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Comment by Rik Jadrnicek on April 25, 2010 at 5:23pm

Re current and future smart phones: Do you know the quality of audio for mic in and line out, and if the signal in can be further processed by the CPU before being sent line out to the headset?

Comment by Ken Berkun on April 25, 2010 at 5:08pm

The size of the barcode depends on how much sound you store. It is fairly small, but bigger than a typical UPC code.
It will run with an adapter on the more recent phones with decent cameras. We are targeting Android (Nexus, Droid) and next generation iPhone. Current iPhone camera is not good enough.

Comment by Rik Jadrnicek on April 25, 2010 at 4:59pm

1. To what extent does the barcode take up packaging and documentation real estate. i.e., how dense is this image that will not make sense other than being scanned first?

2.. Does this take a special adapter to a smart phone that the consumer needs to purchase, or do you interpret a camera image of the barcode taken by the phone? I heard that some banks are taking deposits of checks where a smart phone image of the check is submitted.

Comment by Rik Jadrnicek on April 25, 2010 at 4:51pm

Woops, meant to address that Soundpaper question to Ken.
Re "marketing type" -- always good to know the intentions of the helping hands along the way and how it stands to effect the ultimate journey ...

Comment by Ken Berkun on April 25, 2010 at 4:49pm

That's OK, I'll just change my name to Greg :-)

Soundpaper has many applications, but focus is everything. We are tackling the following markets, one at a time in this order:

Crafting ($30 Billion), scrapbookers in particular want to capture sound memories as well as photographs
Aids for the blind
General labeling - anywhere you might use a label printer today
Product labeling - competing with QR codes, but with instantaneous response and no network required
Education - many applications
Talking prescription labels.

We have partners and distribution for the first three of these and need only finish our engineering work to hit the market (if only it were that simple).
Ken

Comment by Greg Garriss on April 25, 2010 at 4:39pm

Hi Rik.. point that one at Ken.. Though itʻs an interesting idea.. I can think of several ways to make that happen.

Comment by Greg Garriss on April 25, 2010 at 4:36pm

True.. Thereʻre lots of amazing ideas that have never made it past the lab stage. Most of the ones Iʻve been involved with were usually driven out by crisis ( we need a cool product to market NOW!!.; The investorʻs son loves those sort of things ; You could save us how much? " ). Marketing is the tough part. I used to get work from a marketing type that took interesting ideas, assembled a team to create prototypes and engineering sketches and then sold the entire package to some company that wanted it..He was long gone before the product hit the market.

Comment by Rik Jadrnicek on April 25, 2010 at 4:26pm

Greg, what is your target market for Soundpaper?

Comment by Rik Jadrnicek on April 25, 2010 at 4:22pm

Good points.
Does it make sense to collaborate on a process outline for inventors to be aware of? Here is a very basic and conceptual example: http://microflow.com/web3dmarket.htm
e.g., maybe a checklist for inventors ...

Comment by Ken Berkun on April 25, 2010 at 4:01pm

Greg and Roger are correct about committing ideas to paper and having them notarized. Just remember though - the easiest part of inventing is coming up with the idea - execution is where all the work is.

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