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Tactile Wins IDA Award
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DCI Releases TeraTrak R1
Earlier this month our friends at Digital Control Inc. (DCI) released their newest bore planning product, the TeraTrak R1. A real-time terrain mapping tool, TeraTrak R1 easily creates continuous topography marked with utilities and waypoints. The TeraTrak R1 features: visualizing underground hazards, measuring and mapping precise elevations and distance along drill paths, and determining rig placement. With TeraTrak R1, DCI hopes to streamline job site bore planning to be more accurate, efficient, and cost-effective. Tactile is proud to be a part of the design collaboration. Congrats to DCI and the design team!
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Tektronix 3 and 4 Series Hit the Market
This past summer our friends at Tektronix released the 3 Series MDO (Mixed Domain Oscilloscope) and the 4 Series MSO (Mixed Signal Oscilloscope). Emulating the 5 Series MSO design language, the 3 Series MDO and 4 Series MSO are Tektronix’s newest mid-range oscilloscopes offering high-definition touch screens, enabling engineers to view digital data streams, ongoing measurements, and database information in addition to the conventional analog traces. The new oscilloscopes simplify the development of embedded products, ranging from televisions to IoT and radio-based devices. We’re honored to have worked with Tektronix on the design language of their flagship products. Visit our 5 Series MSO case study for a look back on our first design collaboration with Tektronix.
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Senior Industrial Designers Wanted
Our Tactile studio in Boston is looking for superstar Senior Industrial Designers with two available opportunities—freelance and full-time. You will have the chance to collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams from idea to conception with design at its core. We work on a wide spectrum of exciting and challenging projects that allow our designers to gain new experiences, learn and advance their craft. If you’re interested in either opening, please click to learn more and apply: Freelance Senior Industrial Designer and Senior Industrial Designer (full-time). We hope to hear from you!
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IDSA’s Medical Design Deep Dive
Next month Tactile has the pleasure of sponsoring IDSA’s Medical Design Deep Dive in Boston on October 9-11. We’re looking forward to learning more about how the role of the design and the designer is evolving to keep up with the rapid changes in healthcare. Tickets are still available–click HERE to purchase. We hope to see you there!
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ecobee Releases SmartSensors
Earlier this month, ecobee launched its all-new room sensor—the SmartSensor. Paired seamlessly with ecobee SmartThermostat, SmartSensor provides additional temperature and occupancy readings wherever you place them throughout your home to enhance comfort and help you save when you’re away. Fully redesigned and complementary to any room décor, SmartSensor can be positioned on any flat surface by its magnetic base or be mounted to the wall. Tactile is honored and proud to be part of the design collaboration with ecobee. Hats off to ecobee and the design team!
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Tektronix 5 Series MSO Wins a Red Dot
We’re proud to announce the Tektronix 5 Series MSO was recently awarded a 2018 Red Dot Design Award. Internationally recognized and dating back to 1955, Red Dot awards the best product, communication, and concept designs of the year. We’re honored to be among the winners of this year’s competition. Congratulations to Tektronix and the design team!
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ecobee Switch+ Hits the Market
Meet ecobee’s latest buzz—the ecobee Switch+. With built-in Amazon Alexa, Switch+ becomes your everyday task assistant to help you go hands-free. Just ask Alexa to turn on/off lights, play music or podcasts, help with everyday tasks, or control other voice-enabled devices in your home. The ecobee Switch+ will be there for you when you need it most. Tactile is proud to have been a part of the design collaboration. Congratulations to ecobee and the design team!
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Waterpik Launches New Water Flossers
On February 6 in New York City, Waterpik held an exclusive media event to launch two new products: the Sidekick Water Flosser and the Whitening Water Flosser. Alongside Waterpik, Tactile Design Manager, Jeff Ladwig, helped introduce both product’s design and engineering innovations that are just the beginning of a whole new era of Oral Health Care products. The Sidekick Water Flosser offers all the oral health benefits of a full-sized device, but in an ultra-compact and portable package, making it easy to floss on-the-go. Waterpik’s new Whitening Water Flosser combines patented water flosser and whitening infuser technologies to deliver a gentle whitening agent that’s mixed with water to remove stubborn stains between the teeth and hard-to-reach places. We’re so proud to be a part of the design collaboration!
