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If You Are Into Product Design, Then Go To This Conference. 20% Off ticket price for Ideabingers!
Sep 24th
Imagine the ability to control a device with the mere swipe of your finger through a holographic image, the execution of a designer fashion show within a virtual world, or the freedom to read a bedtime story to your child while on the other side of the globe. At the 2010 Global Conference on Product Innovation Management’s Technology Showcase, imagination will become reality. This selective showcase, designed to be an exciting, interactive celebration of innovative product technologies, will take place October 18-20, 2010 in Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando, Florida.
The Technology Showcase at the 34th Annual Global Conference is an on-site marketplace of new ideas and pre-commercialized emerging technologies that are experiential and have an outstanding “WOW” factor. Throughout the conference, attendees will be given the opportunity to interact with, experience, and learn from the participating technologies.
“Without a doubt, this year’s action-packed slate of inventions is sure to provide a unique representation and celebration of the innovation profession,” explained Sabina Gargiulo, Conference Director of the Product Development and Management Association.
After reviewing over 100 submissions from interested technologies, PDMA selected an elite array of innovations spanning a wide variety of industries, including:
- Virtual Runway™ and Black Dress Design Studio – A virtual world platform from Fashion Research Institute for designers to create their collections in a 3D, immersive, collaborative space, saving time and costs.
- Green Exchanger – An energy saving device that recovers the heat from a dryer to reduce household heating costs and save homeowners money.
- Xerox Silver Ink – A new silver ink that paves the way for commercialization and low-cost manufacturing of printable electronics.
- HoloTouch® HMI Technology – Allows people to intuitively control devices by simply passing a finger through holographic images floating freely in the air.
- Readeo – By combining children’s books with video chat, Readeo makes it possible for geographically separated family and friends to keep on the same page with the children in their lives.
Mention priority code INNOVATE and receive an additional 20% off. Visit http://2010conference.pdma.org.
Ah, Yes, An Inflatable Tie-Pillow
Jun 17th
As if the “Snuggie” was not enough to get people to spend on worthless things, now there’s the “inflatable tie” called the “PillowTie”. Did you ask why? Because you may feel sleepy in that board meeting. No, seriously, this tie is something that you can blow air into and use it as a pillow. Apparently it
BSR And IDEO Reveal The ABCDs Of Building Sustainability Into Product Design
Apr 28th
Sustainability is not just about modifying products, but about modifying the way products are made. The wider range of factors to consider in product design and management, such as eco-toxicity, recyclability or renewability, often lie outside the expertise of traditional designers and product managers. Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), in conjunction with design and innovation
Feature Consolidation Or Greed?
Apr 15th
The age of feature consolidation has arrived for big product companies. Apple launched the iPhone OS4 SDK a couple of days ago, Twitter acquired Tweetie and today Twitter announced at the Chirp conference that they will launch their own url shortening service in place of bit.ly One pattern that has emerged out of these is that product companies are now ready to throw the kitchen sink at the user. Another pattern is that product companies are now making their platforms “unique” and hence forcing it upon everyone. Is this the time for feature consolidation?
AOL Joins MIT Media Lab Consortium
Apr 7th
Some good press not so bad when your brand rep is getting hurt badly eh AOL is trying something similar. It has joined the MIT Media Lab as a Consortium Level Sponsor. This means AOL will shell out a lot of money in the hopes that the venture will bring out something wild that AOL could use to build its product base. While AOL is trying hard to stem the flow of cash quarter on quarter and even putting Bebo up for sale, this venture may one one that is quite rewarding. MIT folks develop all sorts of fun stuff (read this and this) and AOL would gladly benefit from some top notch research. We just hope AOL doesn’t shutter itself soon. Full PR text after the break.
Infographic: The GrowVC startup funding model
Mar 27th
We have talked about 2 crowd sourced startup funding groups- GrowVC and Kickstarter Today we post an infographic that allows you to understand how the GorwVC community funding model works. Graphic after the break.
Xerox Heads To India Looking For Innovation
Mar 26th
This piece of news is awesome. Xerox will open its first ever “innovation hub” in India. Xerox is not the first company to bring R&D work to India but is the first to bring it at the scale they are talking about. Maybe the whole bad blood between technology companies and Obama is making companies to shift entire operations to other countries instead of haggling with the US government. When whole technology comes from India, there is nothing that was really outsourced, right? And there was this report which claimed an abundant supply of talent within the US to work at growth of science and technology firms. Maybe these firms just cannot afford the engineers in the USA anymore. What poses to be the start of a new wave of technology companies actually moving the entire innovation process to low cost locations instead of small portions of work could be a great strategy to keep the company fresh with ideas while cutting costs. Nice job Xerox! Full PR text after the break.
