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Aerating your wine helps to mellow and improve the flavour

Product Example: Vinamor Wine Aerator

Wine Aerator as seen on Shark Tank: Vinamor This is a product example that I saw on the TV show Shark Tank.  It’s the development of service industry professional Gary DeJohn. It is designed to sit on top of the glass while the wine is being poured. First, the metal strainer removes any bits of […]

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Sugru – Advanced Material for Creating Prototypes

Sugru: Great for Prototyping and mock-ups Sugru is a material that I recently found and it appears to be a great one to pick up for prototyping. Though you could form your entire product from this stuff, that may not be the best approach. The easiest way to describe this stuff is to copt and […]

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Automotive theme espresso maker

Product Example: Supercharged V12 Espresso Machine

Automotive Inspired Coffee Machine by Espresso Veloce A very quick post today on a great design forwarded on to me by a colleague: A Supercharged V12 Espresso Machine. This is a highly designed (or is that highly engineered?) espresso maker in the form of a 12-cylinder automotive engine.  Old school fuel injection and all. Now […]

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Rosewood and stainless steel watch

Product Example: Original Grain Watches

I recently saw an excellent interview on The Elevator Life  with Ryan from Original Grain Watches. On this post I want to share the notes I made from this great video, but I also want to urge you to watch it yourself. Both of these guys are active on Twitter and Facebook, you can find […]

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Domestic Manufacturing: The Insourcing Boom

How to take advantage of The Insourcing Boom I recently read an article on GE’s appliance manufacturing Insourcing Boom. The narrative of the story follows the path of GE moving assembly of some of its appliances back into the USA.  That is, high-tech, complicated appliances with design lives of about two years before a rapid […]

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