The JackSavior plug is an audio jack where the wires are connected inside the plug resulting in a smaller, flexible and 10x stronger audio plug. We offer a small adapter with this IndieGoGo campaign so that you can save your audio jack and we can continue our journey to prevent jack plug failure in the world!
What is the JackSavior Adapter?
The JackSavior Adapter is a 4 inch (10 cm) male-female adapter cable, with the 10x stronger JackSavior plug. This enables you to prevent jack plug failure with our technology, by connecting it to your favorite audio product. This adapter has 4 connections that simply transfer the audio signal without any loss, so it can be used on any device. The flexible stress relief (blue) is 10 mm in total of which 3 mm is not flexible. This part is the smallest in the world. Normal plugs have approx. 23 mm of which 10 mm is not flexible. This gives you a lot of comfort and makes it 10x stronger.
What is this JackSavior technology?
The JackSavior plug is an audio jack where the wires are connected inside the plug resulting in a smaller, flexible and 10x stronger audio jack. This prevents any external forces from touching the connection, preventing jack, plug, and ultimately, headphone failure. In blue with white cable the JackSavior plug:
Proof of production
We have already produced a batch of products with our newly found OEM partner for our first B2B customer! We have made a 10 feet (3 meter) cable for an awesome acoustic electric violin from Eastman Strings!
From left to right: small tooling improvements - corner plug in my phone - 1/4 inch jack for violin amplifier
Goal of this campaign
Our goal is to prevent jack plug failure, often seen with the plug on wired headphones. We try to do this by offering our JackSavior technology to well known headphone manufacturers or brands to incorporate it in their products. We make the JackSavior technology implementation easier for the factories by running a project with them, which we offer to pay for. This offered adapter is such a project. We aim to reach as much people as possible with this project to get the following word on the street: There is a new jack plug in town which is smaller, flexible and 10x stronger.
How you can help
You can help us by getting a perk and sharing the JackSavior story with all your friends. We want to reach as much people as possible so we offer the JackSavior Adapter for cost price, including free shipping!
The JackSavior story
The beginning
The design of audio jacks found in modern headphones dates back to 1876 and was invented by Tividar Puskás. It is by no means a bad design, but at JackSavior, we feel that an update is long overdue. Audio jacks break frequent between the wires and the plug. We solve this by connecting the wires inside. But selling headphones makes no sense, as there are already many great brands selling audio products and our founder Bouwy is not Dr. Dre. We are licensing out the technology to these brands but apparently, no manager is interested in preventing jack failure problems for their customers. So we ran a crowdfunding campaign to pay for the first tooling and convince big brands to incorporate the JackSavior plug into their products.
What happened after the first crowdfunding campaign?
We shipped all the promised rewards/perks and our goal of convincing big brands succeeded as multiple brands want to have it. They requested a quotation from their factory, who did not give any reply to that request. They said that they cannot give a quotation as they cannot estimate the planning sufficiently to comply with planning rules and involved penalties. This is because they have no experience with making a million JackSavior plugs. We have to buildup to those order sizes and increase manufacturability to achieve predictability for those big manufacturers.
Small OEM partner to grow predictable manufacturing
We decided to find a smaller factory to work together and increase manufacturability and thereby the predictability of the whole process. From this factory we will be growing towards the big factories again to ultimately supply to the big headphone brands. We need to produce products to identify optimizations in the production process. This campaign will help us to pay for these production batches and gives you the opportunity to get perks against cost price.
10x stronger, no way!
The regular 1876 jack plug can withstand 10,000 to 20,000 swings in an industry standard bending test, depending on stress relief design. The JackSavor plug can withstand 100,000 to 200,000 swings. Find below a video where I try to explain the bending test and show you the actual testing apparatus used in the factory.
JackSavior plug in testing device
But how?
We solder the wires inside the plug that goes inside your phone. This part is not moving constantly, which results in the 10x better test results.
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