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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...

"Lo is a wearable device that focuses on hypertension, encourages blood-pressure awareness, and is targeted towards people in their early twenties."  written by Aidan Wiess WWU’s Austin Scott and Jo Bloomfield , seniors in the Industrial Design program, won the prestigious 2020 GRAY Awards' student category for “Lo,” a wearable device that focuses on hypertension, encourages blood-pressure awareness, and is targeted towards people in their early twenties. The GRAY Awards is an annual cross-disciplinary awards program that focuses on architecture, fashion, product design and more. Winners are given awards that are hand crafted by John Hogan, and are also honored at the awards ceremony, which of course was a virtual event this year. The official list of submission categories includes commercial and residential architecture, commercial and residential interior design, landscape, student design and more.    Scott said the pair worked on Lo for their winter project, junior ye...