Inventors Get Ideas, Make Them Reality
Record-Eagle.com:
Back when they were students at Bertha Vos Elementary, Keith Nielson, Kevin Vann and Tom Hills liked to take things apart to see how they worked.
Now the friends are designing and manufacturing their own products through their fledgling company, Foresight Design Group.
“It’s something we’ve done in our spare time,” said Nielson, 29, a mechanical engineer who put his career on hold to work for his family’s property management company. “We’ve had these ideas for products but because of a full-time job, marriage and kids, it’s been really hard to find time to work on them.”
So far the group’s most successful invention — and first full pending patent — is the Caution Clip, a heavy-duty plastic clamp with mesh safety flag and marker light. The clip helps keep drivers legal and safe when hauling extended loads.
“It’s the ‘American dream’ kind of story: three of us getting together in someone’s garage,” said […]
Original post by Rich and software by Elliott Back