Michael Barbella , Managing Editor10.09.14
“What is design? It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds—the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes—and you try to bring the two together.”
Picture it: New Orleans, La., mid-March 2014. Ryan Estes is walking the exhibit floor at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting, beholding all the science fiction-like technology and devices available to licensed practitioners. He slowly traverses through the throng of display booths assembled in half a dozen halls of the Morial Convention Center, a colossal building encompassing nearly 11 square blocks on the Mississippi River banks.
It’s Estes’ first time at the event and he’s eager to build new business partnerships as well as ascertain industry needs. Innovation literally surrounds him on the 582,000-square-foot exhibit floor, where “naturally” flexible artificial knees vie for dominance with ankle, wrist and hand clamps, titanium headless compression screws, disposable bone fixation templates, PEEK (polyether
— Mitchell Kapor
Picture it: New Orleans, La., mid-March 2014. Ryan Estes is walking the exhibit floor at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting, beholding all the science fiction-like technology and devices available to licensed practitioners. He slowly traverses through the throng of display booths assembled in half a dozen halls of the Morial Convention Center, a colossal building encompassing nearly 11 square blocks on the Mississippi River banks.
It’s Estes’ first time at the event and he’s eager to build new business partnerships as well as ascertain industry needs. Innovation literally surrounds him on the 582,000-square-foot exhibit floor, where “naturally” flexible artificial knees vie for dominance with ankle, wrist and hand clamps, titanium headless compression screws, disposable bone fixation templates, PEEK (polyether
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