from ideation through production
20+ years of end to end
consumer product invention and design
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Industrial design, mechanism development, custom electronic hardware and software design and fabrication, sound design and composition, aerodynamic design and development, quick-turnaround fully functioning prototypes ready for your tradeshow or focus-group testing, finalizing part dielines for vendors and seeing it through production... with all these abilities under one roof, Concept Catalyst can help warp speed your ideas like these and more to life. SCROLL DOWN to learn more!
About Concept Catalyst
Concept Catalyst is a one-person, full spectrum toy ideation through production studio with a 20+ year track record serving inventors, entrepreneurs, and major toy companies, from idea, to prototypes, through production.
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Owner and founder, Rob Antonio has been in product development since the late 1990s, including freelance for The Sharper Image, 13 years with the reknown invention group, KID Group LLC. best known for inventing Bop It, 7 years independently as Concept Catalyst, and more than 3 years with KiwiCo, where his personal inventions became some of the very first patented IP for the company.
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Over 16 years of working within teams and 7 independently, Rob honed a multi-disciplinary set of skills, allowing him to often serve as a single point, go-to source for comprehensive consumer product development. Whether entirely solo or switching hats and specializing within and across teams, Rob became skilled at identifying market openings and inventing patentable IP to fill them.
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