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Dexcom G6
While users of the Dexcom system greatly valued its enhanced ability to monitor their glucose levels, applying the subcutaneous Dexcom sensor to their bodies was an obvious pain point that was a barrier to wider adoption.
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REAL™ Immersive System
The first virtual reality system that is purpose-built from the ground up for rehabilitation in a healthcare environment.
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Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) is a leading manufacturer of lighting and rigging technology that’s used in some of the world’s most renown venues, like Carnegie Hall in New York and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
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Victor A Better Mouse Trap
How do you build a better mouse trap? Get smart. Connectivity enabled Victor® to design a 21st-century solution to a centuries-old problem.
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Rachio 3
The Gen 3 device is a step up in capabilities, ease of use, and quality of interactions while remaining true to the brand’s look and feel.
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The Ascender
Life on the road is all glamour, right? Well, for those rock gods who don’t have roadies and “people,” traveling with a guitar is a serious pain.
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HelmetFit Football Helmet Inflation System
HelmetFit's award-winning, intuitive digital-physical user experience makes helmet inflation faster, easier, safer, and more precise.
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Trice Medical Mi-Eye+
Delve helped Trice Medical develop a device that changes the traditional standard of care for diagnosing joint injuries.
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ProNova SC360
Imagine being strapped into a large machine, completely immobilized, for an hour while it delivers high doses of radiation to treat your cancer. Imagine doing this daily for up to six months.
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Temptu Air At Home Airbrushing
Three disciplines worked in lock step to develop Temptu Air, the first all-in-one airbrushing device that makes applying foundation anywhere quick and easy.
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Nielsen-Kellerman Rowers’ Rugged Megaphone
Delve’s engineers put the rigor into rugged for a superlative megaphone that stands up to rowers’ abuse.
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Badger Shield
In March 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic straining hospital capacity and shutting down global supply chains, healthcare facilities faced a desperate shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for workers on the front lines.
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Onity Disruptive E-Lock Innovation
Delve’s research drove a technical solution that ended up disrupting the electronic locks market for the hospitality industry.
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Aqua Products Pool Cleaning Robot
Delve reinvented Aqua Products’ jet-propelled pool cleaner and had it ready for tooling in just three and a half months.
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FSC's PathOne™ Rapid, Portable Pathogen Testing
Delve developed a revolutionary analytical platform that shifts the paradigm of pathogen testing in diagnostics, food safety, and bioterror.
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D7 Systems Rugged, Rapid Decontamination
Rugged, versatile BDAS+ is a breakthrough device that helps first responders rapidly and easily neutralize biological threats.
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Alcon Cataract Surgery Scalpel
Delve developed a new scalpel that skirts competitors’ overly broad patents and keeps costs low.
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Freedom Scientific Low Vision Solutions
Ethnographic research uncovered many opportunities to improve everyday life for the visually impaired through Freedom’s family of video magnifiers.
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REACT Scooter
Pacific Cycle’s Mongoose brand had dipped its toe into economy-priced e-scooters for the kids market several years ago. It was a good idea that was too ahead of its time. Their scooter lacked differentiation and was dropped from the product line after disappointing sales.
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ReadyPay Solar Home System
In Africa, more than 80 percent of households lack access to energy. Many people light their homes with homemade candles and kerosene lamps that are dangerous and smoky, causing house fires and respiratory problems. The lack of light and power is also a roadblock to economic and societal development, limiting the ability to work, study, and communicate digitally.
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Wonder Connection Bedside Field Trip
Delve’s airtight, highly usable design delivers worry-free exploration and positive distraction to empower pediatric patients.
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Central Garden & Pet
Two novel products from Delve and Central Garden changed the way herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers are packaged, stored, and applied.
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Speedbox Rugged Modular Container System
The rugged and waterproof rolling container got an update that made it tougher, more stackable, and more versatile despite tricky manufacturing constraints.
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Rideamals
Kid Trax makes a wide range of battery-powered ride-on vehicles for toddlers and children up to seven years old. They make super-cool play versions of farm and construction equipment, sports cars, police cars, motorcycles, trucks, dune buggies … you name it.But what about a ride-on animal?
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Connected Faucet
The earth’s supply of freshwater is finite. Our population and its demand for water is not. In the U.S., it’s not just the West that’s affected. Longstanding droughts, aging infrastructure and rising demand mean that hundreds of cities and towns are at risk of severe shortages either because of lack of water or unsafe drinking water.
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Presto Frame
Buying a mattress has been a predictable experience for the last 50-plus years – go to a mattress or furniture store, choose your mattress and bed frame, and have the store’s delivery service bring it to your home and set it up for you.
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CLEANCut
Delve reconfigured CLEANCut for mass appeal with a lower price, sleeker and more versatile look, and much improved usability.
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Lend a Handcycle
Most of us have fond childhood memories of tooling around the neighborhood on our bikes with friends. For children with physical disabilities, that experience is too often out of reach.
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Whitney PlateLASER 1530
When you’re in the business of laser cutting thick pieces of steel to a high degree of accuracy, it’s critical that your equipment is powerful, precise, fast and reliable while being easy to maintain and operate.
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Eclipse System
For many women with Accidental Bowel Leakage (ABL), the loss of bowel control becomes the controlling force in their lives.
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Onelink® Smoke & CO Detector
Smart appliances deserve equally smart design. Consumers expect connected products to be functional and beautiful. First Alert engaged us to develop a fresh aesthetic that would communicate their latest technology in an appropriate premium-design statement.
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Onelink® Connected Safe
No more forgotten codes or lost keys. First Alert’s Onelink connected safe enables users to manage the protection of their valuables with a smart phone app.
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Satellite terminals & solar array
This is truly a big, hairy, audacious goal – connect the whole world to the Internet. Provide the half of the world that currently has no access to the digital revolution with a platform to participate, which will spur improvements in the economies, living conditions, healthcare and education of developing countries.
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ZipClean™
Bottling plants use overhead airveyor systems to move empty plastic bottles from the start of the line to the sanitizing station prior to being filled. Dirt and debris that accumulates along the tracks can fall into bottles, potentially contaminating beverages.
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Valve Replacement BioReactor
About one percent of all infants are born with heart problems. Infants and children with malformed or missing heart valves may need multiple valve replacement surgeries throughout their lives.
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Advocate™ Lavatory System
Bradley, an industry leader in commercial hand washing equipment, saw an opportunity to help its customers improve safety and save money.
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DoseView 3D 3-Axis Water Phantom System
The accurate delivery of high-dose radiation can significantly improve outcomes for cancer patients. Nothing short of perfect positioning and calibration of equipment is acceptable. In collaboration with Standard Imaging’s engineering team, we created a calibration device for three-dimensional mapping of radiation therapy dose distribution.
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Remington HyperFlex charging base
In the midst of developing its award-winning Remington HyperFlex Series of shavers, Spectrum Brands brought us in to engineer a portable charging base.
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The Coaster
Coaster Pedicab has operations in nine cities from Boston to San Francisco. The pedicab business model is fairly unique — the operator rents the bikes to self-employed, licensed pedicab drivers who earn their living off of fares and tips. So when mechanical problems keep a pedicab in the shop, it directly impacts everyone’s bottom line.
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Raman module prototype development
Many industries, particularly chemical and pharmaceutical, use spectrometry to analyze the properties of raw materials. Recognizing the need for an easy-to-use, flexible instrument to meet a growing range of applications, Thermo Scientific developed the Nicolet™ iS™50 spectroscopy system.
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ProSpeed™
Consumers view polished floors as a sign of quality and cleanliness. But there is a price to be paid in water and product waste, indoor air quality, labor costs, and the strain placed on the backs of cleaning personnel.
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INOmeter EB
Ikaria’s INOtherapy™ is a suite of FDA-approved nitric oxide inhalation therapies used to treat newborns with hypoxic respiratory failure (HRF), a life-threatening condition in which cells are unable to receive enough oxygen. Ikaria approached us to design a meter that supports accurate billing of the drug therapy.
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Buell Blast
While Harley continues a century-long romance with motorcyclists, research showed that younger potential buyers think sportbikes and cruisers are difficult to drive, expensive, and intimidating.
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Bontrager Oracle Helmet
Bontrager is a subsidiary of Trek that produces bike components, accessories and apparel. The company challenged us to create a high-quality, lightweight, adjustable fit system with a compelling aesthetic to match their sleek helmet design.
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Utility Terrain Vehicle
An agricultural equipment manufacturer chose us to create a powerful new aesthetic for an existing product line of utility terrain vehicles (UTVs) to open up new business opportunities for their company.
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Baiardo Stringing Machine
Wilson Sporting Goods, a worldwide-leader in sports equipment, selected us to design a tennis racket stringing machine that would revolutionize the industry by paying unprecedented attention to the comfort and positioning of the user.
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RIM press re-engineering
When it comes to manufacturing plastic parts, Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) offers companies the opportunity to produce smaller quantities with a more modest upfront investment.
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