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Every product starts off as an idea. Product Concept Design is all about shaping that idea into a real product. In today’s episode Vince and Allison look at how modern Product Concept Design has developed, and where it’s going.

Designers at Babyzen redefined the traditional umbrella stroller to address 3 major performance headaches.

Counter insurgency warfare demands split-second decision making and real time information. In this episode, Vince and Allison review the design of a throwable reconnaissance robot.

Lee Valley Tools design engineers are "judged against history" when developing new products. Vince and Allison take us through the redesign of a block plane that keeps the comfort and familiarity of previous tools while improving the overall performance.

Vince and Allison show the egg shaped Tamaggo, a soon-to-be-released camera whose unusual 360 degree image created unique design challenges.

Ram Racing redesigned their Formula SAE car to increase stiffness by 100% and reduce weight by 10 lbs, leading to big reductions in lap time.

Aston Martin Racing takes lessons from the race track to inform their consumer car designs.

Whether you’re producing plastic or metal products, you’re likely using machines to shape them. In this episode of The Product Design Show, Vince and Allison talk to JR Automation Technologies about their design of an assembly line that manufactures coolant reservoirs for car radiators.

Designers from System Group wanted to build a fully autonomous packaging machine that could build a box for any sort of product. Allison and Vince show how they incorporated bar code data to predetermine the right size box. The result is the very cool “Freebox” machine, as shown in this episode.

Drafting helps cars go faster on the race track, but NASCAR fans were complaining that too much drafting makes races less exciting. So on Jan 10th, NASCAR changed the design rules. That’s good news for fans, but bad news if you are a design engineer for a NASCAR team. The Product Design Show spoke with Drew Kessler, Designer on the PENSKE racing team, to find out how they got ready for race day.

Even professional design teams can learn a few things from the FIRST Robotics competitions. In this episode, Vince and Allison report on a project to design and build a robot that can shoot a ball into a basket. The student team faces a lot of the same challenges as commercial design teams.

Design engineers put a lot of effort into commercial cleaning vehicles, as Vince and Allison discover. All those scrubbing, squeegeeing and drive train components have to fit together somehow.

What's the ultimate tool for demolition? In this episode, Allison and Vince talk to designers who went well beyond the sledge hammer to create a portable tool for tearing down infrastructure.

Architects designed a huge cantilevered canopy for the new Francis A Gregory library in Washington DC. Problem was, hanging a canopy 40 feet from its support isn’t an easy engineering challenge, as the engineers from CST Covers pointed out. Vince and Allison walk us through the solution.

We’ve all heard the distinctive rumble of a performance car. This week we spoke with Pat Hodgins, Chief Engineer of Callaway about how they design that signature sound into their cars.