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May 16 - 18, 2010
The Waldo Home Health Monitor, a remote medical management platform featuring an industrial design created by San Francisco based Metaform Product Development for Waldo Networks, is unveiled at the 15th Annual American Telemedicine Association ATA 2010 Meeting and Exposition held in San Antonio, Texas, USA. ATA is the largest international tradeshow focusing on telemedicine. Click to watch the video.
(posted 05.25.2010)
November 11, 2009
Industrial designer David Shaw of San Francisco's Metaform Product Development collaborates with Waldo Networks to create the industrial design of the Waldo Health Home Monitor, a revolutionary, low cost telemedicine device designed to help the elderly and those suffering from chronic diseases manage their healthcare from home. The simple to use product features an intuitive touch screen interface, visual alert light, videoconferencing capabilities, collects data from other medical devices like glucose meters, weight scales, and blood pressure monitors, and transfers vital health information to remote care providers. Traditionally cumbersome and disparate tasks like accessing medical records, researching medical conditions, scheduling appointments, interfacing with doctors, pharmacists, and nurses, and managing medications can all be done in one easy to use, centralized device. Medical tasks aside, Waldo can also be used as a versatile home entertainment device to play games.
Waldo Networks, Inc., based in Austin, Texas, engages in the development of equipment and systems for home health care and remote monitoring applications and is backed by Texo Ventures, a seed and early stage angel / venture capital firm investing in and building innovative healthcare companies.
(posted 05.25.2010)
October 24, 2008
Metaform Product Development helped bring Borland's "Unlock the Black Box" ad campaign to life by devising and building a one-off, life-sized, functioning tradeshow contest prop that, when unlocked with a winning key by a contestant, lifts up to reveal a Nintendo Wii prize hidden inside. The Black Box features an ominous pulsating red LED framed in a machined and polished aluminum ring on a mysterious, monolithic slate black cube. A rotating base animated the cube and added to the theatrics of the contest. The prototype prop was unveiled at a tradeshow in Orlando, Florida and was apparently a big hit drawing crowds of attendees to the Borland booth.
October 22, 2008
The BACtrack Breathalyzer designed by Metaform Product Development appears on Discovery Channel's MythBuster's TV show.
August 26, 2008
The BACtrack Breathalyzer designed and invented by Metaform Product Development tops the list of Inc. Magazine's "7 New Technology Marvels." The client and licensee also became an Inc. 5000 fastest growing private U.S. company of 2008. The product is now in worldwide distribution counting Target, Amazon.com, Drugstore.com, Bevmo, and Walmart among its distributors.
June 2007 - January 2008
Metaform's Electronic Printer Abacus and Sun Ray 270 projects were selected by the San Francisco International Airport Museums to be in "Prototype to Product," an exhibition featuring thirty different design projects from firms and individuals throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. From preliminary sketches and drawings to detailed illustrations, and from basic models and prototypes to finished products, a range of design solutions are presented by a number of designers from an area known as a hotbed of creativity. The exhibition coincides with the IDSA/ICSID International Design Conference held in San Francisco in Oct. 2007.
December 2007
The BACTRACK Breathalyzer designed by Metaform Product Development makes a primetime TV appearance in an episode of CSI: Miami.
November 13, 2007
Metaform Product Development Founder, David Shaw, presents at the Oracle OpenWorld co-hosted Pecha Kucha Night San Francisco held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Over 500+ attendees were treated to 12 short attention span, 20 images X 20 seconds presentations. Pecha Kucha Night is a place for creatives to meet, network, and show their work in public. Founded in Toyko, Japan, Pecha Kucha Night is now in over 80 cities worldwide.
November 8, 2006
The Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client designed by Metaform Product Development and Sun Microsystems User Centered Design Group is named as an Honoree in the Eco-Design Category of the 2007 International CES Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Design and Engineering Awards.
July 11, 2006
Sun Microsystems releases the Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client design in conjunction with Metaform Product Development. The Sun Ray 270 is a RoHS compliant thin client network computing device intended to further proliferate Sun's founding vision: "The Network is the Computer."
June 16, 2006
Metaform's David Shaw is featured in "Young Designers Americas" a book published by daab GmbH of Cologne, Germany and edited by Carissa Kowalski Dougherty. This 400 page hardcover volume introduces a select group of innovative up and coming Interior and Product Designers on the American continent. It presents 50 top young designers and their products, celebrating the diversity of North, South, and Central American design.
December 16, 2006
The BACTRACK Breathalyzer is launched. BACTRACK features an innovative patent-pending Dual-Flow Air Tube Chamber innovation invented by Metaform's David Shaw and licensed to KHN Solutions for manufacture.
December 15, 2006
The Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client designed by Metaform Product Development and Sun Microsystems User Centered Design Group was part of a series of products that earned a Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum. The Good Design program was founded in Chicago in 1950 and remains one of the oldest and one most important competitions in the world.
November 14, 2006 - December 15, 2006
The Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client designed by Metaform Product Development and Sun Microsystems User Centered Design Group is exhibited at the Natalie and James Thompson Art gallery in San Jose State University's School of Art and Design. The exhibition called "Points of View: Experiences in the Industrial Design Profession" featured 6 prominent SJSU alumni.
October 19, 2005
Metaform founder David Shaw has
been selected to be included in an upcoming book
by
Fusion/teNeues Publishing
GmbH called "Young
Designers: Americas." The book will feature about
60 up-and-coming designers from throughout North and
South America, and will be published in late Spring or
early Summer 2006.
July 22, 2005
Metaform
is honored to be commissioned by
Sun Microsystems'
award-winning User Centered Design
Group as a Contract Service Vendor and ID Lead
supporting programs that ensure and champion the quality
and design integrity of Sun branded peripheral devices,
displays, and network computing products. Metaform will
work as an outsourced but integrated component of Sun's
in-house product teams and utilize its experience in
Asia to manage projects with leading manufacturing
suppliers such as Samsung, NEC, Fujitsu, and Quanta.
April 4, 2005
David
Shaw presents lecture on industrial design process to
Design and Industry (DAI) students as part of the
Industrial Designers Society of
America's
(IDSA) Professional Lecture
Series hosted by San Francisco State University.
December 7, 2004
Firetide earns Red Herring Top 100 Innovators Award.
December 2, 2004
Metaform + Asian manufacturing giant, Coxon Group's
Teckon Industrial Division co-develop a line of slim
optical and half-height drive ODD and HDD enclosures for
the OEM market. Visit
www.teckon-tw.com
for more
information.
Metaform engages in hybrid equity partnership with Silicon Valley start-up DualCor Technologies to develop innovative cPc portable communicator and computing device design concept.
April 27, 2004
Metaform partners with StreamWorks to explore ODM fly
fishing products with outdoor sporting goods catalog and
retail chain giant
Orvis
of Manchester, Vermont, USA.
December 3, 2003
Metaform start-up client Firetide wins Fall Wi-Fi
Planet Conference & Expo Best of Show Award and a host
of other industry accolades.
September 19, 2003
Firetide
HotPoint Mesh Router conceptual
industrial design created by David Shaw of Metaform
Product Development wins the prestigious DEMOgod Award
at DEMOmobile 2003 in La Jolla, California. The
demonstration prototype built by Metaform appears in a
C|net / ZDNet interview.
Click to view video.
July 12, 2003
CyberVibe Varatus designed by Metaform Product
Development makes its debut at the Adult Novelty
Manufacturers Expo (ANME).
June 4, 2002
Metaform founder David Shaw presents "Industrial Design:
Process, Role, Involvement" lecture to industrial design
students at Chang Gung University in Lin Ko, Taiwan ROC.
March 23, 2001
Metaform Founder, David Shaw, speaks on role of early
creative arts education and honors teacher Ms. Siu Fong
Tai for her 30 years of service to the children of San
Francisco's Chinatown at the
San Francisco Asian Art Museum
benefiting the
Chinatown Community Children's
Center
(CCCC).
"Then and Now, Making a Difference" was the theme of
CCCC's 3rd Annual Spring Gala Fundraiser. Special
guests included San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown,
Actress and Film Director, Joan Chen, San Francisco
Police Chief, Fred Lau, and KRON TV Reporter, Vic Lee.
March 14, 2000
SFMoMA
curator
Aaron Betsky
selects Metaform designs
for "Vision + Reality" Exhibition.
September 16, 1999
Metaform accepts the IDSA / BusinessWeek Magazine
Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) and honored
among the "Bay Area's Best" by the Industrial
Designers Society of America at the Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts in San Francisco, California, USA.
Metaform's David Shaw accepting 1999 IDEA Industrial Design Excellence Award presented by Kristina Goodrich and Betty Baugh of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
June 7, 1999
Metaform earns prestigious IDEA
Award from IDSA +
BusinessWeek Magazine
for the VCR Co-Pilot.
The VCR Co-Pilot is the easiest, fastest way to record your favorite TV shows. Click to watch video of the TV commercial.
Spring 1997
Metaform Founder, David Shaw, returns to his alma mater San Jose State University to teach Industrial Design Visualization.
August 1, 1995
Metaform forms Star Wars Toy Development team with Galoob Toys and Lucasfilm.
May 5, 1995
David Shaw guest lectures at Fortune College of Technology in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ROC.
June 1, 1993
Polaroid MicroCam
designed in collaboration with
BWDA wins the Grand Prize in Modern Plastics' First
Annual Consumer Design Awards.
November 20, 1992
Gymtek Weight Adjusting Gymnastics Vaulting System
devised and designed by David Shaw wins a US Olympic Committee Sports
Equipment Design Award at the Quadrennial Sports
Equipment Technology Symposium held at the U.S. Olympic
Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
July 1, 1991
Electronic Printer Abacus
designed by David Shaw wins ID
Magazine Annual Design Review Award for Concepts and
earns the International Designers' Choice Mark.
