Although I’ve not posted many entries lately, I have tried to follow some of the news out there; tough to do with so much going on. One of the things I caught was BusinessWeek‘s coverage of the IDEA competition. You can read their words (Link) and see their gallery (Link), but be sure to do a little background work. One of the winners that intrigued me was the da Vinci S surgical system (Link). From the BW blurb on the device:

The da Vinci S Surgical System is a state-of-the-art tele-operated robotic device used to perform minimally invasive surgery. It consists of an ergonomically designed surgeon’s console, four interactive robotic arms and a vision system that provides a 3D view of the surgical field.

No surprise that got my attention. Some day people may be leveling up to “Surgeon” in a videogame (though don’t expect me to be ready to go under their tele-robotic knife).

I also surfed over to the designer’s website (from where I pulled the above image, btw – not sure exactly to whom the copyright goes). Ricardo Salinas has done much of the work that I’ve enjoyed from design firms like IDEO and Bridge so be sure to take a look at his portfolio of work (Link). Nice stuff.

{Image source: Ricardo Salinas Industrial Design}