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User Centric Focus Key to Successful Redesign of Urine Monitoring Device
PDD's innovative, integrated approach to medical device development has paid off with the announcement that it has won a Gold Aw...
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Trek Lime Bike Wins the 2009 People's Design Award
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presented its fourth People's Design Award to the Trek Lime bicycle Thursday, Oct. 22, at its ...
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Robert Brunner and Ammunition: Design Museum Talk
In this detailed and insightful lecture, industrial designer and product development entrepreneur Robert Brunner will talk about the ethos and achievem...
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Bits 'n Pieces Exhibit at Material ConneXion
Global materials consultancy Material ConneXion will premier Bits 'n Pieces, an interactive traveling exhibition exploring the rapidly advancing technologie...
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Sustainable Minds Introduces LCA Software for Greener Product Design
Sustainable Minds, a greener product design software and information services company, today announced the general release of Sustai...
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DBA Plans to Give Young Designers The Edge
At the close of a testing year for the design business, the Design Business Association is ending the year on a high note. The DBA is putting on an event t...
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The Dieline Awards
The Dieline, the world's leading package design website, launched the Dieline Awards, an international design competition recognizing the world's best package design. The awards w...
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James Dyson Celebrates Invention and Great Inventors
In honor of finding engineering solutions, Dyson launches two Ball vacuums: DC24 and DC25 Blueprint. The limited edition machines offer an insigh...
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nook: Ammunition Collaborates with Barnes & Noble to Create New E-Book Platform
Award-winning design consultancy Ammunition announced its collaboration with Barnes & Noble to bring a new electronic boo...
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ICFF Studio: Call for Entries
ICFF Studio invites submissions of product prototypes from designers working on any and all the product categories exhibited at the ICFF: furniture, seating, carpet and fl...
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Parsons the New School for Design Presents Roger Martin in Conversation with Bruce Nussbaum
On November 12, The School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design will present Roger Marti...
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The Kaj Franck Design Prize of 2009 to Hannu Kahonen
Industrial designer, Artist Professor Hannu Kahonen (born 1948) has been chosen to receive the Kaj Franck Design Prize of 2009. Hannu Kahonen gra...
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BeMoved: Futuristic Coffee Machine by Douwe Egberts
Douwe Egberts unveiled a conceptual coffee machine, called BeMoved. It is the world's first coffee machine that can be operated by movement alone,...
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Design Effectiveness Awards 2009 Winners
The Design Business Association announced the winners of the Design Effectiveness Awards 2009. The DBAs (Design Business Association) Design Effectiveness aw...
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The Nica Headset and Dock by Speck Design
Speck Design, Silicon Valley's leading product design firm was chosen by Maverick CEO Craig Janik to re-think the design of the Bluetooth headset. Maverick'...
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New Branding System for Art Directors Club Embraces Both Heritage and the Future
The Art Directors Club today unveiled a rebranding that both accentuates its commitment to currency and relevancy in the...
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Identity Essentials Submission Deadline Extended
The final round of submissions for Identity Essentials officially closed on November 1, but the authors are opening it back up exclusively for readers o...
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Moving Pictures: Symposium on Illustration and Motion
On Wednesday, November 11, the BFA Illustration program at Parsons The New School for Design will present Moving Pictures, a symposium exploring id...
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Communication Through Objects: European Parliament Launches Invitation to Tender
The European Parliament is seeking to engage a communications and/or design agency to produce a range of...
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KMS Team is the Red Dot: Design Agency of the Year
A tree, a sky, and always a whole world - more precisely, a new brand world - this is what the leading company for brand strategy, brand design and br...
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Create 2010 Student Design Competition
Today's art, design and technology students are the people who will be defining what the interdisciplinary field of interaction design will become in the near fut...
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Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century: A Documentary
Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century showcases design objects such as Chinese posters, magazines and newspapers from the 20th century, an...
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Art Directors Club Presents Grandmasters Awards to Four Distinguished Educators
Four distinguished educators who have inspired generations of creatives will be honored as ADC Grandmasters by the Art Di...
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The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration
The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration is a cutting-edge anthology featuring material from established and emerging illustrators around the world...
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Icograda General Assembly 23 Adopts Sustainability Framework in Beijing
The Icograda General Assembly, meeting from 24-25 October in Beijing, China formally adopted a framework for sustainable practice...
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An Imaginary Library: Children's Books That Don't Exist (Yet)
Northwestern University Library and Evanston Public Library have teamed up to bring a unique exhibit of original children's book art to the...
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Read Between the Leading: Student Podcast Brings Design to the Audio World
As designers, we dominate the visual world, creating images to please the eye. Why not, then, conquer other worlds as well? ...
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Art Directors Club Names ADC Young Guns 7 Winners
The Art Directors Club, the leading organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, last night announced...
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Illustrated Children's Books
Illustrated Children's Books explores the history, design and influence of the most seminal children's books which have inspired and enchanted generations worldwide. Loo...
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Siegel+Gale Designs New Brand/Visual Identity for Phoenix House
Siegel+Gale has completed a brand revitalization project for Phoenix House, one of the country's leading non-profit drug and alcohol addi...
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Pringle of Scotland Design Competition
The British Fashion Council (BFC) and Pringle of Scotland have announced the Pringle of Scotland Design Competition. Design students can apply to win an invalu...
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United Nude's New Amsterdam Flagship Store
United Nude, a brand founded by architect Rem D Koolhaas and Galahad JD Clark opened a flagship store in Amsterdam on October 22, 2009. Located in Spuistra...
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The Ultimate Party Wardrobe From Jimmy Choo at H&M
When Jimmy Choo's exclusive collaboration with H&M lands in stores on 14th November, a glimpse of the brand's glamorous world will be available to all...
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Fashion: The Key Concepts
Fashion is everywhere. It is now one of the main ways in which we present ourselves to others, signaling what we want to communicate about our sexuality, wealth, professionali...
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Herman Miller's Twist LED Task Light Earns Spark! Award
The Twist Light from Herman Miller, designed by Yves Behar from fuseproject, received the "Spark!" award at the premier SparkAwards exhibition on...
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Latis: the Luxurious and Sculptural New Bathroom Collection From Omvivo
Latis, the latest bathroom creation from Omvivo, is inspired by the fundamentals of tradition and quality. Uncomplicated, eleg...
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Luebkeman Curates Life at 1 Planet for a Sustainable Future
At the Icsid World Design Congress in Singapore, Chris Luebkeman, Arup Group Director for Foresight and Innovation will unveil what people ar...
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Good Design Practice Creates a Thriving Design Industry
Leading designer David Worthington, Chair of the Design Skills Alliance, has appealed to designers to take urgent action to sort out their profes...
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PhilippeBecker Receives San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Ebbie Award
PhilippeBecker, a San Francisco branding and package design agency, today announced it has been honored by the San Francisco Chambe...
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Herman Miller Select
In 2008 Herman Miller created Select, a once-a-year limited edition release for those with good taste and an eye for design. The 2009 edition puts a playful spin on one of Charl...
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Novo Nordisk Wins Design Award for NovoTwist Needle
Novo Nordisk has been awarded a Good Design Award for NovoTwist, the new needle designed for use with the insulin delivery device FlexPen. The nee...
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New Rieju RS3 to be Unveiled in Milan
Rieju has announced that it will unveil the replacement for their RS2 range of small capacity sports bikes at the EICMA 2009 International Motorcycle Show in Milan...
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Duravit Collaborates with Phoenix Design and Hansgrohe to Launch PuraVida
Duravit has launched PuraVida, a complete bathroom suite designed in collaboration with Phoenix Design and fittings manufacture...
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Axion Launches Green Product Design Competition
To mark the launch of its new 100% recycled polystyrene sheet product - Axfoil - Axion Polymers has launched a design competition with a £500 cash prize ...
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Better Place Kicks Off Global Student Design Competition
Better Place announced the commencement of a global design competition, targeting the top design and engineering schools to create the winning d...
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Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront
Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront is a major project organized by The Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with P.S.1 Contemporary A...
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Parallel Nippon: Contemporary Japanese Architecture 1996-2006
Parallel Nippon focuses on 110 representative architectural specimens selected from among buildings constructed primarily in Japan in the 1...
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The Countdown to Greenbuild Begins
The U.S. Green Building Council hosts the world's largest green building conference and expo, Greenbuild, coming to Phoenix, Ariz., Nov 11-13, 2009. Greenbuild wil...
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Nurture and Mayo Clinic Study: Room Design Can Enhance Patient Care
The design of a consultation room can improve the quality of an outpatient visit. A collaborative research study, developed by Nur...
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USGBC Announces Winner of First-ever Sustainable Suite Design Competition
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in conjunction with the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and NEWH announce...
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Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards
Following the success of its first student competition in 2008, Nationwide Building Society is launching the 2009/2010 Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards. Wo...
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Role of Interior Design Centers to Be Analyzed
Design Centers International (DCI) has engaged strategic planning expert David Shepherd to lead a brainstorming session on the relationship between design...
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Grey to Green
A crisis looms. With less money and too much carbon, we need more people, with the right skills to manage the landscape of our towns and cities. Many green elements are already in plac...
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USGBC's Rebecca Flora Honored with AIA Pittsburgh's 2009 Gold Medal
The U.S. Green Building Council's Senior Vice President of Education & Research, Rebecca Flora, has received the 2009 Gold Medal from...
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2009 Ratensky Lecture Honoring Joan Goody FAIA
Joan Goody is recognized by the Ratensky Lecture for a lifetime commitment to housing and community design. She graduated from Cornell in 1956 and then...
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Conference 09: Sustaining Design Excellence
This autumn, as part of the Month of Design 09, Zavod Big hosts its annual design conference, this year entitled "Sustaining Design Excellence." The confe...
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The Ordinary Iconic Ranch House: Lecture by Richard Cloues
The Savannah College of Art and Design architectural history department announced a talk by state historic preservation officer Richard Cloues...
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Polish Architect Designs Copenhagen Bridge
Cezary Bednarski, a Polish architect living in Britain, has won an international competition to design a bridge to be built over Copenhagen's Inner Harbour. ...
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Installations By Architects: Experiments in Building and Design
Over the last few decades, a rich and increasingly diverse practice has emerged in the art world that invites the public to touch, enter,...
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AIA Selects 2009 Upjohn Research Initiative Projects
The jury for the Upjohn Research Initiative, a joint program of the College of Fellows and the Board Knowledge Committee to support knowledge sharin...
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4th San Francisco International Animation Festival
One of the most fertile practices in contemporary film and television, animation occupies a unique space between artistic, experimental, commercial an...
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Dexigner Augmented Reality: Design Layer for Layar
Dexigner released the new Design Layer for Layar. Dexigner Design Layer is an augmented reality layer which is loaded in the popular Layar application...
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Typotheque: Bringing Fine Typography To the Web
Typotheque has become the first commercial type foundry to license its entire font collection for use on the World Wide Web. Typotheque's Web Font Ser...
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Asylum Helps Draw The Porsche Family Tree
Asylum, in collaboration with ad agency Cramer-Krasselt / Chicago and @RadicalMedia Director Jeff Zwart, completed a major VFX feat for a new TV spot introduci...
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Adobe Reveals 2009 Design Achievement Award Winners
Adobe announced the winners of the ninth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA), recognized as one of the world's most prestigious student des...
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Resin Produced CG Car Commercial for Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution
Resin, Australian visual effects and animation studio, recently completed a completely CG car commercial "Defy Physics" for Mitsubishi A...
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Strata Celebrates 20 Years of Pioneering 3D with 20/20 Program
Strata, the company adding the power of 3D to the designer's toolset, marks twenty years of pioneering 3D tools with its new 20/20 program...
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Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial Create Short Film for IDEO's Living Climate Change Initiative
Sister companies Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial announced that they have collaborated with global innovation a...
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Thornberg & Forester Revisits the Old West for Efficiency Vermont and Kelliher Samets Volk
Jesse "Fewer" Watts is back in action for Efficiency Vermont, thanks to two fresh spots produced by design and...
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Green Day 2010: Schools Climate Action Day Doubles in Size
Britain's biggest day of climate action in schools - Green Day 2010 - aims to reach twice as many pupils as ever before, in over a thousand sc...
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Rafael Vinoly Architects' 121st Police Precinct Station House Officially Breaks Ground
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg joined New York Police Department Commissioner Ray W. Kelly, Department of Design and C...
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AIACC Recognizes Mark Cavagnero with the 2010 Distinguished Practice Award
The American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC), announced Mark Cavagnero, FAIA, as the 2010 recipient of the...
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The Challenge Series: Charting Sustainable Community Planning
Next February, the attention of the world will focus on the community of Millennium Water at South East False Creek - as the site of the Va...
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Mono: A Unique Office Space Design
Mono's Uptown location, known for funky shops, eateries and apartments, is the perfect setting for creative genius to sprout. A bold blue door signals its entrance...
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Positive Economic News Continues for Landscape Architecture Firms
For the first time in 18 months, the majority of landscape architecture firm leaders reported normal or above levels of work compared t...
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago Presents Free Public Lecture by Artist Jaume Plensa
Paul Coffey, associate dean of academic administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) to...
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The Art Interview: 19th International Online Artist Competition
The Art Interview - 19th International Online Artist Competition is a quarterly, international, juried exhibition of paintings, drawings ...
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Parsons Presents U.S. Launch of Alphabet City's Water
Parsons The New School for Design presents the U.S. launch of Water, the latest publication in the Alphabet City series co-published by the MIT Pre...
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Learning Modern: Bauhaus Legacy in Downtown Chicago
The legacy of the Bauhaus informs a wide-ranging exhibition of installation, design, video, and digital works co-organized and presented by the Schoo...
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Design Life Bali 2009
Design Life is a design forum that brings together designers and creative individuals from various design disciplines from Asia and Australia. Keynote speakers for Design Life ...
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EcoTopia Will Highlight Cutting Edge Sustainable Designs: Call for Submissions
Product design consultancy Nectar announced today that it is accepting entries for "EcoTopia," a juried group exhibition d...
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Norra Norr Creates Bespoke Headphones for WeSC
In an era where fashion companies are stepping beyond their traditional domain into the world of industrial design, Swedish street fashion company WeSC ha...
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Once Upon a Chair: Furniture Beyond the Icon
A global up-to-the-minute survey of contemporary furniture and interior design a reference to the Zeitgeist and the best designers today. Furnish: Editio...
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Formless Furniture
In the mid-1960s, artists like Robert Morris, Joseph Beuys, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Lynda Benglis began to experiment with formlessness in their materials. The maxim Form foll...
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Andrew Ritchie Wins Prince Philip Designers Prize in Its 50th Anniversary Year
The designer of the iconic Brompton folding bicycle, Andrew Ritchie, has been named the winner of the 2009 Prince Philip D...
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ID4A: Industrial Design for Architecture
Politecnico di Milano unveiled first level university Master program organised by the polytechnic's POLI.design Consortium in collaboration with Giugiaro Archit...
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Renault and Biotherm Present ZOE Z.E.
Biotherm, the skin care company in L'Oreal's Luxury Products division, has joined forces with Renault to develop an all-new 100% electric "spa" concept car, ZOE Z....
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Design Flanders Awards Henry Van De Velde Labels 2009
For the fourth year, Design Flanders has awarded the Henry van de Velde Labels, a quality label which the product can carry as long as it is in pro...
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Good Design Awards 2009 Results
Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO) announced the results of the 2009 Good Design Awards on October 1. Entries for this year opened on April 22 and...
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The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or crea...
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