Product design, engineering and entrepreneurship, first-hand.
“Toque de Ingenio” is the i-mas podcast focusing on engineering, product design, and technological entrepreneurship. Edgar Guerrero interviews founders, engineers, and professionals about prototyping, electronics, automation, and manufacturing. Each interview gathers insights and experiences for those involved in developing products or looking to improve their industrial processes.
01 / What is
Interviews focusing on product development and industrial innovation.
How to validate an idea, move from prototype to manufacturing, or integrate a robot into a real process. The speakers discuss the challenges of their projects, along with the lessons they’ve learned from starting and working in the industry.
Direct experience
Entrepreneurs, engineers, and professionals are sharing their experiences and what they’ve learned.
Technology and business
Design, prototyping, manufacturing, management, and the decisions that link different stages together.
In video and in writing.
Each chapter has its own video on YouTube and an accompanying article with the key information.
Would you like to apply these ideas to a project? Discover our services. product design and development, Electronic engineering and Industrial automation and robotics.
02 / Episodes
Find your next conversation.
Choose a topic or browse through all the chapters. You can watch the full interview or read its main ideas.
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Episode 69 · 1 h 4 min
Urban micromobility: where to park and charge scooters and bicycles – the case of YUP Mobility
Branco Calleja · YUP Mobility
Branco Calleja explains why shared scooters have withdrawn from cities, and how YUP Mobility designs secure parking areas with loading facilities for scooters and bicycles.
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Episode 67 · 58 min
Creating a personalised perfume with AI: the SCircle machine
Álvaro Suárez · SCircle
SCircle is a digital perfumer, a visualization of perfume, and a machine that creates it in-store. Álvaro Suárez explains how it was built and what he learned during its launch.
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Episode 66 · 54 min
Automated fresh-food canteen: Awayter’s machine and platform
Eudald Bover · Awayter
How Awayter developed a refrigerated vending machine with 120 compartments within a one-square-meter space, and the platform for managing stock and replenishment.
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Episode 63 · 1 h 9 min
An automated unstaffed shop: how Big Fish’s 24-hour module works
David Casanovas · Big Fish
Big Fish is opening stores without staff, using prefabricated modules of 18 square meters, equipped with weight sensors, cameras, and card payment systems. David Casanovas explains the technical and legal decisions behind these choices.
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Episode 62 · 1 h 23 min
Hardware start-ups in Europe: why scaling is difficult, according to S2xpeed
Oriol Pascual · S2xpeed
Oriol Pascual explains why European hardware startups receive little investment, what investors are asking for, and how a hardware accelerator works.
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Episode 58 · 1 h 9 min
Designing a communication app with pictograms: the TALX case
Jaume Sánchez · TALX
How TALX transformed pictograms for augmentative communication into an accessible chat for Android and iOS, validated through user testing and collaboration with associations.
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Participate
Do you have an experience you’d like to share?
If you’ve developed a technology, initiated or experienced a transformation within your industry, please write to us. We’re interested in the decisions made, the lessons learned, and also the paths that didn’t go as planned.