News Category: Press
The Journey to a Sustainable Future
The journey to a sustainable future is a highly important one, not just across Scotland, but across the whole world. Ahead of the upcoming COP26 meetings being held in Glasgow in November, we are running a weekly blog series exploring the role of technology in achieving net zero with our Technology Scotland members. This week, …
Read MoreWide Blue 28 October 2021
Product Design Scotland Toolkit: Scaling Manufacturing and Managing Supply Chains
The transition from product design and development into volume manufacturing can be a tricky, slow and expensive journey to navigate. Get it wrong and the product can be late to the market; late changes to the product or manufacturing problems can cause a large amount of scrap or rework or even product recalls; tooling and …
Read MoreWide Blue 25 October 2021
The Scotsman: A2E Adding Jobs After Recent Business Wins
Livingston-based A2E, which is part of the Pivot International group, is looking to recruit an electronics engineer and project manager to deal with the additional demand, with further plans in place to take on additional engineers over the coming months. Read the full article on The Scotsman: A2E Adding Jobs After Recent Business Wins
Read MoreWide Blue 28 September 2021
Forbes: Computer Chip Shortage Crisis Shows Supply Chains at Risk
The semiconductor chip crisis that hit companies around the world shows no signs of ending any time soon and will continue to impact the supply chains for many industries. Indeed, some organizations have yet to fully recover from the impact of the blockage of the Suez Canal last March on their ability to send and …
Read MoreWide Blue 19 July 2021
Wideblue Managing Director, Russell Overend, was the subject of this week’s Herald newspapers Monday Business Interview.
Wideblue Managing Director, Russell Overend, was the subject of this week’s Herald newspapers Monday Business Interview. “At the start of the pandemic we had one customer who had their funding pulled, and they almost went under. A lot of projects were delayed, particularly if the clients were dependent on access to university labs” said Wideblue …
Read MoreWide Blue 24 May 2021
41 Action News: Effects of Chip Shortage, How to Avoid Impacts
Right now, there is a worldwide shortage of those chips, which means businesses are adjusting and tech experts are advising consumers on how to avoid paying higher prices. 41 Action News: Effects of Chip Shortage, How to Avoid Impacts
Read MoreWide Blue 13 May 2021
The Insider UK: Glasgow Design Agency Joins Consortium
Glasgow-based product design specialist Wideblue has joined forces with two other businesses to develop an autonomous surface disinfection system for hospitals. The collaboration, entitled Project LUSS (LED-based Ultra Violet exposure for Safe Surfaces) has been awarded an Innovate UK grant to develop an economical solution to combat the spread of Covid-19 in public spaces. Glasgow …
Read MoreWide Blue 07 May 2021
Bdaily News: Making Technology Happen for 15 Years
Wideblue is celebrating 15 years of success this month. The multi-award winning firm was created on 01 March 2006 with a management-buy-out of Polaroid’s European Research and Design Centre, and is now regarded as one of the UK’s leading independent product design firms. Read on for more information. Bdaily News: Making technology happen for 15 …
Read MoreWide Blue 06 April 2021
The Insider UK: Scottish Tech Companies Partner to Revolutionise the Atomic Clock
Scottish tech companies WideBlue and Kelvin Nanotechnology have teamed up to revolutionise the atomic clock. Along with the University of Strathclyde and the University of Birmingham, they are developing the miniaturisation of optical atomic clocks which will make them more user-friendly and help improve Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) location accuracy. Read on for more …
Read MoreWide Blue 06 April 2021
newdesign – Yearbook 2021: Wideblue – making technology happen for 15 years
Wideblue was born on 1 March 2006 and 15 years later it is one of the UK’s leading independent product design and development companies. What has been its blueprint for success? Read on for more information. newdesign – Yearbook 2021: Wideblue – making technology happen for 15 years
Read MoreWide Blue 18 March 2021
The Insider UK: Scottish tech firms join forces on ground-breaking MRI scanner
Two Glasgow-based businesses have collaborated to produce a ground-breaking MRI scanner which aims to provide new insights into brain disease research. The project aims to provide new insights into brain disease research and will provide a large visual field for the neuroscientists to carry out functional-MRI studies. The Insider UK: Scottish tech firms join forces …
Read MoreWide Blue 20 January 2021
The Herald: Two Glasgow Firms Hail ‘Ground-Breaking’ New MRI Scanner
TWO Scottish firms have collaborated to produce a ground-breaking magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner which aims to provide new insights into brain disease research. Both based in Glasgow, Wideblue, a product design consultancy, has linked up with MR CoilTech, to create the high-density radiofrequency (RF) head coil technology which it is claimed has successfully completed …
Read MoreWide Blue 19 January 2021
First Trial of “ground-breaking” MRI Scanner Project Completes
Glasgow-based product design consultancy Wideblue has contributed to the completion of the first trial of a “ground-breaking” MRI scanner project at the University of California, Berkeley. First trial of “ground-breaking” MRI scanner project completes
Read MoreWide Blue 14 January 2021
Wideblue Contributes to Ground Breaking MRI Scanner Project
Leading product design consultancy Wideblue has congratulated its client MR CoilTech on successfully completing the first trial of a novel high-density radiofrequency (RF) head coil technology at the University of California, Berkeley. The head coil design, a first of its kind, utilizes 16-channel transmit and 96-channel receive RF architecture. The new prototype high-density head coil …
Read MoreWide Blue 14 January 2021
Wideblue Earns Int’l Acclaim for CRiL
Wideblue received the German Design Award, as well as the sought after European Design Award, for its work on the groundbreaking CRiL Personal Capnometer. This innovation is a small, handheld, battery-powered, fully automated device that assesses a patient’s lung capacity and has game-changing implications for helping treat COVID-19. Pivot UK Blog: Wideblue Earns Int’l Acclaim …
Read MoreWide Blue 23 September 2020
How We Pivoted Production to Tackle Covid-19
“Glasgow-based medical device design firm WideBlue is proud to be carrying on Scotland’s rich history of innovation in the sector.” says MD Russell Overend. Read more about how Wideblue pivoted production to tackle Covid-19.
Read MoreWide Blue 21 September 2020
Breath-Measuring Device in Upcoming NHS Trials Could Monitor Recovery from Covid-19
Wideblue is working with NHS England on a clinical trial of its personal ‘capnometer’, and will be submitting its device in the next month. It could also help determine if a patient needs a ventilator. Commissioned by Cambridge Respiratory Innovations Limited, the CRiL N-Tidal C is designed to measure exhaled carbon dioxide (CO2) in the …
Read MoreWide Blue 01 July 2020
Responding to COVID-19
Wideblue is experienced and accredited for the development of medical devices. We thought it would be a good idea to combine GSS sensors into a medical device to make a personal capnometer. We needed a company to carry out the clinical trials and analyse the patient data so we invited Cambridge Respiratory Innovations (CRI) to …
Read MoreWide Blue 12 May 2020
Revolutionary New Crop Camera will Boost Global Agriculture
A revolutionary new camera that will detect crop disease quickly, efficiently and at a lower cost has been developed by University of the West of Scotland (UWS) academics. The technological breakthrough, led by researchers in UWS’s Institute of Thin Films, Sensors and Imaging (ITFSI), could potentially save farmers worldwide thousands of pounds in lost produce, …
Read MoreWide Blue 29 April 2020
Product Developer’s Big Break for Lung Patients
Breakthroughs are Wideblue’s business and one of the latest from the product developer is set to transform the lives of patients with breathing difficulties caused by conditions such as asthma and chronically blocked lungs. Wideblue: Product Developer’s Big Break for Lung Patients
Read MoreWide Blue 14 March 2020
Wideblue’s Camera to Make Crop Disease Detection Easier
Glasgow-based product consultancy Wideblue has designed a low-cost camera, which will be used in agriculture to test early-onset disease in various crops including potatoes and soft fruits. Led by Wideblue, the project was a collaboration between Wideblue and the University of Strathclyde, the University of the West of Scotland, the James Hutton Institute and Galloway …
Read MoreWide Blue 25 February 2020