How to develop ideas and inventions into successful products
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Prototype This, is a great new show on the Discovery Channel. It continued to answer my dreams of a truely great prototyping / product development show. Many of their tactics for quick prototyping are those that we employ throughout the entire development process. They use existing technology, so no long term research and development is [...]
The decision of what to invent is more conscience than most believe. Inventions often revolve around your life, work and interests. It is an important decision to make because you will end up spending a lot of time in a specific industry doing research on companies, competitive products and trends. If you [...]
This past weekend I attended the Taste of Rhode Island festival in Newport. Besides leaving with a full stomach, some great pictures and I better appreciation for different seafood, I left with a backpack full of promotional products (even the backpack).
The basics of promotional products from wikipedia: One of the most notable means of [...]
After recently watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory reminded me of a classic case of forgotten competition, customers make it themselves. The beginning of the episode feature Sheldon folding his clothes with a shirt folder similar to the Flip Fold Shirt Folder available at Nu-Era.
I really like this product because I find [...]
Last night I threw on Office Space before bed and because of the prevalence of products throughout the movie I thought I would talk a bit about it. There are many products that stand out in the movie Jump to Conclusions Mat, The Pet Rock, Red Swingline Stapler, Fax / Printer and Flair, we’ll talk [...]
