Project Manager: uh we need to wonder ah h about how we make it better and smaller and faster um think we're constrained to plastics very well , we've got this idea , Ron was saying we need to think about uh revolutionising the way it's looking um ,
Marketing: Right .
Project Manager: which might be easier given that we're going for simpler function and that we're only going for a telly .
Marketing: Uh .
Project Manager: Um so um . How th this voice operation thing is I think is a good idea um assuming that it's doable , um at least for the basic controls , maybe we can balance it that way , you know we can see .
Marketing: Right .
Industrial Designer: Mm .
Project Manager: Okay you can't say record alias tonight at seven P_M_
Industrial Designer: Project Manager: but we might be able to say um volume up .
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Right . I think it would be possible to uh combine the locator device and the voice recognition technology .
Project Manager: Mm .
Marketing: Oh . That could work . I like that .
Industrial Designer: With a simple command like locate . And then it could start to beep
Marketing: Yeah . Something very basic .
Industrial Designer: and
Marketing: Right .
Project Manager: Right .
Industrial Designer: therefore be found .
User Interface: Sounds good .
Marketing: Is that only gonna be within our two hundred foot range then ?
Industrial Designer: Oh yeah I think that's very doable .
Marketing: Okay .
Project Manager: The difficulty wh would be in um I think like i you couldn't speak into the remote that you're trying to find . 'Kay you have something that picks up a voice from far away Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: It's a good point .
Project Manager: If it's hidden under the couch but then again you have this wee this wee thing you know that's just a little chip or whatever that has the page button , maybe that could be voice activated too .
User Interface: A little sticky pad to stick on top of your uh television .
Marketing: Mm .
User Interface: And you just say something to into that
Marketing: Yeah .
User Interface: and it
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
User Interface: finds your Marketing: K Project Manager: Or an isolated magnet or something like , or you know something that wouldn't interfere I don't know that'd be the technical thing
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: but yeah I like that , I like that , the voice recognition for the paging system .
User Interface: The other thing is we might be able to handle the simplicity of a remote control and kind of put the more complicated things into a voice control . So it could be sold to both the younger market and the older market .
Marketing: True .
User Interface: And the younger market could use kind of the voi voice control method and the older market might might k
Marketing: Making it just an option ?
Industrial Designer: Mm .
User Interface: exactly and might consider the older market could use the simpler design with the traditional buttons and what not .
Marketing: Yeah . Right .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: I was thinking uh Marketing: Are we still thinking about this screen sorry .
Industrial Designer: Oh go ahead .
Marketing: Go ahead . The uh if we're gonna do this touch pad screen thing , it would be still , do we know if that's an option technically right now to that ?
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: 'S definitely an option technically . I've looked into uh costs of uh touch screen methods and what not ,
Marketing: Okay . Okay .
User Interface: they seem to be uh you know almost as cheap as a button method at this point .
Marketing: We're doing okay .
Project Manager: Okay .
Marketing: 'Cause it seems like an interesting option especially because then you could have like your primary screen just be these you know four or five basic functions , you can have
Project Manager: Mm . Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: menu options or something to have all these other complicated voice recognition , settings , things that you're not gonna use every day and that a lot of people aren't gonna use but it is an option there for this hi-tech market that sort of re is the sleek thing we're going for .
Industrial Designer: Gotta wonder though , if we're adding so much technology to this one remote , are we still gonna be able to meet out twelve pou our twelve fifty Euro you know goal for selling these things .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: True . Worth looking into .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm . Mm-hmm .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: It seems like , we're not gonna be able to handle all these functions with just one microchip .
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: The microchip is probably the most expensive part of the the whole mechanism .
Project Manager: Okay .
Marketing: True . Yeah .
Project Manager: Okay .
Industrial Designer: So it's just something to consider .
Project Manager: Absolutely . Mm 'kay um well yeah I guess we'll cross that bridge um in a la slightly later stages of development um but yeah I know , that's perfectly viable question . Mm 'kay um so I'm seeing that we're gonna just basically focus on this young demographic group , aim it at them , but then in a sense that its bells and whistles are available for anybody who wants them but basically we'll make a sleek simple functioned um uh remote control .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Um I think this voice recognition thing is a we've got a market for it uh I don't think there's too many ,
Marketing: Mm .
Project Manager: we'd more or less be cornering the market on it as well , we don't have many um .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: I appear to have lost my microphone . Mm . Right um we don't have many people or there's not very many competitors out there that do that so cool . Um right . I guess we've c we've touched on most of this . The idea of a paging function , a touch screen , and face plates . Um . The thing with I see would there not be a we'd have to maybe sacrifice the face plates for a touch screen ?
User Interface: Um I'm not sure that's sincerely correct ,
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: I think if you kind of take the example of a mobile phone that uh trying to pass a portion of the device is not interchangeable whereas the surrounding portions are interchangeable .
Marketing: Mm . Just the casing .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: We could have the casing , the the face plates .
Project Manager: Okay .
Industrial Designer: Back to the uh the cost the material . We have to ask whether we're going to include a certain number of face plates with the package ? That's something I w for say we're including three or four face plates , it's gonna drive the cost up .
Marketing: Mm .
Project Manager: Mm .
Industrial Designer: And the other question is , if we do include them are we really in a position to evaluate that market ?
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: We haven't done any tests on face plates and whether Marketing: Right .
Project Manager: Okay .
Industrial Designer: See if there if there's even interest out there .
Project Manager: Okay . Right .
Industrial Designer: Off the top of my head it sounds kind of like a gimmick that wouldn't really go anywhere .
Project Manager: Yeah 'cause then ha you would have to who all
Marketing: Mm . Right .
Project Manager: it's not like with cell phones like where you have a you know Nokia model X_ and then ten people make face plates for it , we'd be just our model of pho of t remote control . Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: Well in the publicity of a face plate on a phone is you have it out and around , it is sort of emblematic whereas you're just sit at home ,
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: so unless somebody comes over to watch T_V_ Project Manager: Mm . Mm-hmm . Yeah .
User Interface: Well hopefully some people have people coming t over to w to hang out at your house
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: Marketing: True . True . True .