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		<title>How to Design Free HDTV</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/06/how-to-design-free-hdtv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When products are retired to make way for improved technology they are often cast aside to make room for newer, more efficient products.  Examples include the horse buggy, VCR Players, Cassette players, pagers – the list can go on. As new innovative products enter consumer markets they offer more for less – making their predecessors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CES 2012: Client Product Innovations</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/19/ces-2012-innovation-in-motion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Design 1st team arrived in Las Vegas last week for CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2012 – the largest annual trade show in the US featuring 2700 Exhibitors, 150k attendees and over 1.6 Millionsquare feet of floor space.
For gadget lovers, product designers and tech companies CES gives exclusive access to the hottest product debuts in consumer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Way to Shovel Snow in 2012 &#8211; Heatstone™</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/12/15/2010-snow-invention-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Santa can bring you a new way to shovel snow off the walks &#8211; from your living room! Collaborating with the Design 1st team, a Toronto Inventor has been busy creating a new product for the northern markets where an aging population will experience more back injuries by snow shovelling walks and driveways.

Introducing HEATSTONE™ a new way to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deckster iPod Nano Time Piece: First Class Design Balancing User Experience + Manufacturability</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/11/24/deckster-ipod-nano-time-piece-first-class-design-balancing-user-experience-manufacturability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love watches, music and fashion? And have an iPod® Nano?

Check out the Deckster™ &#8211; it’s a new, funky, fashionable and sustainable unisex watch strap custom built for Apple’s iPod Nano. The patent-pending Pop+Lock™ System models the functionality of a retro cassette tape deck allowing the Nano to be smoothly inserted into the protective enclosure in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Napkin Sketch Inventions</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/10/17/2011-napkin-sketch-to-physical-product-inventions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/10/17/2011-napkin-sketch-to-physical-product-inventions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada Industrial Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many new inventions are brought to life each year, some are successful and hit the marketplace while others prove the old adage “if you build it they will come” &#8211; does not always hold true.  Looking back on 2011,  various inventors realized their dream and turned their napkin sketch idea into physical products. Scouring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Client GoldenEar Technology &#8211; Success in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/09/13/goldenear-technology-loudspeaker-productdesign-2011-awards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/09/13/goldenear-technology-loudspeaker-productdesign-2011-awards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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GoldenEar Technologies has concluded their one year anniversary on a high note, picking up two more awards at the 2011 CEDIA EXPO in Indianapolis including the CEPro Best Electronic Technology award and the Residential Systems prestigious RESI award. Both awards recognized GoldenEar’s physical design, with the CEPro focusing on functionality and ease of installation while [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/18/346/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Changing Role Of Design 
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		<title>The Future of Prototyping: 3D Printing</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/09/the-future-of-prototyping-3d-printing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/09/the-future-of-prototyping-3d-printing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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Growing interest in &#8220;3D-Printing&#8221; has created new business models and new ways to think about designing products.


Prototyping is an integral part of the product development process and recent advancements in technology have created a variety of options for designers to make objects from 3D model data. This rise in innovation has been attributed to new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design 1st &#8211; Product Design &amp; Development Insights</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/28/design-1st-product-design-development-insights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/28/design-1st-product-design-development-insights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Design 1st began curating an online magazine about Product Design &#38; Development. Using the Scoop.It platform we&#8217;re able to aggregate a wide variety of online news sources about our favourite topic Product Design!
The slideshow below shows a sample of the content we put together for folks interested in Product Design &#38; Development. The content includes articles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIRST Robotics Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/04/first-robotics-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.design1st.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/04/first-robotics-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FIRST Robotics Program (FRC) offers an opportunity for high-school students to mentor with Industry professionals and step into the design engineering world, putting theiryoung minds to work building a sophisticated robot in 6 weeks to compete in a variety of challenges.  Founded in 1992 the FRC annually provides over $12 Million in scholarships to [...]]]></description>
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