There isn't usually a shelf in most commercial and even a lot of residential guest bathrooms don't have a convenient place to put your phone.

And I always wear pull overs when I'm in an unheated warehouse and it's 40 degrees

Sony makes WP phones now and others have announced same

Fair enough. Still I would stay away from over-investing in capital equipment before you have a reliable revenue stream that makes the ability to service the debt on this capital a non-issue. Cash flow kills new companies, not profitability.

If you can't make a go of it with the cost structure of a variable cost business, you don't have a business. Spend your $ on developing the product and the market at the outset.

I added the video to our kickstarter page just for a little humor

We have looked locally and it's not available. The laser cutting has been the least expensive option available to us in the local area. Even using the guy that made our prototypes was less expensive than 90% of the other options.

I just kicked in $10.00.
If I find a new contract before the project closes, I'll kick in some more.

Good luck.

And, for your amusement, a relevant clip of Maurice Moss and The IT Crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QQ_c9ni5...

That was actually the first thing that came to my head when I read this post - you already have a spokesperson!

Look for waterjet cutting.

Good idea switching to clear plastic. Not many folks want an obtrusive looking item bolted to the wall in the house. Problems with steel also include corrosion and color selection. Polished stainless would be my only recommendation for a metal part. However, you need to run that in a dedicated stainless environment to avoid carbon contamination and the resulting red rust spots that form.

Finally, prove your concept and build the volume using contract manufacturing before you start to capitalize your business with lasers, press brakes or molding equipment. There are a lot of companies out there with capacity to burn in this lousy economic environment.

We've validated the basic concept through local sales, and the next rational step for me was to do a kickstarter campaign to give us a little more working capital. The biggest problem we have is finding a local contract manufacturer with the proper laser setup to cut our acrylic. I already started working on my own ghetto thermoform jig to bend the units to a uniform angle.

As far as other materials the biggest problem is germs and bacteria that's the biggest push back we've gotten and that's why we went with an acrylic that has microban in it and a coating of it to kill bacteria growth. It is after all in some installations but inches from the toilet.

Thanks for your feedback.

That is a really clever idea, and I know someone who would use it, ( my husband).
Thanks for posting!

Likewise. Besides, bathrooms aren't the ONLY
place where phones are dropped!

We didn't go with a rubberized arm because of the concern for germs. The acrylic we've gone with is antibacterial to keep down germs and bacteria.

actually pretty cool idea.. I would suggest you might consider hitting the inside of the arms with some rubberizing spray or something to make it a bit less easy for the phone to get launched if someone were to accidentally bump the bracket..

Thanks for backing the product!