[Gta04-owner] Invitation to indicate interest in next batch ofGTA04A5 boards

[Boudewijn]

On 4-4-2013 15:51, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> According to my view, to be successful by crowdfunding, we need to "sell" some
> new idea that is unique and not yet worked out. E.g. an Octocore LTE Phablet
> (but that has already been rumoured to come from Samsung) and we are
> not able to get the required technology for it into our hands.
We can't, unless we bluff. Probably that's done in most marketing, but 
there the percentage of bluff is decided upon behind closed doors, and 
the public story is more or less coherent. That way does not fit our 
vision and makes the preposition clearly "uninteresting" or "unrealistic".

Even if we came with a device with two octocore chips, its ahead of the 
crowd (no pun intended) but not revolutionary. Depending on how polished 
our renderings and descriptions are though, we'd probably get more press 
coverage and, depending on the price point, more orders.

Phones are getting bigger, so people may not be upset if our next model 
was indeed the volume (but different form factor) of the original "1973".

I still like the idea of building blocks, and with greater dimensions 
some (green) bio-ethanol-fuel-cell could be possible as one option of 
"power block". The others being li-ion as option and plain old cold 
fusion unit as an upgrade. The blocks can use a variety of (view) output 
blocks (lcd, e-ink, retina scan display, head-up display unit for in 
your plane or car, or head mounted goggles and so on) via wireless/nfc, 
either magnetically clicked on or at a distance.

Don't get me started on input options, sensors and other outputs ;-)

Two things are important some way, I think:
* in case of crowd-funding: aim much further than seems realistic at the 
moment (I think we did for GTA04 and I think we achieved it), and
* spew as many crazy ideas on the mailinglist as defensive patent portfolio.

Best wishes,

Boudewijn