30 Day Pill Cutter Helps You Cut a Whole Month’s Worth of Pills In Half
R2FACT congratulates our customer Dr. Puthalath Raghuprasad on the success of his 30 Day Pill Cutter soon to be available for purchase on line. The 30 Day Pill Cutter allows the user to cut 16 pills in half for a whole month’s supply of pills by pressing down on the...
Valve Purse Secures Storage & Improves Cleaning of Endoscope Valves
R2FACT congratulates our customer Zutron Medical on the success of their Valve Purse now available for purchase on their website. The single use Valve Purse is used for the safe storage of endoscope valves to ensure reusable parts are processed together and stored...
R2FACT licenses Observational Kennel Patent from University of Missouri
R2FACT congratulates our customer Teresa Lever and her colleagues, Joan Coates, Mitchell Allen, and Laila Al-Khashti, in association with the University of Missouri, on the success of their official granted patent for a non-restraint examination animal kennel that...
Parasol Pets Pet Bed Now Selling on Amazon
R2FACT congratulates our Customer David Iiams on the success of his Parasol Pets Pet Bed now selling on Amazon. The Pet Bed is ornately designed for the comfort and den-loving nature of cats and small dogs. The Pet Bed comes with a luxury cushion made of soft molded...
Lazser Down Featured on Live Football Game
R2FACT congratulates our previous Customer Michael Foster on the success of his Lazser Down being featured in several live football games this season. Lazser Down is a real-time down and distance feedback digital display that can accurately measure the length of the...
QUICKCOYS Patent Grants and is Licensed
R2FACT congratulates our Customer Keith Beauchamp on the success of his official granted patent and licensing agreement with TangleFree, a California-based waterfowl company. From Idea to Delivery, Keith’s QUICKCOY™ waterfowl decoy deployment system was...
Benefits of 3D Scanning
As an Industrial Designer the efficiency and accuracy of measuring an object with complex shapes, angles, and curves is always a challenge in the beginning stages of CAD design and development. Whether it’s updating an existing product that only exists as a physical...
Eco Friendly 3D Printing
Rapid prototyping through the use of 3d printers is a great method of creating plastic parts but how environmentally friendly can this process be? It all depends on the plastic material being extruded from the printer. The most common plastics used in consumer 3D...
How Much and How Long Will it Cost Me to Develop My Idea?
When it comes to product development, that’s the million dollar question. While in almost anything else you might purchase, you can look at a price tag and know exactly what it will cost Product development is not that simple, even for the simplest of products....
Alumni return to honor their mentor
In a room of more than 40 people, I knew no one, not a soul, except for the man of honor, Richard Branham, longtime KU professor of industrial design. I soon learned that the guests had traveled from Mexico, Brazil, China, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, New York and...
Why Design for Manufacturing Matters
“Tom, this is Bob with R2 Manufacturing, we have a problem. I can’t move forward until we talk.” This is a call you do not want to get. And this is why when you design a product, Design for Manufacturing DOES matter. After much thought and research, you now have an...
The Ergonomics of Standing Desk
There was a time when standing desks were a curiosity. That has changed. Read why "sitting is the new smoking." For more information, visit www.jasonl.com
Apple’s Key to Product Innovation
Steve Wozniak aka The Woz is a genius at engineering. He is also a very funny person, although he was incredibly shy in his early years. I guess becoming a founder of the most successful technology company in the world has pushed him beyond reticence into joking about...
Which Comes First, the Patent Attorney or the Designer?
The “eureka” moment of invention has spawned many clichés: flash of genius, inspiration, light bulb effect, spark of innovation. Whatever you call it, the person who has the brilliant idea typically starts thinking, “Should I patent it? I need to go see a patent...
Animal Health
We Kansas Citians have all experienced it….we are out of town for business or pleasure and the obvious question arises, “Where are you from?” “ Kansas City.” And then we hear, “A lot of farmland there. Is there anything else?” And while we can go on about the...