High Tech pet products are everywhere It's a great time to be a pet. A wave of new high-tech pet products and innovations has just hit the market. And there are many more in development. So, if you are a pet owner, entrepreneur or investor - now is the perfect time to get up to speed on the hottest pet tech devices.

The hottest new hardware product trend of 2022? Face Mask Innovation Entrepreneurs, Startups, and enterprises across the globe and pouring resources into the development of new innovative masks. The strong global demand for face protection has accelerated development efforts, the result is dozens of new masks on the market.

Canada's Taken Charge of Innovation in Wearables Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa - 3 cities you could visit in one day...driving in a car! But they're close in more ways than just distance. Each of these cities boasts a growing Hardware Startup and Wearables Community where entrepreneurs, startups and established companies are jumping head first into the growing wearables industry. This growth has lead to 10 Canadian hardware startups based on wearable technology Some of these wearable startups have become industry-leaders and others have grown obsolete. Discover each of these wearable […]

Doctor are inventing successful new medical devices. Entrepreneurial doctors across North America are driving medical innovation forward across a variety of niches including cardiology, orthopedy, dentistry, pediatrics and DNA analysis. Explore 9 medical devices startups founded by doctors:

The Design 1st team met the challenges of 2020 head-on. The result was six new staff members, over 68 unique projects and hundreds of Zoom calls. Take a look at our infographic below to see what our hard-working team accomplished last year.

Floods are becoming more common around the world. What was once a 100-year phenomenon is now a seasonal trend that homeowners must deal with. And the main solution deployed to fight these rising water is sandbags – 1000’s upon 1000’s of sandbags made from burlap or polypropylene. But is this the most effective method? As product designers,  we began thinking about the challenges of floods and exploring other product solutions already on the market. See what we found below: Water gate is a clever PVC device that uses the pressure of […]