The company brings along wireless sharing know-how from its Hotspot product to the project, and promises that with every connection you combine, you'll get a corresponding bump in throughput.
In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
Avaya, which creates communications tools for businesses, has also borrowed know-how developed for games for a product called web.alive, which allows people to hold meetings and conferences in a virtual environment, using avatars.
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Advances in computer know-how -- the ability to "reverse engineer" almost any product -- mean that as soon as a luxury product develops a cachet there will be a band of forgers with the technology and resources to copy it.
In fact, the last "groundbreaking" mobile product in recent memory was the Atrix 4G and its accompanying LapDock -- and we all know how that turned out in the end.
Technical development is resulting in a gradual loss of traditional know-how, and tourism is jeopardizing the Gelede by turning it into a folklore product.
There is a common misconception that great ideas come from a blank sheet of paper, but this is simply not true - good developers will come up with better, smarter product designs if they know what they are trying to achieve and where they can look for existing know-how.
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