Congratulations to Football Flick

We are delighted to announce that one of our clients, Football Flick, have secured national retail deals for their innovative URBAN skills training product.

It’s been a fantastic project, from initial idea generation through to sourcing manufacturing suppliers in India.

Brand ambassador John Farnworth has stared in various tutorial and showcase videos, which can be viewed at footballflick.com

Football Flicks from Small Press Music on Vimeo.

The Patent Box

Do you fancy paying just 10% corporation tax?

No we don’t know Jimmy Carrs’ accountant, an initiative by the HMRC named The Patent Box, which begins in August 2013, rewards businesses who are actively developing and patenting new products and technology. A very attractive rate of just 10% should be a great incentive to get creative and invest in the development new and innovative products.

Fortunately we at 4D are experts in such things, and we would be delighted to help your business capitalise on this new opportunity.

Read all the eligibility criteria here… HMRC

First News out on the 4D Designed EMAD for SciCorr

We’ve been waiting to share this project with you for a long time. 4D Director James Bell spent a large part of 2012 designing, developing and testing the EMAD for SciCorr Ltd. 4D were involved from pre project briefing, specification development right through to co-ordinating manufacture. A full Case study to come. Check out the article in the local press

Virtual Product Review Tools

At 4D we are always looking to invest in new technology’s that can benefit our clients.

We are pleased to introduce a new interactive virtual product review software tool. When we create 3D CAD data, we can now offer photo realistic, 360 degree interactive previews of the new product. The high level of quality means they can be used for anything from internal review, to attention grabbing content on the clients website.

We are in the process of creating examples for all live projects on our site, but here’s one we created earlier. Grab and spin with your mouse button to explore the product!

Manchester Evening News Feature

4D Products recent Design and Innovation Award has been featured in the Manchester Evening News business news.

menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/business

Secure payments in the home

4D were delighted to attend the official office launch of Secure Electrans offices in Ellesmere Port.

Electronic Enclosure

It was great to see the HomePay product demos, here’s what it does…

“Secure Electrans’ HomePay is a concept which is revolutionary in its simplicity – a device that allows safe, secure EMV Chip & PIN transactions at home”

(http://www.electrans.com)

Made in Chelsea

The 4D designed Timecode Buddy system was recently spotted on the set of Made in Chelsea…

 

Product Design Awards

Why not visit http://awards.designweek.co.uk/dw/2012/entry-showcase-13.html to see one of our recent project in the Design Week product design awards show case. Fingers crossed for a good results!

Product_design_awards

 

Anyone for Raspberry Pi?

An intriguing concept intended to increase interest in computer programming from an early age.

Designed in the UK, The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. It’s a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the things that a desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays High-Definition video and costs only £21.60!

The theory goes that programming knowledge has declined since the good old days of BBCs, Sinclair Spectrums, and Commodore 64s, when kids could experiment by writing programs for their home computers. Students entering computer based university courses now have more experience using spreadsheets and writing web pages due to school curriculum’s. Not much use when you want to create something new from scratch.