Product Design

      Who is Andy Wells? This episode is the chicken soup for the soul of engineering. Without doubt, the most inspirational episode we’ve recorded to date as Andy Wells shares [...]

Most of our customers don’t know where the name Pipeline comes from. Here is a hint: it has nothing to do with oil, and little to do with engineering, at least nothing engineered by people. [...]

A seemingly simple device can make a world of difference in your daily life. We slouch in front of computers, we hold our phones while laying down, we prop laptops in our laps and hunch over them [...]

In March of last year, Apple announced they had created a robot named Liam. With 29 robotic arms, all having different functions, Liam works in a sort of assembly line system to disassemble [...]

  It’s always exciting to see what new products are released at CES every year. This year, one of the standouts is Ossia’s new Cota Ceiling Tiles, which can wirelessly charge [...]

Pipeline recently finished development of the Quikdraw, an innovative lens holster for photographers. The system allows one-handed changing of lenses between the camera and belt-mounted Quickdraw [...]

Many first time inventors come to us with new ideas for products and lots of questions regarding how the typical product development process works. Here is a brief summary of the common workflow: [...]

What is design for manufacturing and why should you care? DFM is a design process where manufacturability considerations are taken into account as the product is being developed, as opposed to [...]

We recently purchased a Foredom (http://www.foredom.net) and it is the greatest tool in the world. For anyone involved with product development, prototyping, manufacturing, or mechanical [...]

All you inventors out there: this is for you. There might be a chance that your baby is kind of possibly slightly ugly. Just a little. At times. In the right light. When an inventor has an idea [...]