14 March 2018 – Technology and product design firm Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) has worked with leading shoe brand ECCO on a breakthrough in data-driven customised footwear. It opens the door to a new generation of customised footwear for the mass market – heralding an evolution in engineered comfort. Consumers…
28 February 2018 – Technology and product design firm Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) has joined forces with International Cookware to help shape a new generation of Pyrex dish designs that can take centre stage on the table. The new Inspiration ovenware range pushes the boundaries of material and manufacturing technology,…
CDP has been awarded a Good Design award for its work with DKB Household on the Zyliss Control knife range – a breakthrough in knife design that improves the user experience and reduces the spread of bacteria.
Technology and product design firm Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) has unveiled a new approach to pharmaceutical packaging. An intuitive design coupled with an injection of fun has resulted in a single-use medicine pouch that is a world away from traditional pharmaceutical packaging.The BeeBetter pouch is easy to use – the…
25 January 2018 – Innovation from technology and product design firm Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) is set to transform mass-market toothbrush design. The ‘TruthBrush’ technology turns the humble manual toothbrush into a sophisticated monitoring device that can capture a variety of information about how people are actually brushing their teeth.Using…
Las Vegas is crazy – and the CES tech show is even crazier. I needed a long drive through Death Valley and Yosemite afterwards to work out what on earth I’d witnessed.CES is full of ideas and new, shiny gadgets – but, just like Vegas, not all that glitters is…
It weighs 7.5 tonnes and is powered by both a jet engine and a rocket, which together will produce over 135,000 bhp – more than six times the power of all the Formula 1 cars on a starting grid put together. It has temperatures inside the rocket that reach 3,000°C…
As wearable technology in all its (as yet unknown) forms becomes ubiquitous, it is interesting to reflect on practical changes this might bring to our lives – and whether it will represent a significant departure from the now decade-old smartphone generation. Having never used any wearable technology before, I was…
It sounds like the simplest question in the world. The answer should come naturally to the most junior marketer or designer in product or service companies. And yet most likely the response will reference an existing product… drill a hole, nebulise a drug, mop the floor, play a cd…, rather…
Tom Lawrie-Fussey spoke to Packaging News at the recent Active & Intelligent Packaging World Congress International names in retailing joined more than 300 attendees at the recent Active and Intelligent Packaging Industry (AIPI) World Congress, enough for 2016 to be marked a ‘breakthrough’ year for technologies putting new powers into…
Are we happy with our bank cards or is paying with your smartphone really the answer? Payment methods have been evolving since ancient times where the smart solution was the ‘split tally stick’. A hazel stick was marked with notches to indicate the debt and split into two pieces so…
Yesterday Chris Houghton and Stergios Bititsios presented at Food Matters Live, a high profile event bringing together professionals from across the food and drink industry. If you missed the presentation or for those who enjoyed it and want a recap, here is a blog summarising the talk and some of…