The Wall Street Journal spotlights a high-end home fitness machine roundup which leads with the Allegro 2 Pilates reformer, designed by IDEO.

In the spirit of building and making, create an IDEO bot at bots.ideo.com to share with the world. Happy holidays from IDEO!

The Business Times profiles IDEO Singapore’s work with Changi General Hospital. As part of the feature, one doctor says that the redesigned Orthopaedic Clinic, which IDEO focused on, “has enabled the same number of nurses to serve a larger pool of doctors” and allowed for quicker clearing of queues in the space. Read more about Changi General Hospital’s revamped healthcare delivery system on the Business Times site.

MyFord Mobile — the smartphone app that helps electric vehicle owners learn smarter driving behaviors — won a 2013 IxDA Award in the “optimizing category.”

IDEO’s Will Carey leads off a discussion about synthetic biology on the station’s By Design show. He discusses the field of synthetic biology, and how it can be used as a material and perspective on design. Listen here.