Nail polish robot paints and dries in 10 minutes per hand appeared first on ISRAEL21c. “At some point, we may move on to Amazon and retail.” “Customers will be able to buy the device and the capsules through our ecommerce website,” says Moran. All engineering and design work was done in Israel, while mass production will take place in China for the unit and in Europe for the polish capsules. The company employs 12 people in its offices in Tel Aviv and New York, and is recruiting additional employees. Technology is what we do.” Nimble’s team in Tel Aviv. Yet there was no technology to automate it. In a salon, it takes more time and costs a lot,” he says. They can only do it at home if they have the right skills and supplies. “One hundred million Americans paint their nails once a month, and 80 million once a week or every two weeks. In the United States alone, people spend some $12 billion on manicures, says Moran. We have launched our campaign for the Zesty Nimble, the smallest and smartest extruder out there. Investors saw that Nimble has the potential to disrupt a $120 billion market worldwide. The third co-founder, VP of R&D Avichai Mor-Yosef, spent a decade in R&D at HP subsidiary Indigo. Moran, Nimble’s CEO, and Ron Miller, VP of technology, previously co-founded KitLocate, which was acquired by Yandex and led to the establishment of Yandex Israel five years ago. That’s partly because these entrepreneurs are known entities. They already had $10 million in seed money from venture capitalists and angels including - among others - Entree Capital Fund, the LionBird Foundation and Nir Erez, cofounder and CEO of Moovit. Moran and his co-founders didn’t launch on Kickstarter to raise money, but to prelaunch Nimble.
Working closely with the product’s inventor, the Nimble production team got right to work scriptwriting, location scouting and creating a video story board. The Nimble machine works with three capsules of polish available from the company. Our first kickstarter campaign video couldn’t have been more fun to develop. Each set of three polish capsules (30 shades available) costs $10 and covers up to three sessions, depending on the length of the nails and the need for touch-ups. Suggested retail price for the unit is $399.
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The unit is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled, providing access to software updates for the machine, such as nail art designs. Future iterations will likely accomplish the job even faster. The web enables all sorts of disruptive ideas whose significance is hard to perceive at first ( Twitter, Boxee).The robot completes each hand - fingernails and thumbnails separately - in 10 minutes. In the first of a two-part feature, well this week speak to two. Then the web came along and provided a super-efficient platform for the distribution of digital data - free, instant, global - making everyone a “publisher.” Now come the nimble competitors who see and fill the newly opened niches faster than the lumbering old beasts can react.Īt the moment, Kickstarter doesn’t look like a giant-killer. It has just entered its third year of business and still runs as a nimble business startup. First computers came along and converted text to digital format. I am not one of the doomsayers who believe publishing houses will vanish anytime soon, but here is another example of how the web undermines the traditional business model publishers have lived by for over a century. If donors provide the writer’s advance, the upfront payment that supports him while he writes the book and digital platforms like Amazon/Kindle provide the writer direct access to a free, paperless publishing platform, then what exactly will be left for publishing houses to do in the digital publishing space? Editing? Book design? Publicity? Not everyone can sign up to flog their project.īut think about the implications for writers. Right now, the site is by invitation only. Donors might get updates about the project, say, or dinner with the author, or have their name incorporated into the book. The artists might offer any sort of reward they can think of as an incentive to donors. is a cool new web site that provides “a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers…” Think of it as DonorsChoose for creative types: artists post descriptions of projects they would like to do visitors pledge donations to support them.
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