Alex Dobrenko

However, this made me ponder how might we evaluate hardware nowadays. In my view, there are three main segments:

• Reinventing: creating new paradigms through new forms, while replacing existing models of thinking and doing.
  
  
  e.g. TV, Smartphones, Laptops, GPS


• Improving: repackaging or wrapping a known experience into a familiar form.
  
  

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People are looking for more meaningful narratives and communities than brands can offer, and companies want to supply this “meaning demand”—but are structurally disincentivized to do so.

In 1979, Casio made a pocket calculator that doubled as a cigarette lighter, also known as the ‘calculighter’

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One day three decades ago, inside a treehouse in Utah, a child actor named Patrick Renna uttered one of the most iconic lines in baseball movie history.

Turns out it was actually a mistake.

Renna played Hamilton “Ham” Porter, a portly, red-headed catcher in “The Sandlot,” the cult classic released 30 years ago. Written by director David Mickey Evans... See more