A flying camera released from a mountain climber’s wrist to shoot an awe-inspiring selfie and a high-quality robotic hand manufactured through lower-cost 3-D printing are among the futuristic product ideas offered by 10 finalists in the Intel Make It Wearable Challenge. The competition—anchored by an intensive incubation process run out of the Berkeley-Haas Lester […]
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Haas Upgrades Technology for Students
The Haas School has rolled out several technology improvements in the past few months in response to students’ changing IT needs and growing printing demand. Nine new Bloomberg terminals are now available for finance and financial engineering students to use on high-performance PCs in the Haas Computer Lab. In response to the increasing popularity […]
The Font Detective
[…] An image from the disputed will in Phinney’s first case, Exhibit A shows “wicking” (bleeding) of ink along paper fibers, as well as bigger streaking from the printing process, both visible at top of the “o.” Also visible is a stairstep pattern on the inside of the “o,” an effect of the 300 dots-per-inch resolution […]
Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison on “prizing the small details”
[…] kind of work. But he has this piece about kind of immutable, I guess, mobiles since he’s French. And he kind of makes this point that the printing press is maybe correctly associated with the advent of the scientific revolution. But maybe the sort of simplistic sense, in which we might perceive the causality […]
UC Berkeley Takes Lead in Understanding Crowdfunding Revolution
[…] practice is expanding to new markets and to new places around the globe each day. “Berkeley Master of Engineering students have already crowdfunded a startup in the 3D printing space. Capstone projects have included writing and characterizing classifiers for risk analysis, sponsored by Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending firm in San Francisco,” says Fleming. CrowdBerkeley enhances […]
Haas Undergrad Reveals Cal’s Style in Bare Magazine
[…] used for the first three issues charged $60 per page for changes to proofs. With MagCloud, users upload PDFs and receive as many free proofs as necessary. Printing is farmed out to HP’s partners at a cost of 20 cents per page. Despite Bare’s success, Bloch doesn’t see herself as the next Tina Brown. […]
Student Startup Roundup: Twindom, Wetravel.to and Lend Me Your Literacy
[…] Pastewka, and Will Drevno met in an application development class at UC Berkeley in 2011, it wasn’t long before they were discussing how they could take emerging 3D printing technology and turn it into a business. First, they focused on a 3D printing vending machine they called Dreambox. But that soon morphed into a new […]
A behind-the-scenes look at the work of greening Haas: Q&A with Danner Doud-Martin
[…] our composting to the Richmond Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), where we recently planted 150 redwood trees as part of our efforts to offset our paper use through printing. We also planted trees at Verde Elementary School across the street from the MFR in an effort to green their school yard. Doud-Martin partners with local nonprofit […]
Haas Welcomes New Students with Pathbending Leaders, Case Studies, Games
[…] percent or 40 percent women.” In another first, each new PhD student is receiving an iPad as part of a pilot project to reduce paper use and printing costs. The PhD Program launched the pilot after surveying current students with tablets and finding they reported reducing printing by 70 percent to 90 percent. Three […]
Hands-on Focus at 3rd Annual Africa Business Forum
[…] fintech in Africa, as well as “big tech’s ambitions in Africa.” Speakers include Nigerian entrepreneur Olu’Yomi Ojo, who founded branding firm Urbanbaze Advertising and Printivo, a custom printing company for small businesses that is expanding to other African countries; as well as Toro Orero, managing partner of Silicon Valley VC fund DDF Capital, which […]
UC Berkeley Takes Lead in Understanding Crowdfunding Revolution
[…] practice is expanding to new markets and to new places around the globe each day. “Berkeley Master of Engineering students have already crowdfunded a startup in the 3D printing space. Capstone projects have included writing and characterizing classifiers for risk analysis, sponsored by Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending firm in San Francisco,” says Fleming. CrowdBerkeley enhances […]
Frank Bunger, MBA 18
CEO & Founder, Orion Span San Mateo
[…] opened up the possibility of launching tourists into space, but few companies have emerged to create extraterrestrial destinations for travelers to visit. As new technologies such as 3D printing emerge to lower costs, Bunger envisions building a “human space flight platform,” called Aurora Station, that could serve as a stopover for astronauts while at the […]
Pop Culture
[…] all brands, are now content companies. We’re creating 500 to 1,000-plus pieces of original content a year. I’d love to double, triple, or quadruple that. Design—in particular 3D printing—is Dream Pops’ most recognizable innovation. Initially Greenfeld focused on B2B, producing customized pops for individual brands, like 2017’s frozen pop for Beats by Dr. Dre, the […]
UC Berkeley Takes Lead in Understanding Crowdfunding Revolution
[…] practice is expanding to new markets and to new places around the globe each day. “Berkeley Master of Engineering students have already crowdfunded a startup in the 3D printing space. Capstone projects have included writing and characterizing classifiers for risk analysis, sponsored by Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending firm in San Francisco,” says Fleming. CrowdBerkeley enhances […]
Changing the World, One Student at a Time
[…] the abolition movement in the UK during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Students learn how abolitionists effectively voiced their opposition to slavery by utilizing the printing press and blanketing communities with a drawing depicting slaves packed into slave ships. Displaying the horror of slavery swayed people’s opinions, says Silver. Silver also spends […]
Changing the World, One Student at a Time
[…] the abolition movement in the UK during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Students learn how abolitionists effectively voiced their opposition to slavery by utilizing the printing press and blanketing communities with a drawing depicting slaves packed into slave ships. Displaying the horror of slavery swayed people’s opinions, says Silver. Silver also spends […]
What the Maker Faire’s hackers and hula hoopers can teach us about building diverse teams
[…] Maker movement, a loose collective that began with electronics hackers and hobbyists and grew to include people with seemingly nothing in common—crafters and physicists, bakers and blacksmiths, 3D–printing whizzes, and do-it-yourselfers of all stripes. “Emotional contagion” Pre-pandemic, Maker Faire gatherings around the world attracted tens of thousands of people to tinker away the day […]
Changing the World, One Student at a Time
[…] the abolition movement in the UK during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Students learn how abolitionists effectively voiced their opposition to slavery by utilizing the printing press and blanketing communities with a drawing depicting slaves packed into slave ships. Displaying the horror of slavery swayed people’s opinions, says Silver. Silver also spends […]
EMBA Class of 2014 Startups: 16 and Counting
[…] he says. “Sometimes they’re failing and trying again, sometimes succeeding. It was a priceless experience.” For Inkenbrandt, the emerging 3D market created a new opportunity to protect 3D printing and technology from licensing issues, and to help prevent the theft of IP and designs. He says that he could have never started Identify3D without the […]
Startup Roundup: Seniorly, Crayon Crunch, and Realiteer
[…] the status quo. “The publishing industry has been doing the same thing for years,” he says. “We asked: What are they missing? We dared to ask questions and came up with an answer by developing something new.” The company will begin printing My Magical Adventure for the public in mid-September, and ship worldwide. —Gabrielle Luu