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Karen Field

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Karen Field is editor-in-chief of Design News. Email her your examples of products that somehow slipped by the QC cops for Design News' Made by Monkeys blog!

Title: Design News Editor-in-Chief

Email: kfield@reedbusiness.com

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Made by Monkeys

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I Feel an EMF Headache Coming On!

Eek! “EMF (electromagnetic waves) are everywhere, in your home, office, car … all electronic equipment radiate them. In addition, radio stations, cell phones, satellite communications also operate via EMF waves. Some products that generate EMF are computers, hair dryers, heating pads, microwave ovens, and cell phones, and many more. Some common symptoms of EMF exposure are... More

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Update: Chinese Knock-offs

In a recent blog post, Chinese Knock-offs Move Beyond Gucci Bags , I described how some high-end Italian machinery makers are seeing copies of their equipment pop up in China. They’re fighting back through technical innovation, lower-cost manufacturing, service, and quality. But it made me wonder what sort of legal recourse they have, if any? I asked Thomas Babel, an attorney... More

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The Adventure of the "Special" Oil Refinery Product

Warning: Details provided in this case may be NSFW. By Charles R. Picek, Contributing Writer Back in the 1940s, I began my Chemical Engineering career as a Junior Engineer at a Texas oil refinery. My first day on the job, I was given a clipboard and was told to go check the levels on all the tanks in the storage lot (there were 30 or so). The lot was large enough that I could only make... More

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Latch Spring Keeps on Breaking and Breaking and...

Wolfhard Homma has a nagging problem that just won’t go away: The patio door lock on his  house.  He writes: “The door is locked in place by a metal knob in the jamb over which the movable slotted latch in the door slides. This pinnacle of American engineering suffers from two problems: First, bad material selection or insufficient dimensioning causes the spring... More

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Corrosion Outbreak on Whirlpool Machines

Peter D’Aloisio sends in this example of a six-year-old Whirlpool Duet front-loading washing machine with a serious case of galvanic corrosion, which sort of begs the question: What period of problem-free performance can one reasonably expect out of an appliance these days, even if its under warranty? My mother had the same washing machine for the first thirty years of my life, and... More
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