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  • About PCDworks

    PCDworks

    PCDworks is a technology development company that specializes in breakthrough product innovation. We find the latest technology and apply it to difficult problems to help companies create exciting new products. more

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    Mike Rainone (a.k.a. the “Technology Wonk”) is a leader in the field of technology development as it relates to new product innovation. As founder and vice president of PCDworks, Inc., Mike has a broad knowledge of emerging technologies coupled with a strong background in psychology and design. He has taught architecture, industrial design and business, and has developed products for clients as diverse as Sunbeam, Avery Denison, 3M and Kimberly Clark. more

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Engineered Blood Vessels

Posted by Mike on January 28th, 2008 in biology

I find it hard to hate MIT, in spite of the fact that the eggheads in the Northeast seem to think that the rest of the country -other than California- is a vast intellectual and scientific wasteland. Here is another example of why MIT is the finest scientific institute in the US, maybe the world.
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How to Walk on Water

Posted by Mike on January 11th, 2008 in biology, material

Science Volume 319, Number 5860,
Issue of 11 January 2008
©2008 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
MATERIALS SCIENCE: How to Walk on Water
Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink Water striders can skate and jump on water without drowning. The legs of these insects have a hierarchical structure of hydrophobic hairs; the resulting highly water-repellent surface is thought to […]

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