September 21, 2013 | TechieTonics

Design Creates Jobs, Says Entrepreneur / Designer Michael Laut: An Interview

September 21, 2013October 31, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

As an entrepreneur / designer / professor heading his own eponymous firm, Laut design, Michael Laut has developed user-centric product and brand development ranges from military and defense applications to biomedical devices, consumer electronics, and many other categories. Lately, we got a chance to talk to Michael on various factors related to ID and the misconception about the profession of Industrial Design. More after a jump: TechieTonics: If we talk about your practice, do you think Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of Good Design holds true today? Taking the case of…

The Mental Workspace Discovered

September 21, 2013May 31, 2014 Wa'd Abuzurayk

Do you have a big imagination? Did you have an imaginary friend as a child? Or are you almost always daydreaming? If you ever wondered about where you get all those ideas/imagery from, then wonder no more. Your question has been recently answered by a group of scientists. In their paper, lead author Alex Schlegel and his colleagues explain that the previously theorized widespread neural network required for human imagination is actually real. Schlegel and his team found evidence for what they called a “mental workspace”. The study was done…