Connecting physical objects with digital experiences by John Boucard

Having been involved in creating many kinds of technology platforms that link and associate physical objects with digital experiences, I have been considering lately how to further aggregate and easily serve unique content with products and objects that the consumer may already have in their home or play room.

I was thinking about the wealth of digital content that encircles brands and even specific products under these brands.

Imagine being able to activate and continue to receive "digital toys" or highly crafted experiences around toys or objects that you use to create a product or play with daily.

With an embedded vision recognition module that could easily be accessed users, relevant digital content could be activated to inspire children and even parents to further interact with the brand.

I think it's a big idea and I call it Pixel Search.

More later.

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John Boucard creates Interactive Stickers

I have been fascinated lately with the ability to recall specific memories that I create easily and affordably.

A few years ago I had approached a large social expression company with the concept of interactive stickers that have the ability to recall specific memories from a selection of beautifully designed stickers and adhesive badges.  This small machine can also communicate with other embedded devices, computers, SmartPhones, and Slates.

The interactive stickers would be used to activate stored memories from what I call the STORYBOX Platform.

I have built several embodiments of this StoryBox.

Wait until you see what I am going to do with it next!

More later...

Cheers,
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John Boucard reinvents the recordable greeting card

With other low quality recordable greeting cards you might as well be trying to have a speaker phone conversation in the middle of a  blizzard, but with LifeCard, you'll be amazed at the crystal clear sound fused into the micro miniature talking card. 

I have electrincally engineered a super thin sound machine that is thin enough to be embedded into a business card.  We have designed the ability to record one to one marketing messages into the card and easily activate them with a touch of a button.

Link:  http://lifecards.me

Interactive iGingerbread House by John Boucard

I always get creative around the holidays and have a little free time on my hands.
This year I wanted to create something special.


I bought a $6 "old fashioned" gingerbread house from Wilton.  I like this company quite a bit.  They do have the best gingerbread house to build with the kids....but, as usual, it just wasn't enough for me to have a regular craft.  I bought the Gingerbread house at Michale's locally.

One thing I have noticed about Michale's.....they have slowly begun to make ALL of thier own products and squueze out the other craft companies in favor of their own relections line and other wholly owened products throughout the store.

For Christmas, I wanted to create something interactive and fun to use.  Let's call it the "iGingerbread House" !

John Boucard reinvents the Secret Decoder Ring

Here you can see the hero and villain secret decoder rings

Controlling armies with a wave of the hand used to be the exclusive domain of emperors and warlords. But thanks to the inventiveness of high tech whiz inventor John Boucard and the creative genius of Stan Lee, now anyone can use their meathooks to conduct a massive superhero battle on-line.

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John Boucard invents new touch tech interactive brochures and social expression products

 

John Boucard has invented new PaperClix technology that can be easily embedded into recordable greeting cards or marketing brochures that allows anyone to simply touch anywhere on a custom graphic and record a personal / business message.

Addtitonally, users can plug paperClix enabled products into a computer to simply drag and drop audio segments onto an extremely thin flat surface and activate them simply by touching graphics.

John Boucard: "I am extremely excited about paperclix technology and the ability to re-envision interactive paper for personal and business use."

PaperClix technology is currently being developed in conjuntion with LifeCards.Me

John Boucard develops LIFESTREAM, a unique system that melds life events with physical objects.

John Boucard's new technology platform (code named Lifestream) has three core elements: a website, software supplements, and hardware extensions.  Each of these elements has extensive options and opportunities for growth.  Most importantly, all three elements work together to create a fully personalized Lifestream experience for each user.

John Boucard invents new PaperClix Technology

 

John Boucard has been developing new PaperClix Technology and embedding it into various types of flat surfaces such as whiteboards, paper folios, and stationary.

The new technology allows anyone to touch or gesture on a a flat surface, paper, stationary, and even packaging.

Enjoy!

Interactive Packaging by John Boucard

I have been developing interactive, conductive ink packaging that is able to manage TOUCH, LIGHT, SOUND, INTERNET, and INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS placed in various locations inside / outside the package.

Blogwatch - A social network watch by John Boucard

Back in 2005 I had been thinking about developing a social network powered wristwatch.

There was no Twitter or facebook or even Myspace back then. I was considering Friendster actually ;-)....but really thought it would be a great idea to have a small, modern, stylish watch that could make it really simple for tweens and others to receive and send small byte sized amounts of data to a mobile powered device like a watch with a really small easy to read user interface.

John Boucard invented a gesture recognition system called ION Educational Gaming System

HASBRO ION EDUCATIONAL GAMING SYSTEM

​Hasbro ION E.G.S. came complete with console, compact camera and an Active Learning Disc with five games. The camera with motion-sensitive technology lets kids appear live on the TV screen and become part of the game. Players move their bodies--not game controllers--to control the action and guide themselves through learning adventures.

Pocket Robots by John Boucard

From an old presentation of Pocket Robots.

Pocket Robots

I wanted to create a small digital friend that could become the future of promotional concepts and could change personalities everyday based on human input, speech, or even vision recognition of object.

Prototype worked pretty well.

Disney Clickables Technology - Invented by John Boucard

John Boucard invented Clickables technology and developed a series of products around the technology.

Clickables was the world’s first interactive toy that connected what you were doing in the real world with online games (the first being a massively multiplayer online called Pixie Hollow). The technology was invented by John Boucard and developed in conjunction with the Walt Disney Company.

Hasbro ION EGS

John Boucard invented the ION EGS (Educational gaming system) and licensed it to Hasbro.