Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Cool Ideas from Proto Labs”.
Hi, i’m sarah brown and i’m with proto labs, i’m showing off some of our previous cool idea award winners. The cool idea award is a program put on by proto labs, in which we give away 250 000 each year to people with cool new product ideas, and we offer injection molding, cnc, machining and now additive manufacturing as well. So, like i said, these are five of our previous award winners. We’Ve had 18 winners since the program started in 2011., so i’ll just highlight a couple of them here.
For you, this one is called the solo shot and i’ll turn it around. Here. This was created by a couple of surfers and they wanted to find a way that they wouldn’t have to ask people to videotape them from the sand.
So they created this and what you do. Is you set this up on the sand? You attach a camera to it and then you put this armband on your arm and basically what happens is this piece communicates with the armband and it will follow you from up to 2000 feet away. So basically the camera then will follow you along with this. So you’re left with video of yourself surfing and what’s cool too, is it’s translated to soccer moms football parents. You know that whole community, as well so people that want to tape their kids playing sports, but also want to enjoy the game while they’re actually there as well, so that one’s really cool this one is called the skylight and this one. Basically, what you do is, you would put your smartphone or your phone up here, line the piece of your eyepiece of your phone up to the eyepiece of the microscope and then you’re able to through your phone, see what you’re seeing through the microscope.
So under the microscope, which then you can take it and take a print screen of it or you can skype or facetime it to someone. So it was created for people that are living in third world countries where they might have a microscope, but no doctor on hand to diagnose whatever they’re seeing under the microscope, so that one has some really great uses. So we brought our projects here.
Some of these projects to let people take a look at some of the really great innovation that people just like them are coming up with. So it’s kind of an encouragement to to continue that innovation um and be inspired, which i think is what maker khan and the maker faire are all about. So we’re hoping to spur some of that and continue that innovation, and i recommend that anyone that has a great new product idea apply. You can apply right online. You can go to protolabs.com, there’s a link through that site or you can go directly there at protolabs.com cool idea and thank you so much for having us here.
We’Re so excited to be here and good luck. .