Episode 1: A conversation at the Colorado Inventor's Showcase
This show was recorded live at the Colorado Inventor's Showcase - we were both judges. Michael likes the re-architecting of the city by using the space above the freeways combined with environmentally friendly buildings. The reinvention of the IV stand in hospitals. Pioneers take the arrows, settlers settle the country - products evolve, it's a part of the process. Twitter products come and go because on incremental improvement by competitors. Are there entrepreneurial types other than the serial entrepreneur? HyperSites (Michael's team) won best software in 2005 at the Colorado Inventors Showcase. Societal improvement is/should be a human characteristic. Google Wave hasn't taken over our lives as the hype would have led us to believe. Target practice has been reinvented - an air gun target can be used indoors, and provides feedback on how far off your were. The Microsoft Store is a sweet retail store, and pretty much a copy of the Apple Store. Apple's done a great job at rethinking retail - Microsoft is OK to borrow from Apple's success. Microsoft is selling PCs with no crapware - only Microsoft software. The Apple store is attractive because of the people that work there. Onecare, and other services make a trip worth a visit. CompUSA died because people would rather beat themselves with a stick than buy from underpaid employees with no people skills. Walmart's inventory of music is anemic, compared to Amazon or Apple. Dave has seen lots of movies and is going to see another tonight. We're in the Cable Center - underwritten by the Cable industry for the University of Denver. Their televisions are thick and out of date - the content isn't in HD oddly, audio is out of sync. OLED TVs are coming, in larger/affordable sizes. Could we create a less dense (i.e, affordable) material for window based displays? Could we have OLED based hidden video panels in a laptop screen that pull out? 16 yr. old (later found out that he has a reinvention of windshield wipers using steam) at the show. His family is an inventor family. Thanks! And... wrap.
