Great news, everyone. We’ve received final samples from our new MugStir factory, and we’ve moved this baby into production. Woohoo! Jordan and Nikki (live from China via Skype) share the latest.
Oh, and the audio quality was a little, well, “Skype-y” — so we’ve broken down the highlights of the video here:
- As you know from the last production report, we switched factories. The new factory has done an awesome job.
- The silicone is now co-molded to the spoon, and it looks fantastic. Nikki’s pumped.
- We received T1 samples in brushed metal on December 16. We were blown away by how much better these samples were than the last ones.
- The only remaining issue was color matching on the colored samples and improvements to the tolerance of the spoon handles.
- Jordan spills milk all over our pretty Apple keyboard.
- Final samples were anticipated later in the day; if they were good, the plan was to green light production.
UPDATE: They were, and we did!
7 Comments
Judi | 01/17/2011 11:36 AM
Fantastic! I am so excited! Jordan, again, you did a fantastic job with the design & thank you Nikki for ALL your work (as well as the rest of the team). : )
Stalias | 01/17/2011 1:13 PM
My heart goes pitty-pat when we get good production values. I’m psyched. Congratulations all around. Can’t wait to get my MugStirs!
Clinton | 01/17/2011 1:57 PM
I am very, very glad that Factory 2 is working out well. After seeing the Factory 1 T1 sample, and saying, “Hmmm…this has so many hallmarks of a ‘factory quickie’, I admit I’d be on the plane”, I felt the factory switch was inevitable. I’m glad it happened. Good job quirkers (both QS and QC)!
M Cavada | 01/17/2011 3:57 PM
Great News!
• @Jordan…so why is your keyboard not being protected by a Quirky SpaceBar? Tsk tsk tsk!
zosomojo | 01/17/2011 4:03 PM
I really LOVE your YouTube updates on what’s happnin’ at Quirky.
Keeps us in the loop!!
I have several invention ideas, and will upload one soon.
nlaffel | 01/17/2011 9:20 PM
IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS SPOON!
Daniel | 01/18/2011 3:08 PM
Looking good! @Jordan, that was pretty classic-a full glass would have been funnier.