C: Badgers are cool in that one too . A: Okay .
A: And I'm last .
A: 'Kay . Look at my sad sad giraffe .
D: No , that's good .
A: No , no , no ,
A: it ends up looking like some kind of a dinosaur ,
A: but whatever .
A: I don't know even much about giraffes , but I just love the way they look .
A: They're just such odd creatures , you know .
A: I I like that they're so unique and individual , I guess .
A: I don't know much about their behaviour or anything , though .
A: Only seen a couple in zoos .
D: You don't really have to , I mean , if you like 'em A: Yeah , but you can appreciate the way they look .
A: Okay . Alright .
A: Guess we're getting straight back into business here .
C: A: Um the selling price for our remote is going to be twenty-five Euro ,
A: and our profit aim is fifty million Euro .
A: We're going to make this an international product marketed in the States , in Europe , in Asia .
A: And um our production cost to make that profit is gonna be a max of twelve fifty Euro per remote .
A: Okay .
A: So we're gonna talk for a little while .
A: Um here are some topics that we might be able to discuss .
A: Expe our experiences with remote controls um , our first ideas about this new remote ,
A: anything that you can bring to the table for this project .
A: So .
C: Now ?
A: Yeah .
A: You wanna start us off ?
A: Anybody have anything to offer ?
C: B: Well , we wanna make a multifunctional remote ,
B: right ?
A: Right .
B: One remote for everything .
C: And everything being Wait , we have what , sound system , T_V_ , D_V_D_ , V_H_S_ , uh TiVo ?
D: Right .
B: Um .
B: I think they'll be phasing V_H_S_ out shortly .
D: Yeah , TiVo .
A: TiVo .
C: But it's still there , so
B: Okay .
C: if po if we're gonna do it D: It needs to be compatible 'cause universal remote controls are never universal .
A: They're never universal . That's right .
A: Esp e especially if you buy a a not big product , D_V_D_ player , say , usually it doesn't work if it's not one of the C: Or if it's not like a Sony , if it's like a I don't know .
A: Yeah . Yeah .
A: Something from Sam's club .
B: So we'll have to figure it how to cover all the different variances in signals .
A: Yeah .
D: And what we need an insanely good instruction booklet ,
D: because you always have to reconfigure all your contraptions to go with the remote anyways .
A: Yeah .
A: 'Kay ,
A: and um another thing that I think is important is the d the design of the product , how it feels in your hand .
A: If it's just flat and kind of boring th those don't Nobody wants to buy those any more .
A: They want the ergonomic ones .
D: They want like the flashy lights .
A: Yeah .
D: Oh like this came from Las Vegas .
A: Ones that ones that look high-tech , too .
C: But at the same time are simple .
D: Mm yeah .
A: Right .
A: So that people like my mother can use it .
B: What about something with the curvature like that matches the curvature of a hand ?
A: Yeah .
C: A: 'Kay .
A: Anybody have any experiences with remote controls that they can remember that C: Just bad ones . A: Yeah . That's true .
C: Um .
B: What kinda battery would we want to use ?
B: Because battery changing is usually C: D
C: Double A_ .
D: Double A_ .
B: Okay .
A: Do some of them use triple A_s though ?
D: Yeah some use triple A_s .
C: Some but D: So double or triple ?
A: Okay .
C: Yeah ,
C: I guess then it's C: If we need to do triple A_ we can , but most people usually have double A_s around .
A: Okay . Yeah .
A: But that has to do with the size of it too .
C: Right .
B: Yeah .
A: Well , w as long as we know that issue is D: Yeah ,
D: if we want it to be more thin , then we'd probably wanna go with a triple A_ .
A: Here we can A: Triple A .
B: Can you with a small lithium battery ?
A: But
A: it's okay , we don't have to decide about it now ,
A: just as long as we remember battery type and size is important .
C: A: Hey .
A: Anything else ?
A: Alright .
A: Moving along .
A: Oh ,
A: we're closing the meeting .
A: Next meeting is gonna start in thirty minutes .
A: Here's what we're going to do .
A: Um the I_D_ ,
A: which is who ?
A: Okay ,
A: you're going to think about the working design .
A: What do you think that means ? D: A: Okay .
A: And U_I_D_ , the technical fun functions design ,
C: Mm-hmm .
A: making sure it does everything that we need the remote to do , the functionality of it , operating all those different things .
A: Okay .
A: And the marketing person , that's Courtney , is going to do the user requirements specification .
A: I guess that means specifying um what exactly the user is going to be looking for .
A: Right ?
D: Right .
A: I would think so . Okay .
A: And you're gonna get more specific instructions emailed to you in just a little while .
A: Okay , so does anybody have anything they wanna say before we close the meeting ?
A: Okay . This meeting is officially over .