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In this article, we examine how insulin pens and pumps - two major devices for delivering insulin, the anabolic hormone used to treat Type 1 diabetes - are designed to conceal and fashion insulin delivery around their appearance as key communication technologies. Insulin pens and insulin pumps transform the aesthetics of insulin delivery away from the medicalized appearance of syringes toward that of beautiful technological artifacts. They both hide and draw attention to their status as technological artifacts and their medical use through a set of desirable, though sometimes incongruous, device aesthetics. Deliberately marketed around their resemblance to pens or pagers, insulin delivery devices are examples of skeuomorphs that \"materialize the metaphor\" of writing instruments and telecommunication tools into their design. We analyze how diabetes education and marketing materials present insulin delivery devices through skeuomorphic performances of use that uphold norms of concealment in diabetes self-management in conditions of social and medical surveillance. Drawing on patents, educational and marketing materials, and our own experiences with these devices, we argue that the skeuomorphic design of these devices morally regulates the embodied performance of diabetes.

This segment of Sunday Morning is about robots.

Abstract Once posited as a revolutionary transportation technology, the Segway never took off as some expected because the social acceptance of the technology was not considered in a systematic manner. Using a framework for social acceptance of technology borrowed from the literature on renewable energy, we examine how social, economic, and environmental costs of the Segway, along with regulatory issues presented barriers to implementation. High prices, legislative and spatial issues, and a lack of appeal to consumers presented challenges to acceptance. This case study provides a timely reminder of the multifaceted and complex nature of social acceptance that will need to be applied to future innovations, such as autonomous vehicles, to better understand factors that need to be considered for them to be embraced by society.

Significant technological breakthroughs are often accompanied by articles on the potential impact of these technologies. This article examines blockchain technology and hypothesizes how this technology might create substantial changes to how financial services are delivered and by what types of organizations. Banks and brokerage houses providing custodial and record-keeping services may face a change in the value proposition of these services and thus in their price. Blockchain may also expand the definition of what is a tradable security and consequently expand the investable universe.

An obituary of Woodie Flowers, MIT educator and first robotic collaborator who died October 11 is presented. An ASEE member for more than three decades, Flowers received the Society's President's Award in 2015 on behalf of FIRST Robotics, which he served as Distinguished Adviser and Executive Advisory Board member. At MIT, where he was the Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Flowers was instrumental in shaping MIT's hands-on approach to engineering design education, the university said in a press release at his death. He developed teaching methods and learning opportunities that culminated in an annual design-and-build competition held for nearly 50 years. Throughout his career, he also designed above-knee prosthetics.

Dean Kamen, best known as the inventor of the Segway motorized scooter, proselytized to the cable industry on a big idea close to his heart for more than two decades: getting kids jazzed about science and engineering. Kamen, interviewed at the SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo by Time Warner Cable CTO Mike LaJoie last October 17, joked that he was making a \"thinly veiled attempt to grovel and beg your industry\" to support his not-for-profit For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology organization.