The Frog is the World’s only Portable Helmet Support…a small gadget of only 70 x 80mm / 3 x 2,7 “, that stabilizes most of the helmets on the market, offering easy and fast positioning on a flat surface. With this support, you can avoid the 99% of typical falls, bumps and scratches, enabling you to keep its lining clean and dry and place your glasses, keys, gloves, and wallet inside… We present this useful and patented design in our two models; Sticker & Pocket.
The Frog Sticker adheres to the Top or Back of the helmet through a strong double-sided 3M-VHB acrylic brand adhesive (absolutely harmless to the helmet varnish). It is the perfect gadget for all those who use the helmet often. You will be surprised at the efficiency and comfort that it offers and remember … After using The Frog, you will not understand what you did with your helmet before … :-)
The Pocket Frog is our portable desktop stand support for people who usually leave their helmet in the same place, such as a; workshop, shop, office, house shelf, etc. The Frog Pocket replaces the adhesive with a strong non-slip Dome-Sticker in 6 colors.
Awarded at the A’Design Awards 2018 for its usefulness and ease of use, the Design of The Frog is based on The Euclid Tripod Axiom: “Three points are enough to define a plane…this means that the minimum expression of a plane or surface is a triangle”, and also based on 3 important premises; Maximum Stability, Smaller Size & Better Aesthetics.
“Tired of seeing my helmet roll around among gloves, glasses and keys on the floor and feeling its lining wet from having left it lying around on some bar, I decided to look for a solution based on the premise of 3 things: Functionality, Size and Aesthetics.”
First of all we applied three isolated points of plasticine to the helmet, which gave it great stability thanks to its tripod effect and bit by bit we started to define the shape of the gadget until we decided on the final version… we already had the ´instrument´, so now we had to give it a name…At first we called it ´Ipsilon´ for its resemblance to the letter ´Y´ although we realised straight away that the form of its legs as well as its main characteristic – its stickiness – made it similar to that of a Frog. However, there was a minor inconvenience; that frogs don’t have 3 legs but 4… which made it evident that we couldn’t use that name…
At first we called it ´Ipsilon´ for its resemblance to the letter ´Y´ although we realised straight away that the form of its legs as well as its main characteristic – its stickiness – made it similar to that of a Frog. However, there was a minor inconvenience; that frogs don’t have 3 legs but 4… which made it evident that we couldn’t use that name…
However, we carried on looking for a miracle on the internet until in a small article we came across the following: The Brachycephalus tridactylus, which is a type of anuran amphibian endemic to Brazil… a tiny frog discovered in 2007 in a natural reserve in the south of Brazil which, as its name ´tridactylus´ suggests, is the only frog in the world with only 3 legs!
At once, this miniscule and extraordinary amphibian became everything the invention should be: something unique, different, interesting, and striking which put to rest any doubts over what the definitive name would be… naturally, it had to be ´The Frog’.
With your collaboration, we would be able to finance a large part of the first production of The Frog and offer it at a promotional price to thank you for your confidence in our project.
Although we all know how important it is to take care of a helmet to maintain its safety conditions, none of the many changes introduced in its design has been made to solve the instability of its spherical shape and prevent its falls…
In the end, even after paying a lot of money and using its case for a few weeks, our helmets end up scratched and worn in a very short time because we accept that a helmet deteriorates simply because of its difficult positioning.
That’s why we created The Frog – because just like a mobile phone case, we believe that this little innovation will be good for our helmets, for our safety, our pocket and also for the planet… :-) the only possibility to keep our helmet as new in a simple, comfortable and effective way for a long, long time… “Hence our slogan, we pray …“Long live The Helmet” !
The Frog poses a change in usability and aesthetics of the helmet. We need the support of a community of people open to innovation who, guided by their intuition and criteria, would support and recommend a proposal born out of common sense which also provides a solution and a practical improvement. We believe in Crowdfunding because nowadays it is the only way for thousands of wonderful projects to come into existence !
Although in theory our production line is small, we have investigated companies that we could manufacture with on a larger scale in the event that The Frog became a successful product. Injection and packaging are simple processes even in large quantities compared with inserting the adhesive onto the concave part of the gadget. This process requires a suction mould to hold the piece in order to stick the 3M adhesive onto it quickly and comfortably, but we already have a chain solution for that in mind. On the other hand, one issue that concerned us was that of customs taxes which are uncontrollable in many countries. For that reason we have reduced the number of countries which we would send The Frog to, in order to be able to offer a totally reliable and straightforward service. For larger orders we have come to an agreement with DHL.