Samsung Creative Lab: Quirky Start-Up Ideas
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Samsung — the world’s largest maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips — has been quietly nurturing some 350 young engineers inside Creative Lab, its ideas incubator. The electronics giant, however, says it's not searching for the next big thing. Rather, the goal of the C-Lab is to find "the next small big thing" — a discovery that may not seem like a big deal immediately but that will, over time, open up new markets and be incorporated into must-have technology.
Samsung employees with quirky and interesting ideas can take time out from their full-time jobs to develop their products. Here are a few of the products the C-Lab has been working on.