Jamey Bennet came to IANE a few months ago and spoke about his products, the Light Wedge and Bigger and Brighter. He makes among other things great book lights. I mentioned to my girlfriend after the talk that I would love one of his products, the Spike Light. Somehow Santa overheard that [...]
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This past week Flashpoint Development had the privilege to witness industrial designers inventions as a panelist reviewing student projects at MassArt’s School of Industrial Design. We were joined by Staple’s head of design and the department chair of Industrial Design at Mass Art. This Staples co-sponsored event focused on the “worker of the future”. The [...] I spent this past weekend re-reading the past few months of Inventors Digest. A lot of great ideas for blogs popped into my head, but this one article made me stop and check it out immediately. 5 Questions with Charles McCarthy is an interview of a blogger who writes about ideas that he [...] If you play golf, especially on Linx style courses (not a lot of trees) you will enjoy this invention. Featured in the January 2009 issue of Golf Digest, the Uroclub is the answer to needing to go and not having a place. This seven iron look-a-like is actually a cleverly disguised urinal created by a [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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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