Dish Network Ad-Wiping DVR

Dish Network is now offering subscribers a DVR–called The Hopper–that has an “Auto-Hop” feature skip commercials for prime time television.

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Harry Potter eBooks Free For Kindle Prime Subscribers

Amazon has just begun to offer free eBooks from the Harry Potter series through it’s Kindle Lending Library that is available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Amazon Prime members pay $79 a year for free shipping, free access to many of Amazon’s streaming video titles, and free eBook checkouts from the company’s lending library program. Found…

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Flavor Branding

Wrigley brands parking tickets in Germany with mint flavor to promote its Extra Professional gum.

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Product Design

PBS explores three aspects of product design: build quality and engineering fundamentals, humanism and sustainability, and speculation on the future of the product experience.

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