) so many of us fawn over. And you can blame Western ideology for the shortage Young Japanese are fleeing the sciences, including mathematics and engineering, to pursue easy careers like banking, finance or the arts. Whereas post-WWII Japan was all about churning...
 
Tags: engineers, japan, import foreign engineers, post-wwii japan, top-notch engineers, japanese population, 18-hour days, pursue easy careers, days
 
 
 
 
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Press Release: Stealth Wins Engineers Choice Award from Control Engineering Magazine for their Powerful Mini Computer

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2008-02-05 08:14:16 by N. A. Hilal in TRENDY GADGET
...Engineers Choice Award from Control Engineering Magazine for their Powerful Mini Computer Toronto ~ February 5, 2008 - Stealth Computer Corporation, a market leader in the industrial computer and peripherals market won Control Engineerings 2007 Engineers Choice Award for its LPC-450 small form factor computer . Control Engineering is a...
 
Tags: stealth, stealth computer corporation, control, powerful mini computer, mini, stealth lpc-450, lpc-450, engineers choice award, powerful
 
 
 
 
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Japanese Engineers: MacBookAir Badly Designed

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2008-02-22 04:46:14 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
...engineers in Japan and presented them with a stripped down MacBook Air. And they thought it sucked Nikkei claims the Air is "a violent antithesis against Japanese manufacturing" traditions that allow for none of the compromises it represents. One engineer, Mayuko Uno, said that the "insides are full of waste." Ouch Those who have cracked open...
 
Tags: macbook air, air, macbook air clone, engineers, nikkei, nikkei claims, extra space, mayuko uno, in-production laptop
 
 
 
 
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Japanese Engineers: MacBook Air Insides Are Full of Waste [MacBook Air]

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2008-02-22 21:20:00 by posted by Pantha in
...engineers doing Nikkei's teardown really mean screws. Thirty of them. (We thought it was marvelous .) Apparently, Apple is as anal about its manufacturing specs as it is about aesthetics. A common practice for Japanese PC companies is to let the manufacturing plant "improve" the design or implement ones that cut costs. Like, use less screws....
 
Tags: macbook air, japanese, japanese engineers, design, mysterious internal design, cost, engineers, lower cost, teardown
 
 
 
 
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Japanese Engineers: MacBook Air Insides Are "Full of Waste" [MacBook Air]

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2008-02-22 16:20:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...engineers doing Nikkei's teardown really mean screws. Thirty of them. (We thought it was marvelous .) Apparently, Apple is as anal about its manufacturing specs as it is about aesthetics. A common practice for Japanese PC companies is to let the manufacturing plant "improve" the design or implement ones that cut costs. Like, use less screws....
 
Tags: macbook air, japanese, japanese engineers, design, mysterious internal design, cost, engineers, lower cost, teardown
 
 
 
 
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Nissan Engineers Wear Aging Suit to Understand Seniors

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2008-04-17 11:11:37 by Editor in Ubergizmo
...engineers wear this aging suit and a pair of goggles to simulate the same challenge of mobility, balance and vision that their customers face daily. An engineer comments that it is very difficult to drive after a short test-drive. There you go. Now that engineers know exactly whats going on, they can put their minds into solving it Permalink...
 
Tags: nissan engineers, engineers, drive, short test-drive, senior driver, project, engineer comments, senior citizens, suit
 
 
 
 
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Rogue NASA engineers go underground with retirees and space enthusiasts to design alternative moon rocket

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2008-07-16 10:55:16 by CharlieWhite in DVICE
...engineers are secretly working in their spare time along with dozens of retired NASA engineers and space enthusiasts on an alternative design. Theyre calling it Jupiter, pictured with the white background at right, and those two rockets are said to be not only cheaper but safer and more powerful than their Ares counterparts The Jupiter...
 
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NASA Engineers Team Up With Retirees to Secretly Develop Alternative Moon Rocket [Nasa]

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2008-07-16 19:30:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...engineers have gone underground and spent their spare time from the Constellation program working on a rocket dubbed "Jupiter"an alternative that they believe will be "safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle." Jupiter is being developed with the help of a team that includes retired...
 
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