free invention ideas

free invention ideas
we probably do not need to tell you this - in fact, you probably want to we can not remember - but it seems to be fairly broad support from virtually every corner, that we either have to enter a recession or, at best, barely avoided. In any case, it may be bad, but it is not a disaster, as long as short-lived. Most of us have been in several recessions already, and many of our parents or grandparents experienced a somewhat lot worse in the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Nevertheless, a period of financial contraction means that designers will have to start a bit differently. Less expensive materials, more efficient use of these materials, and the search for opportunities to buy products with less labor. If we really clever, maybe we can find ways to marry reduced cost with more ecologically sustainable processes. And as Bruce Nussbaum writes, it is an excellent opportunity for innovation in economic development opportunities and career-building "CRED. "" Perhaps not too surprising that this innovation is sometimes massively popular, but the history of innovations is not always pretty. Sometimes the results are not anything to write home about, either.

Most of you have probably heard something of the history, as in 1933, the new Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Adolf Hitler, the drawings of Ferdinand Porsche for an inexpensive car that could be a "people's car" or Volkswagen. Designer Erwin Komenda developed a strange new body design to go with the small cars efficient engine - but the plan was to emphasize the disastrous World War I, Hitler was setting in motion.

After the war, the German industry could not afford to celebrate, or an excess of good taste, not even their allies want to occupiers. The design for the car, which later became the iconic Volkswagen Beetle has been used to revitalize the devastated economy after the war Germany, which has become a crucial bulwark to the west of the Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. The fact that the small car was set in motion by the most hated man of the 20th Century was neither here nor there, and the VW bug was a vehicle that was fortunately of millions of people, including ironically enough, many of the kind of freethinking creative people, which Hitler had dreamed of being permanently removed from the Earth .

Another product with an interesting connection with the war is best known Hormel meat product, Spam. The creation of the product was a simple efficiency. Hormel canned ham were sold, but that was only part of the pig. Why not grind the inexpensive and otherwise useless pork shoulder meat into a ham-Ware, which also are sold? While spam was first used in the 1920s, but not really from around the world, until the war from the meat can be an essential tool for the provision of protein during the war time shortages and other privations.

Spam is very popular in the Pacific theater as a way of feeding American soldiers and their civilian allies. Until today it remains a staple food in Hawaii, Guam and other islands in the Pacific Ocean, and despite a less than glamorous reputation in the U.S., is increasingly becoming a common staple food ethnic. (At the moment, you can use Spam musubi, a sushi-like combination of spam, sticky rice and seaweed, on a Hawaiian fast-food restaurants proliferating around Southern California.)

And if you Hormel's strange, campy, entertaining, and spam-website of the company seems interested in a Hipper-hand corner of the sandwich meat market. No longer the company before the ridicule of his product was during a famous Monty Python sketch. Instead, it is a Tie-ins online video game inspired by the Python-based Broadway musical, Spamalot. This is another example of a different kind of efficiency that the smart in an economic climate - turning a liability into an asset by it.

And then there's the tactic with the material you have on hand. We always have the legend, such as marketing super-guru Herschel Gordon Lewis began his other claim to fame (well. .. notoriety) mainly through the invention of Gore film. The story goes that Lewis, who already takes a very down market films with "recovery devices", "found himself in 1963 with some left over phase of blood from another film. Not wanting to waste a thing, he dreamed of the idea that all remnants of the material in his next film, and therefore is itself a pioneer in the horror film so disgusting that even the film refuses geek writing this blog to see.

(The true story of the first splatter film is a bit complicated, but was another example of the economy is the mother of invention. Since no one ever had a Gore movie, film censors had no real rules against it and so it was a relatively simple way to attract thrill-seeking young audience - but none of the stage blood was found that Lewis be realistic enough to disturb. Lewis and his colleagues developed a blood relative of the stage being in movies - a solution which essentially consists of the sticky antidiarrheal medicine Kaopectate. Innovation is not always nice.)

Of course, sometimes a restriction creative people can create something that little bit more artistic. In the early 1980s, the now world renowned independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has just begun. In this pre-digital-video era, probably the biggest obstacle for new filmmakers trying to make films was the high cost of key raw material - 16mm or 35mm film. Still, Jarmusch had obvious talent and Swiss filmmaker Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) gifted him with some "short end" - the parts left over rolls of Wenders' film. Jarmusch film is simply not enough to get something for a long time - so he simply went to the usual movie strategy.

Each scene in its ultra-low-key comedy, Stranger Than Paradise, is an individual who, separated by black leaders. There is no cutting in the usual sense. This courageous film requires a high degree of skill, how the scenes were staged that is actually an important part of the film style and humor. The film was, which, strangely enough, not a huge hole, but an international hit Jarmusch, in the first truly independent director known for "" art "productions. Although he now works with renowned actors like Johnny Depp and Bill Murray, Jarmusch is still something strange and beautiful films outside the usual Hollywood system ... and he still does not with a lot of cuts. waste not, want not.

Bob is Westal Nectar Product Development, an award-winning product development consultancy established in 1992, helps its customers, products, dealing with their users and expand their markets. Learn more at http://www.nectardesign.com