Daniel Borel, Co-Founder Logitech on One Billionth Mouse – VIDEO Exclusive

12.11.08 | Category: Breaking News, Interaction Design, Video

Logitech Co-Founder Daniel Borel is celebrating the creation of ONE BILLION mice. “That’s enough (end on end) to stretch to the moon and back,” he told a packed Stanford Memorial Auditorium gathered to honor the 40th anniversary of Douglas Engelbart’s landmark 1968 “DEMO” at SRI that signaled the dawn of interactive computing. Check out the ValleyZen Doug Engelbart flickr Photos.

ValleyZen’s exclusive VIDEO interview with Daniel Borel

  • Daniel Borel on One Billion Mice
  • Zen “out-of-the-box” thinking in Logitech’s (sometimes shocking but always interesting) advertising
  • Logitech’s early roots, founded on a farm in Apples, Vaud, Switzerland
  • Tech Incubators: Swiss Farms vs. Valley garages
  • How Doug Engelbart changed the world
  • The Zen of Open Architecture

    • Stay tuned for our next post which will feature Douglas Engelbart, Steve Wozniak and Peter Friess at “Program for the Future” the interactive conference on collective intelligence which took place Dec. 8th and 9th at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.

    Click here to watch the video or watch embedded version below:

    Daniel Borel, Co-Founder Logitech and Drue Kataoka

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    7 Comments so far

    1. Borcho 12.11.08 at 8:36 am

      Drue, Thanks for sharing. Logitech rules! I cannot live without my TrackMan.

    2. Andre 12.11.08 at 10:21 am

      I’m curious what other tech companies have sold a billion of their product?

    3. Sarah L. 12.11.08 at 11:38 am

      I read Billie the mouse is the name of Logitech’s billionth mouse. Gives a new twist to the term “FOB” —
      Friends of Billie :) :)

    4. Drue Kataoka 12.11.08 at 11:46 am

      @ Borcho — Cool, I don’t have one but hear the tracking is very nice.

      @ Andre — good question

      @ Sarah — Billie the mouse? Cool campaign!

      Borcho provokes an interesting question:

      What is your fav? logitech product?

      (BTW — We stood with Doug on Tuesday as he held the original wooden mouse with red button. It does have charm and design stamina after all these years).

    5. cati 12.11.08 at 3:06 pm

      I was reading about your work two hours ago and I just received your comment on my blog! That is so nice of you to stop by and know that your work is fabulous…

      Cati

    6. Drue Kataoka 12.11.08 at 3:13 pm

      @ Cati – That’s incredible! Thank you for your kind words. Your blog (which I just found) is excellent and I am always heartened to criss cross with authentic voices streaming through the ether of the world wide web. Have you seen our video interview with Prof. Ishii? There are also some recent photos from the conference in the flickr photo set that goes with this post.

    7. Bill Fenwick 12.11.08 at 8:22 pm

      I find it very interesting that Logitech builds such improved devices for interaction between humans and electronic systems. They have built better mice, keyboards and now universal controllers for the integration of computers, video, audio, wireless dices for connecting TV, the Web and home theaters.

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