China’s meteoric rise to becoming the “world’s factory” began at the end of the 70s. After Mao, China was stuck with a lot of very poor people. Deng Xiao Ping...
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How to get started having your custom electronic product manufactured in China? It really depends on how custom you want the product to be: Toasters with your company logo....
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"Alexa buy me the best value espresso maker" will soon become the way we buy stuff, nobody is going to read reviews anymore. Amazon's brand-killing virus infiltrates half of all...
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In a recent interview, Elon Musk gave us a look inside his new Tesla Assembly Factory in Freemont, California. He made some very good points on the high level of...
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Industrial IOT is the area within Internet Of Things where it’s easiest to make a business case. Forecasters predict some $3.7 Trillion in value to be created here in the...
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The reason we're buying such a large percentage of electronics from China is no longer cheap labor, but that China now has the most complete and cost-effective ecosystem of component...
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If you need a new electronic product manufactured, then the fastest and lowest cost way to get this done would seem to find an ODM factory in China which...
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Bob O’Donnell points out in an article that the time that Apple was able to surprise the world with real innovations may well be behind us.They were very late with their...
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As Ben Joffe shows in his presentation below, prices of quite a number of consumer products have come down very rapidly. The XiaoMi Yi camera for example equals or bests...
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In 2014 Relayr initially raised a modest 111K in crowdfunding for it’s beginner friendly IoT starter kit, but now got funded by venerated VC Kleiner Perkins. Congrats to the team...
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After raising $3.4 M on KickStarter Feb 2014 they now raised another $22 million. This project is so ambitious that I was wondering whether they could pull it off, but...
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IoT needs a dedicated network, I strongly feel LoRa will be it:1/100 the power consumption of BLE, i.e. lasting up to 10 years Range: 2 km urban to 15...
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Wonderful concept, real pity they ran into problems making it work for electronic products. Seems they were pushing stuff out a little too fast, leading to severe quality problems. It...
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Q1 of 2015 saw a record 128 electronic projects raise at least $100K each on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Reaching $100K is often considered a successful campaign, and many think that...
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