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Home / Consumer Diagnostics – A Step too Far?

One segment for innovative medical product development has been in the home medical diagnostics area. A Which report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12905687 has pointed up the shortcomings of such tests

Choices in sourcing product development

So you are planning to conduct a new product development. You’ve quite a number of choices:

You could in source – i.e.do it yourself if you have the capability
You could in source the design but augment your team

Product development in the blink of an eye

Innovative product development isn’t always about creating the next best consumer product.  Clients tend to approach us from a whole range of sectors, but you can categorise the majority of them into asking one of four questions, one of which is “Can you cost reduce my product?” A classical example of this reduction in cost [...]

What’s next for Minimally Invasive Surgery?

In 1991 the first successful laparoscopic radical prostatectomy had taken place – a minimally invasive procedure used in the treatment for prostate cancer. To remove the prostate a number of ‘key hole’ incisions are made, rather than using the traditional open surgery procedure.   Despite the obvious benefits to the patient, (not least in terms of [...]

Whitespace technology – free coffee to go with your iPhone?

If you were given an iPhone (or any other brand of smart phone or mobile device for that matter) last Christmas, you may have noticed that things didn’t work quite as quickly as you might have hoped. Nothing to do with the phone; the issue lies with the nature of bandwidth and spectrum. Some networks have experienced a forty fold increase in traffic in just a few years with the obvious result. Put another way, it’s a bit like driving around a city at 3:00am on a Sunday morning as opposed to trying to do the same journey first thing on Monday morning.