Hasta La Ideas

When we first saw the USB Battleship, our immediate response was WANT! – so we had to make sure to include it in this year’s Ultimate Gift Guide. While sadly lacking the capability to let us actually play Battleships against our USB devices, the USB Battleship’s long base still provides plenty of support for up to 5 USB connections at once. Hopefully the aircraft carrier and destroyer versions are coming soon.

Check out more great gift ideas in Core77’s Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide 2010.

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If just the idea of a puppy or kitty hiding in a fruit box to steal your coins isn’t already enough to make you melt, then either your heart’s made of coal or you’d better prepare to be shop-vacc’d off the floor of your studio after watching this!

(Actually, I’m more partial to the chihuahua Itazura Coin Banks, but that’s because I’ve got one asleep in my lap right now.)

Check out more great gift ideas in Core77’s Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide 2010.

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Mechanical Engineer / Designer
OtterBox
Fort Collins, Colorado

This position will be responsible for development of the amazing products that makes OtterBox the best protective solution for hand-held technologies out there.

Job Design: As the heart of what OtterBox does, the Mechanical Engineer/Designer is imperative to the continued success of our protection of technology. This position is designed to aid the establishment of high quality and innovative solutions, and ensure all engineering and design work conforms to high standards or exceeds expectations. Good communication skills are a necessity for obtaining the tools needed to succeed.

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The best design jobs and portfolios hang out at Coroflot.

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Designer II
New Balance
Lawrence, MA

As the Designer II, you will be responsible for designing projects from start to finish for your category. You will work closely with the product development and marketing teams while developing concepts for uppers and sole units and providing recommendations on material selection. You will generate multiple design concepts demonstrating creative use of line, form and surface, on-trend color combinations, innovative materials, and new technologies. In this role you will develop technical packages for your design concepts that clearly define the parameters for prototyping – this includes specifying colors, materials and new product technologies. You will create control drawings for sole unit designs, technology or other molded pieces logo details and speedlace or hardware parts. In this role you will travel to retailers and tradeshows to evaluate and analyze market trends, and you will also travel for prototype development purposes.

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The best design jobs and portfolios hang out at Coroflot.

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The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt’s recent Why Design Now conference held this past October brought together an optimistic collective of bright and ambitious designers whose efforts are shaping how we solve some of today’s most challenging human and social problems. The dominant conference theme which openly questions design’s relevance in a time of expanding global crisis, gave speakers and panelists the opportunity to share attempts and discoveries where design has made impacting difference through innovative approaches.

Check out these two featured videos from GE which summarize some of the inspiring work of those conference participants currently engaged in problems of health care and global energy. If you missed the event, they’re definitely worth your time.

Solving Energy Challenges

Solving Health Challenges

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