Our Story
The Opena was designed and developed by Rob Ward and Chris Peters, two mates who like to make things happen. Chris is an Industrial Designer with a passion for good design and Rob is an idea's man with a knack for online sales and marketing. Together they combined their powers to make the Opena case a reality.
"If you're anything like us you like to travel light. The one thing we
always have on us is our phones. The one thing we always seem to be
looking for is a bottle opener. Some of our friends carry bottle openers
on their keys but there are times when you don't always have your keys
with you, especially if your having a big night out and might be tempted to drive home?"
After consuming
a few ales one sunny afternoon an idea evolved. Why not put a
bottle opener into an iPhone case!?!... Brilliant!....And the Opena case was born.
With the idea in mind the duo spent the next few months designing, prototyping and testing various ideas to create a super smooth, clean crisp product which they dubbed the 'Opena'.
Originally launched on the crowd funding site Kickstarter in June 2011 it received huge interest and quickly jumped to 50% of funding goal in it's first week. Word got out and it wasn't long before the Opena was showing up on design and gadget blogs in Australia, America, France, Japan, and Russia! 100% funding was achieved on Monday the 27th of June 2011 and the project finished on the 8th of July reaching 188% of the set funding goal.
The next few months kept the boys busy sorting out tooling, manufacturing, packaging, fulfilment, and shipping. The first production Openas landed in late September 2011 and they we're quickly shipped out all over the world to Kickstarter backers and people who pre-order through the official website (www.openacase.com).
To date, thousand of Openas have been shipped world wide and the positive response the product continues to receive keeps us motivated.
With out the support and generous backing of the
Kickstarter backers this product would not exist.
Cheers
Chris and Rob
The Opena Team
