Words from Ron Hollis

I love Amazon! I have always been a loyal customer to Amazon and their products. I bought one of the first Kindles upon release years ago. While it did not adequately serve my needs, I was anxious for the future generations.
So, here comes the Kindle DX. It is bigger, faster and better. I bought and [...]

While I am not a huge Thomas Friedman fan, in his book, The World is Flat, he did expose for public discussion the changes that have occurred in our world.   With the advent of instant communication, the world is much smaller and much flatter than any time in history.
I recently ran across the following quote [...]

This week marks the 10 year anniversary of a major paradigm shift in the manufacturing world. January 3, 2000 was the first business day when a designer could sit at his desk, go to to a website, upload his design data for his custom parts and get a quote INSTANTLY and then buy his parts [...]

Interesting patent APPLICATION recently published by Objet…
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Aa_HAAAAEBAJ
As the original RP patents begin to expire, it will be very interesting what new patents can take their place and how it affects the industry.  Possibly, if the major IP constraints were removed, then the market could finally break-out of this technical malaise and begin innovating again.