Big news on the Splash Stacks front: on January 13th, we made the decision to stop manufacturing the product as it was designed. Despite the hard work of our Asia staff, sourcing team, and manufacturing partners abroad, there were several production issues that prevented certain features of the design from moving forward. The result was a dilution of the overall design, making it less useful and not visually attractive (read: fugly).
Our plan now is to redesign Splash Stacks to make it better suited for matching the production capabilities of our partners and cost goals of Quirky. We’re taking the redesign so seriously, we recently purchased a new bathtub for testing new prototypes (and, well, general tomfoolery). It hangs out in the kitchen.
So stay tuned for more updates and potential community projects surrounding The Big Splash Stacks Redesign Of 2011. It’s gonna be exciting!
] so we began sourcing factories that make products with similar materials and processes. This led us to plenty of sporting goods factories, as well as factories that make swimming equipment. After all, the materials needed for surfboards, kickboards, and Splash Stacks are quite similar!
