Showing posts with label company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label company. Show all posts
Monday, May 16, 2016
Friday, March 4, 2016
Slant Robotics
I have formed a new branch of Slant Concepts...Slant Robotics. The "Jerry" Project is going to become an official product. Jerry is now being built in Nampa, Idaho with a projected reveal of a finished product at the end of April. Jerry is going to be the home robot that everyone has imagined.
Be sure to follow the project of Twitter or Facebook.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Jerry
This is a project that I have been working on for some time. Jerry is my foray into personal robotics. He will begin as a telepresence robot and then develop into an AI robot home assistant. A quick conceptual design is shown in the rendering below.
Friday, February 20, 2015
SlantBook and Phone
What would a cellphone and a laptop made by Slant look like? I decided to design and phone and a laptop the way that I want those devices to be. The result are digital mock-ups of the SlantPhone and SlantBook.
The SlantPhone
Who says the flip-phone is dead. Use it as a normal phone or watch videos without crouching over the display (and what video is rectangular anyway, a square display still give you all the size you need). Also scroll and control one display with the other.
Set the SlantPhone up sideways to show feeds while your at your desk
The cylinder hinge adds battery, cooling, and ergonomic capabilities to the SlantPhone that a typical smartphone doesn't.
You don't need a case anymore because the phone can take care of itself.
To really use it as a table piece let it support itself.
I will be 3-D printing this model of the SlantPhone just to see what it would be like in the real world.
The SlantPhone would also be separable. So that you could take a call with one half and browse with the other as if it were two devices. Each display is 3x2.5 inches.
The SlantBook
Basically, a larger version of the SlantPhone. The SlantBook would not have a keyboard. Just two touch displays which allows for a completely dynamic user interface. After all a laptop is limited by its keyboard and mouse, a tablet loses half of its display to a keyboard, and a tablet with a keyboard is just an under-powered laptop. The SlantBook has none of the problems of those devices.
The SlantPhone
Who says the flip-phone is dead. Use it as a normal phone or watch videos without crouching over the display (and what video is rectangular anyway, a square display still give you all the size you need). Also scroll and control one display with the other.
Set the SlantPhone up sideways to show feeds while your at your desk
The cylinder hinge adds battery, cooling, and ergonomic capabilities to the SlantPhone that a typical smartphone doesn't.
You don't need a case anymore because the phone can take care of itself.
To really use it as a table piece let it support itself.
I will be 3-D printing this model of the SlantPhone just to see what it would be like in the real world.
The SlantPhone would also be separable. So that you could take a call with one half and browse with the other as if it were two devices. Each display is 3x2.5 inches.
The SlantBook
Basically, a larger version of the SlantPhone. The SlantBook would not have a keyboard. Just two touch displays which allows for a completely dynamic user interface. After all a laptop is limited by its keyboard and mouse, a tablet loses half of its display to a keyboard, and a tablet with a keyboard is just an under-powered laptop. The SlantBook has none of the problems of those devices.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Slant Concepts
Slant is the reincarnated version of Universal Mechanisms. While still basically in development we are operating with what we have.
Slant is a product micro-production and development firm. We focus on the creation of a quantity of ideas instead of a quantity of product units. Meaning we like to try one thing and if it doesn't work we move on to the next. Instead of working to develop the "One-Hit Wonder" of products we work to create good products for niche markets. We are the opposite of the mass production model.
Since Slant is based on micro-production we focus on the creation of products that can be stored digitally, which eliminates the need to store physical inventory. This means that we do a lot of 3-D printing and self-publishing. Something is made when it is purchased.
I currently run Slant alone from a dorm room. But when I need help I bring in friends and free-lancers. I suppose that 'we' is really just the rolodex of people that have helped when Slant was UniMech and will be helping with the development of Slant in the future.
Slant is a product micro-production and development firm. We focus on the creation of a quantity of ideas instead of a quantity of product units. Meaning we like to try one thing and if it doesn't work we move on to the next. Instead of working to develop the "One-Hit Wonder" of products we work to create good products for niche markets. We are the opposite of the mass production model.
Since Slant is based on micro-production we focus on the creation of products that can be stored digitally, which eliminates the need to store physical inventory. This means that we do a lot of 3-D printing and self-publishing. Something is made when it is purchased.
I currently run Slant alone from a dorm room. But when I need help I bring in friends and free-lancers. I suppose that 'we' is really just the rolodex of people that have helped when Slant was UniMech and will be helping with the development of Slant in the future.
Saturday, March 1, 2014
The Talking Pancake
The Talking Pancake is an online custom pancake business that I am working to get off of the ground. People will be able to go to the site and construct their mixes from my list of ingredients. Below was our pitch video. While I failed on Indiegogo to get funding I have moved to an Etsy store that will get me rolling for less capitol
Bring 'R' Up
This is a food courier service that has become a subsidiary of my company Universal Mechanisms. Bring 'R' Up delivers groceries from local stores right to the customer's door using only a generic shopping list provided by the customer on our site.
Universal Mechanisms LLC
Universal Mechanisms is the parent company to many of my other ventures that are business related. We focus on innovative concepts in engineering, design and business.
UniMech was originally a robotics company based on the modular, Model R hobby platform, but quickly morphed into a more general product design firm.
UniMech was shut down in 2014 in order to be rebranded as Slant Concepts.
UniMech was originally a robotics company based on the modular, Model R hobby platform, but quickly morphed into a more general product design firm.
UniMech was shut down in 2014 in order to be rebranded as Slant Concepts.
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