#quickey

[natdhelps]

otp’s I’ve had. - Quickey

Quinn Fabray & Mickey Curtis

aka Shadowcat and Colossus

[spendingitall-blog]

Looking like a Key but hiding an assortment of functionalities, QuicKey will blend right in with your keychain. Crafted from durable stainless steel, QuicKey is a key sized multi-tool that features a bottle opener, a file, a serrated edge to saw thru clothing tags, a scoring point to open up boxes; and a #2 flat head screwdriver. You will always have these tools available right from your key ring.     The post QuicKey appeared first on Spending It All.

[tlow]

Physical Products, Crowdfunding and the Production Problem

In the past year I have become highly involved in crowdfunding. I’ve been on, advised, and worked with a variety of teams which have had incredible results. I also have the distinct pleasure of having been on the team which designed the Coolest Cooler — the largest raising crowdfunding product to date. I’ve been the campaign manager for the highest raising tool product ever on crowdfunding the Quickey and I’m currently working on bringing the world’s first all Carbon Fiber Airplane to market (http://igg.me/at/carbonflyer/x/6578809 - referring link). The Carbon Flyer is controlled by bluetooth with onto and has an onboard video camera, besides that it’s beautiful and unbelievably durable (I’ve crashed my fair share of foam RC airplanes with catastrophic results, but I’ve yet to even damage a Carbon Flyer).

Now let’s pause for a second and jump back to late 2008 when I found myself immersed in reading Chris Anderson’s wonderful book “The Long Tail”. That’s when I first came across an phrase that instantly resonated with me “democratization of the tools of production” though I read it as the tools of creation[1].

The original iPhone came out on June 29th, 2007. I waited in line for 39 hours in front of the University Avenue Apple store just behind Robert Scoble and his son. What many of us forget is that the original iPhone launched without an App Store. It wasn’t until WWDC that year that Jobs announced an SDK for iPhone, which wasn’t available until 2008.

Enabling software developers from all over the world to write Apps for iPhone was, I argue, the most valuable and biggest achievement of the iPhone itself. All over the world for many decades hardware and software enthusiasts had been writing software without a real means to go to market. They lacked the ability for “production”. iPhone and the App Store gave these developers a direct line to customers eager for new wares who also happened to have their credit cards already tied to their devices which made buying software an extremely low cognitive load transaction. This was production truly democratized. Looking back now, we can see that people from across the entire Globe contributed to the app Store. Tiny Wings was developed in Germany. Spotify was developed in Sweden. WeChat comes from China. Angry Birds comes from Finland. People all over the world jumped at the opportunity to bring their products to mass market.

And here’s the issue, there are people from all over the world working on crowdfunding, just this week I had a conversation with Japan’s largest crowdfunding company. And although there are projects on crowdfunding from all over the world, nearly all of them are still being produced in one place: China. Unlike the world of the App Store, where a product, in this case a software app can be completely developed and deployed the mass market, physical goods still need to be produced. By and large these physical products are still being produced in the same means as the products you see in stores.

So what’s the answer. It’s not 3d printers. We have 3 separate 3d printers in our offices, two are some of the most sophisticated in the world, but they can’t solve the problem of mass production.

I don’t know what the answer is, but before we can claim we’ve democratized the products available too us, I think it’s worth looking at the homogenous process by which most of the world’s physical goods are still produced. I’m excitedly looking for new answers and solutions to this problem, but I haven’t seen a truly viable one yet.

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[1] The tools of production are not yet democratized. It remains a burdensome challenge to mass produce a physical object. I’ve seen a lot of very smart people struggle with this challenge.

[thevoppa]

Finally got in my first item from a unique crowd sourcing project called #quickey #geek

[livingsurvival]

(via Nite Ize DoohicKey QuicKey and SkullKey Tool Review)

[ayudos]

QuicKey—“The key that opens everything but doors” is now on Indiegogo

April 12, 2014— It’s always been said that necessity is the mother of invention.

So when Chris Hawker needed a tool that would open his mail, packages and bottles, as well as remove screws, tags and even split pills and scratch lotto cards, he thought of QuicKey. “QuicKey is a simple, yet highly functional product that was born out of necessity. I was always using my keys to open boxes and mail,…

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[quinnmikaelson]

RP Drabble: Kitchen.

Ship: Quickey (Quinn/Mickey)

Quinn heard the door before Mickey actually put the key in it to unlock it. The front door squeaked when someone leaned against it. She always knew right away. She placed her hands on her swollen belly and smiled. "Daddy's home...are you excited?" A swift kick to her bladder was her answer. "Okay, okay baby...sh..."

Mickey came in hair mussed and looking rather tired. He had taken a job for Marcus, another life threatening job, he promised Quinn it would be the last one. She leaned back against the sink watching him as he looked up at her sheepishly. "What 'r you doin’ awake, love? It's 4 am... you should be sleeping."

Quinn shrugged, "I couldn't sleep, someone wasn't there to hold me." Hazel eyes met blue and she saw the look in his eyes. He felt bad. She hated making him feel bad. Moving toward him Quinn cupped his face. "Hey...Piotr...it's okay. I'm not mad, I've done this before. And even though I feel like a beached whale, I can handle being pregnant. I have Blaine, Brittany, and Santana anyway. Sam too actually cause Sam's in town!"

Mickey kissed her hair softly and sighed, "Miss Pyrde, I wanted to ask you somethin’ actually."

"Okay shoot."

Mickey's shuffling feet gave her pause. He always danced like that when it was bad news. What was wrong now? Was it something with Santana again?

Quinn raised an eyebrow watching as her boyfriend started to go down on one knee. "Hold it... What are you doing? You're not.... You're proposing? Now... In our kitchen?"

Mickey looked up at her, that smile that she loved on his lips. "Where's a better place? In bed? Cause we can go there. I'm asking you Quinnikins, Miss Pyrde, will you marry me?"

"It's a girl..."

Mickey blinked tilting his head slightly. "Wha’s that?"

"The baby...it's a girl..."

"Our baby..."

Quinn nods. "Yes...to both questions, yes, I'll marry you and yes it's a girl." 

Mickey picks her up and kisses her deeply.

"What you want to name her, Kit?"

Quinn smiled looking down at her belly. "How does Andrea Elizabeth Fabray-Curtis sound?"

Mickey smiled looking down at his now Fiancee's belly that held their baby. "As long as your happy, I'm happy."

Quinn looked up at him tears in her eyes, "I'm happy."

[quinnmikaelson]

I've been spending the last eight months Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end But on a Wednesday in a cafe, I watched it begin again [x]