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hey guys airun Elijah here with
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cac.mil booth called Studio neat and
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they have a really cool little uh iPhone
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4 holder would you call it yeah I'm here
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with Dan he's going to tell us a little
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about how's it going the
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glyph that's what you guys are calling
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it right that's right yeah cool so Dan
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tell us about it all right so uh this is
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the glyph it's a simple uh iPhone 4
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accessory yeah so uh you can use it uh
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to prop up your phone at an angle for
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you know video watching or you know
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FaceTime or you know browsing the web
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and uh you know the kicker is it has a
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uh Universal tripod screw on the bottom
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of it so you can then kind of Mount it
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like slide in a and exactly and then you
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can mount it to any uh Tri any standard
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tripod so it's kind of like this
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multifunctional uh little accessory cool
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and tell us how this thing came to be
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sure so uh Tom and I had this idea and
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we wanted to uh we wanted to make it but
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we didn't have uh you know any money to
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do so it takes a pretty big upfront
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Capital to uh to get this thing started
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so we to kickstarter.com and uh got this
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thing funded tell us what
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kickstarter.com is sure yeah so
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Kickstarter is a site for uh
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crowdfunding uh creative ideas so
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basically uh you you put your ID up
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there and you ask for pledges and uh if
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people are into your idea and they
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pledge the money if you reach your goal
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then everybody's credit credit card gets
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charged and then you give them uh you
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knowu and if you don't reach your goal
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then nothing happens nobody get charged
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that how much money did you ask for we
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asked for 10,000 and how much did you
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get you got 137,000 well that's awesome
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man so you got the product out shipped
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all the ones that your users
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congratulations it seems like a really
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cool useful little product okay Dan so
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if they want to buy one of these where
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can they go they can go to uh
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www.the.com the.com look like they're 18
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bucks $20 on on the ma World special
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