Aerospace Companies Use Spokester Toy for Safety
The Spokester Bicycle Noisemaker, originally designed as a children's bike accessory, is making its debut at aerospace manufacturing facilities on the West Coast. Employees use bicycles to navigate between hangars at these large facilities and to transport light loads, and are now attaching Spokesters to company bikes to audibly warn pedestrians and vehicles that a bike is approaching.
Raleigh, North Carolina, June 24, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Child’s toy makes debut in high tech environment.
Spokester Bicycle Noisemakers, a plastic children’s bike accessory, are now being used as a safety precaution by large aerospace manufacturers on the West Coast. Employees use bicycles to navigate between hangars at these large facilities and to transport light loads. Raleigh, NC based company Playtrix, the maker of the Spokester, has already shipped three dozen cases of product to these facilities, where Spokesters are being attached to company bicycles and used to audibly warn pedestrians and vehicles that a bike is approaching.
"It's really just amazing to see our product going all over the place like this. I'm really excited to see what comes next"
Kevin Nelson, Founder
The Spokester has already been used by police departments such as the Amherstburg Police Department in Amherstburg, Ontario, where they are distributed to children as a safety device during annual “bike rodeos”. Corporate application has been more recent, though it is equally as exciting for the Playtrix team. “It’s really just amazing to see our product going all over the place like this. I’m really excited to see what comes next” says Playtrix founder Kevin Nelson. The company will be launching a Kickstarter campaign July 14 to raise funding for product modifications and increased manufacturing.
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For more information contact Zach Howard: 919 413-3066, zach (at) spokester (dot) com
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About: Playtrix is a family owned and operated business, run by Kevin Nelson and his three adult children Adam, Kate, and Eric. They began producing the Spokester in 2004, and marketed it as a children’s toy designed to “improve on the decades-old idea of attaching baseball cards to a bicycle to simulate a motorcycle sound”. It has since been growing in popularity, and while it is most often a gift for young bicycle enthusiasts, it is now seeing other applications.