Your search for the perfect dog leash is over! Meet the Quirky Kōsoku.

This fully-featured leash is designed with both doggy and owner convenience in mind. We think you’ll both find Kōsoku’s combination of plush and rigid materials the ideal walking companion.

Here are just a few of its fine features:

- Fully retractable 6-foot long leash.

- Reflective 3M tape surface for extra visibility.

- Side pocket to hold doggy “waste” bags.

- Shock-absorbent neoprene and durable nylon canvas wrapped around a semi-rigid core for strength and flexibility.

- Designed for dogs up to 90 lbs.

(Note Nikki’s epic victory dance around minute 1:06)

UPDATE: Our warehouse friends were able to ship out more than 500 Cloak packages in just one day. From here on out it should be smooth sailing!

(You: Wait, what? Did I read that right? Cloak is shipping?!)

Yeah, you read that right. After a long journey filled with ups and downs, we are finally ready to roll out probably the most anticipated iPad case in iPad case history. And we have pictures to prove it!

The next series of pics will come from you… post a photo of you with your Cloak on our product page when you receive it!

Plus, he wrote about his visit.

Wrapsters are made in the USA!

Pictured Above: Hardened Steel Tool Design For The Wrapster

Our warehouse says “Bring on the Cloaks….we’re ready!”

We’ve alerted our warehouse to the volume of orders that will need to be shipped out in a very short amount of time. They have done all the prep work they can to get these out effectively and efficiently and have added extra staff members for the Cloak shipping days.

The Cloak is coming!

Below are three images that abstractly reference our current in-progress Waffler design. These images have certain qualities/details that reflect our design sensibilities for this project.

When designing your amazing logo(s) for the Waffler take a look at these images and bear in mind the design language you are seeing here. Please DO NOT copy these images into your logo design in any way, shape or form. But instead, think of your logos as reflecting this level of sophisticated consumer product design.

Here’s what we’re hoping this’ll accomplish:

- Give the community a better understanding of how the final product will look, so that they can have a better basis for designing their logo submissions.

- Give the community one last project before the product launches to reignite the momentum.

- Most importantly, result in better logos.

We’re going to see how this goes — let us know what you think!

and everyone agrees

That you and I were wrong

And it’s been that way too long

Take it as it comes

and be thankful when its done

There’s so many ways to act

And there’s many shades of black

There’s so many shades of black

There’s so many shades of black

We’re letting the Raconteurs bring this project to a close for us.   All for good reason.

The last expected ship date came and went due to the wildest of errors.  Despite our relentless efforts of documentation (color guides, reiteration of colors next to each part listed on our PO, etc) one of our suppliers totally got the colors wrong.   What was supposed to be a super clear, easy to understand process was totally botched.

The Black Cloaks, which were expected to ship last week were photographed and caught at the last minute by our QA staff on the ground at the factory (big ups to Kyle, Cyrus, Debbie & Andy).

“REJECTED!” we said to Phil (the owner of the factory that sucks) in our best NBA announcer voice.

The Inner cover was not the dark black we had intended, instead it was the light gray we had intended for the portrait stand.

Did it look horrible? No, not exactly — but it’s not what we intended, so we took the time to get it right.

Reproducing the units that had been created thus far according to the color spec that had been in our suppliers hands for months (confirmed & signed off on by multiple team members both here and on the ground in Asia).

How this mis-match happened still baffles us.

There are, in fact, many shades of black.  We at Quirky are very particular about our black.

On Sunday we got our first glimpse into fully assembled, fully packaged Cloaks heading our way.

The shipping process will be staggered, as planned and the black hiccup cost us about 7-10 days.

Obviously, delays are the last thing we are looking for at this point.  But, when faced with the question of delaying a shipment by a week, or shipping a better product- we will always choose the latter.

The good news is, we’re through it and the first batch of Cloaks are on their way here – and from there (hopefully) it’ll be smooth sailing.

Mike McCoy is on his way up to NYC tomorrow to be around for the launch.  Our warehouse has already started to tape together the boxes that the Cloaks will ship to consumers in so that all they’ll have to do is pick & label.  FedEx is standing by ready to rock your world… and, of course, our Sourcing, QA, and logistics teams are all standing by, ready to get their first full nights sleep in months.

Ah, product development.

Some photos from last night in the gallery below: