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How does it go? Vartechers? Psion (UK) Ltd, recently took Gold sponsorship at the first UK Vartech conference held at the Motorcycle Museum Birmingham on Wednesday 21st March. We had an exhibition area within the Codezone area of the conference. VARTECH UK is a combination of educational conference...

Congratulations to Psion! Business Solutions Magazine came out with their 2012 BEST CHANNEL VENDORS issue and Psion was recognized. In the section entitled Data Collection & Mobility, Psion was recognized as winners in two significant categories: Service & Support and Product Reliability ...

Do you and your colleague work in cold temperatures, or where condensation stops you from getting your job done? Is your current mobile technology simply not up to the challenge of meeting your unique needs? We want to hear from you. Have your voice heard. We are in the midst of developing a new mobile...

Psion partners with BCP to show ‘Wall-to-Wall Voice WMS’ at Totally Logistics 2011 LONDON, 14 September 2011. Psion PLC (PON.L) will exhibit alongside business partner, Business Computer Products (BCP), at the inaugural Totally Logistics North show being held in Doncaster on 28-29 September...

As Industrial designers we are continually thinking about the designs for the future, how they should look, function and feel! So the question often gets raised as to 'where do we get our inspiration from'? Personally i don't have one answer for this, it could come from anywhere! Yes sometimes...

I’ve been looking at a number of wireless standards (or de facto standards) and this one is interesting. ANT ( http://www.thisisant.com/ ) is a lightweight wireless technology used primarily by sports and fitness wireless sensor devices: Wrist-mounted instrumentation Heart Rate Monitoring...

As a designer I'm always looking around at various designs of products for inspiration as well as pure curiosity! In a similar post I mentioned Sugru and how great it can be to expand the possibilities not only in ergonomics but the simple saying they have 'Hack things better'. I am one...

It seems like more and more people (33,000 visitors) get into the Ingenuity Working Site, and the community runs very well. However, so far I see there are very few topics about product quality, is that part people don’t like to talk or PTX products are so good or so bad no body cares? It’s...

They were older (…much older ), sitting on a park bench - he was holding the ball of yarn while she knit quietly and “he” looked quite content participating, without objection. When I asked what his secret was to such a long marriage, he looked at me with an intriguing grin and replied...

Last time I wrote about antennas, I was thinking about the end user benefits of a particular antenna design – like the internal cellphone antenna that avoids susceptibility to breakage when dropped. But the whole point of an antenna is that it has to WORK. What does that really mean? Well, to...

The Sky Digital TV Remote Control When Frazer Designers were asked to design a new remote control for the Sky Digital TV system back in 1998, their brief was to create the most user friendly and ergonomic remote control ever designed. To achieve this they started at the end.....the end users to...

Everyone has a great idea for a new product and unless we implement these efficiently (ie: into the right products, the right markets and at the right time), they will simply remain...Great Ideas . The trick is to understand the market, listen to your customer and select the correct feature set to solve...

Introduction Touch screens have been used in various electronic applications for more than 30 years. However, with the recent exponential growth of their use in consumer mobile applications, they have become much more familiar to the average user. Psion Teklogix has been integrating touch screens...

Electrical and electronic devices have become an indispensable part of our daily lives - we rely upon them to help us work, play, communicate, and carry out basic everyday household tasks. We get pretty ticked off if our gadgets and appliances don't work in a predictable and reliable manner. All...

Ever wondered what happened to mobile device antennas? A few years ago they started to magically vanish from our cellphones, laptops and PDAs. Products that previously had long rubber whips (OK so probably only the older guys like me will remember those :o), pull-out wire antennas or stubby protrusions...