About
Oregon Scientific
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| Oregon Scientific, Inc. is one of the world's leading designers and
marketers of award-winning, upscale personal electronic products in the consumer
electronics and toy industries. Exciting, cutting-edge technology coupled with fluid
design is the hallmark of every Oregon Scientific product. The company offers five
families of products that all incorporate the company's advanced liquid-crystal display
(LCD) technology, for use at home, in business, while traveling and during recreational
time. Oregon Scientific,
headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon, was founded in 1991. A division of one of the world’s
premier electronics manufacturers, Integrated Display Technology, Ltd. (IDT), Hong Kong.
IDT was founded in 1977 and is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as IDT Technology
and on the Singapore Exchange as I-Com. |
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The company’s
telecommunications and consumer electronics products are available in international
markets, many marketed under IDT’s Oregon Scientific brand.
With ISO 9000 certification, the company maintains over 900,000 square feet of
manufacturing facilities employing more than 12,000 people in Xixian, just north of the
Shenzen Economic Zone in the People’s Republic of China.
As a leading electronics manufacturer, the company is a supplier to some of the world’s
leading corporations with a diverse range of finished products and electronic assemblies.
IDT has developed design and manufacturing partnerships with many of the leading suppliers
in North America of cordless telephones and pagers, databank organizers and handheld
computers, weather forecasting and wireless environmental monitoring instruments,
radio-controlled timepieces, and electronic educational toys and games. IDT offers
complete product-development services to its OEM partners, from product concept to mass
production, including custom LCD design, software development, and product tooling.
Internal capabilities include automated surface-mount production facilities, LCD and
microprocessor assembly, software design and testing, plastic injection molding, and PCB
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The
Oregon Scientific History
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Oregon
Scientific was established in 1989 as an entrepreneurial start up in Portland, Oregon. A
place known for its high technology capabilities and its pioneering spirit. The company's
objective was to create and market products providing access to personal information
electronically. The first concept developed by the Oregon Scientific's team was a
state-of-art personal information manager - Axxess. (Utilizing the emerging touch screen
technology, the product offered the best technical solution to personal users but the
price was considered too high by consumers entering this rapidly forming new segment.)
Oregon Scientific sought lower-cost but high quality manufacturing in the Pacific Rim and
found a partner in Integrated Display Technology. IDT, a leader in Liquid Crystal Display
technology and Oregon Scientific formed a joint venture to redevelop and re-launch the
Axxess product. At the same time Oregon Scientific began a sales and marketing campaign of
several of IDT's time keeping and weather related products which had then a limited market
presence in the USA. |
Although
Axxess never found the success that the original engineers and marketers of Oregon
Scientific had hoped, the company began to build a solid niche with unique products
directed toward the technology hungry" early-adopters."
Working with companies like The Sharper Image™, Hammacher Schlemmer™, Neiman
Marcus and other specialty stores around the country Oregon Scientific began to develop a
loyal following of customers and retail clients. Today Oregon Scientific's product mix is
grounded in a unique mix of value, functionality and superb design.
Throughout the next few years Oregon Scientific and IDT began to cooperate more closely on
development and in 1997 Oregon Scientific became a wholly owned subsidiary of IDT. As IDT
established in the early 90's a network of Sales & Marketing Subsidiaries in all key
European markets, it became clear that the Oregon Scientific brand had a global potential.
In 1994, IDT launched its Oregon Scientific line of products across Europe and later in
Japan.
Never losing site of its entrepreneurial roots, Oregon Scientific continued to develop a
stream of innovating products. The first hand held All Hazards/Weather Radio with
automatic emergency activation the first precisely accurate ExactSet™ alarm clock
that synchronizes itself to many of the world greatest timepieces - like the U.S. Atomic
Clock the first Nightfinder travel alarm with a patented automatic night light and the
first personal desktop weather forecasting instrument that provides an automatic graphical
view to your local weather.
Innovations like these define Oregon Scientific as one of the leading designers and
worldwide marketers of award-winning personal electronics in the consumer electronics
industry.
Exciting, leading-edge technology coupled with fluid design is the hallmark of every
Oregon Scientific product. Offering multiple families of products-weather
forecasting/environmental monitoring, timekeeping, electronic information, electronic
toys/games and lifestyle products. All featuring slate-of-the-art liquid crystal display
(LCD) technology, for use at home, in business, while travelling and during recreational
time. |
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