We are proud and happy to announce the first accessory product for the Kymera Magic Wand.
Wand in the Pocket
Some time ago we published information about
Wand Pouches in the making and now we’re able to offer them to you.
The Wand Makers were kind enough to offer us the chance to present the wand pouches to you first.
Pouches for the Kymera Wand
So here they are – available first in an amazing fine red Chinese silken fabric, embroidered with golden dragons. Your wand slides into the pouch easily and is hidden and protected by some powerful charms the Wandmakers put into the golden threads.
This pocket is not only for the lucky Kymera wand owner but for everyone who has a magic wand of his own. It is also the perfect gift for every aspiring or experienced wizard you happen to know.
The pockets are available for just EUR 9,95. When you order them with your wand they’re included in the free shipping offer, otherwise we ask for a flat 2 EUR worldwide shipping fee.
Only available in red.
So don’t hesitate and “Pocket Your Wand”
Order Pocket for your Wand
Order Wand with Pocket
Envelope with pouch
Please bear in mind:
That wand’s batteries should be isolated, i.e. turned round or taken out before
transporting the wand. As because it is a motion sensitive piece of
equipment, transport activates it, uses up the batteries and can put the
wand in to various modes including a sequence which completes a factory
reset.
Envelope for pouch
All the information you need
the wandmakers are proud to present the first accessory to the Kymera Wand. It is a pouch fit for such a fine piece of wandmaking. It can not only hold the Kymera wand but any other wand you own, which is at most 370 mm (14.5 inch) long. The pouches will be on sale in different colors from the beginning of December. So you can wrap your Kymera Wand christmas giveaway in a fitting sheet.
Here are some preliminary images:
Envelope with pouch
Envelope for pouch
Pouches for the Kymera Wand
Dear Wandmakers
while waiting at the dentist this morning, I thought about a number of things that could make the Kymera Wand even more interesting for customers.
Wand – Models:
- programmable model (use an arduino and processing to do the programming, usb interface)
- making you products hackable enables a big crowd of people to get creative and enables you to harvest ideas from them
Case Modding
- changeable shells/covers
- wood covers (ebony, elder, beech, …)
- stylistic covers (acryl, magnesium, …)
- a barebone version for putting into your own housings, e.g. Chris’ wands from dadcando.com (case modding)
Hardware Features
- glowing wands
- integrate bluetooth
- integrate laser pointer
Wand – Gestures:
- convert n-taps to numbers (1..10)
- convert n-tabs to repetitions of the next gesture great for channel hopping, fast volume increases, e.g. taps on top n-times, taps at side n*10-times repetition
- allow recording of sequences of gestures
- allow recording of sequences of ir signals (macros)
- switchable settings (e.g. by n-tap)
- long impulses, use wand as IR-pen for drawing
Accessories:
- USB Device that acts as keyboard and converts IR signals to keys (HID)
- buttons (for sticking on clothes) with ir receiver and LED / sound module , use these for games, using for instance arduino lillypads for those, which react with light and/or sound to impulses
Applications:
- control iRobot Roomba
- digital picture frames
- Lego NXT
- Toys (?)
- device games for the wands (e.g. duels with the buttons above, cast spells and shields of different types)
Happy wandmaking
Michael
When skyping with Richard Blakesley of The Wand Company, many new ideas for applications of the Kymera Wand came to my mind:
- Accessible control for people who can’t use remote controls. E.g. blind people or people having a muscular disorder that does not allow fine motions.
- Remote Control Your Mac with FrontRow, as the Kymera Wand is FrontRow compatible, also great for presentations
- Speech regognition – imagine waving your wand and incantating ‘Avada Kedavra’ and all IR devices switch off
- custom speech training and custom gestures
- bluetooth integration for remote controlling and interacting with bluetooth hosts via HID (Mouse) Profile
- business version with laser pointer as a sleek silver stick
- long IR signals for using the wand as pointing / drawing device for IR based electronic whiteboards like the WII-remote whiteboard
