19. Invention, intellectual property and income

This Weeks’ Task:

Individual Assignment

1. Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project.
2. Prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) and put them in your root directory.

Plan

The idea was first generated to be a coaster that reheats beverages. With further research and creativity into the fablab environment, the design got modified to a bigger scale device which looks almost similar to a coffee machine.

I came up with this idea because I like to have my beverages quite warm wherever during working hours since I tend to forget about them while working. Thermostats used to do the job up to a certain time but would eventually cool down.

For the future, I’m thinking of modifying my design to incorporate a larger scale of cups with different sizes by developing a mechanism which will be able to provide the flexibility in adjusting the top lid on top of the mug, depending on the users mug. My target is to develop my design in such a way that it would suitable for homes, offices, hotels, airports etc.

In order to achieve this, I will first test out my current device non-commercially to different environment. This would help in gathering different informations and perspectives which will allow me to enhance the device even more.

Finally looking at it from a business perspective, licensing is a must. I will be looking into fablab licence or the MIT license. With MIT, licensing anything could be done as long as I include the original copyrights.

Here is the poster of my project

And this is a video showing how I did my project