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What Is The Next Big Thing?
Moderator:
Dennis Horwitz
ASME-CI Vice Chair
Presented June 26, 2014
Everyone has a different opinion and a different perspective…
• Is there a product that everyone should know about?
• What technologies are driving major changes in industry?
• What trends will most affect our world - local and/or global?
• What are your ideas and observations that you would like to share?
Contributors
• Dennis Horwitz, Micronor, 3D Printing
• Dennis Horwitz, Micronor, Powering The Digitally Enable Home
• Paul Donohoe, Raytheon, Lively
• Tim Petro, ONR, New Technologies For The Marine Corps
3D Printing: If You Can Image It, You Can Make It
BENEFITS Experts believe that as the machines become simpler to use, with more all-in-one functionality, and their prices drop, they’re more likely to enter the mainstream and change the way consumers thing about the things they own, the tings they want and how they solve problems. The next generation of kids may understand intuitively that if the can dream something up, they can make it.
DOWNSIDES
How will we effectively reccycle the waste?
Wall Outlets For The Digitally-Enabled Home Contributed By Dennis Horwitz
• With the proliferation of electronic gadgets, we need USB charging outlets as much as we need wall outlets…maybe more so…
Wall Outlet Innovation From Leviton, Cooper and Hubbell
15A or 20A, Commercial or Hospital Grade
…Available at your local Home Depot, Lowe’s or 2-day delivery Via Amazon Prime
But While We Have Eliminated the Wall Charger…We Still Need the Right Cable.
At Least That’s Some Progress!
A New Way To Track And Keep In Touch With Older Adults
Contributed by Paul Donohoe
How Works…
is affordable…
What Do You Think Is The Next Big Thing?