Generator is happy to see an entrepreneurial client making progress with a product we recently designed! This product is an emergency water delivery system. It gets installed into a home or business water supply (similar to the installation of a water softener system) and then monitors the supply of water and the host electric service. It’s designed and built to be as simple and straightforward as possible - the goal is that the home or business owner would never even know it was there and would never need to worry about maintaining it.
Since receiving their first production volumes we’ve been watching them start to spread across the US with a limited number of installations - very cool to see them building a wider audience and customer base!
Development was lengthy, lots of component & pressure testing. Here’s a project page with some info on a 2017 Innovation Recognition Award from AIDF that is giving our client some global exposure. http://www.generatewhatsnext.com/cw-757285.html
Is this product supposed to kick in when say a home or business loses power to a well system powered by electricity? I guess I am confused as to when the emergency happens?
Yes, the inventor’s original intent was for well-water supplied homes/businesses to have continued, pressurized water in the event of a power outage and/or a well pump failure. The system sits in automatic mode, so in the event of a power outage the system automatically responds, pressurizes a bladder inside the tank and provides up to 40 gallons of on-demand water as though the power outage didn’t occur. If the well pump fails (no power outage detected) then the user can put the system in override mode to act as though there’s no power, providing water until a new well pump can be installed.
We identified uses beyond the original scope for the inventor to pursue in parallel with his target consumers - For instance, because the system acts as a mini-water tower, providing clean, pressurized water on demand, it’s getting interest from businesses that require X amount of water-per-resident (assisted living facilities, hospitals, jails, etc). We encouraged the inventor to pursue new home builders, since the cost of a system like this is nothing baked into a new home’s mortgage and installation is easy and can be optimized. Lastly, we think a mobile, refillable version of this system, with a solar trickle charger for the battery, could be depolyed to help with interrupted power supplies due to natural disaster.
We recently developed several fun cookie cutter designs together with the Silicandy brand.
These have been quickly selling out on Amazon and several webstores.
The goal is to make the kitchen a room for the entire family to experiment and have fun.
My company developed the design for this 2m diameter all-carbon drone for UAV America. These are sold to professionals like farmers and filmmakers. The drone has very advanced navigation systems, is weatherproof. The shape was defined by several form studies and optimized for aerodynamics together with the UAV America engineering team.
I love the teppanyaki kitchen top by the way, I wonder if you involved customers in the color choice or if you made that bold move to slap on a Toxic green yourself. Or is it referring to sulphur?
Thanks. I was only involved in the teppanyaki plate itself, and not the cooker. I downloaded the cooker model and applied the colours based on their actual product. It’s actually supposed to be a deep gold, so I think I’ll have to check what I did to it after the render to accidentally make it green!
This is a new batting glove line I worked on, that is coming out this year. Debuted at the Allstar game. Really was a great project and I will have more pics and work to come. Borrowed this pic from What Pros Wear. It was very exciting to see products on the field in such a large event.
Being a person with a bicycling fetish, I know full well that any startup selling a cycling accessory, and especially a cycling accessory such as this, has absolutely no money other than returning cans to Michigan with an empty USPS truck.
Fusion Guitar - Smart guitar with iPhone integration. Pretty amazing to use. All in one design; speakers, amp, and effects. Plus heaps of cool apps for effects, tutorials and producing music. Designed this a couple of years ago and now shipping.
Successfully crowdfunded and delivering to backers now. Also taking pre-orders for everyone else.
Congrats Mike! That thing is awesome! I could use a guitar with built in tutorials to improve my ham fisted playing… when people ask me if I play guitar I always respond by saying “Well, I own a guitar…”. Nice to see some design and innovation in the musical instrument space.