Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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To a large extent this is still so today. For any invention to succeed in the marketplace, it has to be some kind of surprise. Most of all for the competitor. And then for the consumer. As a result, invention (with Descartes's help) has given us a world nobody...
The process of invention is an endless churn of activity that has little respect for the calendar. But in an effort to celebrate what has become a binge of industrial and scientific creativity around the world, the editors of TIME have locked the creative achievements of the year 2000 into...
Over the past three years, while his fellow commuters jostled for space or scanned the morning paper, Yamada, 55, devoted his four-hour daily commute to a higher cause--dreaming up the next great consumer gadget. In 1997 Ricoh president Masamitsu Sakurai commissioned Yamada to create a device that would...
Like any other emerging technology, mobile digital imaging has its skeptics. For one thing, picture files are much larger than the data and voice streams that existing wireless networks were designed to handle. "The ability to send that much data over wireless lines is up in the air," notes consumer...
As many as 25,000 would-be inventors each year take the bait, and, quicker than you can say "rags to riches," find themselves caught in a very different kind of mousetrap. Consumer advocates, government regulators and industry experts say that virtually everyone who contacts these firms with dreams of...