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	<title>The Product Farm</title>
	<link>http://theproductfarm.com</link>
	<description>This page is about custom product design and industrial design, with emphasis on overseas production and manufacturing. We specialize in design on contract basis or hourly basis. We are located in Raleigh, NC but produce our products in Asia, China and Hong Kong.</description>
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		<title>Pointing to the future of UI</title>
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Remember the data interface from Minority Report? Well, it&#8217;s real, John Underkoffler invented it &#8212; as a point-and-touch interface called g-speak &#8212; and it&#8217;s about to change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding brand logos online</title>
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This may sound unbelievable: I&#8217;ve personally pitched concepts and product ideas for over 1,000 brands during the last decade. I looked through my archives and could hardly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=691</link>
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		<title>Our Services: Patent Drawings</title>
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Patent Drafting, Patent Drawings or Patent Illustrations &#8211; although the name has changed many times over the years, the fact that you need accurate, high quality patent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=681</link>
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		<title>Amateurs innovate in ways big corporations can&#8217;t</title>
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At some point you’ve stumbled upon that perfect million-dollar idea. That ideas that you scribbled down with a waiter’s pen on a napkin, can it really compete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=482</link>
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		<title>Google Wave is Dead</title>
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Urs Hölzle, Google:
&#8220;We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=640</link>
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		<title>Extinguishing Ashtray</title>
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Eggcrate pattern + Ashtray = Form + Function.  While the undulating peaks and valleys lend a unique, yet familiar appearance, it primarily serves to safely extinguish the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USB Scent Flower on NBC17 &#8220;My Carolina Today&#8221; Show</title>
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If you tuned onto NBC17 this Tuesday at 11am (after the Today show locally in Raleigh, NC), you may have caught a glimpse of &#8220;My Carolina Today&#8221; hosts Page Crawford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broken: Discover Lattea Design Contest</title>
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Create a new and unique latte macchiato glass.  That was the challenge for the Melitta Lattea contest.  In response, the Broken/ Home Collection was imagined.  The collection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=525</link>
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		<title>Xbox Controller with Trackball Aim</title>
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I always wanted to develop this for Xbox, however getting access to the Xbox developer kit was proven a little bit to difficult to obtain.  Without it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=622</link>
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		<title>David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think!</title>
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MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables &#8212; cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=615</link>
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		<title>3D Atlas of the Universe</title>
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For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=605</link>
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		<title>How to Export Email Addresses from Facebook</title>
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Facebook APIs don’t expose email addresses of users and hence none of the Facebook apps can provide you with the actual contact data of your friends. There’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=595</link>
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		<title>College Hunks Hauling Junk: Newsletter</title>
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College Hunks Hauling Junk is a national chain offering rubbish removal services that haul away unwanted items from commercial and residential property that local trash collectors won&#8217;t. College [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=566</link>
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		<title>Wind Powered Lantern</title>
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Being born and raised in Sweden (one of the most northern countries in Europe) our summer days are very long and sometimes everlasting. They call Sweden &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=553</link>
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		<title>Woody Harris: Hyper Sonic Sound</title>
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Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=502</link>
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		<title>Adding some &#8220;umpf&#8221; to an old townhouse kitchen</title>
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A few years back I gave my depressing town house kitchen an uplifting renovation. The house was built in 1980 and the kitchen had not been touched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=538</link>
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		<title>One Idea, One World, One Market</title>
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The &#8220;dismal science&#8221; truly shines in this optimistic talk, as economist Alex Tabarrok argues free trade and globalization are shaping our once-divided world into a community of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=460</link>
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		<title>Refrigeration Without Electricity</title>
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Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity &#8212; to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=489</link>
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		<title>Awesome and realistic 3D Physics Engine</title>
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A physics engine is computer 3D software that provides an approximate simulation of certain simple physical systems. This video shows one of the most realistic engines I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=425</link>
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		<title>Reminder Pocket Pill Case</title>
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Its a busy world out there.  Things to do, people to see.  And you don&#8217;t always remember to take your pills.  Or in the case of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flameless Rechargable USB Lighter</title>
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Nathan Gabriele is one of our design collaborators here at The Product Farm &#8211; and also the designer behind our Stand Up Stapler. Besides creating beautiful products [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PC World &#8211; Wall Mounted Renderfarm</title>
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PC  World: &#8220;We have PCs packed into pianos, barbecue grills, gas pumps, and whisky bottles&#8211;and that doesn&#8217;t even scratch the surface. Check out these 20 wild, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get ready for SPARKcon 2010! &#8211; Sep 16-19th</title>
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Although I have not had the chance to attended in previous years, I&#8217;m really excited about SPARKcon 2010, which will take place right here in the Triangle. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=237</link>
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		<title>Bringing back forgotten engineering from the 50&#8217;s</title>
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The initial idea of our unique utility strength stand up stapler came when I visited a neighborhood yard sale. I found a &#8220;hand vice stapler&#8221;, commonly used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=196</link>
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		<title>Follow safe handling instructions of raw thinking</title>
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When I started The Product Farm in late 2007, I wanted to make a  creative stand and differentiate myself from competitors. To promote my  new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the USB Scent Flower™ – Part 3</title>
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We had finally received our first pre-production samples from our factory. They looked pretty cute and the initial reaction from people was that we were onto a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the USB Scent Flower™ &#8211; Part 2</title>
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Although 3D/CAD plays a very big part in almost all of our developing product design projects, the USB Scent Flower™ was one of those projects where it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the USB Scent Flower™ &#8211; Part 1</title>
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I&#8217;ve been designing, developing and producing products for what I would consider a long time. It wasn&#8217;t what I went to school for, nor was it what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Raleigh band Cherry needed a fresh logo to blossom</title>
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The band Cherry was in need of a new design to represent their band. Ann Johnson, lead singer, came to The Product Farm with good direction of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproductfarm.com/?p=8</link>
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		<title>Please visit our Facebook page!</title>
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As my first post on The Product Farm&#8217;s new website, I wanted to take the opportunity to promote our  Facebook page. It&#8217;s been up for a [...]]]></description>
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