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Planning on developing a new product? Check out some of these useful resources:

New Product Forecasting by Kenneth B. Kahn; Martin Joseph (Foreword by); Alec Finney;

The Next Big Thing by William Higham; 

The Pursuit of New Product Development by Marc A. Annacchino


Researching a Product: If you are planning on developing a new product, the best place to start would be Industry Canada's Trade Data Online. 

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/tdo-dcd.nsf/eng/Home

Here you can search for product statistics to determine the feasibility of your venture.

Also, there are a variety of databases that can help you research a particular product. Try using one of these databases the next time you are looking for information on new product development:

Passport GMID (Euromonitor)
https://www.portal.euromonitor.com/portal/account/login
This international database provides access to market reports that analyze consumer and service industries across 80 countries. Also includes company profiles. Industries covered include Apparel, Consumer Finance, Consumer Foodservice and Travel & Tourism.

PMB: Print Measurement Bureau (Now Vividata)
http://198.46.83.53/~pmb1101/public/e/product_data_reports_online_gateway.shtml
Information on Canadian market and consumer behaviour with profile data for over 3,500 products and services in the Product Data section. **Vividata is only compatible with Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers.

Small Business Reference Center (EBSCO)
https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/small-business-reference-center
Providing the most up-to-date information on topics related to starting a company, operations management, sales, and growing or rescuing a business.


INVENTION and INNOVATION REPORT
The following reports are provided to inspire your inner inventor, and help you create new inventions.
When you are ready, contact me for a patentability assessment.
http://ride-air.com/


Sudden flats, or even slight lack of air, is an experience all bikers encounter
and can be very frustrating while on a ride.
Pumping air into your tire is annoying, time consuming, messy,
and can be quite hard!

We have developed RideAir in order to solve this problem.
The silky smooth design along with its simplistic and clever
features give the RideAir a real edge.

Riders, you will never ride flat again…

The RideAir capsule can be easily refilled using any air-compressor in any gas station. No more searching for the nearest bike shop every time you have a flat.


The following reports are provided to inspire your inner inventor, and help you create new inventions. When you are ready, contact me for a patentability assessment.

To patent your inventions, please contact:
GEM Patent Services
www.gempatentservices.com
Joe Mariconda
289 383-1427
http://otmtech.com/

Phree is a digital pen that lets you write, sketch, annotate and express yourself on virtually any surface!

To patent your inventions, please contact:
GEM Patent Services
www.gempatentservices.com
Joe Mariconda
289 383-1427
http://thesoundtorch.com/

We’re passionate about music, we’re fucking crazy about the club scene. The Sound Torch revolutionizes the way people see music.
Lasers and disco balls are old news.
This is the exciting new Pyroboard, you need to turn your next house party into a blazing inferno of dance. Everybody is going to remember you as the guy that had this.

Did Metallica cry because there were going to be pyrotechnics on stage? No!
Even Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire. Imagine if Avicii or Hardwell couldn't use fire in their show? Disaster - Its all about the FIRE not small pretty bubbles for kids.


The following reports are provided to inspire your inner inventor, and help you create new inventions. When you are ready, contact me for a patentability assessment.

To patent your inventions, please contact:
GEM Patent Services
www.gempatentservices.com
Joe Mariconda
289 383-1427
http://www.miito.com/

MIITO is an innovative device that sustainably heats liquids directly in the vessel to be used, hence eliminating the heating of excess water. It goes beyond the traditional kettle, bringing more efficiency into our daily lives while we try to live more sustainably. Simply fill your cup with water, place it onto the induction base and immerse the rod in the liquid. The induction base heats the rod, which then heats the liquid surrounding it. MIITO works with non-ferrous vessels of any size, can heat different kinds of liquids, and is easy to use and clean.
MIITO is convenient and intuitive using only a one-button system: the touch sensor makes sure that it only works when the heating rod is in place. After entering Standby mode, the full induction power only turns on once a vessel is placed onto the base and the rod is placed inside. The device will then signal once the liquid has boiled and it shifts back into Standby mode, so you don’t have to worry about it staying on. To turn the device fully off, simply place the rod back on the base.


The following reports are provided to inspire your inner inventor, and help you create new inventions. When you are ready, contact me for a patentability assessment.

To patent your inventions, please contact:
GEM Patent Services
www.gempatentservices.com
Joe Mariconda
289 383-1427
INVENTION REPORT:

http://www.thelightphone.com/

In recent years, we’ve become inundated with connectedness.
Smart phones in our pockets have made life easier in countless
ways, though it’s also made it easier to miss out on the
world around us. With the goal of helping people live more
consciously, The Light Phone—a discreet, credit card-sized
phone—is designed to be used as little as possible.
With 20 days of battery life, seamless app integration that
allows users to forward calls from their existing phone and
store up to10 numbers on speed dial, Light enables you to
comfortably disconnect from notifications and distractions
and live in the moment. Light is ideal for when you don’t need
a computer in your pocket, for when you would actually be
happier with out it. Light tells time, makes and receives calls,
and weighs next to nothing. Whether you’re heading out for
a morning jog, dinner with a loved one, camping with friends,
playing with your kids, escaping the office for lunch or simply
in need of an afternoon without email, Light allows you to
disconnect without leaving you completely stranded.
The beauty of Light is inherent—it’s timeless and will not need
to be replaced every year. The simple design as an unlocked
prepaid phone lends itself to be used alone as well, making it
ideal as emergency backup, or an introduction to phones for
children. Light can live invisibly in a wallet, purse or pocket,
making it easy to bring with you everyday.
The Light Phone Kickstarter campaign will go live Wednesday,
May 13th at 10am EST. Backers will have the rare opportunity
to secure a Light Phone with a $100 pledge. Other amounts will
get them a radically transparent look into the process through a
design book of Joe’s photographs, doodles, and more.

The following reports are provided to inspire your inner inventor, and help you create new inventions. When you are ready, contact me for a patentability assessment.

To patent your inventions, please contact:
GEM Patent Services
www.gempatentservices.com
Joe Mariconda
289 383-1427
http://www.gofar.co/

Real time feedback helps you drive in your car’s sweet spot. Drive in the sweet spot and your tank could get you 20% further.

We’re especially excited about our patented energy tracking. It’s a world first and is part of what allows us to dig deep into your vehicle’s dynamics and understand things like where the sweetspot is.

    When you accelerate you burn fuel and release its chemical energy.
    This energy is used to drive the car forward and becomes kinetic energy (the energy of motion) and some of this energy is lost depending on the sweetspot. We track this.
    When the car moves some of that energy is then consumed by aerodynamic drag (wind resistance) and some by friction (mostly from your tires rolling along the ground). We track this too.
    When you drive up and down hills kinetic energy and chemical energy is further exchanged for gravitational potential energy (the energy of gravity). This is complicated, and we track this too.
    Finally, when you brake, kinetic energy is dumped as heat (unless you have regenerative braking of course such as some models and hybrids have). We can track this too.

It’s all a beautiful dance of energy and GoFar’s energy tracking is the first to be able to measure all of this with a simple device.

The following reports are provided to inspire your inner inventor, and help you create new inventions. When you are ready, contact me for a patentability assessment.

To patent your inventions, please contact:
GEM Patent Services
www.gempatentservices.com
Joe Mariconda
289 383-1427

http://www.buddyguard.io/

Flare is an all-in-one home security system that can make smart decisions to protect you and your home. Easy to use, discreet and beautiful; Flare fits right in every home. Flare activates itself automatically as soon as everyone has left home. It will remain alert throughout the day, until you arrive home. No cause for alarm when a trusted contact enters your home: Thanks to face recognition, Flare knows everything is ok and will cover the camera lens.

To patent your inventions, please contact:
GEM Patent Services
www.gempatentservices.com
Joe Mariconda
289 383-1427

http://www.bocusini.com/about_bocusini

Print2Taste‘s Bocusini is the first universal plug&play 3D food printing platform, consisting of a plug&play food printer, cartridges with printable food and the Bocusini.com online platform, a marketplace for our thriving design community supporting discovery, making, and sharing of 3D printable food creations. As the world's first 3D food printing community, we believe that everyone should be encouraged to create and remix 3D printed food, no matter of their technical expertise or previous experience. We want to maintain an open platform, where all designs are encouraged to be licensed under a Creative Commons license, meaning that anyone can use or alter any design.

How Can I Get Involved in Bocusini?

The best way to get involved with Bocusini is to try out your 3D food printing with the help of recipes and instructions shared by the Bocusini community – and soon come up with your own ideas and creations for new, fancy and tasty 3D food designs. Bocusini isn't just for chefs, food scientists or 3D designers: anyone can lear,jkhbkjn to create and print its own food designs.

But that's not the only way to participate. Post your tweaks or ideas to improve recipes or share your own food designs or complete food worlds.

Bocusini takes you to a discovery of the new universe of 3D printed food. The Bocusini team and the early user community have printed astounding food designs from more than 30 natural food products. New designs and recipes will be added day-by-day. Discover new food dimensions with us!

The Bocusini team and the early user community have developed over dozens of delicious recipes, 3D models and instructions for you to print your own fancy meal and surprise your guests, friends or family. The number of uploads is growing every day. Check out all the incredible food ideas and get inspired to make your own! Share your favourite recipes, comments and ideas. Or become a pro-user and share your own 3D food creations.

To patent your inventions, please contact:
GEM Patent Services
www.gempatentservices.com
Joe Mariconda
289 383-1427
http://www.actonglobal.com/
ACTON Inc. is a global transportation technology firm located in Los Angeles, California spearheaded by inventor Peter Treadway and his team of engineers. The dream of ACTON INC. has been the same since our inception: to create exhilarating small transportation for the entire world to zip around on. We’re reimagining the infinite possibilities in personal transportation and invite you to join us on our adventure into the future! 
We're the first. The innovators.
We are the innovators behind the world's first smart, electric skates that are also the world's lightest and smallest wearable transportation device. We've combined our motorized skates with an actively developed mobile app that regulates performance, records your data and links you with our global riding community. 
We believe in a healthy product lineup that includes something for everyone, which is why we also offer the motorized M-scooter. An innovative, folding sit or stand scooter that can be used for leisure, commuting or at work. With a strict focus on design the M-scooter is also super compact and can fit in your closet or car with ease. 
Electric skates and scooters are just the beginning. There's no limit to the scale of our projects. We’re thinking big—just like you. 
We'll get you there.
We stand behind every product we sell. All of our products are backed with a limited 1-year warranty from the date of purchase. To us, excellence is everything and it is our goal to provide you with the best customer service and support for life.
http://noki.io/de/
Noki welcomes you home: Thanks to Bluetooth Noki automatically detects when you approach your home and unlocks the door for you. When you leave, Noki locks the door behind you. Your smartphone remains in your pocket.
Noki displays the status of your home door right on your smartphone wherever you are. An access log and notifications will keep you updated as well. No more doubts and uncertainties about your door.
Noki builds on top of the inside of your existing lock and can be installed without any professional support within 5 minutes. You just need to fix 3 screws and you are ready to control your lock through the Noki apps (iOS & Android). As simple as possible.
Noki lets you grant numerous access codes to friends and family. You’ll also remain in control of your Noki and can restrict access codes any time you like. This saves you lots of money and makes life easier.
http://cagebot.com/
After three years, a team of three German engineers from Berlin have developed a prototype of the ultimate robot kit. The Cagebot will make your creative visions come to life. This versatile robot kit can be built into anything from a 3D printer to a bridge. The only limits the Cagebot has is it’s creator’s ideas. With such user friendly software that the Cagebot uses, anyone would be able to master it. There are no lengthy manuals to decipher a foreign tech language from. Everything is very basic and straightforward that even the most inept person can control this robot. Saying that “the skys the limit” for the Cagebot is a massive understatement. It is inevitable that we, as humans, create such technology that the future is foreseen and further intelligence is gathered from the technology that we gain and a snowball effect of knowledge ensues. With the Cagebot, you will gain a much greater understanding of the technology that we have at our disposal. Investment in technology is an investment not only in individual gain of knowledge, but an investment in the future, for millenniums to come.\ As if creating a robot wasn’t cool enough,you can work with windows, mac, android or future iOS software to control and set up your creation. This platform is compatible with systems such as the LEGO Mindstorms. After three years of extremely hard work, this small startup is seeking exposure for this very advanced invention, through the innovative use of crowdfunding on Indiegogo. We would love to share more pictures and content with you! We highly encourage you to check out what these German engineers have to offer on their Indiegogo campaign, here.
http://www.ringclock.net/
Ring Clock is a beautiful marriage of the ring and the watch. You will be rewarded with the time, when you play with this wonderful gadget.
It started with a challenge 2 years ago at CGSociety.org named Moving Innovation. The idea was to create visualisation for a product that cannot exist today, but could exist 10 years from now. I wanted to create something that is innovative, good to look at and can actually be useful. I never wore a watch on my wrist because I don't like the feeling, but I like watches in general, so I used that opportunity to let my mind come up with something that I could wear, the Ring Clock.
http://www.comquestventures.com/
Introducing the Vertex VTOL Hybrid UAV
The practical VTOL UAV for enthusiasts and professionals. The Vertex Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drone is a hybrid aircraft that combines the hover and Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) capabilities of a quadcopter, with the fast and efficient forward flight capabilities of an airplane into one awesome and versatile platform.
The key advantage of the Vertex is its flight versatility. Take off and land vertically from almost anywhere, fly low and slow in small spaces, or fast and aggressively in larger spaces. Carrying out hover-only flight? Fly the Vertex without its wing extensions to reduce wind susceptibility and increase hover flight time. Multiple add-ons will be made available in the future to optimize the performance for different applications.
The patent pending design was carefully engineered to combine hover and forward flight performance comparable to popular quadcopters and airplanes on the market. The Vertex can hover for around 20 minutes, or fly like an airplane for up to 70 minutes with the high-endurance wing configuration. The tandem-wing design minimizes the aircraft's size while maintaining its efficiency, and protects the propellers for added safety. It's designed to fly in high-wind conditions and carry up more than 1.3 pounds (585 grams) of payload.
http://www.rutanrc.com/
Welcome to the RutanRC official website! RutanRC will design and build for our fellow RC enthusiasts the most innovative, radical and revolutionary RC model aircraft ever created. These will include the historic SpaceShipOne™, which completed the first manned private spaceflight ever and won the $10 million Ansari X Prize and the White Knight, the amazing aircraft that launched SpaceShipOne into space.
Burt Rutan, the man described by Newsweek as "the man responsible for more innovations in modern aviation than any living engineer”, will be an advisor to RutanRC on design and functionality as well as an ongoing source of innovation and inspiration for RutanRC and the community of aviation enthusiasts it will create. 
Now he wants RutanRC to provide new tools to future aero designers. “Model aircraft were an important part of SpaceShipOne development and are used in many levels of testing for aviation and space exploration,” says Rutan. Burt’s goal is to inspire innovation in aeronautics and space through accessible experimentation with models of his unique craft. To accomplish this, he has empowered two superstars of the RC modeling industry to launch RutanRC.
http://www.mellowboards.com/
Mellow is the first mountable electric drive that turns any normal skateboard into an electric skateboard – within minutes.
As boardsports enthusiasts we’ve always been dreaming of the Endless Ride. And like many others we miss the great feeling we get from surfing and snowboarding when we are back home in the city. That’s why we want to take the asphalt surf to the next level. Mellow is a state of the art compact electric drive that fits under any skateboard. Which means it can turn your favorite board into a full on riding machine. Just unscrew the rear truck of your board, replace it with the Mellow Drive and you are ready to go.