A new Product Designer joins the team

We are pleased to announce that Steve McGonigal has joined the Origin team!

Steve specialises in creative product design, user centered design, product graphics and design for manufacture.  Steve brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience having worked for several years as a product design consultant and prior to this, he headed up the Industrial Design team at Fujifilm Electronic Imaging Ltd. Further to this Steve also lectures in Industrial and Product Design at the University of Hertfordshire.

Welcome aboard!

Origin’s Adam Stops is published internationally

While in his previous position as a post-doctoral researcher at iMBE, University of Leeds, Adam developed a new technique to model human cartilage.  The work has recently been published in a top international journal.  Simply, the work was interested in understanding how the two constituents of cartilage, the porous, foam-like collagen structure and the interstitial fluid that flows between the collagen structure, interact to provide time-dependent properties. 

Understanding this interaction has been an important pursuit for researchers for over 60 years, as it is this interaction that defines how well our joints work, how they degrade and degenerate, and ultimately, how likely we are to develop osteoarthritis.  Adam’s work developed an alternative technique to measure and represent this important interaction, and subsequently, demonstrated how this technique could advance current whole-body computer simulations. 

For the full article please visit Science Direct

Another year, another MEDTEC

 For the 4^th year in a row Origin exhibited at MEDTEC UK 2012, and over the two days we met some great visitors, from fantastic opportunities to new suppliers. Further to this a number of our clients and current suppliers dropped by, and we also got the chance to re-connect with old contacts. 

Thank you to everyone who came and visited us, it was a really good show. 

Origin hits the kart track

On a late Friday afternoon just outside of Cambridge, in a tranquil village, the peace and quiet was swept away by the Origin team who were each let loose behind the wheel of a kart!

Any friendships were brushed aside, and our polite bunch turned into raging bulls!

Alright, I lie; it was more like the Wacky Races...

With an initial 10 lap qualifying we had our grid set,   Adam Stops taking pole position.

A cleanish start we all peeled away from the grid and started a 30 lap race. The quality of driving for a karting circuit would have suited banger racing better and dastardly deeds were indeed part of the planned tactics by certain members of the team. However I am pleased to report no-one achieved received a black flag, and the race did continue to the full laps. Finally Tom Kelsey took the chequered flag and the rest of us limped home with bruised egos.

1st Tom Kelsey, 2nd Adam Stops, 3rd Allen Pearson

One week to go till MEDTEC UK

There is just one week left till MEDTEC UK 2012 gets underway, and if you are still undecided on attending, then have a look at the show review Eureka magazine has provided in their May 2012 edition.

MEDTEC is one of the medical sectors key calendar events, and for the 4th year in a row we will be there exhibiting, to showcase our capabilities in innovation, expertise, and state of the art technology.  Come and see us at our stand – 1604 – we look forward to seeing you there.  

23-24 May, Hall 9, NEC, Birmingham

Charity Zumbathon

Helen Moore one of our product designers, is not only enthralled and busy with her work here at Origin, but she is also a active mum of two away from the office, and still finds time to partake in a charity Zumbathon for Breast Cancer. Held at her local community hall, Helen and her fellow Zumba fanatics danced away for a solid three hours and raised well over £1000. Congratulations Helen!

4 seasons in one wedding day

 As mentioned last year, Origin’s Tom Kelsey proposed to his girlfriend Kathryn Bell – who did say yes!

We are pleased to announce that they got married this month. The day saw four seasons of weather presenting itself, even a flurry of snow! However this did not dampen the mood, and made for the perfect day.

Congratulations to you both!