Proto Labs' Cool Idea! Winner Ready To Make Waves
17 Julho 2012 - 1:26PM
Business Wire
Sports enthusiasts around the globe have long been accustomed to
enlisting friends, family and even strangers to serve as amateur
videographers. But even if you’re able to convince someone to
invest the time and energy to help out, usable footage is never a
guarantee. Now athletes ranging from professional surfers to little
league soccer players can capture high quality video of themselves
on their own, from a distance, thanks to SOLOSHOT, the most recent
recipient of the Proto Labs Cool Idea! Award.
SOLOSHOT is a two-piece cooperative object tracking system that
combines with virtually any camera to track and film a moving
subject from up to 2000 feet away. Simply mount a camera on the
motorized base and slip the remote armband on. Once you’ve
completed the simple pairing process, the SOLOSHOT remote and base
units remain in radio communication allowing the SOLOSHOT base to
automatically rotate to keep your camera pointed at you.
“SOLOSHOT began as a surfer’s dream,” says Soloshot, Inc.
Founder and CEO, Chris Boyle. “Being able to set your camera up on
the beach and head out into the break knowing that every wave and
wipeout will be smoothly tracked and filmed is a great
feeling.”
Both the SOLOSHOT remote and base feature rechargeable batteries
that last more than five hours on a single charge and the
waterproof remote is designed to handle demanding ocean
environments. Boyle and Co-founder, Scott Taylor, both engineers,
addressed security by designing an access point to lock the camera
to the base and the included professional grade tripod can be
locked to nearby fixed objects such as a tree or life guard
stand. Additionally, the base features a bright feedback LED
that lets you know the camera is pointing at you while you’re on
the water or racing around the track.
“SOLOSHOT is a product with a ton of potential,” says Proto Labs
founder and CTO Larry Lukis. “You can see its appeal to individual
athletes but I can imagine coaches using it as a training tool,
parents putting it to work at their child’s soccer games, and even
documentary filmmakers getting creative with the technology.”
Like many Cool Idea! Award winners, the SOLOSHOT team first
encountered Proto Labs when searching for a manufacturer that could
provide reasonably priced parts in a hurry. “When you’re in the lab
and excited about your progress, you don’t want to wait months for
an injection molded part to show up,” says Alex Sammons, CTO of
SOLOHSOT. “I don’t know of another company in the world that you
can call and say, ‘I need injection molded or CNC-machined parts
tomorrow.’ Their responsive customer service staff and shipping
times are unmatched.”
SOLOSHOT joins a growing list of cutting-edge products that have
received the Cool Idea! Award. Now in its second year, Cool Idea!
is an award program offered by Proto Labs that gives product
designers the opportunity to bring innovative products to life. In
2012, Proto Labs expanded the program’s reach to include the
European Union, and is now offering up to $250,000 of prototyping
and short-run production services. For more information, visit
www.protolabs.com/coolidea.
About Proto LabsProto Labs (PRLB) is a leading online and
technology-enabled quick-turn manufacturer of low-volume
CNC-machined and injection molded custom parts for prototyping and
short-run production. The company provides “Real Parts, Really
Fast” to product developers worldwide and has two quick-turn
services in North America, Europe and Japan: Firstcut
(www.firstcut.com) CNC machining and Protomold (www.protomold.com)
injection molding. Both are capable of providing parts in as fast
as one business day. Product developers who use Proto Labs for
prototypes and short-run production can upload a 3D CAD file at any
one of Proto Labs online sites, get an interactive quotation and
place an order for Proto Labs services directly online. For more
information, visit: www.protolabs.com.
About Soloshot, Inc.Soloshot, Inc. was founded on a reef
by engineers with a desire to bring groundbreaking products to the
world. They are a hands-on company that is proud to
design, test and manufacture their own products, in-house, in the
USA. SOLOSHOT recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowd
fund a new high volume production line -
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1590403900/soloshot-go-film-yourself-automatically.
For more information, visit: www.SOLOSHOT.com
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