PageFlip was founded in New York in 2002 with the assistance of federal
SBIR funding. The company mission is to develop, manufacture,
and commercialize superior automatic page turning technology for the
benefit of people with disabilities, musicians, and avid readers.
Unlike other products on the market, our page turner is designed to
offer a bidirectional hands-free solution that is reliable, portable,
silent, and low-cost.
Prior to starting the company, the
PageFlip founders came from disparate backgrounds: occupational
therapy, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. What
brought them together was their shared frustration with what they found
in the market. Existing page turning technology performed poorly and
was prohibitively expensive. It was simply not possible to find
affordable and robust products to service people with disabilities, or
to assist musicians to play uninterruptedly from standard music books.
After much careful design and testing at our facility in New York,
several generations of prototypes were made to refine our patented
technology.
Our first product prototype was introduced at the NAMM (National
Association of Music Merchants) trade show in Anaheim, California, in
January 2008. The show, attended by over 85,000 people in the music
retail industry, was a great source of valuable feedback and positive
comments for our product. The chief remarks dealt with cost,
reliability, size, and noise. We worked incessantly to lower
size and noise, while raising reliability. Furthermore, since it does
no one any good to have a technologically innovative product lie beyond
the financial reach of its constituent base, we worked with a large contract manufacturer to help lower costs and
make the product affordable. The result was demonstrated at NAMM in January 2010. There, the new PageFlip Lite automatic page turner amazed people with its simplicity and robustness.
It is a long road between research,
design, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, and sales. Yet it is
precisely this course that brings out the refinements necessary to
surpass competing products in quality and cost. We are sure that you
will be amazed by the new opportunities in hands-free reading that this
product makes available. Be prepared to discover the benefits of
automatic page turning with the introduction of the PageFlip Lite page turner.
If you have any questions or comments, please go to Contact Us or send email to support@pageflip.com