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To celebrate the closing of an great year, we’d like to give ONE Kymera Wand to our readers for

FREE!

As we want to learn what you‘re thinking about the Kymera Wand,
all you have to do is to make a sensible comment on this post with one of the following topics:

  • creative application of the Kymera Wand (e.g. control iRobot Roomba)
  • missing or completely new features for a wish list for the Kymera Wand
  • interesting accessories
  • improvements to this site
  • suggestions for coverage, pictures, videos

Please make sure that you don’t repeat things people have already posted, those duplications will not be considered.

The drawing will take place on the last day of the year, December 31st.

Good luck to all of you.

Magical Christmas and a Fantastic New Year to all of YOU

Michael

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A Kymera Wand Box Contents

A Kymera Wand Box Contents

17
Dec

Christmas Price Offer will End on Christmas

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After Christmas (Dec.25), we’ll end our
Christmas Price of 57,75 EUR
with free worldwide shipping

and return to the normal sales price of

66,66 EUR

with free worldwide shipping.

So you’ve still got some days left to get your Kymera Wand at a bargain price.

Carl and Pete had wand waving fun in their show #46, controlling the TV in the recording room.

The transcript with some pictures is available as is the podcast itself.

Carl:

I always thought you were a geek – what with the glasses and the bow tie, you all right, Harry? Have you ever seen that picture of Pete on the website – he does look like Harry Potter! You’re such a geek! But this is great, I like the toy.

Carl:

Can you get this to control your wife? – when you thrust it forward, and you get her to go “ouch!” I don’t know, I’m sure someone out there has got a wife that needs controlling.

Carl:

I think this is phenomenal, but I actually see another application with this, because you know like some people, it’s like I remember my gran getting old, and she used to have trouble with her remote, pointing it in the right direction, but this would be brilliant – she was good at waving sticks at people, hitting you over the head with a walking stick, and all that stuff.

4
Dec

Deutsche Übersetzung des Handbuchs

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Nach ein paar Stunden Nachtarbeit, ist es nun geschafft, die deutsche Übersetzung des Handbuchs des magischen Kymera Zauberstabs ist online.

Bald wird dieser Text auf auch als wunderschön gedruckte Variante vorliegen, die wir dann unseren Kunden beilegen.

The interview from Daily Mail online is a very in depth article. It also includes business information on achieved and intended sales.

Chris Barnardo the Creator of the Kymera Magic Wand

Chris Barnardo the Creator of the Kymera Magic Wand

The £49.95 gadget was created by Chris Barnardo and Richard Blakesley, whose website has received over one million hits. Over 10,000 wands have sold in 10 weeks since launch in 41 countries and it is on target to sell 200,000 by the end of 2010.

Father-of-four Chris, 47, of Bishop Stortford, said he came across the idea after seeing how enthralled his children were by the Harry Potter series.

He said: ‘Adults and children love the thought of magic and living in a fantasy world, and this lets them live a little bit of that in their own front room.

10
Nov

A place to put your wand

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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 with pouch

Envelope for pouch

Envelope for pouch

Pouches for the Kymera Wand

Pouches for the Kymera Wand

24
Oct

Don’t call us, we call you – Hollywood

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From the wandmaker Chris Barnardo via Twitter:

Talking with guys who want to introduce the wand to a big Hollywood studio…drum roll… hold on to your hats ladies and gentlemen

PopTech Logo

Despite only being launched three weeks ago, the wand is already beginning
to get noticed on the conference circuit. The Kymera Wand has been selected
by PopTech, (the world’s premier innovation and new thinking event) to be
one of the handful of technologies that gets present to delegates as
products that will make a difference in the world next year. PopTech 2009:
America Reimagined runs from October 21 – 24 in Camden, Maine, USA.

Update:

Wandmaker Chris Barnardo is currently on his way to Camden where the Wand is being showcased.

Kymera Wand presented at PopTech

The wand was shown and got great attention,

So many people came up to me and after about two minutes chatting suddenly said… “Ahh you’re
the Wand Guy!” I must have had that aha moment about 30 times and always
followed by a warm hearty handshake.

here are some tweets:

  • The_WandCompany: What a great few days; PopTech 2009 is over now, but the wand has made a load of new friends and in lots of ways I’ll be sad to leave
  • CostaVidaFred: @The_WandCompany I want a wand #PopTech
  • The_WandCompany: The wand presented to PopTech, lots of support, outside gorgeous late afternoon New England sunlight is filtered through maple leaves
  • bastholm: Read more about the mad wizard universal remote control on www.wand-control.com #poptech
  • kevinrussell: @valeskaUX re: chimera wand http://bit.ly/QDp8z (expand) ( @PopTech live on www.livestream.com/poptech ) http://ff.im/anGOJ
  • poptech: RT @dickrowan: “Magic” wand for controlling radio frequency devices like your TV remote. Seen at #poptech. http://bit.ly/2FO08h (expand)
  • dickrowan: “Magic” wand for controlling radio frequency devices like your TV remote. Seen at #poptech. http://bit.ly/2FO08h (expand) . Got to get one of these.
  • valeskaUX: @poptech where do I get one of those awesome magic wand?
  • innoceansedge: who Doesn’t want one?? RT @barkwheats: @poptech what was the name of that wand you’re giving away?
  • bastholm: Someone actually developed a wand that you can teach to control your home electronics Harry Potter style. So, so awesome #poptech
  • RafeFurst: @poptech where do we get one of those magic wand home remote controllers?
  • barkwheats: @poptech what was the name of that wand you’re giving away?
19
Oct

Twittering WandMakers and Gorgeous Pictures

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WandMaker Chris Barnardo’s thoughts can now also be listened to at this stream of twittering messages. So now there is a second source to listen to besides the kymerawand mumblings.

He also put new gorgeous pictures of the Wand online on the Gallery. These should make your eyes gleam with greed and your mouth watery.

Photo Plate taken of the Kymera Wand

Photo Plate taken of the Kymera Wand

Update: I added the twitter stream of the wandmakers to this site in the sidebar at the lower right.

19
Oct

Blog & Forum offline, Now working again

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Unfortunately we had a hardware failure and were left standing in the weekends rain by the hosting providers. But now everything is online and working again.

Sorry for the inconvenience :(

Michael