Happy New Year

It's about time that I took a moment to touch base.

2005, the year of the founding of Innovatium, was a great year. We accomplished a lot -- far more than we really had any right to believe we could do. 2006 is shaping up to be even better.

Three major activities are planned for '06:

1. Continue sales and promotion of the Hold-it! Game Card Organizer
2. Start R & D on a new product for the camping and outdoor community
3. Start R & D on a new product for triathletes

Beyond that are a huge number of details, including our continued search to find investors who would like to become part of the Innovatium family.

Conventions

We will be at at least three conventions this year:

Origins by GAMA (June 29 to July 2)
GenCon Indy (August 10 - 13)
Das Spiel in Essen, Germany (October)

We are going to try and host some games at each convention, offer some promotions and generally try to have a really good time. Hope you can join us.

New Products

Obviously, there isn't much I can say about our new products until we have done quite a bit of work on them. If you're interested in helping us, we will need folks to answer questionnaires as part of our primary market research, please contact us through our website and let us know!

We'll put more information in the next newsletter. If you'd like to receive our newsletter, please sign up!

OK, back to the topic. We're planning on doing R & D in 2006 and getting to the manufacturing stage in early 2007.

For the Triathlete project (Project Tri), we would like to introduce the product in the winter of '06-07 so that there is some presence for the '07 Tri season (those of us in colder climates know of what I speak). Speaking with race directors, triathletes and race organizers & judges are all part of the initial product exploration plan.

The camping and outdoors-person project (Project Hike) will likely take a longer cycle with R&D running in '06 and product introduction in '07 with sales targeted for '08. We will need a number of volunteers for primary market research before we get into the next design stage. There is a good chance that we will want to partner with an established outdoor product firm. That will be fun.

Of course, we will ask all volunteers to sign a standard non-compete and non-disclosure agreement. Volunteering is a great way to get involved, have fun and participate in the creation of something new. It's a real kick!

That's it for now. Thanks for reading!