Effective September 1, 2008, VWP INC. has appointed Lee Products Company as distributor of the Tippi Micro Gel Grips.

Lee Products Company, the Minnesota based manufacturer of the Sortkwik Fingertip Moistener, has the sales and marketing force along with established relationships in the market channels that sells the rubber finger category.


Appointing Lee Products Company as the distributor is a move to get the Tippi Micro Gel Grips products into the market channels sooner. With this relationship, you can expect to have the Tippi product more widely available in the market. Ask for Tippi Micro Gel Grips at your favorite retail store.

For information regarding purchasing the Tippi Micro Gel Grips, please contact:

Lee Products Company
800 East 80th Street
Bloomington, MN 55420
T: 800-989-3544
F: 800-969-7177
info@leeproducts.com


 

From officesuppliesBlog.org

 The following are winners of IDSA’s 2008 IDEA ( International Design Excellence Awards ). The below chosen few designs are particularly office environment oriented, which I hope will inspire our blog reader to the possibilities that are inherent in your everyday office cubicles.

Jelly Click

Bronze
Student Designs
Client: Samsung Design Membership (South Korea)
Design: Wooteik Lim (South Korea), Bongkun Shin (South Korea), Heungkyo Seo (South Korea), Jiwoong Hwang (South Korea)

Laptop mice are generally smaller than desktop devices, which can cause the user’s hand to tire easily. Jelly Click is a mouse for laptops that offers enhanced usability and portability. Users simply inflate it to the size that best suits their hand. Its soft texture provides a comfortable surface on which the hand can rest, and its delicate color produces a different experience from an ordinary desktop mouse. When not in use, just deflate Jelly Click for ultimate portability.

Tippi Micro Gel Grips

Bronze
Office & Productivity
Client: VWP (U.S.)
Design: Peter Bristol, IDSA (U.S.)

Tippi Micro Gel Grips are simple devices that provide a simple benefit: fingertip coverings that enhance performance during repetitive and tedious tasks, such as paper handling and sorting, scrapbooking and archiving. These small, colorful rubber grips are worn on the fingertips. Designed to outperform existing products, they liven up tasks and bring a ray of fun into a mundane product landscape.

Trace of Time

Silver
Student Designs
Client: Royal College of Art (Britain)
Design: Ilgu Cha (Britain)

The Trace of Time clock not only tells the time but provides a place for users to make notes: The face of the clock is made of laminated whiteboard. Messages are erased by means of the integrated eraser.

For an easy comprehensive view of this year’s IDEA winners, please visit Businessweek

See Tippi Micro Gel Grips in BusinessWeek.

Click here to go to BusinessWeek.com

Tippi Micro Gel Grips

Bronze
Office & Productivity
Client: VWP
Design: Peter Bristol, IDSA (U.S.)

Tippi Micro Gel Grips are simple devices that provide a simple benefit: fingertip coverings that enhance performance during repetitive and tedious tasks, such as paper handling and sorting, scrapbooking and archiving. These small, colorful rubber grips are worn on the fingertips. Designed to outperform existing products, they liven up tasks and bring a ray of fun into a mundane product landscape.

Tippi Micro Gel Grips wins the IDEA 2008 Bronze Award.

Click here to see IDEA Award.

2008 IDEA Winners: Office & Productivity

Office & Productivity Category Finalists

Kathy Y. from Hawaii wrote:


Thanks Kathy.

Trendhunter Magazine posted the following entry:


Click here to the post:

Fron the Introduction in a Journal article by Carrie L. Shivers, Gary A. Mirka, David B. Kaber; Human Factors, Vol. 44, 2002:

Click here to access the Journal article online:

Benny posted at the gadgets.boing.boing entry:


Thanks for the feedback Benny.

It's worth noting that I worked with researchers at the College of Engineering & Architecture at Washington State University to develop the product. Check out the Get a Grip! write up in WSU Today.

The research was funded by a grant from Washington Technology Center. Here's a link to WTC's 2007 annual report listing the project.

From Reader's Digest Extraordinary uses for rubber bands:


Stop licking your finger indeed. Check out the blog dedicated to this this cause. Click to link here.

From Madrid, Spain -


Click here for link: http://www.compradiccion.com/2008/03/25-dedos-de-goma

Had a meeting last week with another potential partner for distribution of the product. Getting in United Stationers' catalog would also put the product in the BiggestBook.com.

First the definitions:
        

   

From (Dr.) Joseph Stirt, 'World's most popular blogging anesthesiologist'

First the definition of the expression: thumb through something


Then, here's an entry from kbps:


Here's the link to kbps' entry.
   

John Brookfield, author of Mastery of Hand Strength, Training with Cables for Strength, and The Grip Master’s Manual presents the Pinch Grip Board Curls to strengthen your pinch grip.

Wikipedia has an entry for Licking and a section called Licking in humans.

Click the link above to see the full entry.

Unsolicited feedback from a happy end-user.


Thanks Beckee.

See this thread under Cultural Discussion - Cultural questions, comments and observations.Multilingual.

Here's a great story from Emily Anne Esptein about her discovery of rubber finger tips at her friends office.


Click here to read her article.

This came via email a while back, but I thought it was worth sharing here today.

See Yahoo Answers to this questions

Washington state just had it's primary election and I observed the poll workers sort and collate the official ballots. Though machines do the tabulating, the whole process is still paper-handling labor intensive.



There were a lot of nitrile gloves and a lot of rubber fingers being used. We hope to get Tippi grips used during the presidential election count this November.

An occupational health nurse found Tippi on the web a while back and asked to buy some for a worker who developed skin irritations to latex. I sent them free samples. Lucy writes today in response to my email letting her know that the product is now available in OfficeMax.

Thank you Cindy.

What makes Tippi ergonomic lies not only in the product's ergonomic design and material but also in the measurable results that quantifies real ergonomic benefits.

This article in Design News, Feb. 7, 2000 by Goran Pesevski and Eugene Ylo answers the question What does ergonomic design really mean?  To quantify or to measure the ergonomics of the Tippi product, we conducted paper handling experiments on 10 test subjects and compared the pinch grip performance of the dominant hand with bare fingers versus with the Tippi product. Here's a video of an experiment put side-by-side to show elapsed time and the number of times the fingers fumbled.



On the left, labeled Fingers, is the experiment performed with bare fingers while, on the right, With Tippi, is the same experiment performed with the Tippi grips on the pinch grip--the thumb, index finger, and middle finger.

Time is measured in minutes, seconds and hundredths of seconds. Fumbles are the number of times the paper completely slips off from the pinch grip picking up the test material.

This particluar experiment measured an 83% reduction in the number of fumbles resulting in an 18% reduction in time it took to perform the experiment.

Overall results, testing 10 subjects performing 3 different paper handling experiments, was an average of 74% reduction in wasted effort and an average of 15% increase in productivity.

Less fumbles mean less wasted effort that contributes to unnecessary muscle strain in a repetitive activity. A dramatic reduction in wasted effort leading to a jump in productivity is a measurable ergonomic benefit.

Great email to get on Valentine's day.

Hi, 

I loved the samples.  Where can I purchase them?

Sharon H. :)

Thanks for your email Sharon.

See Yahoo Answers to this questions

Here's a what Ed Rochelle writes about how come...

On the plane ride home, a lady beside me licked her finger to turn each page of the Alaska Airline magazine in her seat pocket. I could only wish that I had a Tippi grip to give her to use. Here's what another blogger thinks about finger licking pageturners. Here's a rant about finger licking bad.

I flew in to Chicago yesterday for a meeting with the category manager for retail. It was snowing and cold. But it was good to hear that Tippi will be rolling out in OfficeMax stores in a few months.

 

Today we launch the new Tippi Micro Gel Grip website. The re-design coincides with the roll-out of the Tippi grips in OfficeMax and the Reliable Office Supplies catalog and on-line website. It's been a long time coming to get to this point where we are now shipping product. And now that we are shipping, I have decided to use this blog to tell our story.
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