okay hi team hope you had a good lunch okay we are back for the conceptual design meeting let us get started kay here is the agenda for today is meeting we are going to open it and i am going to keep the minutes as project manager we are going to have 3 presentations one from each of you again and then we are going to come to decision on the remote control concepts and then we are going to close it up and we have 40 minutes again kay and just to reiterate after this meeting the team will reach a decision on the concepts of the remote control okay let us go ahead and start off with your presentations who would like to go 1st just trying to move mine right now okay courtney would you mind starting us off yeah okay trend watching yeah kay okay so trend watching since we do put the fashion in electronics it is kind of important how our product looks so i guess we can go ahead and go to the next so what they want right now customers want fancy versus functional basically about 58% of what they like of the product that they want describing like the in order of how much they want 58% of the decision of what it should look like fancy versus functional and then it has to also be technologically innovative and yet easy to use so the customer basically is confused they do not know exactly what they want they want us to tell them they want everything but simply yes exactly okay so we can go to next kay okay so in milan and paris recently the trends have been showing that clothing shoes and furniture are basically just covered with fruits and vegetable patterns so i do not know if we want to go with that and also the spongy feel is in in contrast to last year i do not know really i mean i guess the spongy could relate to the buttons if we want to rather than like a hard clicky button that you find on like some mobiles and stuff you would want like a softer touch i mean do you guys know what i mean yeah th right yes yeah but as for the fruits and vegetable patterns i do not know if we really want to go with that because it is just a trend and our product we want to stay around for much longer than just a few months because yeah right i i can right people do not buy a new remote every so often i mean that could just be a spring thing right now i can address some of that issue i think with my presentation okay awesome okay so design preferences we need easy to read like large buttons clearly labeled so that i mean cause we talked about that being a problem and then also buttons illuminating upon touch you said that in your design with the bulb and that could also tie in with the color scheme we need the real reaction logo and color scheme obviously that is one of our key goals we want to promote our product and i was thinking about different types of designs and i came up with something actually right here so what we could do is something like an old fashioned telephone like this where we put the buttons around like we would put a big on off button or something else in the middle i mean it could be the arrows or whatever for channel up and down and then put the numbers around in like an old fashioned dial shape cause then it will appeal to older generation and like said retro is cool so it is classically retro so i mean that is just an idea if you guys like it very good i like it okay ready for the next slide and yep and that is it op kay okay great great presentation ready okay hang on kay see if it is there which one is it i do not know hang on interface concepts no interface concepts new either refresh it or it sh 0 wait maybe i did not put it there y hang on kay mine will always read copy of something or other sorry i i copied mine before i sent it over 0 okay sorry hang on do not know 0 there we go okay okay looking at the interface concept it is going to be mostly examples of possibilities of where we can go with this if you want to start the next slide sure can not really see but there is 2 possible ways on the r left if you see on th on the sides of of the remote you have the sort of scroll down so you have that option right there and then also there is the idea of the base that is sort of like an idea there and then on the right we have what is really big trend right now it is the ipod it is becoming really and so you have this sort of very very simplistic menu section with the round buttons and it is sort of like you have the both kind of trendy and hip but also very sleek and and very simple but technologically advanced so if you wanted to do that th if we could find a way of sort of like using that idea in a remote control then sort of look into it but anyway next kay there is the idea of like being able to do it by feel as well as by by sight you would you know you are in the dark you do not want to be looking at the remote control and the picture particularly is pointing out if you look at the top volume button it is a v and so yo you are kind of feeling a v like volume up what it really is is a v and what it you think it is is down because the down arrow and so it is like a sort of a criticism you would probably turn that 0 the other way up but then you have you could either do it by raised type which could be you know iffy sort of old fashioned in a way either that or just have it by shape for example you have a specific triangular shape that you know you are looking at the up and down arrow and then the round ones you sort of feel by you know that is the 2nd one down that sort of thing so it is sort of looking into how we wanted t to do it by feel okay okay this is sort of an example of going for a s certain demographic this is particularly geared towards children that is cute it is very cute and we could probably change it to yellow bright yellow for like a the for the company logo and you have the shapes and it is very simplistic and friendly looking and then the other thing that it would be able to do is just to pro be ab you program certain channels that only these children would watch so it is like they ch watch you know the c beebies or something like that keep them away from other channels so that is like another ar i mean these are 3 examples sort of looking at it okay you have the wider section for the main controls there you could see how many buttons there are and then on the left you have an example of the round buttons and a simpler design on the bottom we probably would not need that because it is more for like a d v d function which we are not going to be using so again it is sort of like just give you ideas and then down at the bottom you have the logos and that is where you could put the r r real reaction kay and then finally these are like the sort of same examples but also some more just possibilities that we could go with none of them i am particularly keen on by the way yeah no but it is sort of like just taking aspects out of that and saying well out of this one we like you know the round section of b or we would like the the button size on this or i like you know the black finish or the silver finish or whatever right i have 4 of those remotes good lord okay ready that is it 0 yeah okay great job okay my turn okay okay whoo what is the title it will be copy of component design got it yeah th that looks like it kay so basic remote operation runs as follows press button makes connection with the power source and the rest of the circuit chip senses the connection chip produces a morse code infra red signal specific to that button so you press the button it produces a signal that is encoded specifically for that button transistors amplify that signal and it goes to the t v is center which interprets the signal response accordingly changes channel etcetera so that being said next slide please findings 0 which were the required materials for the basic internal construction so all the really simplistic functions that we just discussed we need rubber for buttons aluminum for battery y contacts integrated circuit which consists of a diode transistor resonator resistors and a capacitator all those basic things that make a circuit function fiberglass and thin copper wire to create the actual circuit board itself an l e d which is a light emitting diode contact disks for the buttons plastic for the casing and a power source whatever power source we have actually determined we want next slide please thank you personal preferences to save money for the components the remote should be mass produced and basic materials should be bought en masse if we find another company who can produce the required chips casing l e d any additional materials we decide we require at a less expensive rate than we ourselves are producing we should go for it next slide please just talking to the manufacturing division they suggested power options solar cells hand dynamo and kinetic power so you shake it and it increases the power i am not sure how the hand dynamo works they have yet to get back to me on that so next slide please interesting suggested casing options okay we can offer options for casing such as straight curved double curved you know very specific to the customer options for materials plastic rubber titanium wood i do not think anyone is going to go for a wood one because splinters that would be amazing though yeah no splinters would yeah certain restrictions do apply here though latex you can not do solar power with a latex one so if they want some a soft squishy rubber they can not have the solar powered option double curved you can not do titanium what is that that would be 2 curvatures so it would actually if you the shape of your hand you curve here and you curve here so you could have 2 curves that match the shape of your hand to make it more comfortable to hold now if you wanted that you can not do titanium and so you functions what for the buttons scrolling function could be very beneficial to us instead of actual buttons themselves right i think i have one more slide kay no i did not no okay the manufacturing division also has said that they have several types of chips and they have just developed a sample sensor or sample speaker chip which we could utilize push button requires a simple chip and scroll requires more complicated chip so depends on what we decide we want to do in addition to that if we are offering all those different options to the customer for producing their remote we are going to have to have multiples of each type like a double curved in rubber you know each option should have a certain select number produced with all those options so we will have to mix it up make sure we produce enough of everyone but that could also drive up the price of the actual remote itself if they know that we only produced 5000 you know double curved wooden remotes right okay and that is all i got okay alright well thank you for those informative presentations let us go back to now we have to make some decisions where were we let me just add one more thing that i could not say before and that is just that there is the new technology that they have developed on the voice recognition sure 0 this the thing we were talking about earlier right except that it is sort of odd and i am no not exactly sure why they are explaining it in the way they are there is a sample sensor and there is a sample speaker unit for so you would say like good morning coffeemaker and it would respond good morning jill but i am not sure exactly how it is going to work cause do you program do we program the responses and the questions so does that mean that the user then has to ask the specific question and can not change it in order for it to be recognized or can it be altered in a certain way or does the actually user program it to say a channel means this right yeah like using the menu to be like enter your name into the screen like on the menu options right so that way the remote reads it right so it has got like a limited memory and program it so it is sort of iffy but that is kind of what you would say i feel like voice recognition would be i do not know w it would be too hard to really i mean we could do it but program if it is within our price to get that kind of chip that would you know technology technology well we are making the chip so i mean but i guess we have to look at w what our production cost is for the chip itself anyway and it is a growing trend the higher technological like yeah the i mean just like the more advanced it is yeah the better it will sell i i thought offering some of those options for different materials that it could be made of different you know i think we would have to decide on the power options maybe so that we could reduce cost yeah cause we need to know how big it is going to be and how heavy yeah okay that kind of brings us to this let us let us see if we can decide what kind of energy source we want to have 1st and foremost okay do we want to go for batteries or a stand like the one that we saw illustrated earlier 0 the base yeah the base the charging base with rechargeable batteries i think the p i always feel like 1st i want to know what it looks like before cause if it is something really really small then it is sort of harder to imagine a base for it that was p quite a s substantial size sort of standing up yeah and we do not have multiple things that it has to control it just has to control the t v w it is not going to be a huge universal remote we need to decide well so we can figure how big it is going to be like exactly what buttons we want and exactly right what size battery and well the other thing is like even if it has got a few buttons so we want it to be bigger than this it could be like this yes i would well cause it still fits in your hand so you still wanted something that is comfortable and substantial but not necessarily full of buttons this one is really comfortable like i like the sides whatever because are you going to lose it easier but if we have the the locator then we do not have to worry about that that is true so we can make it small if we have a l locating device if we do a voice activated locator though we are going to be looking at a more substantial chip yeah so so i that is the other thing it is like you know are we going to have certain chips that are going to require bigger size period 2 double a s for this size but like you know if we get more complicated then it is going to v be have to be bigger to just accommodate the chip size right honestly i think the customer would be kind of irritated by the fact that it has a base if we did do a nice small compact right i agree it is either going to be bigger with a base or smaller with just yeah so we sh smaller without yeah a battery like this guy yeah yeah alright so what direction do you want to go in you want to vote i think if we had a a locating device with the small one i think that seems way more advanced i am kind of i am kind of leaning in the direction of this kind of yeah i am a away from the base bigger and the base yeah yeah kay so that just seems so clunky and yeah because i mean if even looking at cellphones right now those trends the smaller the hotter it is yeah smaller and smaller yeah yeah yeah okay the only problem with that is if you forget to take it out of your pocket and it goes in wash 0 you are kidding you know it happens yeah i have had 3 watches go that way too 0 watches i have but i have never washed a cell phone ouch a phone whoa that would wow that would hurt okay so what kind of material do we want to be made out of pieces everywhere well we have lots of options i do not think wood is a viable option yeah wood no well titanium s i was saying that titanium if we are being restricted then 0 what did you 0 sorry go ahead i would probably lean away from that yeah cause if it is going to cost us more to produce a chip titanium will be more expensive right however well we only want to sell it for €25 right what would you recommend yeah yeah cause i was thinking if we wanted to get the high in market then you could produce a few in titanium make them a rarity so to speak that will yeah exactly the selling point yeah we could do that because all our research shows that people are definitely willing to spend more if are we restricted by this yeah well the original i i think we should just focus on one design and one concept right now €25 okay remotes if this was a successful remote we might then produce a higher end version of it i think yeah good plan good plan okay so we want to go for plastic or what would you recommend for materials honestly i would recommend like since we are going with batteries instead of solar power i would recommend maybe a soft like latex because we could produce you know how cellphones have those overlays that you can change the color we could do one that fits in with the trends of the year so because this year is all fruit god only knows why 0 yeah who knows we could do f a cherry cover for this year and then i if next year is stripes or solids you know okay so you are talking about like when it leaves our salesroom then it is all going to be cherry colored or is it going to be the kinda thing where people come back and swap it 0 or we could like take off this they could buy cases maybe they could come back and buy the extra case okay if they wanted i think it is good to sell a basic thing and then sell so we could do like a b a hard base plastic and then we could give 2 latex covers to start options yeah the what the top face right yeah okay okay yeah because the soft latex definitely is squishy that is in well i mean squishier than like yeah just a hard plastic right right okay and what kind of chip would we need for this guy how complicated are we going to go with the voice activated yeah i do not think we should do voice i think we should just do the recognition for when it is lost you know a tracker yeah could we yeah cause that what it type of yeah for voice activation would it be like a certain term what we would say like because people could just be talking and we do not want it going off all the time right so well we could give it a specific code you know remote missing ooh see i am i am strangely attracted to it because i know that is it is definitely going to be big because it is i do not know it is just so high tech well my little sister got for christmas she got one of those key finders that is like a key ring and you have to whistle in a certain frequency for it to work yeah see that would just irritate me and then she would laugh and it would start going off in her purse and you could not turn it off 0 dear 0 then maybe voice so it became highly irritating okay maybe voice activation will not be good so i think having a key phrase is much better okay alright but it is not going to be voice activated in the fact that you would say channel up and it would work right yeah n n no we just want it to be a finder but then it just a okay alright no okay but do can your can the department make that would be like a mid class yeah 0 brilliant then so we do not actually have to go for well if they have just developed the sample sensor sample speaker it is a brand new chip why not introduce it in this way no yeah good point kay and what size batteries double a triple a i think triple a it will be lighter 2 could it run off of 2 i mean more more come in a package well that depends on what the energy is needed yeah i think well we could d r do 2 or we could do one small lithium cause you know the lithium batteries are doing quite well in most other electronic products right so they are more widely available now and they also have a longer battery life than most batteries they are more expensive though too but if you only have to replace it every 5 years that is a good point thoughts anybody as long as we sell it with it well how about a initial you get one battery when you buy it cause i am pretty sure we can get them pretty cheap on bulk right that is what i meant we could think about it and come back to it next meeting okay yeah yeah we still have one more meeting alright okay so we have covered that 1st category user interface concept meaning design what is it going to yeah what is it going to look like okay i ki i kind of like your idea about the retro phone dial and that the central button could have maybe our logo on it it might be the 4 way scroll too yeah it could be whatever as long as there is something big in the middle because like the old phones i mean if yeah yeah there is like that just like piece of metal or like a picture or something in the middle well my issue with that is if it got too big though cause if you have the circle and the button in the middle then is it going to get wider than your your hands are because w and then would the buttons be too small if it was enough to fit on it 0 that is true good point in the sample ones that you showed us there was one that had the scroll buttons on the side yeah yeah which i think if we make it curved like a hand like a hand shape like if we put the the scroll button on the side that could be particularly useful 0 i see what you mean i think so so scroll buttons on the side and then buttons on top yeah i like that kay but we definitely if we have scroll things on the side we definitely have to have em labeled yeah like on the side of it well if it is just up and down 0 if it is just up and down but is that for which volume or channel i do not know well you could do some on both sides do we have both sides can we yeah we should probably make it that you have to depress it to activate it then yeah so that you are just not holding it and it changes the chan cause oth otherwise you are not just holding it and going like this you know that is squishy that is squishy well the other option is in instead of a scroll you just have the buttons up on the side which are on the side have buttons okay yeah yeah that kay any other ideas what color 0 yeah latex covers we have to make sure that logo always sticks out when we put the latex covers on w so we will have to like have a little square or something so that the our logo is available well i sort of like having the a yellow strip at the bottom with the r r like that yeah and that is at the bottom of it i think maybe we should do it on a b button itself though because if people are able to change the covers i do not know maybe the on off button which button something some the menu button i do not know but you know if we are going to put our company logo on there and somebody could just get another one are they all going to have our company logo on them every cover yeah i do not think we should do that because that would just be icky yeah so i think maybe putting it on a button is probably a good idea if we want it to be visible and are all those those one that you showed where they were s met silver metallic looking yeah but those are plastic right yeah they are not titanium i kind of like that look but or if it was really yeah for the base or if we are going for the retro look for our base one i think like a really shiny black would be cool yeah or like a gun metal gray cause then it combines the silver and the black what are your thoughts gun metal gray there you go gun metal gray i am just really wary of the putting anything on a button why it will wear off what is the button well w w then what is the button do and how do you know that that is what the button does yeah buttons wear off i guess just looking at examples y you just do not ever see the logo on a button it is always on the actual casing right there is nothing saying that we have to put the logo on the front of the actual but we want it to be seen on the back but you do not but yeah you do not see it it d visible visibility though cause if it was only on the back really the only time you are going to see it is when you drop it or when you are changing the battery we need it to be seen well hang on the other option is i do not know if you can see it but it is like if i can find it again yeah it is like the 2nd to last slide okay and yours was called interface concept interface yeah this one yeah well for some reason i can not get it to just go to that slide directly okay it is the very right one you see at the bottom it is kind of difficult to see but you have like a d sort of s division between the bottom like where the logo is and if we have the replaceable section it is like the top it does not necessarily replace the entire top and so you have that one piece that stays and the rest just sort of clips in okay yes yes if c you envisioning it and so that stays the same when you have the logo and then you have this s slip that kinda clips in and that is the bit that changes okay the only problem is we are using a latex overlay so it actually would go over top of everything and have holes for the buttons so i was thinking maybe instead of doing that what we could do is leave a space for where the logo should be yeah yeah yeah like a little cut out kind of yeah right that is like you know a a cellphone it is like the the screen is always just left opened okay right and so what we are going to do it like bright yellow with the r r yeah some of tho anybody see anything that they liked in these ones well some of those buttons though are blue based well a lot of those buttons are blue based well kind of and then if v we do have them illuminate upon contact they could illuminate yellow yellow yellow i like that idea yeah like if we like the one all the way on the left you ca you can see it on your computer better where the button is actually blue but the number itself is clear or white or whatever so if you pressed it would illuminate yellow so we would have blue and yellow for the touch buttons 0 that one i like the yellow illumination idea very good yeah okay any other ideas or thoughts we all seem to be fairly in agreement about what we want to do with this project so ha hang on let me catch up yeah kay did we finalize what buttons we are including or we just everything that we said before i think there will be time for that later i am guessing kay well we are going to wrap this up next meeting is going to start in 30 minutes and here is what we are each of us going to do the i d is going to do the look and feel design the u i d the user interface design i think you are going to get a lot of i mean the final say on what buttons get put we will all talk about it but i think that is pretty much what you are going to do right yeah i guess kay and you are going to do some product evaluation okay and right now the i d and u i d you 2 are going to work together on a prototype using modeling clay great yeah fun play doh okay and you should all be getting an email pretty soon alright well thank you for a very productive meeting wonderful ooh
both mine are on both mine are on mine too one too okay okay i am on okay okay all right okay hi team okay we are back for the conceptual design meeting let us get started okay here is the agenda for today is meeting we are going to open it and i am going to keep the minutes as project manager we are going to have 3 presentations one from each of you again then we are going to come to decision on the remote control concepts and then we are going to close it up we have 40 minutes again and just to reiterate after this meeting the team will reach a decision on the concepts of their remote control okay let us go ahead and start off with your presentations who would like to go 1st just trying to move mine right now okay courtney would you mind starting us off yeah go ahead trend watching yeah okay so trend watching since we do put the fashion electronics it is kind of important how our product looks so i guess we can go ahead and go the next so what they want right now customers want fancy versus functional basically about 58% of what they like of the product that they want describe me like the in order of how much they want 58% of the decision of what it should look like fancy versus functional and then it has to also be technologically innovative and yet easy to use so the customer basically is confused they do not know exactly what they want they want us to tell them they want everything yes exactly so we can go next okay so in milan and paris recently the trends have been showing that clothing shoes and furniture are basically just covered with fruits and vegetable patterns so i do not know if we want to go with that and also the spongy feels in in contrast to last year i do not know really i mean i guess the spongy could relate to the buttons if we want to rather than like a hard clicky button that you find on like some mobiles and stuff you would want like a softer touch i mean do you guys know what i mean right yeah but as for the fruits and vegetable patterns i do not know if we really want to go with that because it is just a trend and our product we want to stay around for much longer than just a few months right people do not buy a new remote yeah i mean that could just be a spring thing right now i can address some of that issue i think with my presentation okay awesome so design preferences we need easy to read like large buttons clearly labeled i mean because we talked about that being a problem and then also buttons illuminating upon touch you said that in your design with the bulb and that could also tie in with the color scheme we need the real reaction logo a color scheme obviously that is one of our key goals we want to promote our product and i was thinking about different types of designs and i came up with something actually right here so what we could do is something like an old fashioned telephone like this where we put the buttons around like we put a big on off button or something else in the middle i mean it could be the arrows or whatever for channel up and down and then put the numbers around in like an old fashioned dial shape because then it will appeal to older generation and like you said retro it is cool so it is classically retro so i mean that is just an idea you guys i like it okay ready for the next slide yeah and that is it okay okay great great presentation ready okay see if it is there which one is it i do not know hang on interface concept no interface concepts either refresh it or it is 0 wait maybe i did not put it in there hang on mine will always read copy of something rather sorry i copied mine before i sent it in a little 0 okay sorry hang on do not read it there we go okay looking at the interface concept is going to be mostly examples of possibilities of where we can go with this if you want to start the next slide share i can not really see it but there is 2 possible ways on the left if you see it on the sides of the remote you have the sort of scroll down so you have that option right there and then also there is the idea of the base that is sort of like an idea there idea there and then on the right you have what is really big trend right now is the ipods becoming really fast thing and so you have this sort of very very simplistic menu sections with the round buttons and it is sort of like you have the both kind of trendy and hip but also very sleek and very simple but technologically advanced so if you wanted to do that if we could find a way of sort of like using that idea in a remote control and sort of look into it but anyway next there is the idea of being able to do it by feel as well as by sight you know you are in the dark you do not want to be looking at your remote control and the picture particularly is pointing out if you look at the top volume button it is a v and so you are kind of feeling a v like volume up what it really is is a v and what you think it is is down it is the down arrow and so it is like sort of criticism you would probably turn that the other way up but then you have you could either do it by raised type which could be you know iffy sort of old fashioned in a way either that or just have it by shape for example you have a specific triangular shape that you know you are looking at the up and down arrow and then the round ones you sort of feel by you know the 2nd one down that sort of thing so it is sort of looking into how we wanted to do it by feel okay okay this is sort of an example of going for a certain demographic this is particularly the gear towards children that is cute it is very cute and we could probably change it to yellow bright yellow for like a for the company logo you have the shapes and it is very simplistic and friendly looking and then the other thing that it would be able to do is just to be able to you program certain channels that only there is children have watched so it is like they watch the cbps or something like that keep them away from other channels so that is like another error these are 3 examples sort of looking at it you have the wider section for the main controls there you can see how many buttons there and then on the left you have an example of the round buttons and a simpler design on the bottom we probably would not need that because it is more for like a dvd function which we are not going to be using so again it is sort of like just giving you ideas and then down at the bottom you have the logos and that is where you can put the rr real reaction and then finally these are like the sort of same examples but also some more just possibilities that we could go with none of them are particularly keen on by the way yeah yeah but it is sort of like just taking aspects out of that and saying well out of that saying well out of this one we like you know the round section or we like the button size on this or i like you know the black finish or the silver finish or whatever i have 4 of those from out okay ready that is it okay great job okay my turn okay what is the title it will be copy of component design got it yeah that looks like it okay so basic remote operation runs as follows press button makes connection with the power source and the rest of the circuit chip senses the connection chip produces a morse code infrared signal specific to that button so you press the button it produces a signal that is encoded specifically for that button transistors amplify that signal and it goes to the tv center which interprets the signal and responds accordingly changes channel etc so that being said next slide please findings which were the required materials for the basic internal construction so all the really simplistic functions that we just discussed we need rubber for buttons aluminum for battery contacts integrated circuit which consists of a diode transistor resonator resistors and a computer resistors and a capacitator all those basic things that make a circuit function fiberglass and thin copper wire to create the actual circuit board itself an led which is a light emitting diode contact disks for the buttons plastic for the casing and a power source whatever power source we have actually determined we want next slide please personal preferences to save money for the components the remote should be mass produced and basic materials should be bought en masse if we find another company who can produce the required chips casing led any additional materials we decide we require at a less expensive rate than we ourselves are producing we should go for it next slide please just talking to the manufacturing division they suggested power options solar cells hand dynamo and kinetic power so you shake it and increase it and increases the power i am not sure how the hand dynamo works they have yet to get back to me on that so next slide please suggested casing options okay we can offer options for casing such as straight curved double curved you know very specific to the customer options for materials plastic rubber titanium wood i do not think anyone is going to go for a wood one because splinters that will be amazing though yeah no splinters in certain restrictions do apply apply here though latex you can not do solar power with a latex one so if they want soft squishy rubber they can not have the solar power adoption double curved you can not do titanium that would be 2 curvature so it would actually if the shape of your hand you curve here and you curve here so you could have 2 curves that match the shape of your hand to make it more comfortable to hold now if you wanted that you can not do titanium and suggested functions for the scrolling function could be very beneficial to us instead of actual buttons themselves i think i have one more slide no i do not the manufacturing division also has said that they have several types of chips and they have just developed a sample sensor or sample speaker chip which we could utilize push button requires a simple chip and scrolls and scroll requires more complicated chip so it depends on what we decide we want to do in addition to that if we are offering all those different options to the customer for producing their remote we are going to have to have multiples of each type like a double curved in rubber each option should have a certain select number produced with all those options so we will have to mix it up make sure we produce enough of everyone but that could also drive up the price of the actual remote itself if they know that we only produced 5000 you know double curved wooden remotes okay that is all i got all right well thank you for those informative presentations let us go back to now we have to make some decisions let me just add one more thing that i could could not say before and that is just that there is new technology that they have developed on the voice rescue mission 0 this is the thing we are talking about earlier right except it is sort of odd and i am not exactly sure why they are explaining it in the way they are there is a sample sensor and there is a sample speaker unit or so you would say like good morning coffee maker and it would respond good morning joe but i am not sure exactly how it is going to work because do you program the we program the responses and the questions does that mean that the user then has to ask the specific question and can not change it in order for it to be recognized or can it be altered in a certain way or does the actual user program it right channel means this yeah like using the menu to be like enter your name into the screen like on the menu option so that way the remote read it so it has got like a limited memory and so you to program it so it is sort of iffy right that is kind of what you would say i feel like that voice recognition would be i do not know it would be too hard to really program i mean we could do it but if it is within our price to get that kind of chip that would you know well we are making the chip so i mean but i guess we have to look at what our production cost is for the chip itself and it is a growing trend the higher technological cool like the i mean just like the more advanced it is yeah better it will sell i thought offering some of those options for different materials that it could be made of different you know i think we would have to decide on the power options maybe so that we could reduce cost yeah how heavy okay that kind of brings us to this let us see if we can decide what kind of energy source we want to have 1st and foremost do we want to go for batteries or a stand like the one that we saw illustrated earlier 0 the base yeah the base the charging base i think the recharging batteries i want to know what it looks like before because there is something really really small then it is sort of harder to imagine the base for it that was quite a substantial size sort of standing up yeah and we do not have multiple things that it has to control just has to control the tv it is not going to be a huge universal remote we need to decide well so we can figure out how big it is going to be like what size battery and what buttons we want and exactly the other thing is like even if it has got a few buttons so we want it to be bigger than this yes because it still fits in your hands so you still want it something that is comfortable and substantial but not necessarily full of buttons this one is really comfortable like i like the sides or whatever it will lose it easier but if we have the locator then we do not have to worry about that that is true so we can make it small if we have like a locating device if we do a voice activated locator though we are going to be looking at a more substantial chip so that is the other thing it is like you know are we going to have certain chips that are going to require a bigger size period 2 double a is for the size but like you know if we get more complicated then it is going to have to be bigger to just accommodate the ship size honestly i think the customer would be kind of irritated by the fact that it has a base if we did do a nice small compact right i agree it is either going to be bigger with a base or smaller with just a battery like this guy all right so what direction do you want to go in do you want to vote i think if we had a locating device with a small one i think that seems way more advanced i am kind of leaning in the direction of this kind of bigger and the base that just seems clunky yeah because i mean even looking at cell phones right now those trends the smaller and smaller it is okay the only problem with that is you forget to take it out of your pocket and it goes in the wash 0 you are kidding you know it happens i had 3 watches go that way too ouch i have never watched the phone 0 that would wow that would hurt okay so what kind of material do we want to be used to have well we have lots of options i do not think wood is a viable option no what did you sorry go ahead i was just saying the titanium if we are being restricted then i would probably lean away from that yeah because if it is going to cost us more to produce a chip titanium would be more expensive right however what would you recommend well we only want to sell it for €25 right yeah because i was thinking if we wanted to get the high end market then you could produce a few in titanium make them a rarity sort of we could do that because all our research shows that people are definitely willing to spend more are we restricted by this i think we should just focus on one design and one concept right now i am not sure that we will have the time and money to produce a whole array of remotes if this was a successful remote we might then produce a higher end version of it i think good plan good plan okay so we want to go for plastic or what would you recommend for materials honestly i would recommend like since we are going with batteries instead of solar power i would recommend maybe a soft latex because we could produce you know how cell phones have those overlays that you can change the color we could do one that fits in with the trends of the year so because this year is all fruit god do not know what knows why who knows we could do a cherry cover for this year and then if next year is stripes or solids you know okay so you are talking about like when it leaves our sales room then it is all going to be cherry colored or is it going to be the kind of thing where people come back and swan it off they can come back cases maybe and buy the extra case if they wanted i think it is good to sell a basic thing and then sell so we could do like a hard base plastic and then we could give the 2 latex covers to start okay yeah because the soft latex definitely is squishy that is in well i mean squishier than like right yeah just a hard plastic okay and what kind of chip would we need for this guy how complicated are we going to go with the voice activated i do not think we should do voice i think we should just do the recognition for when it is lost you know could we yeah because i do not know what type of yeah for voice activation would it be like a certain term what would we say because people could just be talking and we do not want it going off all the time right well we could give it a specific code you know remote missing ooh see i am strangely attracted to it because i know that is definitely going to be big because it is i do not know it is just so high tech my little sister got for christmas she got one of those key finders that is like a key ring and you have to whistle in a certain frequency for it to work yeah see that would just irritate and then she would laugh and it would start going off in her purse and you could not turn it off 0 then it became highly irritating okay so i think having a key phrase is much better okay all right but it is not going to be voice activated in the fact that you would say channel up and it would work right yeah no no no we did not know it would be a fine okay all right but do you can your can the department make that would be like a mid class 0 brilliant then so we do not actually have to go for well if they have just developed a sample sensor sample speaker it is a brand new chip why not introduce it in this way yeah good point and what size batteries double a triple a i think aaa it will be lighter 2 can it run off of 2 more come in a package i think well we could do to we could do one small lithium because you know the lithium batteries are doing quite well in most other electronic products right so they are more widely available now and they also have a longer battery life than most batteries they are more expensive though too but if you only have to replace it every 5 years that is good as long as we saw it with it well how about an initial you get one battery when you buy it because i am pretty sure we can get them we could think about it okay okay yeah yeah all right okay so we have covered that 1st category user interface concept meaning design yeah what is it going to look like okay i kind of like your idea about the retro phone dial and that the central button could have maybe our logo on it it might be the 4 way scroll too yeah it could be whatever as long as there is something big in the middle because like the old phones there is like that just like piece of metal or like a picture or something in the middle my issue is that is if it got too big though because if you have the circle and the button in the middle then is it going to get wider than your hands are and then would the buttons be too small if it was enough to fit on it good point in the sample ones that you showed us there was one that had the scroll buttons on the side yeah which i think if we make it curved like a hand shape like if we put the scroll button on the side that could be particularly useful i think so so scroll buttons on the side and the buttons on the top yeah i like that okay but we definitely if we have scroll things on the side definitely have to have them labeled yeah like on the side if it is just up and down if it is just up and down but is that for volume or channel which i do not know well you could do some on both sides can we yeah we should probably make it that you have to depress it to activate it then yeah because otherwise you are not just holding it and going like this well the other option is instead of a scroll you just have the buttons up on the side which you are on the side okay yeah is not it okay any other ideas what color 0 yeah latex covers we have to make sure that the logo always sticks out when we put the latex cover on so we will have to have a little square or something so that the logo is it is sort of like having a yellow strip at the bottom with the art like that yeah and that is at the bottom of it i think maybe we should do it on a button itself though because people are able to change the covers i do not know maybe the on off button something some the menu button i do not know but you know if we are going to put our company logo on there and somebody could just get another one are they all going to have our company logo on them every cover yeah i do not think we should do that because that would just be you know you know yeah so i think maybe putting it on a button is probably a good idea if we want it to be visible are all those those ones that you showed where they were silver metallic looking yeah but those are plastic right you are not titanium i kind of like that look but or if it was really yeah for the base or if we are going for the retro look i think like a really shiny black would be cool yeah or like a gunmetal gray because then it combines the silver and the black there you go gun metal gray i am just really wary of the putting anything on a button why it will wear off yeah buttons wear off well then what is the button do and how do you know that that is what the button does yes just looking at examples you just do not ever see the logo on a button it is always on the actual casing right there is nothing saying that we have to put the logo on the front i want to be seen divisibility though because if it was only on the back really the only time you are going to see it is when you drop it or when you are changing the battery the other option is i do not know if you can see it but it is like if i can find it again yeah it is like the 2nd and last slide okay and yours was called interface this one yeah for some reason i can not get it to just go to that slide directly okay it is the very right one you see at the bottom it is kind of difficult to see but you have like a sort of division between the bottom like where the logo is and if we have the replaceable section it is like the top it does not necessarily replace the entire top and so you have that one piece that stays and the rest sort of clips in okay you are envisioning it yes so that stays the same when you have the logo and then you have the slip that kind of clips in and that is the bit that changes okay the only problem is we are using a latex overlay so it actually would go over top of everything and have holes for the buttons so i was thinking maybe instead of doing that what we could do is leave a space for where the logo should be like a little cut out kind of yeah right okay you know like a cell phone it is like the screen right it is always just left open and so what are we going to do at like bright yellow or with the r r yeah anybody see anything that they liked in these months well some of those buttons are blue based well a lot of those buttons are blue based well kind of and then if we do have them illuminate upon contact they can illuminate yellow yellow i like that idea like if we like the one all the way on the left you can not you can see it on your computer better where the button is actually blue but the number itself is clear or white or whatever so if you pressed it it would illuminate yellow so we would have blue and yellow for the touch buttons that one i like the yellow illumination idea pretty good okay any other ideas or thoughts we also be fairly in agreement about what we want to do with this project so let me catch up okay do we finalize what buttons were including it was just everything that we said before i think there will be time for that later i am guessing okay well we are going to wrap this up next meeting is going to start in 30 minutes and here is what we are each of us going to do the id is going to do the look and feel design the uid the user interface design i think you are going to get a lot of i mean the final say on what buttons get put well i will talk about it but i think that is pretty much what you are going to do right yeah okay and you are going to do some product evaluation okay and right now the id and uid you 2 are going to work together on a prototype using modeling clay great plato yep okay and you should all be getting an email pretty soon all right thank you for a very productive meeting meeting who