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Animated Products?

Often it is helpful to your sales team if your product can be animated for web presentation some way.  This may be by means of an interactive tool that allows for a 3d model of your product to be rotated … Read the rest of this entry

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Great Canadian Invention Show (Part 1)

Great Canadian Invention Show http://www.inventorscollege.org/pb/wp_0aa3f996/wp_0aa3f996.html This quirky yet vital show is the focul point of many small Canadian inventors who are working towards making their invention a commercial success.  There was a quote by Edison who said ““Genius is one per … Read the rest of this entry

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The Great Canadian Inventor Show (Part 2)

  Great Canadian Inventor’s Show (Part Two) Just a quick aside,  Light Bulb Patent for Woodward & Evans’ Electric Light, July 24, 1874 Thought it was Edison’s bright idea? Nope. Two Canadians, Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans, patented the light bulb … Read the rest of this entry

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Spammed to Death

Well how about that.  I have had to turn off comments temporarily due to someone using my blog as a launch pin for their spam.  How frustrating and how damn arrogant.  Oh well, lets lay wait in the bushes for … Read the rest of this entry

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For those of you who are not Canadian and do not know about current Canadian politics, Jack Layton is the leader of the party in opposition to the Government.  The governing party, the one with the most elected members of … Read the rest of this entry

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Never mind a better mouse trap, what about the mouse?

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Here is an interview with a young industrial designer that truly reflects the design experience and what an Industrial Designer goes through. Industrial design changes your experience in the things that you do, improving the user experience, and here is … Read the rest of this entry

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AutoCad Inventor Pro Suite

I have been using inventor since its inception, and was one of the first beta testers when I had a group of cad operator designers working under me on a machine build project.  At the time we were using Mechanical … Read the rest of this entry

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PLC Systems Industrial Design goes Live on Twitter

Now all blogs are sent to my twitter account for notifying our followers. Welcome to a blog and website that is dedicated to design philosophy, ideas and opinions.  Feel free to participate. Doug Norton Industrial Designer

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Cancun Talks Yield Climate Compromise: Scientific American

Cancun Talks Yield Climate Compromise: Scientific American.

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PLC Industrial Design goes Live Via Twitter!

Well my friends and family convinced me, this is the way to go.   Make an idiot of yourself and then tell the world. (crosses his fingers and clicks on publish, and thinks, I hope this works.)

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