Word: helpful
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...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 could have forecast and few can understand because of the esoteric process of innovation and the fact that it has never been subject to general social audit...
...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 help catapult his company, which had built its fortunes on heavy office machines, into the forefront of digital technology. The trouble was, Sakurai didn't really know what he wanted. "The idea was to develop a product that uses all our senses," says Yamada. "There was no paper, no specifications. Just...
...business users, such as real estate agents making Web pages for new listings or news organizations posting photos of fast-breaking stories from the field. In Japan, the government-contracted information service Hokuriku Kensetsu Kosaikai uses the cameras to collect pictures from scenes of natural disasters to help repair workers and rescue teams prepare for the task ahead of them. "We used to use a PC, but not all the workers at a disaster scene are familiar with computers," says the service's manager, Hirokazu Kimura. "[The i700] is very useful...
...ability to send that much data over wireless lines is up in the air," notes consumer electronics analyst Jay Srivatsa of Gartner Group Dataquest. Higher-speed networks, such as the 128-kbps Ricochet from Metricom now being tested and the 384K TDMA network due out next summer, could help resolve some of these issues...
...factory itself--creating a digital manufacturing system for the New Economy. One thing that caught his attention was the problem of the powder press. He wondered if it was possible to update the Industrial Age brute. Before he could venture onto this alien turf, however, he knew he needed help--and realized he could get it from his younger brother Glenn...