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Posted: May 25, 2012
Read more »Unbelievable. This whole project has been such a blast that I thought I would share the history of how we came to make the world’s smallest bookbindery case for the iPod Nano.
Will B., our operations manager, brought the idea up to me as a joke about six months ago. We make the Little Black Book for the iPhone 4/4S, how about one for the smallest Apple touch device, the iPod Nano? We thought about it, laughed and then put the idea aside as the very busy holiday season of 2011 was upon PQ. In early January the idea came back and we decided, what the heck – let’s buy a Nano and see if Eric, our CNC wood cutting technician, could make a teeny tiny frame for this idea. He did, and within about 3 hours of design, the moment I held it I knew we had to do it.
I contacted our master bookbinder who made the
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Posted: December 22, 2011Categories: iPad
Read more »We are not above succumbing to crazy viral ideas. Heck, that’s kind of our thing here at Pad and Quill. That is why our recent purchase of the iCADE was a business “research” decision. Yeah, that’s what it was.
On April 1st of 2010, ThinkGeek.com came out with a video about the main reason you should buy an iPad...so you could put it into an iCADE cabinet. This iPad cabinet is designed to look like an 80’s style retro arcade console and fits quite nicely on the corner of your desk. The whole production video was shot and uploaded to YouTube as practical joke. The $500-$900 iPad surely had better uses than sitting in this silly cabinet.
Enter great idea (stumbled upon) and viral marketing and before ThinkGeek knew what had happened they were getting thousands of requests to make the iCADE reality. One year
