Finding a proper name and logo :)


There are a few more possibilities, but I think the front runners are:

DragonBox

Pyragon

Myriad

Or

DragonBox Pyragon

DragonBox Myriad

Or how about:

Pyragon DragonBox

Myriad DragonBox
 
That pretty much sums it up.

There's also 'pyra' - and many others, but few of them seem to be as popular as Pyragon, Myriad and plain Dragonbox
 
@EvilDragon if you want a full list of all the names suggested so far(may have missed a few):

in spoiler..

(Green | Red | Blue | Gold |  Platinum | Prismatic |  ..etc) DragonBox

Aeon

Anexia

ArcaDraconis

ArcaDraconux

ArcaDragora

Balrog

Basis

Beobox

Bifröst / Bifrost

Blitzwurm

Centaurus

Chimera

db

DraCom

Dracabox

Dracapso

Dracodon

Dracom

Dracom

DraconBox

Draconiad

Draconux

DragonBox

DragonBox Cetus

DragonBox Charybdis

DragonBox Hydra

DragonBox Kraken

DragonBox Maelstrom

DragonBox Scylla

DragonBox Siren

DragonBox Tiamat

DragonFire

DragonFly

Dragonbox Egg

Dragonbox Myriad

Dragonflame

DragonflameBox

Dragonfly edge

Dragonfly one

Dragonode

Draconicon

Dragonra

Dragonscale

Dragonslayer

Dragoon

Dragopen

Dragopon

Dragora

DragoraBox

DrakenBox

Drakon

Drakon

Drakonia

DrakoniaBox

Drakoniad

Dynabox

ElectricDragon

ElectroDragon

Elpis

Envy

Fafnir

Fenrir

FireBox

FiredradonBox

Firedragon

Glaurung

Gorgon

Grendel

Hackberry Tau

Hexan

Hikari

Holy grail

HydraBox

IgnisDraconis

IgnisDraconux

Lamia

Larva

Lynx III

Lynx X

MUPOD

Medusa

Melkor

MiniMi

MiniTau

Minibook

Minidora

Minux

Miriad

Myriabox

Myriad

Myriad DragonBox

Myriad Dragonbox

Myridon

Myrmidon 

NCom

Ninbox

Open Andora

Open Cygnus

Open Glaurung

OpenBox

OpenDevice

OpenDraco

OpenDracom

OpenDraconux

OpenDragon

OpenDragonBox

OpenDragonra

OpenDragora

OpenDrakon

OpenFire

OpenFrontier

OpenLazarus

OpenOdyssey

Open Pandragon

OpenPhantom

OpenPhoenix

OpenPlatypus

OpenPrometheus

Open

PAndafin

PanTau

Panbox

Pandaephin

Pandafin

Pandaphin

Pandaphin

Pando

Pandopyx

Pandora Redux Edition

Pandorum

Pandragon

Pandragoon

PanoplAy

Panoply

Panther

Parabox

Paradox

Paragon

paratron

Pedora

Phantom

Phoenix

PhoenixBox

Plia

PoLiBox

PocketLynx

Prometheus

Pyragon

Pyragon DragonBox

Pyragon Pau

pyratron

Pyrrha

Pyxis

QubicDrive

Rhiannon

Sangreal

ShadowCaster

Shapeshifter

Slackbox

Sparkbook

Sparksbox

Strawberry Tau

Tarragon Tau

Taupan

The Boxx

Valkyrie

Virgo

Wodan

Ythoz

μBox

μPC
Edit: added Grench's newest post.

Edit2: added recent entries.

Edit3: even more

Edit4: more updates
 
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Colors... to create a whole series of consoles over the next 10 years.

Red DragonBox

Orange DragonBox

Yellow DragonBox

Green DragonBox

Blue DragonBox

Purple DragonBox

Black DragonBox

Silver DragonBox

Gold DragonBox

Platinum DragonBox

Prismatic DragonBox

Or maybe... somewhat following the Pandora's use of myth with a twist... mythical monsters?

DragonBox Maelstrom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelstrom

DragonBox Charybdis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybidis

DragonBox Scylla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla

DragonBox Cetus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetus_(mythology)

DragonBox Hydra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra

DragonBox Kraken

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken

DragonBox Siren - a dangerous and beautiful creature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren

DragonBox Tiamat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat

I'm not sold on Pyragon or Myriad. Myriad is 10,000 in Greek and used in English vernacular to mean "lots and lots". No idea what a Pyragon is supposed to be - some sort of irregular shape? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solids
 
I hope we find a name, because first we need a name, then we can think about the logo.

"-BOX-something" is actualy a good idea, I designed an box kind of logo long time ago for the original Pandora becauae I never was a big fan of the official Pandora logo. It's basicly the well known logo but also a simplified box with a lid.

pandoralogo3lfiep.jpg


However, the new logo should be as simple as the new one, not to fancy or complex stuff but also unique enough to be recognized from distance.
 
I hope we find a name, because first we need a name, then we can think about the logo.

"-BOX-something" is actualy a good idea, I designed an box kind of logo long time ago for the original Pandora becauae I never was a big fan of the official Pandora logo. It's basicly the well known logo but also a simplified box with a lid.

pandoralogo3lfiep.jpg


However, the new logo should be as simple as the new one, not to fancy or complex stuff but also unique enough to be recognized from distance.
Your one with the downward stem gave me an idea. Use the lowercase d and b - canted at 45* to form the sides of a box with a pair of stems leading up.

db

It's symmetrical and everything...
 
Does someone want to go through the thread and make a collection of the useful names we found so far?
What do you consider useful? The most popular or the ones that meet some criteria - e.g. least hits on google and most available top level domains

Some examples of the more popular names - I considered a name more popular if it was at least liked by 2 or more members : (sorry if I missed one.. )

Myriad - no available top level domain = >11.000.000 hits

Pyragon - com not available + de for sale .org available => 92.500 hits - Nerf Vortex Pyragon is currently the only competitor

Dragonbox - com not available .org available and of course no problem with .de =>  dragonbox 1.300.000 hits - dragonbox.de 2nd place, but there is more competition

OpenDragoon - all TLD available - 0 hits

Dracon - all TLD unavailable => 277.000 hits

Pyra - all TLD unavailable => 1.130.000 hits

Pandopyx - all TLD available => 2 hits

Dragonfly - all TLD unavailable => 16.200.000

In your first post this were the prerequisites. I made the ones italic that I think don't meet the requirements. 


* Easily readable and spoken in most languages (like Pandora ;) )


* It should be something that doesn't give you thousands of Google results of already existing products (unlike Pandora).


* It should be easy to remember (so probably not too long).

Based on this I would say Pyragon is worth checking out and might even be better than dragonbox. Those two are currently preferred by the community and are not too bad if you consider the hits on google and available top level domains .

There are other names with less google hits - see above - and more top level domains available, but less popular - at least on this board.
 
Based on this I would say Pyragon is worth checking out and might even be better than dragonbox. Those two are currently preferred by the community and are not too bad if you consider the hits on google and available top level domains .
/me is considering that Pyragon isn't a word (or compound word) and any language I know of - this is probably good.
 
Perhaps this has already been suggested but, Pyrrha was the daughter of Pandora in mythology so would be the logical progression and its distinctive spelling would make it stand out in internet search engine.

(1,240,000 hits - but pretty much all those are relating to the myth so it should be easy for a person to find "Open Pyrrha" for example)
 
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Perhaps this has already been suggested but, Pyrrha was the daughter of Pandora in mythology so would be the logical progression and its distinctive spelling would make it stand out in internet search engine.
Yep.
 
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name: dragonbox [all lowercase one word]

logo: db  [mirror image of lowercase d/b]

website: opendragonbox.com [available]
 
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I am drunk but Iwant to mention:

Open Pandragon

Draconicon

But if I am honest I prefer: Dragonscale
 
Your one with the downward stem gave me an idea. Use the lowercase d and b - canted at 45* to form the sides of a box with a pair of stems leading up.


db


It's symmetrical and everything...

Didn't even seen a db there until yet, just thought about a "pa" for the last logo. ^^  Yes, db could work too.

name: dragonbox [all lowercase one word]


logo: db  [mirror image of lowercase d/b]


website: opendragonbox.com [available]

The logo should be a BEAUTIFUL db, more graphical style than letter style but still recognizable. :)
 
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Pyrrha has too simple sounding of a meaning to me.  Pandora of course is also within the trend of being named after a single person, but I want more than that to accompany the next treasure.  Connecting Pyrrha with fire only makes it sound more centralized and simple to me, because then both that woman and fire are necessary details, specifications for people to disagree with.  I don't see this sort of name as open.

Dragon is general, it has no connection to the Pandora (or successor) aside from ED's screen name and website.  I like a lot of dragons, I like jagged furry flightless monsterbeasts more, but I wouldn't suggest the Pandora 2 be named after one of them simply because I like them, for the same reason that I don't endorse people calling it Dragon simply because they like dragons.  We like the device too, right?  Isn't it more respectable to name it something with some reference to itself, rather than that other cool thing you're into?  Other thoughts, I can see there being confusion between a device called Dragonbox and ED's Dragonbox store which sells more things.  And Dragonfly has nothing to do with this handheld at all, people just think it sounds cool, which is a nice plus but should never be the sole reason behind a name more serious than what to call your pokemon.  I'll pretend I'm responding to everyone who has said only "I like Dragonfly/Dragon/Dragoon/Dracon, so let's use that," and ask, why?  Where's the dragon in anything about this device?

Chimera turns me off because I'm most familiar with the meaning "created human," and I wouldn't like to think of this handheld as a human.  It's certainly not just a turn off to me because of a friend of mine naming their character species "chimeras" despite it already being a more general name, and I'm so bored of his chimera porn.  Not at all.

Hydra sounds related, the many heads to symbolize multitasking idea could go somewhere, and the creature is pretty cool and less overused than average.  Sort of just makes me think of water right now though.

Pyragon, I don't remember the meaning/s suggested behind it, I think it's also mostly being pressed for sounding cool though so I'll talk about that.  I don't like the way it sounds, I think of pyramids and Paragon Partition Manager.  I really don't like the way it looks either, because of the Pyr.  I have to think it's going after Pyro and Pyro is such a tiresomely used name to me.  I see a Code Lyoko-headed cartoon child with a smiling determined face below bright gaudy flame hair, and their name is Pyro.  I can see the Pandora idea's connection to Paragon, that's definitely there, but paragon's definition doesn't sound as fitting as myriad's to me.

Myriad is my favorite name for this handheld.  It reaches far, infinitely far, but it does not force a connection with anything unfavorable or personalized.  Open and infinite, but not infinite only to be unreachably long, infinite enough to allow smaller less beautifully precarious uses as well, perhaps 10,000 or so.  Myriad.net is also available, if that helps.

I think Panoply is the right kind of idea, its meaning can be mirrored over what we like to aspire the Pandora's meaning to be.  It's more specific than this usage in essence though.  Also I um, don't like the way it sounds personally.  Sorry.
 
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Chimera turns me off because I'm most familiar with the meaning "created human," and I wouldn't like to think of this handheld as a human.  It's certainly not just a turn off to me because of a friend of mine naming their character species "chimeras" despite it already being a more general name, and I'm so bored of his chimera porn.  Not at all.

I've never seen Chimera used in that way before, I know of the mythological use of the word and the one used in genetics which isn't quite what "created human".


I've seen it used in the full-metal alchemist Anime, but I think it's more a reference to the genetics meaning of the word and a lot of science fiction.
 
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I generally like the frontrunners, but they all have their quirks. DragonBox probably has the most character, but it might not be so good to tie the device inextricably with ED's separate business. Pyragon is nice, but fairly heavily used in other areas, and the .com is taken. The Myriad has a lot of possibility, especially if "Dragonbox" is taken separately as the company name, which distinguishes it from anything else that's myriad-like.

I also quite liked the older suggestions Dragon Scale. One could take a page from the Myriad, and call it the "Dragonbox Scale" but that... doesn't roll off the tongue.

A suggestion that I haven't seen yet, and which ties into the Greek links of the Pandora:

Myrmidon

"The Myrmidons ... were legendary people of Greek history. They were very brave and skilled warriors commanded by Achilles, as described in Homer's Iliad." The modern definition isn't quite as glamorous, but suits a computer well! "A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc." Spelling could be a minor issue, but I love how it sounds. Could follow the DragonBox brand name well, too.

Two more, maybe only good for prefixes or suffixes: Basis? Plia?
 
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Pyragon, I don't remember the meaning/s suggested behind it, I think it's also mostly being pressed for sounding cool though so I'll talk about that.  I don't like the way it sounds, I think of pyramids and Paragon Partition Manager.  I really don't like the way it looks either, because of the Pyr.  I have to think it's going after Pyro and Pyro is such a tiresomely used name to me.  I see a Code Lyoko-headed cartoon child with a smiling determined face below bright gaudy flame hair, and their name is Pyro.  I can see the Pandora idea's connection to Paragon, that's definitely there, but paragon's definition doesn't sound as fitting as myriad's to me.
It was me and all your guesses are off-base :p
It's based on _wb_'s modification of "Pyrrha" to make it more easily pronouncable and indentifiable "Pyra", and "Dragon" from ED.
 
Pyragon is also nice because it resembles the word paragon, which is very appropriate:
Yeah, I like that it sounds like paragon.

How about pyratron or ... paratron instead of pyragon?

Sounds good to me.  The org and net domains are available, com is maybe for sale.

Tron suggests computer technology or electronic devices to me,

but literally it's a suffix meaning either subatomic particle or particle accelerator.

Sounds like paragon, suggests technology, doesn't sound too much like "parrot"...

literally might mean somehow like a subatomic particle...  WTF...  but anyway.

Aside: I like the idea of the coloured cases. To tone it down, could make them black-with-slight-tint-of-green cases, or sliver/grey-with-slight-tint-of-blue, etc. That could be awesome.
 
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