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Proto Labs Helps to open doors to the last winner of the Prize Cool Idea!

17/01/2014

17 January 2014

Proto Labs has conceded a Prize Cool Idea! To Alottazs Labs, LLC, creator of the device and mobile application Garageio. The system allows to the owner of a house supervise and control to distance the door of his garage by means of an application for smartphone, very easy to use.

The device Garageio, of elegant design, can plant directly in the opening accessory of the door of the garage or in own ceiling of the garage; once installed, the users can connect it to the network Wi-Fi of his home through the application Garageio for smartphone. The owners of the houses will be able to share the access to his garages with the people that choose through the application of smartphone and, even, restrict the hours in that they can use it. If the door of the garage remains opened, or if a repartidor goes to leave a package or a boy has to go in in the house, the users can open and close until three garage doors from practically any place of the world.

The smartphone has allowed the existence in the market of opening devices of garage doors, but Garageio distinguishes of the other by his capacity to adapt to the already existent doors, in place to demand his replacement or give alone support to some models. Besides, with a price of 149 $ (110 €), the devices Garageio distinguish of other competitors by his low cost, at the same time that they do not generate monthly taxles or additional costs of download of the application for smartphone or by the addition of users. “The strategy of the company consisted in creating a device that no only gave support to several garage doors, but besides it was simple, reliable and intelligent, with the end to offer an experience inmejorable to the user, ” explains the adviser delegated of Alottazs Labs, Zak Dziczkowski.

The service of mechanised CNC of Proto Labs, Firstcut, provided an initial request of the upper and inferior box of the prototype, that Alottazs Labs is using right now in the proofs of product of Garageio with a selecto group of customers. Once finalised the proofs, the company goes to allocate the remaining amount of the Prize Cool Idea! To the pieces of production of the boxes of ABS through the service of moldeo by injection of Proto Labs, Protomold.

“Loved us the way in that an innovative device combined with an application for mobiles tremendously accessible could solve a daily problem, and gladdens us that our Prize Cool Idea! It help to Alottazs Labs to take out his product to the market”, ensures Larry Lukis, founder and president of Proto Labs.

Presented in 2011, the Prize Cool Idea! Of Proto Labs awards a total of 250.000 annual dollars in services to employers that develop new products in United States and Europe. Unlike other prizes for products that recognise his alone merit after his production wholesale and his distribution to the points of sale, the Prize Cool Idea! Of Proto Labs pretends to help to that the innovative ideas see the light. For more information on the Prize Cool Idea! And on the way to opt to the same, visit www.protolabs.com/coolidea.