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Product Name For Atomic-level Motion DetectorPremium Member
Posted By: BARQ on 7/10/2006 10:24 AM (CST) 1250 Points
We'd like ideas for a name for a product which measures movement at the atomic level. It would be more a name for the technology (such as Intel's "pentium") as the product is a device which would attach to other measurement apparatuses to detect motion at the sub-angstrom level (less than 1/10th of a nanometer).

Unlike existing technology, the device is very simple, inexpensive and measures digitally. The inventor would like a simple name as well, preferrably based on the angstrom word, (but not necessarily).

We have developed a few ideas, but the best naming submissions would ideally have some rationale included, like:

Anglice (in English)
Cimota (atomic spelled backwards)
Anion (a negatively charged ion)
Morts-GNA (Angstrom spelled backwards)
Cirtem (metric spelled backwards)

(Or)

(Derivitives of angstrom)
Ango (with follow-up products like Dango, Mango, Pango, Tango)
Angstriom
Angzone
Anglor
Angstor
Angstorm

We're looking for deep thought, not the first things to pop in mind, so answers will be accepted discriminately.

Thanks for your help!


BARQ

Posted by: DR Hitch* Member Response
7/10/2006 10:31 AM (CST)
BARQ,
this "product" will likely ONLY be sold to high-end university labs and to government-owned research agencies. Therefore, the "name" of the product itself is really a moot point. But, if you really want to have a "cute" name that can be broadcast at scientific conferences or at PhD cocktail parties, then, OK, come up with a name.

1) Why NOT use the name of the company's inventor/principal?
2) What differentiates this product from other particle counters (e.g. it's digital)
3) Why not tie this to the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle? Since every atom can't be counted EXACTLY.....does this product bring a "better" accurate count than other technologies?

Lastly, think about a product name that starts with the letter "O". The reason for this is that it may very well lead to the development of a logotype for the product which looks like an orbiting electron.

How about the "Optri-Strom" digital sub-atomic particle counter. Seemlessly hooks-up to your Acme particle detector, etc..........
 
Posted by: vic Member Response
7/10/2006 10:40 AM (CST)
"Centimotek" (for obvious reasons)
 
Posted by: DR Hitch* Member Response
7/10/2006 10:48 AM (CST)
Or, do something "silly" even though it becomes intuitive to anyone who reads the press release


e.g.

The "InchWorm" sub-atomic digital particle motion detector

The "Splitting Hairs" angstrom-level particle motion detector
 
Posted by: BARQ Author Response
7/10/2006 11:13 AM (CST)
Dear douglas.hitchcock:

Thanks for the input. Actually, applications in data storage, geophysical exploration, temperature, magnetic and pressure measurement as well as many others have been identified. The extremely low relative cost of the technology will undoubtedly produce hundreds of practical, industrial uses.

Differentiators are low cost, simple (and small), range of motion (millimeters, not nanometers, like similar devices), non-analog, and it's accuracy is unaffected by atmosphere, radiation, vacuum, heat, cold, or the typical maganetic issues associated with computer storage devices.

There are several inventors involved, and we advise against naming the product after the company, for obvious future development reasons.

Also, the average hair is 750,000 angstroms thick. That's a lot of splitting!

I do appreciate your efforts!


BARQ
 
Posted by: Deremiah *CPE Accepted Answer
7/10/2006 1:04 PM (CST)
Hey Barq,

Hope you're having a great day!

Here's my suggestion since we're naming the technology let's consider calling it any of the following. My suggestions are in the order of origination. As I thought about it more ideas began to flow. Feel free to join chime in with me. The last suggestions I love even better as I began to tie in some cross culture terminology in various combinations. Let me know what you think and don't forget to have a great day...


Revealatomic

Revelatom

Appearatomic

Ceatomic

Ceatom

Optomic

Opatomic

Opatomic Revelator


Thanks for giving me the opportunity to offer some very relevant suggestions. I look forward to helping you in the future creation of ideas and name generation. Remember our only real problem in life is our failure to be more creative than we’ve ever been. If you “Invent” your opportunity YOU WILL most definitely create your future. Is there anything else I can do for you?

Your Servant, Deremiah, *CPE (Customer Passion Evangelist)
 
Posted by: margec Member Response
7/10/2006 7:44 PM (CST)
Anguard
 
Posted by: mbarber Accepted Answer
7/10/2006 7:53 PM (CST)
Gidday Jeff

I suspect that there is a requirement for a bit more background information and potential research than what you are in a position to provide here. That will of course limit the understanding and potential viability of options selected for you.

So I'm getting 'measurement'; 'small' and 'sensing' as three labels that appear. Additionally the 'cheaper' & 'digital' offer influence but I don't think I'd use those as the foundation for the product name because to do so limits the opportunity for it to become 'household' at an awareness level (IMO)

The measurement and sensing labels seem connected in different ways for me so to that end, the 'measurement' is measuring 'movement' which at its basic form is a type of sensation. We sense movement in many ways - spatially, visually, auditorally (even proprioception for some).

Based on that some potential suggestions are:

Atomotion
CimotaView
Microread
AngReader
SenStrom

Best of luck with the product
 
Posted by: ktok Member Response
7/10/2006 8:48 PM (CST)
Cimotium
 
Posted by: Frank Hurtte Member Response
7/10/2006 9:50 PM (CST)
angstrometric reader
angstrotechnology
 
Posted by: darcy.moen Member Response
7/11/2006 2:05 AM (CST)
Oooooh a brain teaser! Me like it!

Angstrometer - I just hopt that isn't a name of the equipment that measures Angstroms...off to google it now.

Darcy Moen
Customer Loyalty Network
 
Posted by: DR Hitch* Member Response
7/11/2006 7:13 AM (CST)
One other thought.....why don't you come up with something truly unique (like "Exxon") and build a cross-industry product brand on that. There are many "branding" companies out there, and I've used one called Addison-Whitney in the past.

But, you could also come up with some sort of a "word" that is an amalgam of the inventors names. For example, my father had a sailboat named "Mandorel" for all of the members of his family.....

Maybe "angstrom"-based names are too technically-focused.
 
Posted by: BARQ Author Response
7/11/2006 7:32 AM (CST)
Thanks to all for your input. We have considered the "Exxon" direction, Doug, (actually the client mentioned "iPod") and that's still out there -- and I know a former associate at Addison-Whitney (actually, Addison-Whitney is a made-up name for them!) But the client doesn't have a $25k budget to engage them.

Good input from you two too, Deremiah, and mbarber. iPod ideas are welcome as well. I will likely be closing this one out this week.

Thanks again, KHE community! It's great to have the support of the best in the world!


BARQ
 
Posted by: ShannonD* Member Response
7/11/2006 9:02 AM (CST)
I like the Anion just for the sound vs. reletivity, but I think Cimota is very, very clever.

Cimota - meeting your atomic needs

The only problem I see, is there is town named Cimota, a software company, and another company all with the same name.

Shannon D
 
Posted by: jwall Member Response
7/11/2006 10:25 AM (CST)
How about - Trackang
 
Posted by: NuCoPro Accepted Answer
7/11/2006 1:46 PM (CST)
Veristasis - your product verifies whether something is in stasis or moved at the most elemental level.
 
Posted by: rockyboy2 Member Response
7/11/2006 4:39 PM (CST)
From Albert Einstein to nuclear power
Throughout the 20th Century - Advances in science
Nuclear energy, nuclear power

Albert Einstein publishes his first theories of relativity

© Pathe - Albert Einstein publishes his first theories of relativity Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist

Born Ulm, Germany. Studied and worked in Switzerland.

Working as an examiner of patents, he wrote three fundamental scientific papers:
on the special theory of relativity (1905), where he said that time does not flow at a fixed rate and that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter (expressed in the equation E=mc2 where energy is equivalent to mass multiplied by the speed of light);
demonstrating the existence of atoms;
and predicting the photoelectric effect.

In 1914 he moved to Berlin.
In 1919 he published the general theory of relativity, proposing that matter causes space itself to curve.
He became increasingly concerned with social issues and the cause of Zionism. In 1933, at Hitler’s rise to power, he moved to the USA.

His 1939 letter to President Roosevelt outlining the military capabilities of developments in physics led to the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. Post-war, he feared a nuclear arms race, and campaigned for humanitarian causes and for the formation of the state of Israel.

© Pathe - Albert Einstein publishes his first theories of relativity
John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split the atom

© Pathe - John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split the atom John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, physicists at the University of Cambridge, were successful in splitting the atom in late 1932.

Although ancient scientists had believed that atoms were the smallest building blocks of matter, in the twentieth century scientists had come to realise that an atom consists of a nucleus – made up of neutrons and protons – and electrons spinning round it. The challenge was to crack open the nucleus.

Cockcroft and Walton built a machine called a particle accelerator, using protons as ‘bullets’ to shoot at lithium atoms, aiming to split it into two helium atoms. By learning the correct, slow speed to fire the protons, the experiment was successful. Einstein’s theories on matter and relativity were proved.
my tag Einseindigital
 
Posted by: NovaHammer Accepted Answer
7/11/2006 9:29 PM (CST)
As a non-science type Coiner I like words that have meanings that are pseudo-science sounding but based in reality.

Small=Minutia or however you want to spell it.
Significant=Major, used in anatomy and astronomy.

"MinutiaMajor"
or M2 (squared) for brevity after a while.
Tiny but Significant event.

or

Mass = You know this one.
Movement=Minuet, classical dance music.

"Massuette" = Gentile Movement of Mass as in an
elegant dance.

Hope this helps.
 
Posted by: turqiz Member Response
7/12/2006 2:24 AM (CST)
Hi
I think the most obvious choice would be something that resonates with microscope, telescope and such device used for seeing the unseeable - something like:

angstroscope

I think that this is a name that would stand for itself, no explanation and subtitlization needed
what do you think?
 
Posted by: kate.redfern Accepted Answer
7/12/2006 4:29 AM (CST)
Cipia - a considerable shortening of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton's works which include his laws of motion forming.

Kate

UK
 
Posted by: Mushfique Manzoor Member Response
7/12/2006 8:10 AM (CST)
hi BARQ

since you can measure less than 1/10 of a nanometer how about naming it as

"Deca" (meaning 10)
"Decatek" (technology to measeure 1/10)
"NanoDec"

hope this helps

cheers!!
 
Posted by: Dramagenics* Member Response
7/12/2006 11:28 AM (CST)
Invisisense
 
Posted by: MANSING Member Response
7/12/2006 11:41 AM (CST)
Hi There!

Try this!


• Nuclous
• Moveatomo
• Moleculo

I hope this will help!

Regards,

M Bhor
 
Posted by: Dramagenics* Member Response
7/12/2006 11:56 AM (CST)
I submitted my last post before I meant to...

Here is a couple more.

omniangstrom
angstromance


I think that your idea of "Ango (with follow-up products like Dango, Mango, Pango, Tango)" is genius.

You could capitalize the 'A' in Ango every time (e.g. DAngo, MAngo, PAngo, TAngo OR dAngo, mAngo, pAngo, tAngo)
 
Posted by: DR Hitch* Accepted Answer
7/12/2006 12:49 PM (CST)
Ok, I now really got it!

What's the shortest distance in the universe? An "angstrom"

What;s the lowest temperature in the universe? Zero degrees "Kelvin"

What's a really large number? A "googleplex"

What's the longest word in the English language?
"Pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis"

Therefore, your client's product should be called the
"untramicroscopicomniangstromaticnucleominutiaflubbermatic" gadget for your lab.
 
Posted by: BARQ Author Response
7/12/2006 2:48 PM (CST)
Doug,

I think you have NAILED it! We will need to set the logotype in 8pt. univers nanothin angstrocondensed to get it to fit on the product, though!

Thanks for the jocularity -- I needed that today!


BARQ
 
Posted by: Simon Member Response
7/13/2006 11:56 AM (CST)
Hmm, lots of options here, but I can't see anyone has said this one, which I like:

Angstrobe

Simon
 
Posted by: Simon Accepted Answer
7/13/2006 11:59 AM (CST)
Alternatively,

Angsprobe.

Simon
 
Posted by: casinova_602 Member Response
7/13/2006 1:45 PM (CST)
Well, the products like these which are associated with "Technical" side shall emit the same message when a person looks at the name i.e. the technical attributes. Hence my kinda name is,


"Atometric".


All the Best,

Anand Badam.
 
Posted by: Interlux* Accepted Answer
7/14/2006 3:54 PM (CST)
Similar to above response, but Atomitra

and hmm...

Angstromeda [Strain, haha]
Angstropol
Angstromite (mitic)


Difficult task!!

Joel
 
Posted by: BARQ Author Response
7/17/2006 6:28 AM (CST)
Dear KHE contributors:

Thanks for your input and ideas. There are plenty to present. I hope you will soon see a high tech product on the shelves with a little label that professes,

"untramicroscopicomniangstromaticnucleominutiaflubbermatic inside!"


Thanks also for your help in getting this question on last week's "most popular" and "most stimulating" lists!

With Warm and Kind Regards,


BARQ
 


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