With a hint of nervousness, Zhang Tuohai introduced his new achievements in front of Gu Mojie.

"It's not a simple cup. First of all, it has a level sensor, which automatically senses the level every time water is poured in or drunk, and calculates the amount of water to add or drink.

Secondly, the chip is indispensable with a timer and audio output function, so if the owner of the cup has not drunk water for too long, it can make a sound to remind the owner to drink water. And according to the amount of water you drank last time, you can set the time of the next reminder in different bins.

Finally, adding a simple temperature sensor with a bimetal sheet is not troublesome at all, and it does not add much cost, but it can realize the functions of measuring the appropriate water temperature and reminding the owner to drink water after the hot water is not too hot. It not only prevents burns, but also does not let the water cool down. ”

Stuff is still good, very thoughtful, very innovative. It's just that there is some fuss, and the cost should be unbearable for the average consumer.

"How much does this thing cost?" Gu Mojie asked the key point.

Zhang Tuohai pondered for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "At present, chip materials are purchased according to R&D samples, of course, it will be more expensive, estimated at six or seven hundred." But if it can be mass-produced, I am confident that it will be reduced to 400 yuan. ”

$400 for a cup? Gu Mojie thinks that the concept of Chinese is unlikely to accept. However, as an innovation, Zhang Tuohai's first shot should still be encouraged.

Gu Mojie knew that Zhang Tuohai had been the technical director of Su Boer for three years. Supor is the largest manufacturer of kitchen appliances in China, and it is best at making rice cookers. In the two years when Chinese people went to Japan to grab rice cookers and smart toilet rings, Su Poer was also quite disciplined, at least he came up with a series of smart rice cookers such as "ball kettle" that can be traced back to Japanese technology.

Obviously, level sensing, temperature sensing and intelligent voice reminders ...... Zhang Tuohai is using the idea of making a smart rice cooker, and has come up with such a cute cup to remind the owner to drink water.

But anyway. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and encouragement is still needed.

Fortunately, the voice is applied to the original electronic sound of the "Hatsune Singer" game, if you use the voice that Lin Chiling's version was matched with later, and go to say something like "Master, it's time to drink water", Gu Mojie has to find Lin Chiling to add a small authorization fee.

"How do you do it without losing money? And what about encouraging innovation? Gu Mojie thought about it again and again, and had a little eyebrows.

So he instructed: "Well, let's make this kind of thing in the future, let's evaluate it internally." If it's very promising, let's do it ourselves. If it's not clear, let's split another subsidiary under Hatsune Intelligence and accept external investment as a shareholder. ”

As soon as Zhang Tuohai heard it, he knew that Gu Mojie was not optimistic about the market prospects of his product, but this was also expected. He also felt a little ashamed. Nervously asked, "Yes...... Will anyone invest? ”

Gu Mojie smiled confidently: "Of course, no one will invest in taking it out like this, but can it be operated and packaged?" Find someone to plan and plan, it is estimated that there will be a drama. After all, the concept of this thing is still very new. ”

In 2013, there was also a large wave of various "city play" household smart hardware in China, and there were naturally many things similar to this cup.

However, because of the problem of cost and consumption concept, such things are basically money-losing pit goods.

Many entrepreneurial enterprises that make this kind of smart hardware do not rely on selling things and making profits from consumers. Instead, I figured out a concept a little, and then I found a channel related transaction, sold with the left hand and the right hand to make the trading volume data high in a short period of time, which set off a bit of false fire.

Then look for VCs. Cheating money in the capital markets.

It's like movies like "Ip Man XX" in later generations, paying for the box office by themselves. Then create a false box office boom and create smoke bombs for the stock price of the film's production and distribution companies.

Or like some people who get the inside information of the creation site in advance, and then go to a certain treasure to find a god to brush their own book at a certain point of subscription, and brush up the average before changing jobs. Then use this average subscription data as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the new owner, deceive the new website into buying out at a high price, and after the buyout is successful, it will turn around and pounce directly into a dog. And the extra premium buyout money has already earned back three or five times the cost of the brush.

Before the first half of 2015, there were not a few mentally handicapped venture capitalists who were stupid and had money played by fake transactions. It was also after the collective was deceived a lot. These capitalists, who have just entered the venture capital market, have begun to open their eyes and gradually understand the difference between true and false prosperity in the IT industry. As a result, he no longer dared to act easily, was frightened by garbage projects, and gradually fell silent back to the "capital winter".

Gu Mojie doesn't remember the details of "history", but his life experience in his previous life is enough for him to condense the essence of how to speculate on trading volume with his left hand and his right hand better than his contemporaries, and then go to the capital market to cheat money.

"Let's leave this matter at that. I'll let out a little bit of wind and find someone to do it. After that, you're just going to offer ideas for the time being. ”

After inspecting the strange design of the smart water cup, Gu Mojie took a little time and asked Zhang Tuohai to explain to him the 3D printing system that Hatsune had just obtained from the German EOS company to ensure that there were no flaws in his business today.

In fact, 3D printers already had experimental prototypes in the late 90s, and by 2006, they were not rare, but they had not yet entered the civilian field.

However, the development of 3D printing technology is mainly limited by the limitations of available printing materials - the printers in the original 90s could only use the kind of soft and plasticine plastic materials to print, when the printer nozzle was in a relatively high temperature, the plastic was in a molten state, and it was slowly cooled and shaped after spraying. Later, after several years of development, the formula of plastic materials for printing was gradually optimized, and finally reached the level of rigid ABS engineering plastics.

However, 3D printing with metal materials was mostly in the stage of laboratory verification in 2006. Only some pure lightweight aluminum is printed, and the hot melt method is used to soften and dilute the aluminum, and then it is put into the nozzle of a 3D printer like a dough sheeter. However, this metal material will be relatively soft, still does not meet many rigid requirements for strength structure, and after it is done, it will go through surface oxidation and even heat treatment processes, and it still cannot be used at any time.

The German EOS company dare not say that it is the world's top 3D printing technology company. But at least when it comes to printing high-strength, fast-response alloys, the German company has invented a laser sintering powder metallurgy technology.

In order to ensure the homogeneity of the alloy, EOS did not print with molten semi-liquid metal, but used alloy powder as the printing material - sensory, just like the difference between traditional toner printing and ink printing - but when dealing with the problem of alloy powder shaping, EOS used a sintering laser generator to sinter the ejection position of the print nozzle, so that the alloy powder is sintered and condensed into a whole at the moment it is sprayed.

Ever since Gu Mojie thought of dealing with the deputy director of the Bian Frontier tender, he thought of searching for related technologies, and then sought cooperation from EOS. Zhang Tuohai himself graduated from the Technical University of Munich, and also worked at the headquarters of Siemens before returning to China, and his classmates and teachers had many connections, and it was easy for Gu Mojie to contact the business relationship he needed.

Of course, Gu Mojie spent a lot of money. It's just that Gu Mojie knows that someone will reimburse him for this money.

In front of Gu Mojie, Zhang Tuohai entered a data model of the structural parts into the 3D printing system according to Gu Mojie's requirements, and then watched the structural parts sample, and also tested various mechanical properties to ensure that there was no problem.

Gu Mojie took out a few 3D structure drawing files and handed them to Zhang Tuohai, asking them to transplant and draw according to the data, and instructed them to keep it confidential. Zhang Tuohai didn't say a word, so he arranged it.

……

Two days later, Qianjiang Provincial Electric Power Energy Saving Company.

Director Chen, who is in charge of the government's energy-saving project, slept lazily and then lay down in the villa in Yefeng Mountain, remotely directing his subordinates to work.

Director Chen is a young man in his thirties, and he has already become the vice president of power saving and energy saving, which is said to be young and promising enough - who let his father retire before he was the director of the department.

Why does a vice president like to be called a director? That's because the director was the official rank when he was still in the Electricity Bureau. Although he has now been transferred to the company, he still likes to be called an official.

In the power system, this situation is very common, today is the director, tomorrow it will be the boss, and the cross-frequency will still be transferred back and forth.

Suddenly, his cell phone rang, and it was his confidant and secret secretary calling.

"Chen, there is a mysterious customer today, who refuses to disclose the whereabouts, saying that he can introduce us to several major projects to be tendered by the park-city-bureau next month. You see...... Would you like to see it? ”

Chen Chu came a little energetically: "The other party refuses to come to me? ”

"The other party said, if you don't mind, choose to meet in the summer palace."

Summer Palace? Not a private club? Chen Chu was suspicious for a moment, it seemed that the other party had concealed his identity and origin very well.

He knows that the projects of the park-city-bureau cost at least tens of millions each; But in practice, it is possible to have two or three hundred million dollars on the books. It is impossible for someone who has the energy to covet such a big project without a stake in a private club.

The other party does not want to be exposed.

But no matter what, it's still not risky to meet first, it's a big deal to listen to what the other party has to say, and then think about it in the long run.

"That's right, let's make an appointment for dinner the day after tomorrow." (To be continued.) )