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Product Ventures Ltd., a leading product and packaging design & development agency, marks its tenth anniversary. Founded in 1994 by Peter B. Clark, IDSA, Product Ventures started out as a 3-person operation with a single client.
Today, the agency of 30 boasts a client roster that reads like a Who's Who of global business, including Pepsi, Unilever, Hasbro, Kellogg's and Johnson & Johnson. Product Ventures is behind the packaging and new product success of many best known brands including Fisher-Price, Tide, Cascade, Downy, Crest, Febreze, Mr. Bubble, Dawn, Lay's, Dryel and Swiffer. In fact, Product Ventures is a top industrial design firm for consumer goods giant, Procter & Gamble, with whom the agency enjoys a longstanding relationship. "We have the highest rate of success when it comes to getting structural packaging designs to market for P&G," states Clarke, "That's an impressive accomplishment in just ten years".
Word is out about the largest industrial design firm in Connecticut. In March, Product Ventures attracted the attention of CBS News' The Early Show and featured Clarke as an expert commentator in a segment on packaging trends, titled "Wrap Rage".
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A former Sharp Corp employee has sued the consumer electronics maker for 500 mln yen over key technology he claims to have developed for use in flat screen products, reports said.
A court official only confirmed that the suit was filed Tuesday with the Osaka District Court.
The former researcher at Sharp claims to have invented technology that improved the efficiency of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) while cutting their cost and power usage, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said.
Flat screen monitors for televisions and computers have turned into one of the growth stories in the hi-tech sector.
The man in his sixties was paid 770,000 yen after his retirement for his extra work while the company is expected to see profits of 96 bln yen from LCD patents based on his work before they expire in 2009, the suit claimed, according to the Jiji Press news agency.
The inventor claimed that as a key contributor he should be entitled to 11.5 bln yen but is asking only for a smaller amount, it said.
Sharp said it had not yet received the suit and thus that had no comment.
The case is the latest in a series of court disputes in Japan regarding the transfer of patent rights to companies by inventors on their payrolls.
In March the inventor of flash memory chips, used in cell phones and digital cameras, filed a lawsuit
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Matsushita Electric Industrial will launch a Blu-ray Disc recorder compatible with new dual-layer discs and existing recordable DVD formats at the end of July, the company says.
The Panasonic DMR-E700BD can record 4.5 hours of digital satellite high-definition television when used with 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray Disc Rewritable format discs, says Etsuji Shuda, director of Panasonic's AVC Networks home AV business unit, at a Tokyo news conference.
This extends to 6 hours for digital terrestrial HDTV and 9 hours for standard definition digital satellite TV. Analog television can be recorded for between 10.5 hours and 63 hours depending on the quality mode selected.
Single-layer Blu-ray Disc Rewritable discs with a capacity of 25GB are also supported and offer half the recording time, while DVD-RAM and DVD-R discs can be used to record analog television. Panasonic plans to launch both single-layer and dual-layer Blu-ray discs to coincide with the recorder's launch on July 31.
Blu-ray Disc is one of two formats emerging as a potential replacement for DVD-Video. Consumer electronics companies are looking at new formats because DVD's recording capacity, which is generally either 4.7GB or 9.4GB, is only enough to store around one hour of HDTV. The other format is called HD-DVD and has yet to be commercialized.
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The Toyota Prius continues to collect accolades as the innovative hybrid-synergy drive sedan will receive a Gold Award at the 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition, presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and sponsored by BusinessWeek, in October. The Scion xB, with its aggressive Gen Y styling, will also be honored with a Bronze Award.
"It is a great honor for Prius to receive the IDEA Gold prize," said Norio Ozeki, assistant manager of Toyota Motor Corporation's Igarashi Studio of design. "While I am a designer, I am also a young child's parent who wants to earnestly pursue the future of earth's environment for children. I also seek the essential value of a car that is fun to drive."
The IDEA Gold Award adds to Prius' recent accolades, which include being named 2004 North American Car of the Year, Motor Trend 2004 Car of the Year, Automobile Magazine's 2004 "Design of the Year," Society of Automotive Engineer's (SAE) Best Engineered Vehicle for 2004, and the International Engine of the Year 2004.
"The Toyota Prius had it all, design innovation with respect for the environment and the corporate courage to lead the industry towards a better solution," said Debera Johnson, IDSA juror and chairperson the Pratt Institute's Department of Industrial Design.
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Want to know if your sommelier is hip and up-to-date? The next time you order a Bordeaux or Chardonnay, ask for it to be served in a tumbler instead of a wine glass.
Stemless wine glasses are catching on with a broader base of consumers in North America's trendiest restaurants, thanks to wine industry efforts to demystify wine -- and a new twist to an old concept.
Though it is nothing new in Europe, where wine has been poured into tumblers or any other handy cup for centuries, wine tumblers are suddenly becoming the hippest way to drink wine.
"The tumbler glass concept is really new for the industry,' said Maximilian Riedel, 27, who only six months ago launched his family company's line of stemless wine glasses.
"We want younger people to enjoy wine," he said. "We want to guide more people to wine."
Riedel should know. As the 11th-generation heir to Austrian crystal maker Riedel Glas GmbH, he designed the company's new "O" series for drinking wine at his own home.
The glasses, which from the side look like the printed letter "O", are shaped according to strict designs that adhere to certain types of wine -- slimmer curves for whites and broader bases for reds. They come in six varieties: Cabernet/Merlot, Riesling/Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah/Shiraz, Pinot/Nebbiolo, Chardonnay and Viognier/Chardonna y.
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