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Dilator

We design and create for others

We -- as independents -- have been designing and building unique technology for years. We started our careers as designers and techies in Tokyo and New York City and have worked for several large and significant companies over the years. Although we enjoyed our work, we had always held onto a dream of working for ourselves.

The Powermate peripheral

One of our principal designers dreamed and built the Powermate peripheral that went on to be a huge hit amongst Apple and then Microsoft users. Then a working Prototype using spun aluminum, a glowing blue LED in the base, a basic Microcontroller and then a USB cable. And a button click was added too.

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO happened to see the prototype in Soho, NYC. He loved the product, the cool blue LED and wanted to see it placed into production. Griffin Technologies put it into the production. The Powermate became an instant hit amongst Apple computer users. Thousands of units were sold within a few months. Millions of Powermates were sold in its lifespan. It even showed up as a futuristic control knob in the Michael Bay movie, The Island with Ewan McGregor in 2005.

We designed and developed Filterfish, an interactive iPhone/iPad App for searching and finding friends and colleagues using animation and finger gestures that bubbled up your most contacted contacts. It used Data Visualization to display friends and colleagues as animated spheres using a home-made physics engine that utilized color, motion, gravity, reflection, acceleration, etc; the spheres "bubbled up" in real-time according to auto-completed predicate searches as well as importance to one’s social life, thereby replacing the arbitrary alphabetical order of ranking those in your social circle.

Filterfish

We built an advanced vending robot for Chanel. Chanel wanted to sell small lipstick products featuring their “mini bag” in a vending environment in a limited space of expensive real-estate. The vending machine was to be placed in the Chanel store in the high-end Ginza district of Tokyo. With its successful use in Ginza for 6 months, additional vending machines where placed in Narita Airport and Nagoya Airport.

The vending machine used beautiful graphical User Interfaces, soothing voices and sounds AND robotic arms and motions to lift the "mini bag" up and toward gently to the customer. Much like its done by a person in Tokyo.

Chanel vending machine in Tokyo

We have a passion for design and technology, but we also loved to work with our hands. We spent our weekends working on our own projects, and we dreamed of one day opening our own workshop where we could combine our love of design and craftsmanship.

We realized that working for others had taught us valuable lessons about the industry, teamwork, and collaboration. We were grateful for the experience, but we knew that our true passion lay in creating our own designs and products. And now, as we worked on our own terms, we felt fulfilled and excited to see where our business would take us in the future.