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Last week I did a series of Entrepreneurial workshops in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland. These were organized by NZTE, Unlimited Potential and Connect. (thank you)
It was great to spend 3+ hours diving deep into topics such as Funding, Marketing, IP, Organisational Design, that first sale etc.
We had a huge turnout in Christchurch at over 30 people. I love that they actually make real things down there!
And they seem to have the basis for a Hi-Tech Lighting cluster. I was generously given two very cool bits of light related swag. (I love swag!)
Simon at 2CLight.com has a really slick solar powered baseball cap with inbuilt LED lighting. Now that sounds incredibly geeky but they are actually quite cool.
The caps have a really slick molded plastic peak that houses the liteweight solar panel, dual LED’s and multi-function switch. It’s a clever bit of design, engineering and packaging.
Give your geek one these for Christmas or even better get a few made up for Trade Shows. Some New Zealand New Thinking branded ones would be great for CeBit next month.
Another possible member of a Cantabrian Lighting Cluster is Mike at Exelite. They have an electro-luminescent light that can be seen from a distance of over 600 metres.
“The illumination created by Exelite is radio frequency generated light rather than conventional incandescent light so the generated spectrum beam is visible in its original form through fog, smoke, and rain.” I didn’t know I needed that before - but I do now.
Coming from the virtual software space it was cool to see a number of companies making really neat hardware (or even Lightware in these two examples).
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