The Badger, a first Montenegrin-American hardware product, in the three-year period has crossed over the technological bridge pacing from a concept to a patent, from a board design to a PCB schematics, from the verge of collapse to investors.

How the bridges are built?

The whole planet is dissected by bridges, spanned by curiosity.

Is there a substitute for the instinct that drives us to connect, unite, bridge the gap and remove the barrier?

After all, what else was pushing us forward other than the desire to connect?

Three years ago, in Phoenix, Arizona, after the part of the team from Montenegro crossed the first big bridge to the Sonoran Desert, LLC The Badger was founded. There, in the heart of the territory of the Apache and Navajo tribes, a couple of lunatic people from the Kuchi tribe planted the seeds of their idea. At the place where cacti are scarcely growing, they have found fertile ground for the development of hardware technology, since the 21st century seems to be creating an opportunity out of everything, and ideas are instantly grown.

Thus, The Badger, the first Montenegrin-American hardware product, crossed over the technological bridge in the three-year period, pacing from a concept to a patent, from a board design to a PCB schematics, from the verge of collapse to investors.

So, how the bridges are built?

In such a manner, The Badger has all been made of the bridges. It is an electronic badge, a new type of wearable technology enabling the user to display and shareowner information, photos, GIFs, videos, and social media content with other users: to bridge the gap from one user to another in the offline mode by using online tools.

It assists in networking and facilitates generating new interest in the business of the user/company using it. The Badger gives the opportunity to make money from online activities, since the user may while carrying it, advertise different content - depending on the interests of advertisers at conferences. That is to say: it builds a bridge between the users and companies with the possibility for the user to earn, for the first time, from using one wearable device.

The Badger can be used as an assistant in conference networking, saving participants time and money for hotels and organizers. There we have the bridge that connects time, money, and networking process: the user gets the device at the conference together with the room key, and at that moment it serves as his identification and means of communication with other participants.

The neuralgic point of big conferences in the world is waiting in line to get identification. These events are so big that you may get easily lost in the offer and risk not establishing the right contacts. Using The Badger you avoid wasting time, standing in the line, getting into confusion and misinformation. It is a bridge facilitating the user to detect all his potential key connections on time, communicate with them, collect them in one place and create his own, offline social network.

With buying only one badge, hotels abandon the concept of producing thousands of disposable badges, thus creating the bridge aimed at protecting the environment.

Less than two years ago, we achieved our first significant global success. We became the first product from this region, the first hardware to have successfully completed a campaign on the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform. We have crossed the bridge of uncertainty and fear as pioneers, and today we help others to get to the other side. We will call it our pontoon bridge for those who follow.

Our patent marked the crossing over the abyss full of unknown to the island where the recognition of our work resided. The island is marked as “US 10, 198, 034 B2” and has a shelf life of 22 years.

Fearlessly, with rather limited capacities, we crossed the sea of differences, the oceans of the unknown, and the abyss of our own ignorance, learning in action all the time. We learned about bridges, the manner of making them more stable, more efficient, and leading to the quality, eventually.

In such a way, we came to this most important, key bridge in the development of our startup by returning operations to Montenegro: the bridge to the company Amplitudo, which recently took over the development of software, applications, and the whole range in the backend part of the "soft" segment of The Badger project.

In business terms, their investment may be measured by finances and hours spent on development, but it may be much more measured in the terms of expertise and know-how which was brought to the project of the first Montenegrin wearable device.

At the standing point of a tangent that unites the visions of people and our companies, and most of all our partnership and friendship – the passion and motivation and hunger for success grow. There, from now on, Badger comes into existence: the first Montenegrin wearable.

And that is how bridges are built.