New Product Ideas Ideas
Computers for Autistic Children
New Product Ideas submitted by eitniears
Apr 29
Hello, my son, Ian is 6 years old and has Autism spectrum disorder. One of the characteristics of autism is restricted interests. Well, my sons' interest is quite restricted to computers!!
And his brand of choice is DELL.
We have purchased him about 5 different VTech brand computers for kids. He masters them almost immediately and gets frustrated because he likes WORD so he can type.
It would be awesome if DELL made challenging computers for kids , especially kids with autism.
This was in fact Ian's idea. He desperately wants a DELL computer of his own, a LAPTOP!!! He is very specific. I recently purchased a new Dell Desktop sytem and let the kids have my old DELL. Well, Ian is tired of it and now wants a Laptop.
He is so funny.
Please consider doing something for kids on the autism spectrum that are interested in computers!
Thank you!
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PORTA
New Product Ideas submitted by brianahier
May 5
I would like for Dell to develop an ultra-portable (maybe named the Porta :-) that is roughly the size of a smartphone which has the processing power of a good laptop, and can also function as a telephone. This device might also have the ability to connect to a dock at the base of a monitor which would also allow for network connectivity and peripheral attachments. I would replace my three desktop computers with this device. Of course, I could back up the device “in the cloud” and carry my computer with me everywhere…
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Multi-battery dock-station
New Product Ideas, Laptop Power submitted by pell
Apr 18
Introduce a device user can plug a lot of battaries to. The device has a power cord plugged to laptop (for example, as second CD/DVD-slot battery). It can looks like a dock-station with 4 or even more battery slots. It uses the same laptop's type batteries.
Moreover, the device can be equipped with charger to charge a lot of battaries simultaneously.
It can be useful for a long presentations, out-of-office work, etc.
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One PC with many "bodies"
New Product Ideas, Simplify IT submitted by gbfabiani
Apr 8
I would be very pleased to have one disk ( or SSD) to move from my laptop to my home pc or from my laptop to a mini-laptop when I travel .
This way user will have always the same computer with him ( operating system, programs, data, configurations) , one only PC to care configuration and updating about , but many "pc bodies" depending on where he likes to use the pc .
It is not a shortcut to avoid to pay more than one OS licence , it will be fine to pay one licence each "body" pc used even it will not be possible a contemporary use of all pc's bodies, but I feel it will be terrific not to have anymore 3 different environments and to miss always sometyng every time on each separate machine.
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Electronic copy-book
Education, New Product Ideas, Laptops submitted by pell
Apr 21
Introduce a two-displays electronic copy-book. Imagine an A5 format opened copy-book. The left half is a TFT touch screen used for navigate through textbooks, manuals, documentations, dictionaries and so on. The right half is an e-Ink touch screen user can write on and then store his writings.
It is equipped with wireless interface to access a school or colledge or unversity library. It can be integrated into a class network to take part in co-educational tasks or testing. Its functionality can be limited by teacher via wireless interface during testing.
I suppose that such a device may be userfull in some other areas. For example business meetings or training courses or even quick notes in a wide variety of applications.
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eSATA Notebook Support
New Product Ideas, Servers and Storage, Laptops submitted by rdahbura
06/09/07
I'd like to see eSATA support on Dell notebooks and/or port replicators. It would be the ideal solution for fast, large external storage support over the current USB 2.0 option.
Here are the transfer rate specs:
eSATA - 3 GB/sec
USB 2.0 - 480 MB/sec
FireWire 400 - 400 MB/sec
I'm not sure why some have voted down this idea. It's a simple addition. Notebooks already support SATA.
If you vote down the idea, please post a comment explaining why.
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Fast Flash
New Product Ideas submitted by sean22
12/30/07
You know that sata is very fast well what if you created a usb flash drive with a eSATA conector on it you could transfer huge amounts of data so fast. like 3 gbps second not mbps
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Use DisplayPort
Desktops, Monitors and Displays, New Product Ideas submitted by i.peters
06/06/07
I read something on your website:
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/innovation/en/cto_display_...
About a "DisplayPort" thing that you can connect power, USB and display in a all in one digital interface, great idea, i agree that monitor connection needs a new technology. Now you need to use that technology, get it through development and get it out there before another company (like apple) will snatch it up and it will be the "next big thing".
But when it is developed make it able to transfer a lot of info and have UPnP. Make it so that your monitor can have a display, USB ports, web cam, microphone, speakers and a disc drive (yes, that's right implement a disc drive [HD DVD or Blue-ray] into the monitor so that the tower can be stashed under a desk, but still has the ability to be taken apart and add something like a bigger hard drive or something). Also (maybe) make it so that your monitor can be powered by that cord too, so that there is only one cord. If not and in your tests you end up with melted motherboards, two cords is still pretty good.
But the point is that you should get that all into effect soon and than I think that this could be the next big thing.
PS - Make sure people know about it, ADVERTISE IT!!!
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The "Patriot" 2.0. Made in the customer's country.
Dell, New Product Ideas submitted by jmxz
Apr 30
This is a variation of today's earlier "The_Patriot_American_Made Idea.
We live in a global marketplace with a global economy; and note that International Growth is extremely important for Dell. In 2006, Dell saw growth in Asia as sales in Korea, India and China rose by 54%, 40% and 29%, compared to I think 6% growth total sales. Dell spoke of 74 percent growth in Brazil. International sales continue to be a strong growth driver for Dell, and rather than any single-country-specific initiative, Dell should see how such projects could apply globally.
This idea is very similar to the earlier one linked, and the submitter worded it well, so I'll put quotes around the original text I'm copying.
Many Dell customers "are still very proud to be AMERICAN." - but even more Dell customers are proud to be citizens of whatever their respective country may be. " I would very much like to see Dell produce a laptop called the "Patriot". This machine should be" made in the country that the customer is a citizen of", and it should have a couple of really cool and patriotic color options.
color option 1 - camo with the end users choice of military logos
color option 2 - the "Country of the Customer's citizenship"
I see this type of laptop as an opportunity for Dell to give back a little to the people and the countr"ies" that made it possible to be DELL.
I would also like to see a portion of every patriot laptop sold dedicated to a charity that specifically supports wounded soldiers and their families" -- perhaps soldiers from the country of whom the Customer is a citizen; or perhaps charities supporting wounded soldiers and families from all countries in which Dell does business.
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Separate the "engine" and the "instrument panel"!
New Product Ideas, Desktops and Laptops submitted by drothman
04/20/07
If computers were cars, they would be cars with almost everything under the hood and almost nothing on the dash! When operating a car, would you want to have to get out and open the hood every time you want to turn the ignition on or off, change a DVD, or connect a cigarette lighter plug?
Obviously not. But that's in fact pretty much how most computers are designed.
If Dell or another innovative manufacturer were to think outside the box, they would realize that computers could be designed more like cars, with the "engine" stuff (motherboard, hard drive, etc.) "under the hood" (i.e., in the main case placed under or next to your desk) and the "instrument panel" stuff (on/off button, memory card slots, USB and other ports, etc.) "on the dash" (i.e., in a small enclosure that sits on your desktop for more convenient access).
These two sub-systems could easily be linked together with a cable to create one computer system that fits, to borrow a term from the user interface design or usability engineering fields, the "user model".
More expensive? Perhaps a little bit. But considerably more convenient and user friendly? You say.
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There's apparently a new "fastest chip on earth" - sell servers and workstations with them.
Dell, New Product Ideas submitted by jmxz
Apr 10
This sounds interesting:
IBM chip is fastest on Earth
IBM Corp. began shipping high-end computers Tuesday built around the fastest chip on Earth, a microprocessor that can carry out up to 5 billion instructions per second, surpassing the speediest competing processors built by rivals like Intel or Sun Microsystems. Selling servers and workstations with such chips might have a number of advantages:
- Microsoft can't accuse you of contributing to Windows piracy if you sell these with No OS
- It'd help you compete against HP (who gets special advantages with Itanium thanks to their initial work on the chip), Sun and Fujitsu (who each have their high-end sparc lines; and IBM (who of course uses this chip)
- It'd probably make for a more fun Intel negotiation.
- All the old Apple guys who were vehemently anti-Intel might switch to you
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A computer with an internal clock that can turn it self ON at scheduled times.
Environment, New Product Ideas submitted by jmxz
12/11/07
To save power I'd like to turn my computer off or hibernate or suspend it when not in use.
However I also have some scheduled tasks I'd really like to run.
My always on computer does everything from installing security patches in the middle of the night; to checking my stocks and email every few minutes.
Could a Dell desktop have an internal clock that can turn itself on at a programmable time. If so, I could even use the computer as an alarm clock.
A feature with a number of turn on times would be nice "power yourself on at 12:00 midnight, and also 6:30 am". Normal software could handle the "if it's the middle of the night and the computer's idle shut down after the security updates are done" or "if it's 6:30, play music like an alarm clock".
Also nice would be a "if suspended, wake up every half hour" feature whereby my computer could do my email, stocks, etc checking; and alert me (play a loud sound so I hear it even when I'm away from it; and/or send my cell phone an I/M) if there's anything I should react to.
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Dell EEE-alike - using VIA CN or ARM processors for exceptional (8+) battery life
New Product Ideas, Laptops submitted by mandarinka
Mar 27
This has been suggested a number of times, but I would like to stress some points, that, in my opinion would make for a unique product.
1. The device must have better-than-laptop class battery life. That means 6 to 8 hours and more under normal (not full) load on a standard battery. The battery unit must be a quality one - it is supposed to retain a significant poriton of capacity over two or three years, not like the Asus/Acer "disposables" :)
2. 9"-10" LCD; Keep the borders tiny, the size of the device should stay as small as it can (size overshoot with small display is a blight of all the new lowend subnotebooks). LED backlight to reduce power draw.
3. Use a real lowpower CPU - the new and supposedly high-performance Via CN (Isaiah) comes to mind.
4. Alternatively, use an ARM core: this could lead to MUCH longer battery life (using laptop-class battery). Cortex-A9 (or Cortex-A9 MPCore) CPU could offer performance on par with lowend x86 CPUs.
5. The chipset of the computer should have some video processing unit integrated for low power usage (= long battery life) video playback. A mobile chip capable of this (aside of being an integrated GPU and ARM11 CPU) is nVidia APX 2500; supposedly able of playing 10hours of video from a cellphonne battery. It is also 720p resolution capable.
6. OS capability: Windows CE, WIndows mobile, or Linux (good choice: provides easy portabiltiy of open-spource applications).
The result would be PC class minilaptop suitable for work/browsing/entertainment/e-book reading etc... for extended period of time in schools, planes, trains, or generall on the go.
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Get rid of BIOS, use EFI
New Product Ideas, Desktops and Laptops submitted by joeaguy
02/19/07
Why are PC makers so slow to swith from BIOS to EFI? Apple did it with their Intel macs, and there are tons of reports that Windows runs faster on a Mac under BootCamp than with equivalent PC hardware. There is something to be said for their simpler EFI based hardware architecture helping speed. If Microsoft is the big hold up here, surely PC makers can put some pressure on. The PC needs to shed all of the old tech that is still in the spec.
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MODULAR LAPTOP (Swappable Screens)
Monitors and Displays, New Product Ideas, Laptops submitted by labtroll
03/13/07
Laptop consisting of two modular parts: (1) Body (2)The Screen
1) Ability to buy an ultra-portable and be able to change the display size without lugging around a giant laptop. The larger screen will have it's own power supply and can also stand-alone.
<tab>possible uses:
a) laptop on the go, but can be use around home with larger screen swapped in and still portable around home. (battery power might also be included with screen)
b)Meeting with clients, and screen is too small... swap a bigger screen... or use it stand-alone (has it's own power).</tab>
2)PDA sized laptop, and just carry larger screen with you. No need to pull out a big laptop all the time. Just slap on the larger screen when needed. (keyboard optional too)
3) Removing screen for a clean docking into a desktop to act as extra storage or auto synchronizing/backing-up of data. (adding processing power may also be possible)
4) External optical drives: have some ability to just "clip and lock" onto the laptop for better "integrated" feel.
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