April 13 Innovators

We’re moving again — being a nomad is FUN!  Our April 13 event (#MIN25) will be held at an exciting NEW location!  Continuum and VideoLink are jointly hosting the April event at their super-cool offices at 1220 and 1230 (same building) Washington Street in West Newton.  (You’ve probably passed their building while heading West on the Mass Pike.)

Not only are we going to have totally awesome video of the event but we’ll be hanging out in Continuum’s super-cool “Hall of Products You Wish You Invented”! You’ll get to meet the source of hundreds of cool new products like the Swiffer and the Reebok Pump.  Plus, VideoLink will be offering tours of their TV studios.  (Who knows who we’ll see going in to appear live “via satellite” on CNN and other major networks.)  There’s also plenty of free parking in the garage right behind the building and on-street parking too.

In keeping with the product design theme, we leaned heavily toward the “real” products side and collected a group of really neat new physical products (and other cool stuff too.   Our event opens at 6:00 pm, presentations at 7:00 and we party ’till 8:30 when we head out to an after-party at “The Local” (the bar just down the street).  Join us!  And, speaking of partying,  because you asked, #MIN24 was our second “birth”day but #min25 is the second anniversary of our first event.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Check out the cool new products (below)
2. Vote for the four companies you’d like to see present (VOTING CLOSED)
3. RSVP (easy to do here!)
4. Come to our live event on April 13
5. Make some noise to support local innovation – blog, tweet (#min25), post pictures or videos!

Here are this month’s new products:

• Carpet Workroom – remnants made into finished rugs
• Leveraged freedom chair – Continuum and MIT partner to bring a wheelchair to people with disabilities throughout the world
• MassDevice – News service for medical devices
• Memory on Hand – USB Flash Drive Bracelet
• Mouthwatchers – Antibacterial nano-silver toothbrush with patented flossing bristles
• New England Bike Expo – EVENT, May 7th-8th Arts at the Armory Somerville
• Parachute Dog – Dog Waste Bag Kit
• ReadyCam 2.0 – Remotely-Controlled Broadcast Quality Video Solution
• Skedtime – Social Influence Marketing
• ThunderLily - Crowd-sourcing fashion