Many companies find it difficult to reduce the cost of metal surgical instruments. The production, cleaning, and sterilization of metal components can be expensive, and there is little that can be ...

It’s been a long time since we had a new Rock Band or Guitar Hero game. If you’re like me, then your old plastic instruments from those games are collecting dust in a corner, sitting unused year after ...

A single-use, plastic instrument for spinal surgery has proved its mettle in a comparative strength study performed by the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute at the University of California San Francisco ...

Harmonix is perhaps best known for pioneering the plastic instrument revolution of rhythm games, plucking along on a plastic guitar to popular songs while making the player feel like an absolute ...

Viacom will sell Harmonix, the creator of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band music videogames, signaling what one analyst called the death of the "plastic instrument business." The company announced its ...

Metals have been used in the healthcare industry for decades to manufacture a range of instruments and implantable medical devices. But because they offer cost-cutting potential and distinct ...

The old Rock Band instrements were aging and who knows, my 360 might completely give out someday, so now I don't have to figure out a way to maintain a bunch of old plastic instruments and an aging ...