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What’s Your Story?

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We love when our customers blow us away with unexpected designs! When we first offered promotional slap bracelets, we put the customer’s logo on, sent a proof and after going back and forth, we agreed on size and placement.  With the next customer, we wanted to eliminate the back and forth and sent them the template to fill with their own design and wonderful things started to happen. We certainly never expected storytelling taking place on a promotional slap bracelet but check out these designs!

Reflective slap bracelets for Hansa Coffee by funflector

Designer Keith Lilja made this intricate pattern for Hansa Coffee Roasters. Do you see the stylized H’s?

Without sacrificing their bold and clear style, the Bugle newspapers didn’t just print their logo but also …

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Let’s Do the Numbers

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How much do reflectors, like the funflector® ones, actually help? The sad truth is that there are no solid numbers available. As far as we know, no one is collecting data on whether or not pedestrians who were hit by cars in the dark, had reflectors or not. However, reflectors have been promoted in Sweden since the 70’s. Insurance companies have given away hundreds of thousands of them over the years, so one has to assume that they do some good and that the repeated giveaways are based on rational business decisions to improve their bottom line. What we have though, are some numbers that we can compare between Sweden and the US, one country where 30-50% of adults wear reflectors and one where very few do. In each country, infrastructure and culture is the same day and night. Sweden has better street lights, but they are rarely enough to make a significant difference to seeing pedestrians several hundred feet away.
tally marks by funflector
So, here are the numbers (pretty rough, but give the order of magnitude):  …

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A Colorful World Where “HOW” Matters

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We love colors and colorful reflectors are fun! So how do we make funflector® reflectors in all the colors of the rainbow when the 3M Scotchlite material only comes in clear (white), bright yellow and bright orange? (And the reason for that is that other colors result in material that does not reflect strongly enough to meet high standards).
funflector® reflectors are colorful because we  put colored material under the clear reflective layer, as most manufacturers of EN13356 compliant reflectors do.

funflector® reflectors are colorful because we vary the colored layer UNDER a clear layer of 3M Scotchlite.
funflector® reflectors are colorful because we vary the colored layer UNDER a clear layer of 3M Scotchlite. You can find the paw print reflectors here >

Some of our reflectors include a printed design and we also manufacture reflectors with custom logos and prints. There are different ways to do that and how it’s done matters to your safety. …

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Walking

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Every day, more people discover walking as an easy way to get moving. Did you know that
– 30 minutes of daily walking lowers the risk for diabetes, heart attacks, stroke, cancer and much more.
– Kids walking to school perform better than when getting rides.
– Home prices in walkable neighborhoods increase faster than others.
– Commerce flourish where people walk.
There are an overwhelming amount of information on the benefits of walking for you as an individual and for society.  The two videos below condense the information very well and explain why you need to walk and how it all is interlaced:
“The benefits of walking are so good, they are hard to believe”. Listen to Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George C. Halvorson explain the benefits of walking in a 6 minute video.

Urbanist Jeff Speck explains in his TED talk “how America can be more economically resilient, how America can be healthier and how America can be more environmentally sustainable”. You’ll be surprised about how a walkable infrastructure improves health, quality of life and the local economy and how it is all correlated!

Jeff mentions that Portland, Oregon is far ahead of other cities in the US on planning around people, but there is activities in many places. Learn about what’s going on in  Oklahoma City, New York, Dallas and Chicago and more generally with redevelopment of urban centers.
As mentioned in the intro, kids who walk to school perform better than when getting rides. Here are the results of some studies:
– Let kids walk to school by University of Buffalo medical school and
– Exercise before school improves concentration in the class room, a joint study by researchers at the universities in Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark, also reported by the Atlantic Cities.
– Check out these fascinating MRI scans by the University of Illinois of kids’ brains after sitting still and walking for 20 minutes respectively!
If your kid’s school doesn’t have a walk-to-school program, consider organizing one!
Walking is good, however, when dusk comes around, the risk of fatal pedestrian-vehicle accidents increases significantly. In the Scandinavian countries, pedestrian reflectors have saved lives for over 40 year. If you are looking for thoughtful and useful giveaways, check out our American-made logo reflectors! Together we can make a difference and we hope you want to join us.
The funflector team

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Lucky kids!

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Bike shaped pedestrian reflectors, available also for wholesale and bulk orders.
Bike shaped safety reflectors, available also for wholesale and bulk orders.


Did you know that you can order in bulk and get quality reflectors significantly cheaper? You can even get reflectors with your logo or slogan! Contact us so we can tell you more!
We have just shipped bike shaped reflectors to a school to be used as rewards at a bike derby. Lucky kids! We put some red and blue ones in our web shop as well, in case you just would like a few…
In December, we posted about  Vienna Elementary School, who bought reflectors as part of a walk-to-school program. They have “Walking Wednesdays” where some parents walk or bike with the kids to get to school safely. The kids are rewarded with tokens to hang on their backpacks and sometimes the token is a funflector® pedestrian reflector. Parents are rewarded with coffee, sponsored by a local coffee shop. Lucky parents! On March 14th, walking/biking kids were rewarded with Shamrock reflectors (Can they get more lucky?) and here is some amazing statistics for that day’s turnout:
Half the students walked or biked to school (only 21% of the students are designated walkers).
At least 38% of our bus riders walked to school.
340% more students walked or biked to school compared to an average day last school year.
59% more students walked or biked to school than on the best day of last year’s Walk/Bike Challenge Week.
Here is a Patch video from last spring (before they had reflectors). What a great community! Congratulations and keep up the hard work!
Elisabeth

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