Extracted Content: Larry Warren: Well hi everyone again.
  Gary Adams: Hello.
  Samuel Vargas: Hello.
  Micah Dennis: Hello
  Larry Warren: Um like before uh I have to redo the meetings from n th the minutes from the last meeting
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: and so here we go. Uh it was discussed in the last meeting uh which was opened by the presentation from the interface um
  Gary Adams: Designer.
  Larry Warren: designer that uh looks would be very important on this new remote and um it is to send messages of course to the T_V_. It should have nine channel buttons, a button volume buttons buttons, switch to control features, colour contrast, sharpness etcetera. It should have a memory switch, a mute button in case the telephone rings or something. Uh speech recognition is one of her very f favourite personal uh features she would like see d d to be integrated in this um in this new remote. Um. Should be child friendly design with few buttons, colourful maybe with s star shaped or other shaped buttons. Um she uh presented also an oversized remote which she guarantees nobody will ever be able to lose. Um
  Micah Dennis: And she was challenged on that point
  Larry Warren: that's right.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: But uh her very f personal favourite really she, she would very much like to see a speech recogniser integrated in this remote. Samuel Vargas um presented her uh thoughts on the issue. She would like a special case made out of plastic that is very strong, not using any harmful materials, should be recyclable and should be colourful. Should have an integrated circuit board that's highly sophisticated and temperature resistant. She would like to see a timer and or alarm facility integrated. Uh technically this thing would also have a resistor and a capacitor, diode transistor, resonator, and if possible a rechargeable battery. Uh and of course a circuit board. And how it would works, you press the button, the chip is morse morse code related relays the uh to the generat to the generator amplification and uh the circuit board is very inexpensive to build
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Larry Warren: and so she thinks this is a great feature uh to to to consider. She would like uh this whole thing should be push buttons with a simple chip uh scrolling method is more expensive and not that practical anymore. Should be battery operated and of course she would have the special cases. Micah Dennis uh who has to finally come up with to to to market this product has been watching the competition, has done some research on the internet and also has used h her personal observations to come up with the fact that such a remote sh should be small, easy to use and it should be eye catching. From her point of view of course one of the most important facts is that we should get to market before our competition does. To do that uh maybe one or two features should be developed on which we could dwell on or in other words on which our campaign could be built on. Too many new features or too many points would only confuse matter. So we prefer to have one or two features that can be really uh driven home. Um it should have a fruit and vegetable design and should have a soft feel. She feels that's really what people want today. And the decision that we took last time was that uh the special feature we would like to see is a speech recogniser, the energy should be battery uh should be on a chip, should be trendy design, compact and strong, and should have buttons. And that concludes the presentation from the last minutes from the last meeting. Now uh we are ready for the presentation of the prototype.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Gary Adams: Yeah. Just the look like, the button part I'll explain.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah. so this what uh we have made This is a model of the remote control which we are going to build.
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: Uh this is us in a snail shape
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: so uh it it is attractive um and it's it's blue in colour
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: uh bright and uh it has yellow buttons and all the different colour buttons
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: so it is a uh uh a looks-wise it is beautiful.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: Uh and also compact in shape.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Good.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah, oops, sorry.
  Micah Dennis: You used to have all the buttons
  Samuel Vargas: Um yeah and um uh the material which we are going to use for the case is uh plastic and uh w which which is s strong um uh and also uh for the Um the material is plastic and uh for the buttons it is uh s soft rubber um and
  Micah Dennis: Oh
  Samuel Vargas: als
  Micah Dennis: that's good,
  Samuel Vargas: yeah.
  Micah Dennis: no, that's nice and friendly.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah because uh uh you'll be touching the buttons
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: more so
  Micah Dennis: Mm.
  Samuel Vargas: it is soft when you
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm,
  Samuel Vargas: touch
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: it.
  Larry Warren: mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: And then um uh for the for the led, for the light emitting diode it
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: is a fluorescent green and
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: it's a a it is a bulb like an ordinary infrared. And and the button button's part uh will be explained by F Francina.
  Gary Adams: Okay.
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Gary Adams: Now the um we decided upon including certain features on our remote. Now these features includes the s um signal emitting uh signal it's the led
  Micah Dennis: Yeah,
  Gary Adams: or
  Micah Dennis: okay,
  Gary Adams: L_E_D_
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm,
  Micah Dennis: mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: the infrared. Now uh we have included the switch on and off button.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: Now we have included another feature that is the mute button
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: on the side of the model.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: Then we have included one to nine buttons the programmes the different channels.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: We have also included two buttons for increasing or decreasing the volume.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: And we have also included two buttons for scrolling up and scrolling down the programme channels.
  Micah Dennis: Mm.
  Gary Adams: Now our our model also contains a button which is called as the menu button.
  Larry Warren: What kind of button?
  Gary Adams: Menu button.
  Larry Warren: Menu? Uh menu
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Micah Dennis: Menu
  Larry Warren: th menu,
  Gary Adams: menu
  Micah Dennis: button.
  Larry Warren: uh one one.
  Gary Adams: At the centre
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: we have included a button which is fluorescent green colour and this is the menu button which will control the colour, sharpness, brightness
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm. Of the screen.
  Gary Adams: of
  Micah Dennis: Mm,
  Gary Adams: this
  Micah Dennis: mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: uh picture. We have also included a button which is called as the swapping button. Now this is uh a special, special feature which we have included. Now this button is an elongated shaped button and this is slightly flexible so if it is turned towards the right it will take to the previous channel, if it is turned towards the right it will take to the next channel. It will take the user to the previous and the next channel so this is a swapping button.
  Micah Dennis: The next channel in the numeric pattern, or
  Gary Adams: No, swapping is if if example you're you're watching the second channel
  Micah Dennis: Yeah, mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: and then you go to the tenth channel and if
  Micah Dennis: Mm.
  Gary Adams: you want to go back to the second channel you can swap, this button.
  Micah Dennis: Okay,
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: okay.
  Gary Adams: And at the end, it this remote has inbuilt voice recogniser which
  Larry Warren: Okay.
  Gary Adams: c which will recognise the user's voice
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: and then it'll act accordingly.
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: So
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Gary Adams: this is our proposed model.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: Now Micah Dennis has to
  Samuel Vargas: Tell, yeah.
  Gary Adams: give her suggestion whether it'll be sellable or it'll be cost effective.
  Micah Dennis: Okay, well um what what I really like a lot about it is that you can reach the whole thing with one thumb,
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Micah Dennis: that
  Gary Adams: yes.
  Micah Dennis: you can really hold it in
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: one h you don't need two hands and it's easily reachable even for somebody with a small hand, yeah?
  Larry Warren: Yes the buttons are all raised, right?
  Micah Dennis: The buttons
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: are all raised
  Larry Warren: Are raised,
  Micah Dennis: and
  Larry Warren: mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: if you hold it in the centre of your hand you can even reach it over here
  Larry Warren: Right.
  Micah Dennis: so you don't have to turn it around, turn it upside down,
  Larry Warren: Or have two hands
  Micah Dennis: move
  Larry Warren: to operate
  Micah Dennis: it up,
  Larry Warren: it,
  Micah Dennis: up
  Larry Warren: yeah.
  Micah Dennis: and down, I really like that. You really
  Gary Adams: Mm.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: did a good job on that, my little designers. Um and um I like the idea that the on-off button is in a really prominent place. That's that's a really good good
  Larry Warren: Yes,
  Micah Dennis: thing.
  Larry Warren: and it sort of sticks up so
  Micah Dennis: Yeah,
  Larry Warren: that
  Micah Dennis: that's great.
  Larry Warren: you really you don't have to g
  Samuel Vargas: Hmm.
  Larry Warren: first go like oh yeah
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: here
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: it's on
  Gary Adams: Abs
  Larry Warren: and
  Gary Adams: okay.
  Larry Warren: yeah, mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: The colour's very attractive. Um the um these buttons uh around here are the mute
  Gary Adams: No,
  Micah Dennis: and
  Gary Adams: these the front buttons
  Micah Dennis: these
  Gary Adams: which are here,
  Micah Dennis: mm-hmm
  Gary Adams: are the mute buttons.
  Micah Dennis: On both sides they're
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Micah Dennis: mute?
  Gary Adams: yes.
  Micah Dennis: So you can push either one?
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Larry Warren: So if you're left-handed or right-handed
  Micah Dennis: And
  Larry Warren: it
  Micah Dennis: this
  Larry Warren: doesn't
  Micah Dennis: brings
  Larry Warren: matter.
  Micah Dennis: the menu up on the screen?
  Gary Adams: Pardon Micah Dennis?
  Micah Dennis: This brings
  Gary Adams: This
  Micah Dennis: the menu
  Gary Adams: is the
  Micah Dennis: up
  Gary Adams: menu
  Micah Dennis: on the
  Gary Adams: yes,
  Micah Dennis: screen
  Gary Adams: yes.
  Micah Dennis: and the orange ones are
  Gary Adams: A the the these these two are th to increase or decrease the volumes,
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Gary Adams: and these two are to uh scroll the programme channels.
  Micah Dennis: F f okay. Right,
  Gary Adams: Scroll
  Micah Dennis: very good.
  Gary Adams: up or scroll down the channels.
  Micah Dennis: Uh it looks mm looks like something I can sell. Okay and now I'm supposed
  Larry Warren: Well,
  Micah Dennis: to
  Larry Warren: I have one question
  Micah Dennis: yeah.
  Larry Warren: uh will there be anything written on the buttons, like that people know, or they have to learn that from a piece of paper which button does what?
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Samuel Vargas: Ah.
  Gary Adams: it will have uh these
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Gary Adams: buttons
  Samuel Vargas: definitely.
  Gary Adams: will have the numbers and all the rest of the buttons will have symbols.
  Larry Warren: Will have symbols
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Larry Warren: so that
  Micah Dennis: Yeah.
  Gary Adams: which
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: that
  Gary Adams: can be easily
  Larry Warren: that
  Gary Adams: recognised.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: the user really knows
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: you know
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: and doesn't have
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: to first
  Micah Dennis: Good point
  Larry Warren: learn
  Micah Dennis: because
  Larry Warren: it
  Micah Dennis: we need
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: the symbols 'cause we're going
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah
  Micah Dennis: into
  Samuel Vargas: of
  Micah Dennis: an
  Samuel Vargas: course,
  Micah Dennis: international
  Samuel Vargas: and
  Micah Dennis: market
  Samuel Vargas: also
  Micah Dennis: we can't
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: have anything
  Samuel Vargas: Hmm.
  Micah Dennis: that's language
  Larry Warren: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: dependent.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: But
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: anyway it would ha i i i it
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah
  Larry Warren: has
  Samuel Vargas: we
  Larry Warren: to have some
  Samuel Vargas: can
  Larry Warren: kind of of
  Micah Dennis: Symbols
  Samuel Vargas: Text.
  Micah Dennis: on
  Larry Warren: symbols,
  Micah Dennis: it. Mm-hmm,
  Larry Warren: text
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: or something
  Micah Dennis: mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: Text
  Larry Warren: so that
  Samuel Vargas: that
  Larry Warren: people
  Samuel Vargas: we can
  Larry Warren: kn
  Samuel Vargas: have on the case itself, we can
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: That's
  Samuel Vargas: it
  Larry Warren: right.
  Samuel Vargas: will
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: be printed on the case and
  Larry Warren: Okay,
  Samuel Vargas: symbols
  Larry Warren: yeah
  Samuel Vargas: as
  Larry Warren: just
  Samuel Vargas: well
  Gary Adams: And
  Larry Warren: wanted
  Samuel Vargas: as
  Larry Warren: make
  Samuel Vargas: the
  Larry Warren: sure
  Samuel Vargas: buttons.
  Larry Warren: of
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: that mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: and one
  Micah Dennis: Mm,
  Gary Adams: more
  Micah Dennis: 'kay, mm.
  Gary Adams: feature is we we have a holder for this remote
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: which is an oyster shape. A shell shape.
  Micah Dennis: For the snail,
  Larry Warren: Right,
  Micah Dennis: yeah,
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: mm-hmm,
  Larry Warren: mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: yes.
  Micah Dennis: we have
  Samuel Vargas: So
  Micah Dennis: the snail
  Samuel Vargas: it is
  Micah Dennis: shell.
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: yeah,
  Gary Adams: snail
  Micah Dennis: He
  Gary Adams: shell.
  Micah Dennis: goes right back
  Samuel Vargas: yeah
  Micah Dennis: into his
  Samuel Vargas: shell.
  Micah Dennis: shell.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: Right.
  Micah Dennis: Well you know I think we could do something really funny with this too because the snail is known to be slow
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: and we could have some sort of little comic effect on our marketing
  Gary Adams: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm.
  Micah Dennis: about how this is a rapid snail
  Gary Adams: Y Yes
  Micah Dennis: or something
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Micah Dennis: like that
  Samuel Vargas: of
  Micah Dennis: you know that
  Samuel Vargas: course,
  Micah Dennis: would, that would
  Samuel Vargas: yeah.
  Micah Dennis: really work.
  Larry Warren: Now what,
  Micah Dennis: So
  Larry Warren: what are our special features for the marketing? That's really the voice recognition that's really unusual
  Micah Dennis: I think voice recognition is our big selling point
  Samuel Vargas: Mm.
  Micah Dennis: 'cause
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: nobody else seems to have that
  Samuel Vargas: Mm.
  Micah Dennis: in in this price range.
  Larry Warren: And then, and then the other thing would basically be sh shape or practicality of use.
  Micah Dennis: Yep uh
  Larry Warren: You
  Micah Dennis: well
  Larry Warren: know.
  Micah Dennis: I think that everybody's gonna say their remote control is practical. I think we have
  Larry Warren: Colours.
  Micah Dennis: to, we have to dwell on on on the appearance.
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: We're really gonna have the be the
  Larry Warren: Cutest.
  Micah Dennis: cutest remote control on the block.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm.
  Larry Warren: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: So I think we have to play with the image, play with the snail image um play with the visual and then the voice recognition. I
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: think those are the two things to push. The look and the voice recognition. They're gonna be our two selling points.
  Larry Warren: Okay, now uh having said that
  Micah Dennis: I'm supposed to make a little presentation, aren't I?
  Larry Warren: No, now this was our evaluation criteria which
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Larry Warren: we uh just have done. Now we're gonna talk about financing.
  Micah Dennis: Ah, but in my instructions I think it said I was supposed to go to the board and do something. No?
  Larry Warren: Well, there is a production evaluation. Is that you?
  Micah Dennis: Yeah, that's Micah Dennis.
  Larry Warren: But that's after the financing.
  Micah Dennis: Oh, okay.
  Larry Warren: See?
  Micah Dennis: Sorry,
  Larry Warren: Fi see?
  Micah Dennis: sorry. Mm-mm.
  Larry Warren: Um. had looks and voice recognition. Okay now on the financing we bring up the mm there it is. Okay uh energy source we say that's battery, right?
  Samuel Vargas: Mm.
  Micah Dennis: That's right.
  Larry Warren: Okay, now. So we I guess we use one.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: What? T cell or chart you are trying to change is protected. Well, that's nice. She told Micah Dennis I could just ch change it here and then it would It doesn't work. Hmm.
  Micah Dennis: Can you just fill it in in the yellow boxes? Or
  Larry Warren: Oh, okay
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: yeah, okay, let's see. Okay,
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: one, okay. Oh go away. Um kinetic source so that's in the energy source that's all we need.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: Uh electronics, simple chip on print? Is
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Larry Warren: that's
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: what we're using?
  Samuel Vargas: yeah.
  Larry Warren: One of those? Come on. Okay, one. Uh regular chip on print. No.
  Samuel Vargas: No.
  Larry Warren: That's all we need, the
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: one case, uncurved flat, single curved, double curved.
  Micah Dennis: Well.
  Samuel Vargas: This is a
  Gary Adams: Single curve? Mm.
  Micah Dennis: I guess it's double curved.
  Larry Warren: Double curved? One of those?
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: Case materi s supplements. Plastic we said,
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: right?
  Gary Adams: Plastic.
  Larry Warren: Uh wood, rubber?
  Micah Dennis: Rubber,
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: because we're gonna have the soft buttons.
  Larry Warren: Uh but, yes but
  Samuel Vargas: I think uh that is uh f for rubbers
  Larry Warren: That's
  Samuel Vargas: that is
  Larry Warren: just
  Samuel Vargas: uh yeah
  Larry Warren: for the case
  Samuel Vargas: case
  Larry Warren: material,
  Samuel Vargas: material.
  Gary Adams: Is this for the
  Larry Warren: so
  Micah Dennis: Oh
  Gary Adams: case?
  Micah Dennis: okay,
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: the mm-hmm,
  Larry Warren: special
  Micah Dennis: mm' kay.
  Larry Warren: colours though, we having that, right?
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: And then we have to interface push buttons.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: Scroll wheel, no. Integrated scroll wheel, L_C_ display?
  Micah Dennis: No,
  Gary Adams: No.
  Micah Dennis: 'cause
  Larry Warren: Button.
  Micah Dennis: we didn't put the clock in it after all, right?
  Larry Warren: No.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: Uh,
  Gary Adams: Speci
  Larry Warren: button supplement special colour?
  Gary Adams: Yes
  Larry Warren: Special form?
  Gary Adams: Yes
  Micah Dennis: Yes.
  Gary Adams: d we do have special form.
  Larry Warren: And special material, rubber, wood, yes.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: Okay. Total seven point six whatever that means.
  Samuel Vargas: Uh, I think that's the
  Larry Warren: That's
  Gary Adams: One two
  Larry Warren: the
  Gary Adams: three
  Larry Warren: price.
  Samuel Vargas: price.
  Gary Adams: four five six seven eight nine
  Samuel Vargas: Maybe
  Larry Warren: Mm?
  Samuel Vargas: it is it just n
  Larry Warren: Eight, eight point two.
  Gary Adams: Nine
  Larry Warren: That's
  Gary Adams: points,
  Larry Warren: hmm?
  Gary Adams: okay, yes.
  Larry Warren: Eight point two, right? So, we looks like we are well within budget.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: Okay.
  Larry Warren: Okay. I guess I should save this I suppose, huh?
  Micah Dennis: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: Oops.
  Larry Warren: Uh-huh huh huh.
  Gary Adams: On the desktop.
  Larry Warren: I just tried that. My
  Samuel Vargas: AMI.
  Larry Warren: documents, computer. My
  Samuel Vargas: AMI
  Larry Warren: compu
  Samuel Vargas: should for
  Larry Warren: Ah oh here it is, yes. Okay, fine. Save. Okay good, so that's the good news. We gonna be popular.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: Um. So that uh I think financing was pretty simple.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: Now we would like to have a presentation by Micah Dennis on production evaluation.
  Micah Dennis: Okay, I'll take my file down so you can bring it up.
  Micah Dennis: 'Kay should be able to get it now. 'Kay, why don't you move just to the next slide right away.
  Larry Warren: You wanna go to the next slide?
  Micah Dennis: Yeah right away.
  Larry Warren: Okay.
  Micah Dennis: Okay, well uh obviously my method for uh s m the marketing of this thing is first to ask the big question, will it sell? And I think we should show this prototype to people from various age and socio-economic groups and see about any fine tuning
  Gary Adams: Okay.
  Micah Dennis: that maybe little things we
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: haven't thought of. We can't accept every suggestion of course, but maybe we just
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: need to get a few. And show the the prototype to consumer research groups, we don't s want somebody to suddenly come to us and tell us that this button is toxic and
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: you know some child will swallow it and then we won't sell any.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm.
  Micah Dennis: So we have to get some input from those people.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: And then after that we just have to go with our best intuition and you know we like it, we think it's good, we're gonna get behind it and sell it. Um, next slide please. Okay, now the things that I was thinking and th my wish list has really been realised in this prototype. I wanted the shape to be biomorphic, I didn't want anything with angles and all square, I wanted it to be comfy and roundy. The size is small, the colour's bright and warm which is what we wanted. We wanted the feel to be as soft as possible, we'll have the soft buttons
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: and the way this is shaped, even though it's gonna be hard plastic, it feels good in your hand so that's nice. And functionality I put last on my list because people aren't going to use it before they buy it. So paradoxically the other features, in other words, the look, the feel um and the shape,
  Gary Adams: Fee
  Micah Dennis: that's what people are
  Gary Adams: selling.
  Micah Dennis: gonna get in the store.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: They don't have a television in the store, they can't play with it.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: Um so they'll be our main selling points. So um th those have been fulfilled by your prototype and go ahead to the next slide please. Okay, so um the shape um I think is a a one. That's really, really excellent shape. The size is small um and th these points are in the importance for the, for the marketing, these aren't i in how I feel. I think that it's I think that it's plenty small enough to sell but I think we're sort of right the scale is one to seven. I think we're sort of right in the middle as far
  Gary Adams: Okay.
  Micah Dennis: as c other competitors. And our colour I think is great. The colours are bright and warm and we really do great job there. And given um the constraints that we had I think we got it as soft as possible. And then functionality um I think you did a really good job on functionality, obviously we could have ad added different functions but then we'd disturb something else so I would say that we got to a five out of seven on on functionality. So
  Gary Adams: Okay.
  Micah Dennis: I think
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: that basically we've got a great product and we can get off and running with it.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: Um I just realised one thing.
  Micah Dennis: Yes.
  Larry Warren: In the financing there was no room for our voice recogniser.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: Ah.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: And uh I don't know how we can evaluate that or how we can include that, too.
  Micah Dennis: Well, um we had what, eight eight euros twenty as our cost?
  Larry Warren: Eight, eight twenty, yes.
  Samuel Vargas: Eight twenty
  Micah Dennis: And
  Samuel Vargas: so
  Micah Dennis: so we've got
  Samuel Vargas: We
  Micah Dennis: we've
  Samuel Vargas: have
  Micah Dennis: still
  Samuel Vargas: um
  Micah Dennis: got four euros
  Samuel Vargas: four
  Micah Dennis: to go
  Samuel Vargas: euros, yeah
  Micah Dennis: to spend.
  Larry Warren: I mean maximum we have another four point three euros
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: I mean four thirty.
  Micah Dennis: Well um that's
  Larry Warren: But I mean we have no way of presenting that to management as you know as a f finished, as a finished product and saying okay with the voice recogniser that costs so much.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: So um we just have to beware of that. I mean
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: and know whether the four thirty will really cover that.
  Micah Dennis: Well
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: as we know in today's technic technological world you can do just about anything at any price, the the the problem is quality.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: So we're just gonna have to settle for whatever quality
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Micah Dennis: that will buy
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Micah Dennis: us.
  Samuel Vargas: yeah.
  Gary Adams: yes.
  Micah Dennis: And um it may not be the greatest quality but it may sell anyway.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Larry Warren: Yeah.
  Samuel Vargas: still.
  Micah Dennis: As we've seen with so
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: many of these kinds of products.
  Larry Warren: I'm sorry to interrupt then but I just uh recog I just remembered that there was no that that was not um included
  Samuel Vargas: Included, yeah.
  Larry Warren: uh that there was no room for any
  Samuel Vargas: Hmm,
  Larry Warren: special features,
  Samuel Vargas: hmm
  Gary Adams: Yeah mm.
  Larry Warren: okay? So to beware of that. You wanna go to this next slide, marketing
  Micah Dennis: Uh,
  Larry Warren: expert?
  Micah Dennis: well I isn't this my last slide? Maybe.
  Larry Warren: I dunno.
  Micah Dennis: Go ahead.
  Larry Warren: Yes
  Micah Dennis: I think
  Larry Warren: it
  Micah Dennis: that
  Larry Warren: is.
  Micah Dennis: was my last slide, yeah.
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: Um. Mm okay. And I'm supposed to present this scale on the whiteboard. Um and we're supposed to talk about those things as a team now, so if you put my last slide back up there.
  Larry Warren: Oh.
  Micah Dennis: I'm sorry I've um forgot to do that, um.
  Larry Warren: Why? Wh why you need that up?
  Micah Dennis: Hmm? Well because I can't remember what I put on there. Okay. Now I'm supposed to see how long my leash is here.
  Larry Warren: I think you can make it there.
  Micah Dennis: Mm 'kay. You ready. So now we're all supposed to say what we think. Um okay so on shape I gave it a one. Wait what would you ra uh one being good and seven being the worst.
  Gary Adams: Worse, okay.
  Micah Dennis: Um what do you think the shape is?
  Gary Adams: One.
  Micah Dennis: One, okay, and Be Betsy?
  Larry Warren: Yes I think uh shape is one.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Micah Dennis: Okay, uh-huh
  Samuel Vargas: even my yeah, shape
  Micah Dennis: one,
  Samuel Vargas: is one.
  Micah Dennis: okay. And how about on size? On size
  Larry Warren: You you gave it a four.
  Micah Dennis: I gave it a four, yeah, I feel it's just average.
  Larry Warren: Um, I dunno. I think I would give it at least a two.
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Gary Adams: One.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah, even I think it is one.
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Samuel Vargas: It's quite small.
  Micah Dennis: Okay you're the designer, of course you wanna give it a one. Um and then how about how we doing on colour?
  Larry Warren: Colour uh I
  Micah Dennis: Colour, I gave it a one.
  Larry Warren: One.
  Micah Dennis: I really like all those nice bright, warm
  Larry Warren: I
  Micah Dennis: colours.
  Larry Warren: I like the colours.
  Gary Adams: One.
  Larry Warren: One.
  Micah Dennis: One.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah, one.
  Micah Dennis: One, one, one, okay. And how about the feel? Taking into um consideration texture and comfort in the hand.
  Larry Warren: Uh, I think I would give it a two.
  Micah Dennis: Okay, I gave it a three, two,
  Gary Adams: I'll
  Micah Dennis: yeah?
  Gary Adams: give three.
  Micah Dennis: Three.
  Samuel Vargas: Uh maybe two,
  Micah Dennis: Two, okay.
  Samuel Vargas: yeah.
  Micah Dennis: And the next is functionality where I I admit I was a little hard on our team here, but
  Larry Warren: Well it's also you can't really try it out uh
  Micah Dennis: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: the other things you have have more is are more tangible so
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: from that point of view but um I'll give it a three.
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Gary Adams: Two.
  Micah Dennis: Two, okay.
  Samuel Vargas: Uh three,
  Micah Dennis: Three?
  Samuel Vargas: mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: Okay. Well, um. It looks like we've got got ourselves a pretty good product. Um the functionality's the only place where maybe we have to think about m m maybe, heaven forbid, having another meeting.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: But um otherwise I think we're we're ready to go to go with this product. Anybody else have any other comments or any other things that we feel we should evaluate?
  Larry Warren: Uh. Here is what we looking at uh satisfaction on for example room for creativity. Um. Is there more room for creativity or are we absolutely happy?
  Samuel Vargas: Maybe
  Gary Adams: We can
  Samuel Vargas: we can
  Gary Adams: always improve, yes.
  Samuel Vargas: yeah, include some more buttons and
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Samuel Vargas: uh
  Gary Adams: features.
  Samuel Vargas: um yeah features. We can make the buttons few buttons smaller. Uh I think they are quite big, so I think I I mean we can just have small buttons and more buttons in that case. If we want to have more features than that.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm. Well then again if we're gonna um do the speech recognition thing
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: we're gon there gonna be some buttons that are gonna have to be added
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Micah Dennis: for that
  Samuel Vargas: definitely.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: for the recording of the the speech.
  Gary Adams: Voices.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: So that that's where we're gonna have to do maybe we can eliminate one of the mute buttons,
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah, definitely,
  Micah Dennis: instead
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: of having two mute
  Samuel Vargas: yeah,
  Micah Dennis: buttons.
  Samuel Vargas: two mu mute
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: And
  Samuel Vargas: buttons.
  Micah Dennis: um then maybe we can do something with the um the volume control. Maybe we can put that all on one button.
  Samuel Vargas: Hmm.
  Micah Dennis: Um and a couple of other th maybe comp uh consolidate some of the usage an and see what we can do with that.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: Y um al
  Gary Adams: And
  Larry Warren: always
  Gary Adams: maybe
  Larry Warren: bearing in mind that right now we are of course well within the budget
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: and that we still you know we probably can't, with this particular item, we probably can't just uh add a whole lot of more things.
  Micah Dennis: No.
  Larry Warren: Uh
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: um we need uh you know we need to leave space money-wise
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: for the voice recogniser.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Larry Warren: Um.
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: So th the question really is how do we feel with the project process? Uh, um are we happy with the creativity that has passed here or we're not happy with the new product we created or that was created? Uh I think personally I think uh I'm pretty happy.
  Micah Dennis: I'm pretty happy with
  Samuel Vargas: Even
  Micah Dennis: it
  Larry Warren: Um
  Micah Dennis: too,
  Samuel Vargas: I'm
  Micah Dennis: yeah
  Samuel Vargas: happy.
  Micah Dennis: um, it's
  Larry Warren: an
  Micah Dennis: something I think I can market.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Micah Dennis: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: and then the next question is are we happy with the leadership of this project? Uh
  Micah Dennis: I think you've done a good job, Miss
  Gary Adams: Yes,
  Micah Dennis: leader.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Gary Adams: yes you've
  Samuel Vargas: yeah,
  Gary Adams: done
  Samuel Vargas: definitely.
  Larry Warren: And
  Gary Adams: a good job.
  Larry Warren: I think team work I think was very very good,
  Micah Dennis: Yeah
  Larry Warren: I
  Micah Dennis: I
  Larry Warren: think
  Micah Dennis: d
  Samuel Vargas: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: I
  Larry Warren: we
  Micah Dennis: do
  Larry Warren: really
  Micah Dennis: too I think we
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: yeah.
  Micah Dennis: worked well together as a team, yeah.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: Mm-hmm.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: And uh I think we are we happy with the means we used? We used whiteboard, we didn't use digital p well digital pens I guess are these things.
  Micah Dennis: Yeah maybe we could've used the whiteboard
  Gary Adams: Whiteboard
  Micah Dennis: a little
  Gary Adams: more,
  Micah Dennis: bit more,
  Gary Adams: yes,
  Micah Dennis: yeah,
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Micah Dennis: we
  Samuel Vargas: probably.
  Micah Dennis: didn't use
  Larry Warren: Yes,
  Micah Dennis: that
  Gary Adams: yes.
  Micah Dennis: enough.
  Larry Warren: we could. Uh, it's maybe not in the best position in the room um you know like sometimes it's positioned so that it's much better visible for everybody
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: and I think from that point of view we sort of ignored it a little bit.
  Micah Dennis: And we
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: used the slide because it was better positioned.
  Larry Warren: Yes,
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: I think so,
  Gary Adams: No.
  Larry Warren: I think
  Micah Dennis: Mm
  Larry Warren: absolutely,
  Micah Dennis: I think that's true
  Larry Warren: and
  Micah Dennis: mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: fortunately we all had slides presentation which made it a little easier.
  Samuel Vargas: Hmm.
  Gary Adams: Yes.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: Um did we new did we find new ideas? I think we did.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah,
  Micah Dennis: I think we were
  Samuel Vargas: many.
  Micah Dennis: we were very good,
  Larry Warren: I
  Micah Dennis: yeah,
  Larry Warren: think
  Micah Dennis: mm.
  Larry Warren: we we did, uh in more than one respect
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: and uh so I think we did very well here.
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Larry Warren: Are the costs within budget? Yes, yes. Uh is the project evaluated?
  Micah Dennis: Yes, yes.
  Larry Warren: Yes.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: Um
  Micah Dennis: Celebration.
  Larry Warren: then celebration.
  Gary Adams: Cel celebration yes,
  Samuel Vargas: Ah.
  Gary Adams: yes.
  Micah Dennis: Today we have apple juice and after we sell m million of 'em we have champagne.
  Larry Warren: So I I thank you all very much. Um, I think this was very good
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: and
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: um I think we did come up with a new product that's uh feasible.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: Feasible from the production point of view and feasible from a marketing point of view.
  Micah Dennis: Mm-hmm.
  Larry Warren: So,
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Samuel Vargas: Yeah.
  Larry Warren: thank you.
  Gary Adams: Thank
  Samuel Vargas: Thank you
  Gary Adams: you.
  Samuel Vargas: very
  Micah Dennis: Okay.
  Samuel Vargas: much.
  Micah Dennis: Watch I I have my cord behind you
  Gary Adams: Okay.
  Micah Dennis: here. Okay.
  Larry Warren: I always get it on here, but getting it off is
  Samuel Vargas: Do we do we have some time left? Uh you have
  Gary Adams: They say it's forty minutes.
  Larry Warren: Ah yes
  Micah Dennis: But
  Larry Warren: we have time later but we don't
  Micah Dennis: we we were told we could end the final meeting at any time,
  Gary Adams: Okay.
  Samuel Vargas: Oh, alright.
  Micah Dennis: whenever we felt we were finished. It'll take Micah Dennis the rest of the time to get my microphone out from my necklace. Oh, there we go.
Updated Content: Larry Warren opens the meeting by going over the minutes of the last meeting, detailing the main points of each person's presentation. They do the prototype presentation which includes a model of the remote control. The group discusses this proposed model, approving of the small size and look of it. They goes over finances and are pleased to find that they are well within budget. However, while Micah Dennis is doing the product evaulation the group realizes that they neglected to calculate voice recognition into the financing. Their cost had been 8.20 Euros and they have  4.30 left to cover it, so they decide to settle for whatever quality it will buy. They rate their product on its shape, size, color, feel, and functionality. They discuss the project process, talk briefly about adding more features, and one member suggests eliminating a mute buttons and include a diffferent feature. They are happy with the creativity, leadership, and teamwork within the group, and close the meeting by thanking one another.