When we first introduced the almost frictionless Scrollerwheel mechanism, the responses were overwhelming. Business Week first broke the story. They were quite familiar with the Rolamite and had met Don Wilkes, the inventor from Sandia Labs. Many magazines such as Machine Design, Design News, et.al .... and thru the AP, countless newspapers picked up the story worldwide. We are featured in McGraw Hill college textbooks and even made the cover of the most prestigious mechanical magazine in the world, American Machinist.

Link: ScrollerWheel Articles

The overwhelming world-wide response was challenging for our little think-tank. Sorry we didn't get back to most of you; we just didn't have a structure to deal with the non-stop volume of calls and letters. We had no way of answering the many questions nor directing anyone to a place where such questions could be answered.

We now have the ability, thru this website, to better inform and properly respond to the questions, comments, requests and suggestions that have flooded in from investors, buyers and manufacturers; .... and better communicate with the public as a whole.

We received thousands of querries from companies all across the globe (mainly the United States) interested in using the technology. We, at IDS however were simply introducing this new mechanical principle and were not prepared to ship finished products for each of the countless application requests; each differing according with each company and industry.

The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution is going to be doing an exhibit on the ScrollerWheel. The museum exhibit needs to tell a story. They first wanted to show the prototyping steps that led to the final successful rendition. Because the first prototype worked, all I could offer them was the sketches that led to the final working version and a model, so they are now waiting for several commercial applications to give the exhibit enough meat.

We had only done the basic documentation needed for a patent and when the story broke in the media and had not yet documented the full depth and breadth of this new principle. We had no computer nor WebSite thru which to communicate and explain. Calls, faxes and emails poured in a such a rate, that I disconnected the phone. We now use email for better communication.

We first needed to hunker down and fully document the field and answer the hundreds of questions that we were receiving. Then we needed to place the information on a WebSite for all to see. For many, this is finally the first exposure to the ScrollerWheel. The problem remains that hardly anyone knows that we even have a website.