While developing a new category-defining mobile device for large diversified company, Ecco Design needed to research and prototype new input, feedback, and illumination devices. Ideal Mechanism built a functional prototype using Ecco’s aesthetic models, allowing the client to experience and compare first hand the impact of the latest technologies on the […]

Calling upon years of expertise with advanced touch screen functionality, Ideal Mechanism prepared a technical report on the state-of-the-art in touch screen technology as a guide to future research at the Volkswagen ERL.

In order to improve the functionality of the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratories state of the art vehicle simulator cockpit, Ideal Mechanism designed an electronic and mechanical interface to integrate an OEM-style shifter and steering wheel.