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Five ways to take cultured meat mainstream
Better for the environment and better for animals, cultured meat is an ascendant industry and could grow even faster with these five improvements.
Tag: Industrial
Case Study
Pop-up Solar EV Charging Hub
3ti Energy Hubs came to us with a unique challenge to advance the rollout of EV infrastructure by providing rapidly-deployable destination charging. We enabled our client to bring their pop-up mini solar car park and EV charging hub to launch, positioning them to focus on commercialization and scale-up.
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CDP unlocks solar EV charging innovation
In collaboration with 3ti Energy Hubs, Cambridge Design Partnership propels pop-up, mini solar car park and EV charging hub to launch ahead of crowdfunding campaign.
Case Study
Technology to enable a new home monitoring service
We designed and manufactured an ingenious connected sensor to prove the monitoring technology to market leaders in home automation. The unrivalled performance and ease of use of the sensor, together with positive trial results led to a successful new product launch.
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Satellite-enabled wildlife monitoring and threat detection system
Distributed sensors spot poacher activity over large remote areas and send threat alerts over a bespoke network to local wildlife rangers. Within 18 months the system was developed, prototyped and trialled in Kenya. It has won international acclaim and has enormous conservation potential.
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High-impact digital advertising medium for motorsport
The innovative wheel mounted display for race cars shows video and updates in real time while having a negligible impact on the car’s performance. The system is designed to place race sponsors centre stage in front of a global TV audience.
Analysis
Making it last: Why testing is vital to product sustainability
How long do we expect a product to last? Many sophisticated technology products, such as phones and tablets, are routinely replaced after a few years as specifications evolve rapidly. But what about a chair or a toaster? There are a huge range of products that we only replace when they…
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Women in innovation: Design & Research
Women play a crucial role in innovation and business success at CDP. We’re proud of the critical contribution made by our women colleagues, who lead in diverse areas of innovation including design, research, science, technology, engineering and human factors. In this first interview of Women in Innovation series, we talked…
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The future is smaller, faster, cheaper… and more energy efficient
Power electronics technology is enabling big advances in electric transportation and smart energy delivery, as well as playing an important role in meeting the ever-increasing demand for global connectivity and data storage. In this blog, we explore some of these opportunities and the up and coming technology solutions that are…
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Inspiring the next generation
Our Year in Industry Students Miranda Dobson and Isaac Blanc report on how they took STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) into one of our local primary schools to help to inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists. Early exposure to STEM helps young people better understand the world…
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Bridging a cultural gap in product innovation
Industrial design (ID) and engineering skills are different, yet both are crucial to successful new product development (NPD). But as anyone involved will have experienced, tensions can arise due to the approaches and goals of different members of the team. Having attended both art school to study ID and university…
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Worlds first in corrosion monitoring – Collaboration between CDP and Ion Science creates breakthrough in industrial sensing
27 June 2018 – A world first in corrosion monitoring has been created from a collaboration between technology and product design firm Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) and gas detection specialist Ion Science. The new patented Hydrosteel 6500 all-temperature probe is the world’s first for multipoint hydrogen flux corrosion monitoring in extreme environments – providing…