The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products

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The iPod is a harbinger of a revolution in product design: innovation that targets customer emotion, self-image, and fantasy, not just product function. Read the hidden stories behind BodyMedia’s SenseWear body monitor, Herman Miller’s Mirra Chair, Swiffer’s mops, OXO’s potato peelers, Adidas’ intelligent shoes, the new Ford F-150 pickup truck, and many other winning innovations. Meet the innovators, learning how they inspire and motivate their people, as they shepherd their visions through corporate bureaucracy to profitable reality.  The authors deconstruct the entire process of design innovation, showing how it really works, and how today’s smartest companies are innovating more effectively than ever before.

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The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers who Transformed America

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A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modern

In this age of microchips and deep space probes, it’s hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trains. An astonishing series of engineering innovations paved the way to the twentieth century, and transformed America into the world’s mightiest industrial power. The Innovators tells the exciting story of the engineering pioneers whose discoveries so dramatically altered commerce, industry, and world history. The book takes readers into the workshops of America’s early engineering geniuses, explaining how they came up with their ideas and later applied them in the marketplace. Devotees of history and technology will appreciate the finely drawn profiles of America’s technical wizards, from the famous—including Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat; Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph; and Thomas Edison, inventor of the first electrical power network—to the lesser known, such as J. Edgar Thompson, who built the Pennsylvania Railroad.

• From the author of the critically acclaimed The Tower and the Bridge
• Features over 80 illustrations of the engineers and their inventions

DAVID P. BILLINGTON (Princeton, New Jersey), a professor of civil engineering at Princeton University, is the author of The Tower and the Bridge, and Robert Maillart’s Bridges: The Art of Engineering, which won the 1979 Dexter Prize as the outstanding book on the history of technology.Amazon.com Review
In a world rocked constantly by an almost overwhelming string of technological wonders, it’s easy to lose sight of the 18th- and 19th-century engineering breakthroughs that set the stage for today’s scientific and electronic advances. In The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern, David P. Billington presents a series of intriguing profiles of such pacesetters as Robert Fulton, Thomas Edison, and Samuel Morse, whose inventions are responsible for so many of the developments we currently enjoy.

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Entrepreneurs in The Caribbean Islands Look to Make a Splash in the World Economy

When you think of the Caribbean, you might picture a tropical paradise with friendly people and world-class luxury resorts.  It’s a place where you would want to go on your honeymoon or just to escape from city life when it gets on your nerves.  Normally, most people would not consider the Caribbean as a place for doing business; let alone starting one.  Well, that’s all changing at this very moment and now could be the best time to get involved in a new movement while it is still in its formative stages.
While immaculate beaches with a view of the vast turquoise sea may be an ideal destination for your next vacation, it’s also become an ideal place for entrepreneurs and existing companies to either start or expand a business.  Many Americans, Canadians and Europeans have come to study in countries like Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, Antigua and Puerto Rico because of programs set up by their governments to attract students from all over the globe, making the Caribbean a breeding ground for the next wave of bright new innovators in science, technology, medicine and business management.  Particular attention has been paid to improving research programs in nanotechnology and ocean energy as investors look for innovative ideas from entrepreneurs who are looking to start new industries that create new opportunities for growth not only within the region, but also internationally.
From an investor’s standpoint, having the beach close by is not the only advantage for starting a business in the Caribbean. Some countries have taken steps of attracting companies to the Caribbean by reducing the cost of doing business (such as low or no income and capital gain taxes), which has led to a noticeable increase in foreign investors.   As entrepreneurs begin their efforts to hit upon an opportunity to showcase their ideas, finding independent investors becomes crucial.   Many young entrepreneurs will have a hard time finding venture capital in a region that has not yet established itself as a business centre.  That’s where business angels enter.
<a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.caribbeaninvestmentnetwork.com”>Angel investors</a> are affluent individuals who are willing to take on the challenge of preparing intelligent yet inexperienced entrepreneurs for the challenge of establishing new companies by not only providing monetary backing, but also sharing their knowledge of the market and how to weather the bumps along the way.    That’s why the Angel Investment Network is such a vital forum for investors and entrepreneurs to meet and realize their common goal: putting the Caribbean on the world economic map.

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