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7 Most Effective Shortcuts to Use on Mac

7 Most Effective Shortcuts to Use on Mac

7 Most Effective Shortcuts to Use on Mac Over the past few years, Mac has become one of the most popular brands for computers on the market today. In fact, during the fourth quarter of 2022 alone Apple was at over seven million units shipped worldwide, going to show...

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From an Idea in Your Head to a Final Product

From an Idea in Your Head to a Final Product

From an Idea in Your Head to a Final Product How to Execute Product Development Flawlessly Do you want to put your ideas into action but have no clue where to start? Well, you and many other inventors are in the same boat in terms of figuring out how to execute...

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How To Reduce Product Development Risks

How To Reduce Product Development Risks

How To Reduce Product Development Risks Product development involves countless decisions that can immensely impact any project's success or failure. Hence, reducing the risk associated with the development process is essential to ensure your product reaches its full...

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How to Reduce Stress When Creating a Startup

How to Reduce Stress When Creating a Startup

How to Reduce Stress When Creating a Startup When it comes to making a career choice, there are a lot of stresses involved. Everyone is going to want the best from their career, so it often means there is a lot of stress when it comes to these decisions. For example,...

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How Laser Helped Product Development

How Laser Helped Product Development

How Laser Helped Product Development Modern Rangefinders and Distance Sensors Laser rangefinders (LRF) all operate on the same basic principle. At the press of a button, the rangefinder emits laser beams. Those beams bounce off far-flung objects, and the rangefinder's...

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Physical Product Design & Engineering

Physical Product Design & Engineering

Physical Product Design & Engineering Product Design at Spark Innovations Product design; one of Spark Innovations’ many expertises. Here at Spark, product design is more than just the name; it is taking a vision or idea and bringing it to life. It is about...

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How To Record Product Development Costs

How To Record Product Development Costs

How To Record Product Development Costs The product development process is the key to success for any business as it defines its distinction against its competitors. It enables them to build a product that customers would want and need. This process involves idea...

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15 Digital Transformation Tips for Startups

15 Digital Transformation Tips for Startups

15 Digital Transformation Tips for Startups There has been a boom in the use of digital transformation over the past few years. The term refers to the way businesses are adapting their operations to embrace new technologies and processes. In other words, they are...

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What the Metaverse Means For Designers

What the Metaverse Means For Designers

What the Metaverse Means For Designers The Metaverse might be an all new term for designers; something that they are newly becoming familiarized with. The Metaverse acts as a digital frontier for designers to create unique experiences through the virtual world of...

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Product Design Process: 5 Steps

Product Design Process: 5 Steps

Product Design Process: 5 Steps Product design is not only an art; but is also a critical process in which product designers use when designing their products. It takes place through a series of 5 essential steps, with the specific components of each step varying to...

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5 Tips for Naming Your Product Design

5 Tips for Naming Your Product Design

5 Tips for Naming Your Product Naming a product is nowhere near as easy as it sounds. The name of your product should be well-considered as it can have a huge impact on the appeal of your product. Product names need to be simple, creative, descriptive and support your...

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Help With My Invention Idea

Help With My Invention Idea

Help With My Invention Idea Turning Ideas into a Product Innovation is what contributes to the greatness of specific products, driving admiration from others. Many individuals have amazing ideas when it comes to their thoughts, but many succumb to the entrepreneurial...

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How Do I Make a Product Prototype?

How Do I Make a Product Prototype?

How Do I Make a Product Prototype? Product Prototyping Have you ever wondered how to turn your idea into a product prototype? A product prototype is the action of creating a replica of your idea/vision which can be used as an early model of your product for various...

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Tips When Coming Up with a New Idea

Tips When Coming Up with a New Idea

Tips When Coming Up with a New Idea Ideation is a process that does not just happen overnight. As we all wish it was as easy as that, coming up with a new and innovative idea takes time, effort, and hard work. Your end goal should be the fuel to your drive and...

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What Makes a Good Industrial Design?

What Makes a Good Industrial Design?

What Makes a Good Industrial Design? Industrial Design Within Everyday Products Industrial design deals with creating solutions to everyday problems by taking steps to enhance products to better the lives of consumers. The products that consumers tend to gravitate...

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Steps to Developing a New Idea

Steps to Developing a New Idea

What is Idea Generation? The first step of product development might just be the trickiest part of it all; developing the idea. Idea generation is often the fork in the road that many entrepreneurs hit, as they try to perfect their idea and vision right from the...

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Important Stationary Items for Your Start up

Important Stationary Items for Your Start up

Important Stationary Items for Your Startup If you’re an excited start-up business owner, or the proud CEO of a growing organisation, you will have a lot of things on your plate. It’s easy to focus on the bigger tasks at hand when you’re growing your business, but...

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Mechanical Design in Today’s World

Mechanical Design in Today’s World

Mechanical Design in Today’s World What a world we live in, filled with tons of products in the same market that are all very similar. Technology and design hold the power to differentiate products from one another, leaving the purchasing power in the hands of...

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Amazon Packaging Design

Amazon Packaging Design

Amazon Packaging Design The Importance of Packaging on Amazon Picture this, you created your product, made your vision come to life, and have finished the final stages of product development. You want to sell on Amazon but have no clue where to go with packaging or...

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4 Ways to Maximize Business Profits

4 Ways to Maximize Business Profits

In discussing strategies for startups and small businesses, there’s always a lot of talk about how entrepreneurs can obtain early funding. We talk about how common it is for startups to get off the ground with financial help from family and friends, for instance. In...

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COVID UPDATE: Self-Improvement Month

COVID UPDATE: Self-Improvement Month

Have An Idea? Take This Time To Bring It To Life! COVID UPDATE: Self-Improvement Month September is self- improvement month! Take advantage of some of the extra time the pandemic has afforded us and focus on ways to feel a sense of accomplishment. The potential silver...

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3D Helmet Design

3D Helmet Design

3D Helmet Design Spark Innovations’ industrial design team has worked on many challenging helmet projects for individuals and large corporations. If you are a business or a large corporation in need of a studio with experience in helmet design, from basic concept or...

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Spark Innovations- COVID-19 Update

Spark Innovations- COVID-19 Update

Spark Innovations- COVID-19 Update To our clients, In the interests of the current COVID-19 pandemic social distancing protocols, Spark is committed to complying with the recommended community efforts to help flatten the curve. Throughout this very challenging time,...

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How to patent an idea

How to patent an idea

How To Patent An Idea When you have an idea so good that you think it should be patented, you’re are probably asking yourself many questions. Where do I go to patent my idea? What documents do I need? Can I patent the idea myself? If I go to a lawyer how much will it...

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Prototyping Services-3D Printing

Prototyping Services-3D Printing

Prototyping Service If you need a high-quality prototype for a presentation or just a rough prototype to validate your idea, you have come to the right place. Our product development team offers high quality and reasonably priced prototyping services for your needs....

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CNC Service

CNC Service

CNC Service At Spark we have been offering a variety of prototyping services for years but now are throwing CNC machining into the mix. If you are currently working on a prototype, small or large and need CNC machined parts, we got what you want.Materials for your CNC...

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Product Design for Cannabis Products

Product Design for Cannabis Products

Product Design for Cannabis Products More and more consumers are desiring cannabis related products. With the legalization of cannabis in Canada, smart alternatives for all types of cannabis products are becoming important for users. From packaging, functionality and...

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How perfect Does a Prototype Have to Be?

How perfect Does a Prototype Have to Be?

Does a Prototype Have to Be Perfect?People ask this question all the time. There is a misunderstanding in the general public where people think a prototype is meant to represent the final product down to every small detail. But, how perfect should it really be depends...

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What Is The Purpose Of A Prototype?

What Is The Purpose Of A Prototype?

What Is The Purpose Of A Prototype?Some ask this question during their design development process: “What is the purpose of a prototype?”It’s simple.Typically you are trying to solve a problem when developing a new idea. If you don’t build a prototype and test it how...

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Do I Need a Lawyer to Patent My Idea?

Do I Need a Lawyer to Patent My Idea?

Do I Need a Lawyer to Patent My Idea?“Can I patent an idea myself” and “do I really need a lawyer to patent my idea” are a few of the most asked questions we get when it comes to product development.The answer is yes. Of course you can patent your idea on your own and...

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New Invention Guidelines

New Invention Guidelines

New Invention GuidelinesCreating new inventions is always exciting for new and seasoned entrepreneurs. The prospect of making money from something you have developed tantalizes thousands of business men and women around the world. A large issue with these ventures is...

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What goes on at a Product Design Firm

What goes on at a Product Design Firm

What goes on at a Product Design FirmOur product design firm is excited to share some of the latest projects we have designed and developed with our clients that are being successfully commercialized. Let’s check out a few of these amazing ideas that have made it...

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Designing cooking tools for thanksgiving

Designing cooking tools for thanksgiving

Designing Cooking Tools For thanksgiving Thanksgiving is that amazing day of the year where all we can think of is food! Specifically turkey and everything that comes along with it! Vegetables, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pie for...

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Product Design for BBQ season

Product Design for BBQ season

Product design for BBQ seasonIt’s cold right now but BBQ season is right around the corner! When that time is here we use many tools to help us improve our cooking experience. Sophisticated barbeques, cool tongs, BBQ cleaners and so many gadgets to help you cook. We...

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Packaging Design for your new product idea

Packaging Design for your new product idea

  Packaging Design for your new product idea Packaging Design Service Once you’re close to the final stages of product development, it’s probably time to start thinking about what type of packaging will encapsulate your new invention. There are many different...

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How to build your own prototype.

How to build your own prototype.

How to build your own prototype. If you are in the middle of the design process or thinking of developing an idea you will eventually need to build a prototype. Prototypes are made for several reasons: For ergonomics: to see if it fits well in your hand, on your body...

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Toronto Product Design

Toronto Product Design

Product Design Toronto Making inventions a reality in TorontoHave you had a problem with a product or activity and figured out a way to make it better? Did you find a solution that can make people’s lives easier?If you are from Toronto, or anywhere in Canada, and...

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Intellectual Property for Startups

Intellectual Property for Startups

Intellectual Property for Startups Many inventors and startups struggle with the concept of intellectual property. They know they have the right to protect it, but do not know how to do it or even where to start. Understanding intellectual property According to the...

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Design Engineering Magazine

Design Engineering Magazine

PASSING THE TORCH After 30 years in business, Spark Innovations still finds new ways to shine. Edited by Lindsay Luminoso After a successful career as president of Northern Technologies, a division of Lanpar Technologies, Robert Dickie was looking for a new adventure....

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