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The value of user feedback for innovative product development
Gaining user feedback during the development of new products is the norm in the medical design sector, where new devices have to go through stringent regulations to ensure they perform to the correct standards. Some of our consumer sector clients have known this for years, but gaining user feedback and utilising human factors engineering are [...]
Our innovative consumer product developments hit the market – Christmas present anyone?
We are delighted that two of our product innovation projects have made it to market in recent months. The Q2 Cube radio is based on our Iona internet radio platform implemented in a really novel way; it’s got no dial, no buttons and no display. Instead you tip it, tilt it or roll it to [...]
Kick-starting open innovation with formulation
Yesterday was the ‘Formulated Product Design: Kick-Starting Open Innovation’ event in snowy Harrogate. This was a networking and matchmaking event aimed at connecting Open Innovation staff at large firms like P&G, Reckitt Benckiser and Kraft Cadbury with small companies delivering innovations in formulation. This was interesting to us, because we often get called on by [...]
Buzzword bingo from FEI Boston
After three days at the Front End of Innovation, it’s no surprise that the delegates have been engaging in realtime syntactic innovation
From the ‘Beyond Open…’ Summit at FEI
Robert Kirschbaum from DSM gave an excellent talk really setting the scene for the ‘Beyond Open’ summit on the first day of FEI. Like many large corporations DSM has embraced the concept of Open Innovation and recognises that ideas can come from anywhere… in DSM’s case 99.999996% of the world is outside of DSM! As [...]
Young startups and innovative product developments
On Saturday, I had the great privilege of being part of the judging panel for the Cambridge Young Enterprise awards.
What do you get for your extra dimension?
You might have heard that TVs are getting an extra dimension. My PS3 is already 3D ready, so apart from watching things not quite hit you in the face, what use is it? So far I’ve been somewhat under-whelmed by 3D – the annoyance of wearing those glasses has outweighed the occasional feeling of actually [...]
Last day of the Hong Kong Electronics Fair
Today is the last day of the Hong Kong Electronics Fair, and the wind-down was quite evident, both due to the reduced number of attendees, and also the exhibitors starting to pack up (even though the fair organisers expressly forbid them from so before 5:00pm). For me, it was a day for collecting samples and [...]
Hong Kong Electronics Fair Day 3
As I mentioned in my post yesterday, my plan for Thursday was to visit the Hong Kong Lighting Fair (which is part of the Hong Kong electronics Fair). I’m pleased to say that it was a generally worthwhile experience, and that my eyesight has more-or-less recovered from – what was effectively – 4 hours of [...]
Hong Kong Electronics Fair Day 2
So, I have to retract some of yesterday’s post, as today I did see one vendor of 3D TVs (the lenticular screen type, which I find very difficult to ‘lock-on’ to), and I also found someone still offering CRT TVs. Wow, who would still want one of those things? Actually – apart from the Home [...]
