BOSTON—GrabCAD, an online community for sharing CAD expertise, is sponsing a contest to design a steering wheel for a supersonic car. A $1,000 prize will be awarded to the winning entry. Designs must be submitted by Jan. 31.
NEW YORK—Shapeways has building a new 3D printing facility in Long Island City. The facility will employ some 50 people and have the capacity to print 3 million to five million unique products annually.
BEIJING, China—A Foxconn executive blamed the shortage of the iPhone 5 on the device’s complicated design, calling the phone “the most difficult device that we have ever assembled.”
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