I was a beta tester for the Mindstream. It was a really cool product. I was an early Beta tester and actually ran the product for over 18 months before they went down. And they went down in a way that was really crappy for the people that had faith and believed in the product. Many interested reefers bought and paid for the unit at the Orlando MACNA being told their unit was shipping in 2-4 weeks (and units were in production), only to have their credit cards charged and then the company sink. It was not a great way to exit the market.
But the technology was really cool, a bit ahead of its time and a bit pre-mature. The results were very cool. The unit did what is was supposed to do. The app was simple and worked. While the whole setup process was a little rudimentary - once setup it was stable. And the ease of changing the discs monthly to get another 30 days of results was way better than any other gizmo monitoring device around.
The key was the 'disc' which was a colored kaliedascope of films. Just pop in / pop out and in 10 seconds you were testing a dozen parameters for 30 days without having to calibrate, fuss, pour, adjust anything.
The issues they had with the product 'reliability' was the production of the discs. It was a newly evolving tech and with each tweak of the tech and the production of the next batch of discs the consistency of the results would vary. Sometimes from Disc to Disc a parameter instead of being 'slightly off' was just wrong.
But the tech and concept was good. All the tech and patents were bought by another company.
While Mindstream is Dead, the tech and concept is not.
You haven't seen the last of it.........
Dave B
