TheMindStream Kickstarter竞选活动今天开始,新的,潜在的革命性的新水监控设备将以499美元的合理款项进入第一轮支持者。
Currently, aquarium water quality management and testing can be one of the most time intensive, laborious, and expensive parts of keeping a marine aquarium. If theMindstream辜负其诺言,我们可以看到海军陆战队和礁石坦克变得更容易保存和管理,以及进入竞争的全新reefkeepers。即使是经验丰富且经验丰富的礁饲养者也可能能够在其家庭水族馆中推动最直接测试的水位参数(例如钾,氧气和二氧化碳)。
The Kickstarter price is set at $499 per unit, but when it goes to retail the device will sell for anywhere from $700 to $900, with a subscription service planned to deliver the replacement testing discs every 30 days. The first level of Kickstarter units will receive justonetesting disc but backers at the $1000 level will receive a year’s worth of testing discs.
这个新的外来测试方法的程度works, and how reliable it is in the long term is going to determine the true value of these replacement testing discs. If the discs are uber accurate and precise, we could see the discs being worth upwards of $60 a pop each month.
但是,如果光盘在短短几周内失去精度,或者在提议30天的寿命结束时大量掉落,那么也许30美元将更符合他们的价值。Currently Mindstream has priced their test discs, at least in the Kickstarter funding round, at $500 for a year’s supply which is totally reasonable if the user experience is a smooth as butter, but it’s going to take a whole lot more than a hyper-accurate pH graph to convince the reef aquarium hobbyist of its precision with other parameters.
与许多其他月亮水族馆和珊瑚礁坦克的kickstarter不同,Mindstream并不依赖于这款Kickstarter来将该设备推向市场。提前的创新一直在像一家“真实”公司一样构建自己风险投资资金, and a nearly 18 month long development period to get the MindStream to the point where it is finally ready for public testing.
取而代之的是,母公司提前的创新是使用众筹平台来测试消费者的需求和对思维斯特的响应,并创建有限的版本以生成大型用户群来测试其业务模型。在最终推动Mindstream上市的过程中,他们将最终确定产品的设计,继续对设备进行内部测试,设计产品包装等。最重要的是,要跟上昂贵的专利文件。
这对支持者的意义是,他们可以保证,当Sai表示会时,Mindstream将真正上市,所有背景硬件和软件开发都可以使巧妙的设备按照所宣传的方式工作。尽管有30万美元的资金目标,但我们非常有信心在众筹时期内将达到这一资金目标,并且可能会超过。
One thing about the MindStream Monitor beingt priced at $500 (or $700) per unit and $500 per year, at least the price itself isnot“too good to be true” and you get the sense that some real research and development has gone into bringing this completely unique product to the aquarium market. Now that Step Ahead Innovations is ready to distribute its first round of MindStream via kickstarter, it will be up to the market and the first wave of early adopters to determine where the MindStream will fit in the annals of aquarium history.
预计在今年年底之前将发货的第一批交付;为了完整的功能和规格,请在他们的Kickstarter页。