“asreview” created a nice looking promotion video for the wand. Have a look.
Today Chris and Richard went to Birmingham to set up their stand for the Birmingham Autumn Fair that starts on Sunday, Sept 5. The fair is really big with about 4000 exhibitors.
This fair is for business only. So there will be lots of resellers that will be able to take a first hand look at the Kymera Wand and another new product of The Wand Company. If you’re there too then just go to hall 5 stand EE52 and say hello to the conquerors of the Dragon’s Den.
The booth looks very comfy, like the study of Sir Richard Barons. Hope the two have a great time there presenting their products and talking to potential wholesale customers.
Your Chance to Win a Magic Wand and become a modern Wizard yourself
All you have to do to participate is to find your favorite Harry Potter spell and tell us what you would want to cast a spell on.
For example:
With my #KymeraWand I want to cast "Lumos" onto "the candles" to "lighten them".
Then either post this sentence on twitter /cc @kymerawand or add it as comment on this post.
The drawing ended Wednesday, September 1, midnight GMT.
Wishing you all the magical luck you need.
Update: We drew the lucky winner.
Congratulations to:
Andreas
With my #KymeraWand I want to cast “Alohomora” onto “my garage door” to “open it”
Please follow @kymerawand on twitter
or add Kymera-Wand on facebook
to get notified when we publish the winner.
Special Offer
If you are not the lucky winner or don’t want to wait,
we have a special offer for you!
Anyone who has participated in the drawing gets a roughly 5 percent discount
and will pay only just 55 € (£45.30 – US$ 70 – ¥5900) for the wand
when ordered within the next two weeks (until Wed, September 8).
Just be sure to include your email address or twitter id that you used in your contribution.
If you’d like to have a beautiful place to keep your wand – have a look at our Kymera Wand sheath.
So Chris and Richard the Wand Makers from The Wand Company, took the step and offered investors a possibility to invest their money in Magic.
The Dragons were left spellbound by duo Richard Blakesley & Chris Barnardo and their universal remote control which looks like a magic wand.
Well done Wand-Makers, I hope the investor money will allow you to continue to invent and create such awesome products. All the publicity through the show should empty your stocks quickly.
You can see the video here:
If you don’t know Dragon’s Den Show on BBC TWO – here is a short description from their website:
First launched in Japan, Dragons’ Den is now an international brand with versions airing in countries across the globe.
Entrepreneurs pitch for investment in the Den from our Dragons, five venture capitalists willing to invest their own money in exchange for equity.
Since series five, the five Dragons have been Duncan Bannatyne, James Caan, Deborah Meaden, Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis.
The Kymera Wand is featured prominently as gift-bag item of this years TED Global 2010, which started today in Oxford, UK.
The WandMakers Chris and Richard were happy to provide 800 Kymera Wands as gift to the TEDsters. Here is their warm, welcoming note:
Technology Entertainment Design
TED started out in 1984 to bring people together from these three worlds. Today, these fields have been combined in many fantastic ways, so we were honored when the nice folks at TED invited us to participate in this gift bag. We’ve taken a little of todays technology, applied creative design, and developed a product which has already entertained customers in more than 50 countries around the world.
It’s been a great start for our fledgling company, and we’re really excited about the future possibilities with help from people like you. That’s why we’re delighted to present you with your very own Kymera Magic Wand, and would love to hear your comments, thoughts and ideas – so please drop me a note at chris.barnardo(at)thewandcompany.com, or visit our website here: www.thewandcompany.com
Chris Barnardo, CEO
They created a great looking package specially designed for TED. The same kind of packaging is available for corporate customers that want to give away the Kymera Wand as a gift – to customers, partners or employees.
There are already the first tweets about it:
@PaulRieckhoff
Best gift bag item of #TED: a Kymera Magic Wand-”not a toy, a finely tuned instrument of control” http://twitpic.com/24okbb
Kymera Wand @TEDGlobal2010 by @PaulRieckhoff
@whiteafrican: #TED Fellows can practice their quiddich with their new wand in the Harry Potter dining room. #Oxford http://twitpic.com/24b8xh
Harry Potter dining room by @whiteafrican
@freeworldmedia: Opening up the famous TED Gift bag. The highlight is the magic wand that controls anything from the TV remote to… http://fb.me/CgZcExin
@paulrieckhoff: @thewandcompany Thanks for the cool gift. After some drinks, there will be TEDsters running all over Oxford screaming “Abracadabra”! #TED
@gregorymiller All but the floating candles & white owls at #TED. http://twitpic.com/24×3xl
TED Magic Lunch by @gregorymiller
@giorgiotedx TEDxDubaiLive – TED Magic Wand ,inside delegates bags. Will need to try it on a couple of folks back in #DXB http://twitpic.com/24wcbs
@rodrigocvc: Refeições a la Hogwarts no TED Global. http://bit.ly/a2ECOR (expand) #ted [afichacaiu]
Hogwarts at TEDGlobal
Gift bag contents
Look out for TED content anyway. These are the worlds best presentations on various topics online, collected for more than 25 years and available for free (Creative Commons).
Wishing all TEDsters much fun at the event.
The Wandmakers Chris and Richard sent a free Kymera Wand,
with a gift message:
Dear Mr. NeeNaw, we’ve seen your videos –
the Harry Potter one appealed to us greatly,
and we figured you’d enjoy one of these
to the crazy Mr. NeeNaw aka Neelesh.
After some problems opening the package (like a man) he lifts the lid of the black box with sound effects he finds the “big piece of paper” then he figures out that it is a wand but very unlike the HP ones.
His electronic knowhow helps him to find the little piece of plastics that keeps the batteries from conducting and to remove it. “I didn’t read that, I don’t know what it is. It does make magical noises.” Then he reads the instructions aloud anyway – you all know that about the universal infrared remote control that can recognize up to 13 gestures.
We follow him to his “lounge”. He presents the wand again but talks about fake leather of the box and saving cows. But acutally it is Faux Dragon Skin (important difference). After presenting the “nicely themed mass of instructions”, he switches on his TV which is slowly waking up (as all TV’s seem to do nowadays), pulls back to leave the tv guide, double tap to enter it again, changes channels and the like.
“They take a small while to get used to but then they can replace TV, Sky, Apple remotes.”
“The way you program it is pretty awesome, it gives you feedback because you can feel beating it your hand. Which is a very very creepy feeling.”
“I’m very grateful that TheWandCompany sent me one of these, because I love them now. I think it will make a great gift. ”
If you’re in England you’ll receive it within one day.
When my sister is watching crappy music on MTV I can switch it off.
And now I’m going to program it to everything thats in my skull. So I can get up to mischief.
He’s blown away:
It is pretty damn awesome (6 times or so) … I love it.
Coolest thing about the video are the bloopers 
Like the planes and the wand biting.
I should ask the people that received a free wand from me to do a similar cool video or blog post.
You must take a look at the really long blog post by dohcjhw. He put on a darth vader helmet which is unusal for a wizard, but perhaps closest he could get to Lord Voldemort and tried the wand on himself.
Unfortunately all the Korean text is within the images so, I can’t have it tranlated.
There are also nice instructional images like this one:
Update:
51 people participated and #45 won. Congratulations to
Polly
the winner of the Giveaway. Your wand is on its way.
51 people participated and #45 won. Congratulations to
Polly
the winner of the Giveaway. Your wand is on its way.
Thanks to all participants. Wishing you luck for the next round of giveaways.
Back in October 2009 Anne-Marie Kovacs of TheSucculentWife wrote a nice post about the Kymera Wand.
We chatted about having a giveaway contest some time in the future, and now with Fathers Day (June 20th) approaching, she took the chance to offer a Kymera Wand for her blog’s readers.
As an avid reader of the Kymera Wand site, you should know how many gestures the wand supports. So hurry up to the post and add your comment to win a wand.
The giveaway is open until June 11th 2010. Wishing you Good Luck.
As we just returned from a busy week on Crete,
I was only now able to draw the Facebook Raffle winner.
I was only now able to draw the Facebook Raffle winner.
Congratulations to:
We already contacted him for the details so he’ll soon be a proud Kymera Wand owner.
Everyone else, don’t be sad, there will be more possibilities throughout the year to win a magic wand. We’ll continue to post Kymera Wand news on Facebook just stay tuned. Thanks for your participation.
And you can always buy a wand for yourself.
Happy casting
Michael
I just noticed that the wandmakers moved to a new twitter account @thewandcompany. So if you want to follow the news from their workshop just add them to your list of daily updates.
The old account @The_WandCompany is discontinued.
I already changed the twitter widget of kymera-wand.com to point to the new account. So you also stay informed if you visit us regularly.
