The product developers idea farm & How to become a famous Artist
 

Some people get frustrated by search engine results that they deem irrelevant.
To me, they are just great new opportunities. Let me tell you about a couple of totally amazing things I found, while looking for something else.
Ever run short of ideas for product ideas, or wondered if something completely off the wall would fly? If you thought custard filled speed bumps, or a head-mounted Presence Denier would be cool,then you need to check out:
http://www.halfbakery.com/

Now you may not think of yourself as an artist, or you may have considered it as a career and rejected it on the grounds of not wanting to starve in a garret, but whatever your stance on art, I suggest you download the free book at:
http://www.innisart.com/ its, quirky, funny, and really useful, whatever creative field you are in.
I have NO personal or commercial interest in either of these sites. They are just random gems among the mundane and dross.

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Re: The product developers idea farm & How to become a famous Artist
 

Interesting post Boyd. I have just finished
a fairly exhaustive look back at many of the major
inventions in last 200 years. Care to guess
at what the #1 technique was for inventing
highly successful products? Serendipity. That's
right, most of them were created to solve a
smaller problem or simply were stumbled upon
by accident - much like your web surfing example.

The halfbakery site is just super. Very closely
aligned with what master innovator Joey Reiman
talks about in his book "Thinking for a Living"
He talks about ideas being this generations real
currency. In fact, his newest project has taken
him from years in the advertising industry to
running idea generation groups.

Fascinating topic.

> Some people get frustrated by search engine
> results that they deem irrelevant.
> To me, they are just great new
> opportunities. Let me tell you about a
> couple of totally amazing things I found,
> while looking for something else.
> Ever run short of ideas for product ideas,
> or wondered if something completely off the
> wall would fly? If you thought custard
> filled speed bumps, or a head-mounted
> Presence Denier would be cool,then you need
> to check out:
> http://www.halfbakery.com/ Now you may not
> think of yourself as an artist, or you may
> have considered it as a career and rejected
> it on the grounds of not wanting to starve
> in a garret, but whatever your stance on
> art, I suggest you download the free book
> at:
> http://www.innisart.com/ its, quirky,
> funny, and really useful, whatever creative
> field you are in.
> I have NO personal or commercial interest in
> either of these sites. They are just random
> gems among the mundane and dross.

> ;




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Re: The product developers idea farm & How to become a famous Artist
 

Sorry about the name mixup Gary.

Jeff

> Interesting post Boyd. I have just finished
> a fairly exhaustive look back at many of the
> major
> inventions in last 200 years. Care to guess
> at what the #1 technique was for inventing
> highly successful products? Serendipity.
> That's
> right, most of them were created to solve a
> smaller problem or simply were stumbled upon
> by accident - much like your web surfing
> example.

> The halfbakery site is just super. Very
> closely
> aligned with what master innovator Joey
> Reiman
> talks about in his book "Thinking for a
> Living"
> He talks about ideas being this generations
> real
> currency. In fact, his newest project has
> taken
> him from years in the advertising industry
> to
> running idea generation groups.

> Fascinating topic.

Here's a way to make sure you're remembered....
 

Hi Garry,

Thanks - those are a couple of interesting sites! The artist marketing book looks pretty good too (I downloaded it to read later)....

I agree - you can stumble on some interesting things as you surf around....

Here's something I stumbled on to recently as I was searching for something else on the web, which I added to my "Favorites".... If you have one of these, you'll get noticed!



Stainless steel business cards!

I think if you gave someone one of these, they'd definitely remember you.... :)

(Link below....)

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