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If we may ask, what gave you this idea? Before or after rumors of Project Ara?
Originally, our co founder Max had the idea of creating single function devices to add to the back of smartphones. Eventually, this led to the idea of a modular case that could support multiple functions which could be easily added or removed. nexpaq has been in development for over 2.5 years, meaning we didn't know about Project Ara until everyone else found out a little over a year ago. We even remember the day Ara was announced all over the internet... it was refreshing to see that modularity in mobile devices was becoming topical, which eased the process of educating folks on the concept when we announced nexpaq in May 2015 through Kickstarter.
Are you planning on building nexpaq for more phones? I'm sure if so, it will only include major phones due to the hundreds of cheap phones with odd shapes and dimensions.
We've gotten thousands of requests for individual phone since our campaign kicked off. We'd love to make cases for as many phones as possible, but of course we will need to ensure a minimum order quantity to cover the expenses of molding and production for each case, so we ask that everyone get involved on our forum and rally for their device. We do have a clever little device, the batpaq, which works the same as any nexpaq case but with essentially any smartphone and other mobile devices.
You have provided a lot of information about nexpaq, so there isn't much left to question. However, the team at Impact Geek has thought of a few modules and wonder what your thoughts on them are.
The great thing about nexpaq is that it's something that will never stop evolving as our community grows... and we're working on creating a bunch of new content to help everyone understand the possibilities before we begin shipping early next year.
We always get tons of suggestions for modules, but actually it is not nexpaq who will be rolling out the next series of modules, it's 3rd party developers. There are already a bunch of new modules in the works and even more we are discussing with new developers.
Since we get so many of these module ideas, we came up with this little contest called PYDM (picture your dream module) where we invite anyone to submit a short video of their module concept and post it on our forum for developers to see and potentially build. The best ideas can win nexpaqs and batpaqs.
Steve Safarowic Head of Marketing