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Growing demand has Titan hiring, expanding
8/29/2008
"Inventables is a company that helps consumer products companies innovate"
Osman Ozcanli - Winner International Young Design Entrepreneur
7/9/2008
The award ceremony of the International Young Design Entrepreneur Competition, which was held in Turkey for the first time, with the collaboration of the British Council and Istanbul Modern Museum, took place at the British Consulate. Osman Can Ozcanly received the first prize for his innovative designs.
Creating the next hot gadget
9/11/2007
"Companies pay big bucks to develop new products and Inventables, LLC. helps those companies do just that."
Inventables Looks to the 2.0 of Products
9/5/2007
"Inventables is a company that scouts trade shows, combs the Internet and studies specialty publications to find cool new ways to improve already existing products. Companies pay up to $250,000 a year to subscribe to a directory of Inventables' ideas."
Custom Kicks
5/1/2007
Create profits through product innovation. "The concept ever walk into a party and see someone with the same shoes? Reclaim your unique style by pulling out your phone and beaming a new pattern to your feet....Although the sneaks are just a concept, the screen technology is real. Nike, are you listening?"
Inventables on NBC 5 News
1/23/2007
NBC's Art Norman talks about innovation with Inventables.
Just Add Inspiration
12/1/2006
Four times a year, Chicago-based Inventables sends A-list companies such as Boeing, Motorola and Nike a package of 20 gizmos with "unexpected properties." Although some customers incorporate them as is into products, that's not the point, says cofounder Zachary Kaplan, 27. The idea is to inspire innovative thinking by giving inventors unusual technologies and suggesting jump-off applications.
Innovate or Die
11/28/2006
"Some companies are essentially outsourcing some of their innovation. The article, "Just Add Inspiration," explains how a small design company, Inventables, has lined up a number of big clients, including Motorola, Nike and Boeing. Four times a year, Inventables sends them materials and "gizmos" with some very cool — and often amazing — properties."
Tool: Materials Are Hot
9/23/2006
"Inventables, a product innovation consultancy, sends out materials to a client list that includes Motorola, Samsung and General Motors. They contain the latest new materials, preselected and offered up as a springboard for "Eureka!" moments."
Touchy-feely
6/12/2006
During a leisurely walk in 1948, noticing how cockle-burrs stuck to his clothing, Swiss engineer George de Mestral invented Velcro. These days, product development teams are expected to brainstorm at their desks. Enter Chicago-based Inventables.
Gadgets to Go
6/5/2006
"Griffin Technology of Nashville successfully found a new use for an Inventables item. Robert Donovan, vice president of design at Griffin, was intrigued last year when he received an Inventables box holding, among other things, a tape dispenser with a small adhesive base. He stuck the device, with its sticky microsuction material, to the side of his cubicle. The material is now a key part of Griffin's popular iTrip, an FM radio transmitter that can be used with Apple's iPod Nano."
I see ... I see ... the future of toast
5/17/2006
Meanwhile, why can't we buy any Transparent Toasters yet?
"We don't make products," explains Inventables technology envisioner Osman Ozcanli. "We help design departments in corporations by educating them about new materials," in this case, a transparent coating that conducts electricity.
Geniuses Show They Care at TED
2/28/2006
The TED conference has always been about bringing together ideas from various disciplines, and this year was no different ... Inventables, a Chicago firm that scours the planet to find new materials for product designers, demonstrated Elastolite, a thin, flexible electroluminescent product from Oryon Technologies that has light-emitting phosphors connected to a small power pack.
ESPN
1/3/2006
ESPN asks visionaries Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht to dream up how technology could change sports in the year 2015. (Check out ideas 6, 17, 19, 21, 22 and 30.) ESPN asks visionaries Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht to dream up how technology could change sports in the year 2015. (Check out ideas 6, 17, 19, 21, 22 and 30.)
Business Week Online
12/28/2005
Business Week has named Keith Schacht one of the Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25.
Inman News
7/28/2005
Audience gifted, doused, delighted by Inventables — company finds offbeat inventions and puts them to use
ID Magazine
6/1/2004
Thinking Outside the Box - Inventables packages materials and ideas and delivers them to your doorstep
Chicago Tribune
10/13/2003
free registration required Fresh ideas come naturally from the developments we research
Plastics News
6/11/2003
Plastics that look like metal and other novel materials and technologies