Latest News: The Medical Device R&D Handbook is NOW AVAILABE. Get your copy from www.crcpress.com, www.amazon.com.  Barnes and Noble (www.bn.com) and other retailers. CRC Press may have specials (e.g. 10% off and free shipping) when ordering through their website, and Amazon occasionally runs sales on their tech books. Be sure to check! The CRC Press/Taylor and Francis MDR&D Book is catalog # 2717 News: The Medical Device R&D Handbook hits #22,830 on Amazon and was the #1 Biotechnology title in two categories, and the #1 title in Medicine: "Instruments and Supplies" (3-3-08) The Medical Device R&D Handbook is now in over 100 College and University libraries worldwide including MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, UC Berkeley, UCSF, USC, and many others. (see: www.worldcat.org) Ted is now a regular contributor to BoneZone magazine (see: http://www.orthosupplier.com/bonezone/online/2007/winter/index.htm) and was recently interviewed for Design News Magazine  Please email your questions, feedback, and suggestions for material in future editions to editor@meddevbook.com Stay tuned to this website for additional information, links, resources and latest developments in the medical device design area. There will also be handy links to websites and resources mentioned in the book Thanks for visiting! Ted Kucklick Author and Editor, The Medical Device R&D Handbook Great Quotes on Invention and Innovation: If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin “Does a student know how to tackle a problem with no background in the subject? And does he or she know how to get the knowledge needed? Accumulating methodology matters more than accumulating knowledge of subject matter” -Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Laureate in Physics An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Gyorgyi Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. -- Thomas A. Edison "To invent, you need good imagination and a pile of junk." -Thomas Edison   A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible - Freeman Dyson Stay tuned to this space for links to helpful information and Ted's favorite websites