How do you know if you have created a desirable product or not?

By Chesney Bradshaw

A successful inventor, Stephen Key, says that he started his career in product development selling his handmade goods at art shows and state fairs where he quickly discovered the importance of creating a desirable product. “Let’s face it: When the rent is due and you are hungry, if the product used to spent several hours making doesn’t sell, you quickly move onto something else.”

This is an important point, isn’t it for? If you make something that very few or almost no one wants, then what’s the point? But how do you get to that stage where you are making products that people want? Continue reading “How do you know if you have created a desirable product or not?”

Simple ideas like this can be diamonds

Sunset break, Kommetjie. (Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)
Sunset break, Kommetjie. (Copyright © 2015 by Chesney Bradshaw, all rights reserved)

A student who spent a year in China studying the impact of farming on culture has come up with a simple and inexpensive way to create an indoor air filter.

Thomas Talhelm put together a filter, a fan and a Velcro strap to hold them together, reports Bloomberg’s Business week, to form a DIY air filter. All these components can be bought for less than $35 on China’s leading e-commerce site. Continue reading “Simple ideas like this can be diamonds”