Uses of Old Newspaper

Some of the uses of old newspaper;

Instead of recycling old newspaper right away, maybe using one of these great ideas will save us some time and effort that we did not even realize.

• Roll into a megaphone
• Paste it up as wallpaper
• Fold into a protective book cover
• Make sculpture
• Read it
• Use as birdcage lining
• Use to block windows
• Use to protect floors when painting
• Use to fill in holes and cracks
• Make paper chains
• Cut apart for scrap book or collage
• Shred and reuse to make your own wrapper
• Use as a dustpan
• Use as kindling
• Fold into fan
• Line your cabinets
• Wrap item for moving
• Use as a rag
• Protects items when mailing
• Wrap present
• Use as tablecloth
• Fold into a sailor’s hat

IDEA FOR INVENTION

1.      SUGGESTED PRODUCTS

-          Easy-ready toothpaste

-          Portable desk with USB port

-          Drinking fountain on water cooler

-          The fizz- Screw on Ice Cream Float Cup

-          Portable umbrella fan for senior citizen

-          Roller stick for senior citizen

-          Portable barcode scanner and smart pay

2.      FINALISED PRODUCT

-          Portable barcode scanner and smart pay

3.      PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION

3.1       Product Name

            -  Portable barcode scanner and smart pay

3.2       Purpose

            - Smart shopping

3.3       Special Features

            - Barcode Scanner Count Price

            - Smart & Easy Payment

3.4       Competition

            - Fixed barcode scanner

            - Debit & Credit Card

3.5       Intended Market

            - Acceptable with high respond

3.6       Need for Product

            - Less queue at payment counter

            - Save time

            - Well shopping planned

3.7       Relationship to Existing Product Life

            - to reduce time for searching fixed barcode

            - to avoid over budget

3.8       Market Identification

·         Market size

10000/year in Lembah Klang

·         Anticipated Market Demand

To be determined (TBD). Survey will be distributed.

3.9       Functional Performance

            Visual information - important for the use of a product, at 

            least one mode of operation  and information retrieval shall 

            be provided

3.10     Physical Requirement

·         Portable – easy for maintenance of the product

·         Scanner – easy for scanning the product

                                     -   for customer convenient 

·         Programming (calculator)

·         Size: 12cm X 9cm X 1cm

·         Weight: 200g

3.11    Service Environment

·         Supermarket conditions

·         Room temperature, 100% humidity

3.12      Life Cycle Issues

·         Useful life: 5 years     

·         Cost of installation and operation:

·         Maintenance schedule:

·         Realiability: TBD

3.13     Corporate Constraint

·         High cost to implementation

·         Customer demand into the product

3.14       Legal Requirement

·         Safety and environment regulations follow the OSHA    

           Laboratories

           ·          Intellectual property and licensing underwriters 

                       laboratories OSHA

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Consider the following products:

    a) a power screwdriver for use in the home

    b) a desktop inject printer

    c) an electric car

Working in a team, make your team estimate of the following factors needed for the development project to launch each of the products:

    i) annual unit sold

   ii) sales price

  iii) development time, years

  iv) size of development team

   v) development cost

	Power Screwdriver	Desktop Inkjet Printer	Electric Car
Annual unit sold	Company: BOSCH 10million units	1million units	208876 units
Sales price	RM 43/unit	RM 340/unit	RM 119000/unit
Development time,years	Over 20 years of research and technological development have made us more confident to start export business years ago	With more than 10years manufacture in large format inkjet printer ,we know well of customer’s need ,we only make reliable machines for every each customer	contributes efforts to the customer almost 30 years
Size of development team	Small group	Medium group	Large group
Development cost	High-cost at the beginning, after it demand deceases, thereby it reduce overall development cost, currently its maintain	low-cost market segment where many entries are still quite new.	High-cost because it currently been introduce in market and have high demand