http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog How to develop ideas and inventions into successful products Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:13:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/misc-npd/early-release-software-and-products/ 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 ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/fun-inventions/pitch-to-america-jay-lenos-invention-show/ 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 ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/fun-inventions/movie-product-development-wedding-daze/ 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 ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/networking-events/new-inventors-association-of-new-england-recording-secretary/ 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 ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/misc-npd/my-new-invention-present/ Yesterday was a very exciting day, but one item I was missing was trying out the touchscreen voting machine.  I've seen them all over TV, but when I went into vote I got some ancient technology and not even a booth.  I voted in Back Bay Boston at the Boston ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/misc-npd/my-voting-machine/ Well not so scary but given the spirit of Halloween, lets talk about trick or treat product development.  Where is the product development in that you ask?  Well every costume has accessories and these accessories are products that need to be developed.  Whether it be the reaper's reaper or the ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/invention-development-assistance/scary-product-development-for-halloween/ For those who have had meetings with me over the past week or so, I am sorry I was sick. Not anything serious, but even a cold can have bad affects on a product development project. I'll share a few tricks that kept me going and have put ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/product-development-management/sick-product-development-3-tricks/ A few weeksI attended two different events that as an inventor / product developer I thought I would pass along.  The first was the Yankee Invention Exposition and the second was the Harvard Square Oktoberfest. These are two wildly different events, one geared strictly towards inventors and one with a broad ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/networking-events/invention-expositions-shows-and-festivals/ 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 ... http://www.flashpointdevelopment.com/blog/index.php/fun-inventions/prototype-this-successfully/