AriHelder

Will we have a couple of sunny days again soon?

Product Roadmap updated after we did our review.

We have identified three areas where we will aim to be the best and 'disrupt' the market.

AriHelder Product Roadmap Update We just agreed on the next few years product roadmap in AriHelder.

We're building Helder 2 to a standard we technically don't have to.

Helder 2 is a wellness device — not a medical one. But we develop it using ISO 13485, the quality standard built for medical devices.

Why? Because it's just a really good way to build things properly.
In practice that means we've written a huge list of Design Inputs — every requirement the product has to meet. And every time we have a working prototype, we don't just switch it on and hope. We run it through a mountain of tests and verifications, checking each one against that list.

Arjen is about to do exactly that on the first working Helder 2 prototype. 🔦

Doing the invisible, unglamorous work now — so what lands on your desk later is the real thing.

Link to a fuller blog post about all the stuff Arjen have to test is in the first comment.

We are slowly building AriHelder here in Chiang Mai.

Not in a very polished, corporate way. More like two guys with very different strengths trying to make useful light products properly.

Arjen is the nerd. He thinks in light, heat, electronics, optics and all the small details that actually matter if a product is supposed to work.

I am more in founder mode. Pushing things forward, talking to people, asking the annoying questions, trying to turn the invention into a real product and a real company.

What we want to build is simple: honest hardware, made by real people, with clear responsibility. No fake scale. No vague “global team” language. No black boxes.

Just useful products, built carefully, and shared openly as we go.

Helder 2 is starting to feel real.

This week Arjen and I have been deep in it with our industrial design partner — not the pretty stage where everything already looks finished, but the earlier one, where you're figuring out what the thing should actually feel like sitting in a real home here in Chiang Mai.

Modern and minimal? Rounder and softer? Or more like a proper tool — warm, robust, adjustable, something you don't need a manual for?
Right now we're leaning toward the last one.

We don't want Helder 2 to end up as another plastic wellness gadget. We want it to be something you'd actually keep out — bedroom, living room, massage room, wherever — because it's simple, safe, useful, and doesn't look out of place.

So many small things matter at this stage: how the arm moves, where the head points, how it cools itself, where the button sits, how the cable is routed, whether your mum could use it without asking us first.

That's the part I actually enjoy about doing this in public — watching the thing slowly turn into itself.

From our little workshop and showroom in Hang D**g, we're trying to build a Chiang Mai-born wellness light that feels honest and made for real homes.

More soon.

— Arjen & Christian
AriHelder

I had to share this cool image. Helder 2 can also run from a power bank, so why not use it in the car!

I just had to post this from LinkedIn. Flexbeam in Viking Dress:-)

The number 1 wearable full power NIR device, now expanding with tons of data features and protocols.

They are supporting the boys from norway in the US World Cup.

RO RO RO Also means rest and quiet in Norwegian. | Bjørn Ekeberg RO RO RO Also means rest and quiet in Norwegian.

When you get used to having a powerful Near-Infra Red device, you don't want to miss it when you travel.

Our Helder 2 is meant to be super light and easy to bring in the suitcase. No batteries as well makes it less of an hassle.

This picture is from one of our "testers" that use the device for a month to give us feedback during June and July. The family went to Bangkok and they brought it there because they love it already:-)

That warms a Manufacturer's Heart.