Bond Touch is a small bracelet that closes big distances. It comes in pairs - you keep one, and you give one to your dearest. When you touch it, they feel it. No matter the distance between you two.

According to the data gathered through the survey we sent to our crowd before launching Bond Touch (10K people at that time), more than 50% of prospective Bond Touch users were in a long distant relationship (LDR), and missed their loved one’s touch badly. They claimed that something like Bond Touch would bring comfort and joy into their relationships and help them through the hardship of being far away from their beloved ones. Many bracelets were ordered by people who are not in a romantic relationship, like relatives and friends, and also couples who are not in LDR, which means that touch is missed and longed for in any kind relationship between people.

Bond Touch project started with a pre-sale campaign that we launched in February 2017. In the first 2 weeks we received 1000 pre-orders - ahuge credit of trust that meant that the product made sense and that we had to see it through. By August 2017 we’ve finalised Bond Touch’s core functionality, design and hardware. Right now Bond Touch is in production and shipping is scheduled for late October 2017.

Internet gifted this world with many relationships that some 100 years ago would be deemed impossible. Relationships separated by continents and oceans, time zones and languages, cultures and customs - all these became possible and made millions of people around the world happy. These relationships are not always easy and sometimes even inconvenient, and we are proud of the people who stay true to their feelings and fight for their happiness no matter what. Texting, talking, skyping … all these types of communication have been helping these relationships to flourish across the distance. With Bond Touch we are creating another opportunity to bond with the far away beloved ones in a deep, meaningful way. Loved one’s touch brings comfort and coziness and helps to get through anxiety and despair that are part of any long distance relationship.

Bond Touch team is quite a small team of people who are in a “long distance professional relationship” with each other - a bit over 10 people spanning 3 countries and 2 continents. This setup, paired up with pressing deadlines (we are building Bond Touch from a mere idea into a product in 9 months) calls for exceptionally good organisation, multitasking and communication. Without these it would have been impossible to get where we’ve got so far.

In 5 months Bond Touch team ran a successful crowdfunding campaign on its own website, finalised hardware and app design, sourced the optimal quality materials, and built a reliable infrastructure to host communication between the bracelet, the app and a server. For the design track, an extreme close cooperation between the designers and engineers was established in order to make the model（the device） as small as possible. Due to the small size (of the device), the product is suitable for a big target group because it fits to any kind of wrists. Besides the great ergonomic aspect, the design is suitable for male and female. And indicators only show up when neccesary. Due to the high end steel frame, the desin allowes the user personalize the device with any kind of strap. All this thanks to the above mentioned qualities but also to the unconditional belief into the value we are creating.

Bond Touch is mostly backed with the funds gained through the crowdfunding campaign that we’ve been running on our website, www.bond-touch.com, since February 2017.

In the last 5 months we ran a successful crowdfunding campaign that allowed us to pursue the project till the end. We gathered a multifunctional, affectionate team basically overnight, and it’s thanks to the team that we’ve got this far. Our design team managed to turn a high-tech, innovative wearable (which Bond Touch basically is) into a personal item, that actually looks and feels humane. Bond Touch is designed in a way that allows to swap a default leather band for any strap, including the one you can braid on your own. It’s a wearable that combines handicraft and industrial design, a piece of technology made for humans, by humans.