Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you, of course, can check out everything we're doing and

reviewing over at BlisterReview.com.

Okay, here is our Gear 30 question of the day.

Can engineering actually help us discover real world characteristics about products

that will be genuinely meaningful to end users?

Or is it the case that when we try to start getting all sophisticated

with fancy sounding systems that attempt to capture quantitative data, do we actually create a

very high probability of having data lead people astray? Well, this actually gets at the heart of attention that sometimes, and perhaps often,

exists between actual makers and sellers of products on the one hand, and engineering

researchers on the other.

Now, recently, Tumas Loxo, the vice president of

product and operations at DPS Skies, was in Crested Butte to discuss issues like these with some

of our Blister Labs faculty members, and he also met with over a hundred engineering and computer

science students down at Western Colorado University.

And in this conversation that you are about to hear,

Tumas and I were back in Blister headquarters with Dr. Sean Humbert,

who is one of the top roboticists in the country.

Sean is also a passionate skier and biker. He is one of our top roboticists in the country. Sean is also a passionate skier and biker.

He is one of our key faculty members at Blister Labs.

And perhaps most impressively,

Sean is somebody who has already been on Gear 30 once

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