SQUID Labs
Engineering Design & Technology Innovation



Press and news can now be found at our spin-off companies.
Instructables press
OptiOpia press
Potenco press

April 22-23, 2006 Visit us at Make Magazine's Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. We will have a booth and be presenting. We'll be bringing lots of our favorite Instructables projects.
Mar 10, 2006 The Villiage Voice has an article about Instructables and the DIY movement.
Feb, 2006 Sail Magazine has an article on page 16 of the print edition about our Electronic Sensing Rope technology.
Jan 2, 2006 Network World has an article about Instructables
Nov 21, 2005 Our Electronic Sensing Rope is featured in Time Magazine's Most Amazing Inventions of 2005 issue, on page 91.
Sep 28, 2005 Saul is recognized by Technology Review as the "Innovator of the Year" for "Technology in the Service of Humanity".
Sep 28, 2005 Dan and Saul's work on self-assembling systems is featured in Nature. A copy of the article is available here.
Sep 21, 2005 Squid Labs is featured on Wired News.
Sep, 2005 Saul is recognized by Technology Review as one of the top innovators under the age of 35.
Sep, 2005 Squid Labs is featured in Wired magazine in an article about custom manufacturing.
Aug 22, 2005 Squid Labs launches Instructables.
Aug 19-21, 2005 Saul, Colin, Eric and Dan will be presenting on various topics at the O'Reilly FOO Conference in Sebastopol, CA
Aug 5, 2005 Saul will be presenting on Howtoons, DIY and open-source hardware at O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, OR.
Jul 29, 2005 Squid Labs' electronic rope technology is featured on CNN spark
Jul 2005 Saul has articles on the Ultimate Toolset and Hippopotami, while Eric has an article on Halloween Haunted Houses appearing in Make Magazine issue 03.
Jul 12, 2005 Saul will be presenting his thoughts at SDForum's Emerging Tech SIG in Palo Alto, CA.
Jun 29, 2005 Colin will be presenting his "Magic Window" Augmented Reality system at the Where 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA.
May 30, 2005 Saul makes some witty comments in an article about the DIY Revolution in the May 30th issue of Fortune Magazine.
May 28, 2005 Our Electronic Rope technology is featured in the May design kit published by Inventables.com.
Apr 8 - Oct 30, 2005 Our work "rope and sound" which features our electronic rope technology will be showing at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. It will be part of the Extreme Textiles exhibit.
Mar 14-17, 2005 Saul will be presenting "iFabricate: Collaborative Atom Hacking" at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference. Saul will also be part of the panel: "A conversation with Neil Gershenfeld"
Feb 2005 Saul has two articles appearing in the premier issue of Make Magazine.
Oct 15-17, 2004 Saul will be presenting on eyeglass lens technology at O'Reilly digifoo camp.
Sep 20-21, 2004 Colin and Saul will be presenting at O'Reilly FOO camp. Saul will present on eyeglass lens technology and Colin will present on open source hardware.
Sep 15, 2004 Squid Labs moves to new facilities in Emeryville, CA. The new facilities provide 5500 sq ft. of mixed office, lab and shop space.
Mar 8, 2004 Dan presents on Electronic Rope: Load and Wear Monitoring at the 5th International Rope Technology conference.
Feb 19, 2004 Saul wins the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. The MIT press release can be found here.

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