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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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In 2018, we were knee-deep in developing a far-out concept to grapple an asteroid with an electronic web, which would allow a network of hundreds or thousands of tiny robots to crawl across the surface as they characterized the asteroid's materials. We have also worked with the Rhode Island School of Design on fabric manufacturing.

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