Right after I came up with the idea, the next thing was to jump into Google and dive into searching to see if anything like this already existed. After all, you do not want to make just one more similar product, and certainly you do not want to infringe on existing patents.
It was one of those long, hot showers at the end of the day. While staring at one point and visualizing my solution to a problem that I was facing in the house, it struck me... I found it! I know what is needed to get it done.
After I came back from CES and saw all the news and exposure that the new 3D printers got, and after seeing these printers in action at the show,. I decided that it is about time to see what these relatively low cost printers could do.
After all, as a product development firm, it seems like the right thing to do, both from a typical consumer and end user point, as well as from an industrial designer and engineering firm's point of view.