![]() The Roadie Tuner from Band Industries.But most won't be shipping in time for the holiday gift-giving season-bad news for the geek on your list. Many of them are available for preorder on Kickstarter now. These six (out of ten) gadgets launched at Haxlr8r made immediate sense to me. It’s refreshing to see that not all engineering students are focused on writing apps or have their heads in the (virtual) clouds.Įnough of a preamble. I didn’t get to check the IDs of everyone in the room, but some were clearly not even a year out of college, and most were not much older. I was also surprised by just how young these entrepreneurs tackling hardware products were. The Haxlr8r startup teams are expected to design for manufacturability right from the beginning. Just about as soon as the entrepreneurs arrive, the Haxlr8r mentors send them out to find a manufacturer the idea is that if you are not talking to a manufacturer before you are deep into the design stage, you’ll likely have to go through a time-consuming and expensive redesign to make the product manufacturable. ![]() Twice a year, the two-year-old incubator takes a small class of start-ups to spend four months in Shenzhen, China. Part of the reason for these gizmos being so nearly ready for prime time is Haxlr8r’s unique approach. But at Haxlr8r’s biannual launch event last Thursday afternoon in San Francisco, the hit rate seemed vastly higher than typical-with more than a handful of good ideas that seem very close to being ready to hit store shelves. And at every launch there’s usually a good idea or two that looks like it might turn into a product that makes sense. ![]()
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