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VIA Handheld Printer & Scanner designed by Matthew Koscica , Jasmine Schubert , Dylan Willis Western Washington University Industrial Design International Design Excellence Award - Bronze 2021 (IDEA) and Winner of the Gray Award 2021 for student design and Winner of Core77 Design Awards 2021 for Consumer Technology - Student Notable This compact multi-tool acts as a portal between digital information and our physical world. VIA, a handheld printer and scanner, is designed to reduce the pain points of conventional printing while bringing ease of use and excitement to the process. By allowing the human to be the driving force behind the printer, size is reduced, paper jams are avoided, and points of failure are lessened.   VIA uses emerging wide printhead technology and guidance rollers to achieve a single swipe, simple printing process. Current printers have limited use cases by having the paper advance through the printer, but by instead allowing the printer to be moved acros...

 Luna Production Assistant AI Drone Camera for Content Creators by Madeleine Gerst, Elliot Quasha, and Alexandr Barbaras Problem: Videographers struggle with heavy gear loads, tedious set-up processes for each shot, an intimidating learning curve and high prices for the hardware required to achieve professional grade content. Luna is an AI drone flight camera to reduce equipment load, invite interaction, and be controlled hands free. It records audio and video based on voice commands, following the subject as needed. Then it uploads all files to one location seamlessly. This was project by Western Washington University Industrial Design third year students with Ted Renwick of Logitech. January - March 2022. You can follow these young designers on Instagram: Madeleine Gerst @madeleinegdesign Elliot Quasha @equashadesign Alexandr Barbaras @alexandrbarr