From: yaniv vilnai (yaniv_vi_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2001-08-14 07:03:11
hey people
i wanted to start the work on demonstartion to universities .
so i'll write how i see this isues , what we wnat to achieve , problems , etc .
what our goals with contact with universities are :
get more poeple to know about us ,. and especailly serious people in electronics , psychology etc .
get more poeple to work with us (h.w. - s.w. ) from academic staff, students
solve legal problems (get to know poeple from university who would help in this)
help advance brain research and nfb research by this contacts
the means to achieve this
1.show universities what we have done so far
allow them to have easy acess to our machine , at low cost .
##currently as i have spoken with jeorg , ther'es a posibility to purchase the device at $250 .
it's pretty far form the goal of $100 , but if and when it would b emanufactored in u.s.a it would cost around
$100-$150 , so the question is do we tell the universities to buy the device currently at $250 , ad show them the
possibility of getting it to public at $100-$150 but telling them it would take more time , or waiting before the demo ,
working all the thing s needed for manufactoring in u.s.a ? i prefer to go now , and tell them currently they can
buy it at $250 and explain how the price would be reduced . what do you think ?
BTW, jeorg , is all the manufactoring information , including box ,etc , is ready at the website ?
please send me the address again , cause i think i have lost it .
##we need to tell universities how to buy the machine , and we need to figure it out ourselfs .
the best possible option if they send the money to jeorg , but jeorg , do you have a company they can
send it only to the company and in case of something went wrong they can come to you ?
how generally this things are done ?
##we need to write some legal liability note that would be sufficent in the case of the universities .
again it's much eaiser then for general people , but still we have to do it right .
a question for waldemar (who made contact with universities for the purpose of legal help )-
can you ifnd some legal help from some univerisity who would help us in this simple task ?
anybody else can find ?
(BTW this version could be only worked with laptop , because it doesn't conform to iec601-1 .it's safe
and isolated , but...)
##when they buy it , they need to have all the design in box , with all the essential accessories , like
electrodes for example . or maybe we could the where to buy accessories (less prefered ) ?
joerg , what do you do now for electrodes , how much it cost , etc...1?
allow them easy acess to the software .
should be on our web site in the demo . 1
allow them easy acess to design info
linked from the demo .
2.tell universities of our plans
the web site ? some kind of specail section of the web site for universites ? some specail section about the demo ?
in this section we should write our goals , where we are so far now , and what we excpect from cooperation with
univerisites .
anybody with good writing skills volunteers ?
rob , care to do it ? i think you 're maybe the best guy for this
3. define things we need to do in the future (task list ) and put in or near the demo information
so the univerisites would have acess to it , and wuold know what kinf od help we need .
task list :
#get a finished version , iec601-1 conforming ( irda option should be decided in future ) .
#testing of 10 units
#solving legal problems
#work on open source software
#work on marketing ,raising awareness , etc .
#make contact with american manufactorers , and have them sell the device at lowest possible cost .
#work on source for low cost electrodes
so this is basicly the work that needs to be done for demoing for universities .
please share comments , ideas , etc .
sincerly , yaniv vilnai
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