Comments on: New High-Tech Skate Blade Fail to Impress http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/02/10/new-high-tech-skate-blade-fail-to-impress/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:40:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mark Kaufmann http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/02/10/new-high-tech-skate-blade-fail-to-impress/#comment-44771 Mark Kaufmann Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:26:28 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/02/10/new-high-tech-skate-blade-fail-to-impress/#comment-44771 I wish the NHL would step up and ban some of these new products and preserve their traditions like baseball did. Guys should still be using real lumber and the heated skate blade should be banned even if it is a gimmick. I wish the NHL would step up and ban some of these new products and preserve their traditions like baseball did. Guys should still be using real lumber and the heated skate blade should be banned even if it is a gimmick.

]]> By: E Guy http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/02/10/new-high-tech-skate-blade-fail-to-impress/#comment-44587 E Guy Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:38:00 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/02/10/new-high-tech-skate-blade-fail-to-impress/#comment-44587 This issue is not restricted to technology. Business 101 suggests that "new" is useless unless "new" converts to something better (lower costs of production, more value for the consumer to enable more demand or higher prices). Clearly for these skates, the consumer saw little additional value. However, I think it can be said that too many technology geeks build something new without considering the end use or the expected demand for the end product. This issue is not restricted to technology. Business 101 suggests that “new” is useless unless “new” converts to something better (lower costs of production, more value for the consumer to enable more demand or higher prices). Clearly for these skates, the consumer saw little additional value.

However, I think it can be said that too many technology geeks build something new without considering the end use or the expected demand for the end product.

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