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No More Playing Around

No More Playing Around

Toy designer moves to med-tech The founders of Kablooe Design got a bit of bad news the day they opened. Tom KraMer, who quit his day job and launched the company with co-founder Dave Powell, overheard on the radio that toy maker Tonka Corp., their only customer, “shut the doors.” “I looked at Dave and ...read more

Designing Products for 20 years.

Designing Products for 20 years.

Kablooe Design was formed in May, 1991 and has been doing product invention, design and engineering for companies in the Twin Cities ever since.  To celebrate this achievement, Kablooe held an open house at their office in Blaine.  Informal and focused on fun, Kablooe brewed their own summer wheat beer for the occasion, and enjoyed ...read more

IQPC conference on Remote Monitoring

Dr. Christopher Scorzelli, MD  Chair of Session on discussion of Renovation vs Replacement in Hospital setting, San Jose, CA Conference: Remote Patient monitoring www.iqpc.com

DesignWise Medical

Kablooe is a proud supporter of DesignWise Medical. DesignWise Medical is a nonprofit pediatric medical device development company focused on identifying, creating and delivering to the marketplace solutions to children’s unmet medical needs. http://www.designwisemedical.org/

Medical Innovation

What’s a Physician doing at a product design firm? Dr. Christopher Scorzelli, MD interviewed on the Doctors Radio Show: www.siriusxm.com/doctorradio Topic: Medical Innovation: What’s a Physician doing at a product design firm?’ 2 hour interview: Dr. Scorzelli, Spoke on Medical Product Design and why he is working in the creative industry as a Physician.

Design of Medical Devices Conference MD 2011 Conference

Dr. Christopher Scorzelli, MD Co-Chairs of Innovation Session at DMD 2011 April 13, and Judges 3 in 5 competition as well - www.dmd.umn.edu/sessions_2011/three-in-five.html Tom Kramer presented on Human Factors 2 on medical device development session on April 12 – www.dmd.umn.edu/sessions_2011/human_factors_2.html Both sessions were well attended and instigated good discussion. April 13th: DMD 10 year celebration Tom ...read more

FIRST Robotics Competition at U of MN Mariucci Stadium

Tom Kramer  Kablooē Design’s Founder and President and Dr. Christopher Scorzelli, MD, Medical Innovation Director Participate as judges for the Robotics Competition for Midwest high school students. www.mnfirstregional.org

UW Stout Senior Design Projects

Tom Kramer  Kablooē Design’s Founder and President, and Dr. Christopher Scorzelli, MD, Medical Innovation Director review UW Stout Senior Design Projects for DesignWise Medical as part of DesignWise Medical’s  effort to identify and meet Pediatric medical needs.  Mr. Kramer and Dr. Scorzelli provided feedback and direction to the students on how to focus their efforts ...read more

2011 Housewares Show

See one of our latest inventions released at the 2011 Housewares Show.

St. Paul Winter Carnival

St. Paul Winter Carnival

For the third straight year members of the Kablooe team have gone out in the freezing cold weather and spent three days carving a sculpture. The theme of this years sculpture was “A fun take on the idea that you are not always aware of the challenges you are about to face”.