NSRDEC (AND OTHER GOVERNMENT) PROCUREMENT AND RESEARCHERS ARE TRAINED TO STEAL FROM YOU Hear a Natick army employee tell exactly how that happens: https://jgpis.org/podcast/let-their-own-words-condemn-them/ OR https://clyp.it/qku4bvyd Straight from the source. Note: If it’s not dual use, then you’re screwed. ITAR/EAR is nothing to mess with. The military has an even betterRead More…
Category: Product Development
The 3rd Alternative in Zippers
Before I created the Zipr Shift zipper, there were only TWO kinds of zipper. FIRST A rigid, interlocking toothed/coil fastener. OR SECOND A soft, flexible interlocking profile zip track. That’s it! You had two options. The zip track is used exclusively in packaging. And, the toothed fastener is usedRead More…
Innovation is NOT World Charity
Inventors are the bottom of the food chain and we’re going to go extinct if U.S. IP laws don’t change. From my point of view, all my competitors have given is…nothing. They have thousands of patents in their patent portfolios and most of them are invalid iterations in lieu ofRead More…
Explaining the Tensile Strength
The strongest zipper currently on the market is the largest SIZE coil zipper. Why? Because it is the most CONTINUOUS zipper. The coils have very small gaps between them unlike the puzzle piece zipper teeth of metal or plastic molded zippers. This is also why the Zipr Shift zipper isRead More…
It Scales…
I tell people “We can only make closures 4 mm small [height].” Partial Lies. …because I predicted my competitor’s actions. They would attack the height. But, I really like a ZS closure height of 6 mm because, per testing, that is a good optimization of size, tensile strength, waterRead More…
Hide the Klōs® closure in Plain Sight
One of the greatest things about the Klōs® is its surface area. Greater surface area = Greater design freedom Like the freedom to cover the closure with the same fabric used on the garment. The power of camouflage! In order to secure the fabric around the Klōs®, one canRead More…
Paradigm Shift: What it Means for the Zipper Business
Here at Zipr Shift LLC, we’re creating a zipper manufacturing paradigm shift. Hence, the name Zipr Shift. Investopedia (source linked) defines a ‘paradigm shift’ as “…a major change in how some process is accomplished… Paradigm shifts can require that entire departments be eliminated or created in some cases, and millions orRead More…
Mars Astronauts Need Better Zippers
Today, Donald Trump signed the NASA Transition Authorization Act which adds a manned mission to Mars as one of the space agency’s goals. A manned mission to Mars. AWESOME! But, if people really do want to get to Mars by 2018, then they’ll need a zipper that doesn’t rust, tarnish, orRead More…
Closure Evolution: A Bio-inspired Design
It’s a good thing I was obsessed with zombies and skeletons in high school. Actually, I’m still obsessed with zombies… From those obsessions, I self-studied anatomy and physiology- is it really possible for zombies to exist?? The TV show The Walking Dead fueled this obsession even more. Anyway,Read More…
Website Redesign
For the past two weeks, the Zipr Shift website has been under construction. The website that we launched with and that had been up for about 6 months was really terrible. It wasn’t mobile responsive. It was not fit for a tech company. My apologies. I didn’t know what IRead More…