Coffee Cups, Toilet Paper Cores, Video Stores, UV Protection, and Magic Fiddles

30/11/2010 | Editor

Jack Hipple

What do all these topics have in common? They are all examples of new products that eliminate some other product or part of a system and still accomplish most or all of the original intent but with greater simplicity, … Read More

Getting an Idea Seek Yet More. How Video Communication Helps in Psychiatry and Business and How Cameras Detect Lies and Improve Communication

12/09/2004 | Editor

By: Kalevi Rantanen TRIS OY Brahenk. 9 E 18 FIN-20100 TURKU, FINLAND phone/fax +358 2 251 1623 E-mail: kalevi.rantanen@kolumbus.fi http://www.kolumbus.fi/kalran

When you find good ideas using patterns of evolution as a tool, think how you might continue the same pattern … Read More

Deaf People As Pioneers of Video Technology: How to Use Evolution Patterns and the Lead User Concept

10/02/2004 | Editor

By: Kalevi Rantanen

Evolution patterns, studied by Genrich Altshuller and the concept of lead users, introduced by Eric von Hippel, can be effectively used together. One can foresee the possible changes and to get new ideas. The case of video … Read More

A Coffee Room Application of Video Technology.

20/05/2003 | Editor

By Kalevi Rantanen TRIS OY Brahenk. 9 E 18 FIN-20100 TURKU, FINLAND phone/fax +358 2 251 1623 E-mail: kalevi.rantanen@kolumbus.fi http://www.kolumbus.fi/kalran

I am proud of a small story of the video connection between two coffee rooms. I wrote the story not … Read More