On Wednesday December 3rd Flashpoint Development will be featured on the CBS Boston (WBZ-TV) news at 6pm and 11 pm.  The story will focus on several of our projects nearing market and the process that we utilize.  As many know, our non-confidential projects are often used as real in-class examples for Tucker’s graduate school classes [...]

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As we all are dealing with the Thanksgiving leftovers I am reminded of two recent product launches by Ziplock and Reynolds focused on freezing leftovers. At first when I saw these ads I thought they were focused on saving money, given the questionable economy but now realize that it was really focused on Thanksgiving [...]

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A fellow inventor turned me onto Lucky Break Wishbone a company that produces plastic wishbones just like your turkey. Now everyone around the table, even vegetarians can take part in the tradition of the wishbone. While this product is appropriate because of Thanksgiving, it also provides an interesting product protection case, without patents.
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My girlfriend had a complaint one morning recently. We were both leaving the house very early and it was still dark. We had a hard time locking the door from the outside and were laughing about our difficulties. She turned to me and said what about a flashlight attached to the actual [...]

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This past SNL episode featured an inventor pitching her product, Clear-Rite an adult retainer that is unnoticeable.

The inventor had developed a prototype, a package and was practicing her infomercial. Of course, like many invention pieces on TV this is meant for entertainment which means that they are going to make fun of [...]

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I found this article last night by Dharmesh Shah on his blog, onstartups.com about early releasing.  While the article is focused on software, a quick work replacement (software = products) reveals that the two development paths are actually quite a like.  There is always a race to market, even if you don’t know it and [...]

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This past Friday Jay Leno featured six inventions from the Yankee Invention Expo and the InventBay Expo. In this segment, Pitch to America, The inventor introduces the idea, does a quick demo and the audience crowd guesses sold or not sold. As I have been told in the past, this is an entertainment [...]

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Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher had a few interesting product development scenes with Matt Malloy Isla’s father as a Jewish inventor. Specifically the Jewlahoop and Jewnacorn. As the movie goes, Matt Malloy had an idea after walking into a toy store, why if there was a line of stuffed animals [...]

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I am happy to announce that I have volunteered to become the recording secretary at the Inventors Association of New England. Sure it isn’t the fanciest title, but I think it will help the group, the newsletter and ease the burden on some of the existing contributors. This may be somewhat of a [...]

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I haven’t talked too much about Inventors Digest lately, but a recent article really hit the spot.  Inventors Digest is a pretty good magazine focused on invention stories, patent law and other invention developments.  In the new issue there is a new article on holiday gifts for inventors which was interesting.   After reading I remembered [...]

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