Imagine a world where you build products for End Users and during the build out, you get real-time feed back on usability? Not a new concept, but one of which i am very fond – 3M has been using direct feedback in their invention process since 1997, read on inventors… read on…
In a world of online user communities, social media, interactive blogs and other technological means for companies to elicit customer feedback, you might think that face-to-face interaction is a thing of the past. Think again.
As a company, 3M is at the forefront of a movement that appears to be gaining traction: customer innovation centers, typically located near company research facilities, that provide a forum for meeting with corporate customers and engaging them directly in the innovation process.
Read the full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/27proto.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
“….the software was used to monitor the two patients’ brains as they watched a new film and to reproduce what they were seeing based on their neural activity alone.
“Remarkably, the computer program was able to display continuous footage of the films they were watching — albeit with blurred images.”
“A computer program was used to search for links between the configuration of shapes, colors and movements in the videos, and patterns of activity in the patients’ visual cortex.
“It was later fed more than 200 days’ worth of YouTube internet clips and asked to predict which areas of the brain the clips would stimulate if people were watching them.
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Are you working “overtime” during the Holidays? I have to tell y’all, I have learned a valuable lesson about life…. and that is about putting yourself, health and love before career at any cost. If you are working overtime, slow down… look around you because if you miss those subtle clues in your life when things are slipping away, you will find yourself with nothing.
Officially let it be known, it was unfair of me to put my career first before the people who mean the most to me, it hurt my love relationship over the course of just a few sad months deeply and profoundly. I had personal turmoil and had become so sick from overworking myself for my so-called career that it led to a terrible struggle with Sciatica and other health issues (I couldn’t even walk for months during the winter of 2008 and that lasted all the way into the summer, finally started to get better in July!!).
So, be forewarned, there are very evil, cruel people out there who prey upon situations such as mine where I was weakened, so many truly “dark beings” will swoop in and take advantage and spread their bad karma if you let them, but they can be easily dismissed if you are with someone and surrounded by those who you truly love and have a connection with, but you can only bounce back if you stop yourself and jump back into your own life and get engaged.
It is scary and ironic how quickly things can change, and you may not even notice it is happening, but your life and love could easily slip away – now that I am aware of what that mind-set of over-working and neglect can do to a relationship, let alone a life I have changed my ways. I have recently put my personal health and spiritual love first, and everything else seems to be just falling into its place – for this holiday season if you find you are in that scary space, just stop and take a moment, and figure out what really matters most to you before something evil and sneaky just suddenly appears and tries to steal bits and pieces of your soul.
BTW: My Birthday is coming up on the 10th of December and we have big plans! If you are in the giving mood, don’t forget to send me a note.
So, yes there is a very good chance of some kind of an official announcement coming soon of some yule-tide/year end type possible engagement, and what exactly do I mean by that? Stay tuned and find out!