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Gifts for Musicians

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Why design safety reflectors in the shape of musical notes and clefs? Because we love music and musical notation is fascinating! But we also want to help musicians and music lovers get home safely after concerts. Our reflectors are stylish and easy to hang on jackets, bags and instrument cases. In other words: perfect gifts for musicians and music lovers! We know how often rehearsals and concerts take place late in the evening. Especially at this time of year, that means coming and going in the dark. 

Music note safety reflector on bag
Ready for the evening rehearsal: music bag with quaver reflective tag.
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Inspiration for the Pink Cat Safety Reflector

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It’s amazing to see the eyes of little girls light up when they find the pink cat safety reflector among all our other reflectors. We’ve seen it become an instant favorite so many times. Not surprising though, considering my own excitement as a toddler for the pink cats my mom appliquéd on my ceiling light. I have to admit that I’m not really a cat person, but cats are cute, cat videos are fun and the graceful pet is a wonderful source of inspiration for any designer and artist. And although different than the cats on my childhood ceiling light, our funflector cat safety reflector was inspired by the style I grew up with in Sweden in the 60’s and 70’s. We realize, not every cat lover likes pink, but luckily, the cat safety reflector looks just as good in other colors. Currently, it is also available in gray, orange and light brown. 

The funflector cat safety reflector was inspired by the bold 60's Scandinavian style.
The funflector cat safety reflector was inspired by the bold 60’s Scandinavian style.

Ladybug and gray cat safety reflector on backpack.
Ladybug and gray cat safety reflector on backpack.

Get Some Pink Cat Safety Reflector to Support Human Rights

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Celtic knots on St Patrick’s day ☘️

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If you’ve ever been to Ireland, you can’t have escaped the ever-present Celtic knots. I’ve loved them ever since a trip to the Emerald Island in my moody teens. Looking around the cemeteries and admiring the intricate patterns on the gravestones everywhere. This early exposure to them has probably inspired me to create our Celtic gold reflective slap bracelet featuring Celtic knots.

Reflective slap bracelet / reflector band with a Celtic border in gold by funflector
Reflective slap bracelet with a Celtic border in gold.

What are Celtic Knots?

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The Red Maple Leaf on the Canadian Flag 🇨🇦

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As you might have noticed, we are fascinated with good design. Bold designs that are good for flags, tend to look great on our funflector reflectors too. We have played around with quite a few flag designs and the bold, red maple leaf on the Canadian flag is one of our favorites. We have safety reflectors with the Swedish and the British flags and also the iconic city flags of Chicago, Washington DC and Amsterdam. Part or our #resist collection are safety reflectors with the maple leaf on one side and human rights and science inspired messages on the other. For each 6-pack sold in our webshop, we donate US$6 to the Sierra Club Canada Foundation.

Kitten with Canadian flag safety reflector.
Kitten “Monster” proudly showing off his safety reflector with a red Canadian flag print.

A New Canadian Flag

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Stocking Stuffers for Musicians & Music Lovers 🧦 🎶 🎁

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The funflector treble and bass clef safety reflectors are perfect stocking stuffers for musicians and music lovers who already have “everything”. Urban areas are magnets for concerts and theater performances and with that comes restaurants, bars and coffee shops. What can be better than combining a great performance  with seeing dear friends and enjoying good food? Wether you arrive by car or public transportation, you will likely walk between the performance venue and your favorite restaurant. You might not think much about it, but you will most likely also cross a few streets with traffic during the course of the evening.  And that is when safety reflectors come in handy. We know you probably cringe and think neon yellow when you hear “safety reflector” but with funflector you get  a nice looking charm, that doubles as a safety reflector – even the black ones!

Treble clef safety reflectors in red, purple, blue and black by funflector are great little stocking stuffers for musicians and music lovers.
Treble clef safety reflectors are available in a number of colors in our webshop. Matching bass clef reflectors in most colors.

✅ Tickets. Check.
✅ Restaurant reservation. Check.
✅ Good Friends. Check
✅ Phone, money and house keys. Check
✅ Good looking safety reflectors. Check?

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International Coffee Day ☕️

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I’m a Swede, busy parent and business owner so of course I run on coffee. But coffee is also a reason to take a break, slow down, have a conversation or enjoy the quiet company of just yourself. Popular Scandinavian worlds like Swedish “fika” or Danish ”hygge” would not be what they are without coffee. We have captured all these different aspects of modern coffee culture in our coffee themed safety reflectors. There are some for when you need your coffee to-go and others to remind you to take a deep breath, sit down and just enjoy life as it unfolds. September 29 is National Coffee day in the US. The rest of the the world celebrates International Coffee Day on October 1st. A packet of Fair Trade coffee with a pretty ribbon and a coffee reflector tied on make a unique and thoughtful surprise gift for your coffee loving friends.

"I run on coffee", "Take time to smell the coffee" and "Love coffee" - coffee safety reflectors by funflector.
Coffee safety reflectors for every style of coffee drinkers. They all have different prints on the back.

Do You Have the Coffee Gene?

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Reflective Slap Bracelet with Nobel Prize Collection – Part 3

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In anticipation for the announcements of the Nobel Prize 2017, we will finish up the stories behind the particles included in the Nobel Prize Collection  reflective slap bracelet. If you missed the beginning, go here for part 1.

Reflective slap bracelet with the Particle Zoo Nobel Prize collection of elementary particles.
Reflective slap bracelet with the Particle Zoo Nobel Prize collection of elementary particles.

1988 – The Muon Neutrino

Colleagues Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger shared the Nobel Prize “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino“. Neutrinos have no charge, very little mass and limited willingness to interact with and leave tracks in particle detectors. The research trio used a multistep process to produce a neutrino beam by creating showers of pi mesons from a proton beam and then let the mesons decay in layers of thick battleship steel. …

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Reflective Slap Bracelet with Nobel Prize Collection – Part 2

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For our fellow science nerds around the world, we teamed up with  The Particle Zoo and designed an ultra-reflective slap bracelet with elementary particles related to the Nobel Prize in physics. Order it in here webshop, or in our German webshop. In our previous blog post, we discussed the significance of the Photon (1921), the Neutron (1935) and the Electron magnetic moment (1955). That means we are up to the antiproton!

Two difference views of the reflective slap bracelet with the Particle Zoo Nobel Prize collection of elementary particles.
Two difference views of the reflective slap bracelet with the Particle Zoo Nobel Prize collection of elementary particles.

1959 – The Antiproton

Emilio Gino Segrè and Owen Chamberlain
“for their discovery of the antiproton”. An antiparticle is a “mirror image twin” of the particle and Paul Dirac’s theory predicted every particle has its antiparticle. The positron, the antiparticle of the electron, had been discovered in 1932 but the creation of the antiproton, required a more powerful machine followed by new techniques to detect and measure the result.  They announced the discovery of the antiproton in 1955. Read more here> and here>.

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Reflective Slap Bracelet with Nobel Prize Collection

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Celebrate groundbreaking research in high-energy physics with this collection of happy elementary particles from discoveries that brought home the Nobel Prize. In cooperation with the ParticleZoo, we have created a highly reflective slap bracelet (order it here) that doubles as a cheat sheet for Nobel Prize trivia while waiting for the 2017 Nobel Prize announcements.

Reflective slap bracelet with the Particle Zoo Nobel Prize collection of elementary particles.
Reflective slap bracelet with the Particle Zoo Nobel Prize collection of elementary particles.

The Particle Zoo Nobel Prize Collection

For the curious, the Nobel Prize website lists all awarded prizes and below are the first three selected for our reflective slap bracelet:

1921 – The Photon

Albert Einstein was awarded “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”.  Electromagnetic radiation, which is visible light, infrared, ultraviolet, radio waves, radar, x-rays, microwaves, etc. behaves both as a wave and a particle, the photon. When light (photons) hit a metal plate, they knock out electrons from their atoms. That is called the photoelectric effect and the emitted electrons are called photoelectrons.

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Canada Safety Reflector 🇨🇦

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Happy Canada Day! Bonne Fête du Canada!

Today is a special Canada Day, the 150th anniversary of the enactment of the Constitution Act. To celebrate, we have launched a Canada safety reflector in our webshop! It will be available online in Canada later this summer. We are excited that our funflector safety reflectors have been so well received in Canada and are looking forward to help more Canadians around the world stay visible in the dark.

Safety Reflectors with Canada maple leaf design by funflector
Safety Reflectors with Canada maple leaf design

The Constitution Act laid the foundation for Canada in 1867, the first Dominion within the British Empire with four provinces; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. …

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