Greetings, Jordan from Vertabend here. I know, that title sounds like the intro to a bad joke, but it's really what we had to deal with this week. As you may know, we have been working on our prototype since Tuesday. We ordered our materials a while back, and were hoping to make a full... Continue Reading →
May the gods of quail and parentheses aid us! Our mission is almost complete, and presentation day is soon arriving. I don’t think we will ever be ready enough. We’re pretty much done with our power point, besides some touching up and rehearsing, but I just don’t feel up to it. We had a practice... Continue Reading →
Hey there. So repetition of events: we ordered our beginning foam and fabric, the engineering peeps made 3-d models (read in fancy slurred Animation Show voice), and us bio med peeps have continued to research....and we are all waiting for our materials to arrive from the distant abyss. But on the research side (which never... Continue Reading →
Hello again everybody! This is Jordan reporting from team Vertabend. As you have seen in Karrie and Zabdi's posts we are currently in the midst of out prototyping phase. Personally I am both excited and nervous, because we finally get to do some real hands on stuff, but we have a tight schedule to keep.... Continue Reading →
Last week, Vertabend and everyone else in StarPathDesign began OHSA training. As we continue our training for certification, we've begun the prototyping process. It's amazing to think that by the end of this year, we will have a (hopefully) working model of our neck pillow innovation! To do this, our group has split along... Continue Reading →
Hey everybody! This is Vertabend's own Jordan Reed reporting what happened the end of last last week. See, this post was supposed to be on November 3rd, but I was sick and dead to the world at that point in time, so this is happening now instead. One great piece of news (as Zane has... Continue Reading →
Yellow there. Yes this is how I say hello sometimes. Don't judge. So for the past long time we have struggled to complete our assigned design proposal, doing research and sorting through our accumulation of sources, and trying to phrase it sensibly and forgetting which sources we had already cited...and it has finally been finished... Continue Reading →
Flexible Polyurethane Foam (FPF) is EVERYWHERE--inside cushions, mattresses, furniture, under our carpets, in packaging; you get the picture. The U.S. alone produces nearly 2 billion tons of polyurethane foam each year, according to the Polyurethane Foam Association publication InTouch. FPF is incredibly versatile and can be produced to have a mind-boggling variety of different properties.... Continue Reading →
Hi, it’s Zane, the last member of Vertabend, here to provide an update. We have finished work on our memorandum, of which I had the market and value section, after a peer review session on Wednesday. The memorandum came along quite well, it had all the sections, though mine was a bit lacking, and seemed... Continue Reading →
Why hello there! This is Jordan from team Vertabend to update you on what we've been doing since Karrie's post. Now that we know what we are trying to prevent exactly, it will help us figure out how we want to tackle this problem. These past few days we've been looking at patents of past... Continue Reading →
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