Most people are familiar with the saying, "Necessity is the mother of invention," and in this case the expression is literally true. Carla Falcone and Romy Taormina conceived Psi Bands after commiserating about the lack of features in their acupressure bands worn to relieve their severe morning sickness. Two years later, they “gave birth” to a brand new product devoted to helping mothers and others seeking a more functional and fashionable way to alleviate their nausea.
April 19, 2010
Psi Bands are FDA-cleared, acupressure wrist bands for the relief of nausea due to morning sickness (pregnancy), motion sickness/travel, anesthesia, and chemotherapy. They are available in five, fun designs; drug free; adjustable around the wrist and at the acupressure point for personalized comfort; waterproof (no more soggy wrist bands); and affordable.
Inventor (s): Romy Taormine & Carla Falcone
Romy Taormina, Co-Founder. With a business degree and marketing background, Taormina has consulted with various companies, including but not limited to, Natividad Medical Center, The National Steinbeck Center, Brooks/Cole Publishing–Thompson Learning, MY Museum, and the Carmel Bach Festival. She was recently honored with the 2009 Woman of the Year from Woman2Woman Business and Savor the Success. Romy is an active blogger for Savor the Success, a national social media network for women entrepreneurs. Taormina oversees the daily operations, marketing, financials, and sales at Psi Bands.
Carla Falcone, Co-Founder. With an advertising and public relations background, Falcone has consulted with various companies including, but not limited to, Fresh Express, Brooks/Cole Publishing–Thompson Learning, Sakata Seed America, The Cannery Row Company, Monterey Wine Festival, the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, and Asilomar Conference Center. Falcone assists in a supportive role in the areas of marketing, PR, graphics, and sales/client relations.
Taormina and Falcone have been nationally recognized as 2009 Trailblazer Awardees from Wells Fargo Bank and the National Association of Women’s Business Owners (NAWBO); Make Mine a Million $ Business Awardees from Count Me In and American Express OPEN; StartUpNation's Leading Moms in Business winners; and Intuit’s “Love a Local Business” winners.
When Carla and Romy conceived the idea for Psi Bands, they looked at each other and simultaneously said: “We are going to be on Oprah”. We’re still hoping!
ezeStand is a versatile desktop holder for your Smart Phone or Personal Media Player device. It holds most current touch screen devices including Motorola Droid, iPhone 3G/3GS, Google Nexus One, Blackberry Storm, Palm Pre, iPod Touch, and many more.
ezeStand holds your touch screen device at a comfortable viewing angle in either horizontal/landscape or vertical/portrait orientation and it will hold your phone even if you have an aftermarket cover or jacket.
ezeStand will also activate the Multimedia Station mode on your Motorola Droid and has room to plug in the micro USB charging cable.
In November 2009, the company that I work for issued everyone new Motorola Droid Smartphones. Everyone was very excited about the Droid and many of us quickly began buying accessories such as protective cases, car docks, and multimedia docks. Many of us quickly came to realize that the Motorola dock products are not compatible with any aftermarket covers or cases. Armed with Solidworks 2010 CAD software and a Dimensions 3D uPrint prototype machine, I decided to solve the problem ... enter ezeStand - The Ultimate Smartphone Stand. After soliciting feedback from fellow Droid users, the critical features in a desktop holder were the ability to hold the phone horizontally as well as vertically, with or without aftermarket covers and cases. Also to be able to plug in the charger or computer link USB cable and activate the Droid multimedia mode. In essence to be able to position and present the Droid as another (small) computer type monitor at the desk that one could interface with and view information as they would a regular computer monitor.
Inventor: Todd Newhouse
I am a Mechanical Engineer and have been working in telecommunications for 15 years. Over the years I have designed a number of sheet metal, die cast, and plastic parts. The recent trend over the last few years with rapid prototyping has allowed modest businesses to invest in in-house rapid prototyping which opens up a world of opportunity for designers to explore their designs and improve products that go to market. I’ve been fortunate to work for a company that has encouraged my endeavor and thus ezeStand was born.
The ezeStand went through 6 physical iterations on the 3D printer before I felt the design was ready for production tooling. As a bit of a perfectionist, I felt the 6 iterations were necessary ... my family felt it was done at 3!
Stan (stanhelp) says:
Apr 26, 2010 at 11:39 am
Awesome product very happy with purchase well designed at a very fair price. I can use it with my body glove case. Hope they create a stand that will work with the belt clip still attached in the future. Regardless, Still works well with the clip … more removed and the clip holder on. Wish the company much success they deserve it. Showed my son how a mechanical engineer can create cool things from a having a good idea.
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Brady cox says:
Apr 24, 2010 at 12:57 am
Bought it, and it works great for my DDDRRROOOOOOIIDD!!!!!!!!!!
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Brett says:
Apr 23, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Haven't Pressure point bands been around for a while?
PSI bands just seem like colorful versions of them. My vote goes to a more original Phone stand.
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Lee says:
Apr 22, 2010 at 10:57 pm
I think the stand is a more creative invention.
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Lana says:
Apr 22, 2010 at 6:50 pm
This is the best stand I have ever used for my Droid and it works perfect for my son and daughter's ipod touches. I can't wait to get one for my kids so they're not using mine.
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jennifer Haddix says:
Apr 24, 2010 at 11:43 pm
LOVE THESE. They stay in the glove box of my car for all those road trips that are a little too curvy for my stomach. Put them on 1/2 hour before you hit the road and no more motion sickness. AND they look sporty too...no more boring gray bands.
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Stacey Kannenberg says:
Apr 24, 2010 at 6:57 am
If you have ever suffered from motion sickness you would understand why the vote needs to go for PSI Bands - they are hip and trendy and provide relief!
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Todd says:
Apr 23, 2010 at 8:30 pm
I love these things. No more motion sickness when I'm out fishing with my buddies. WAYYYYY better than popping a pill or putting a patch behind my ear!
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Larry says:
Apr 22, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Fantastic Product!
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Lynn says:
Apr 22, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Great product, great story, honestly inspiring.
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