The Canary 100, a consumer product that detects radiation in food that was developed by EV Enterprises in the Coachella Valley iHub in downtown Palm Spring, CA has been chosen for by Forbes Magazine for their annual article on tech holiday gifts from start-up businesses.
EV Enterprises that recently moved their entire operation from Flagstaff, Arizona to the Coachella Valley iHub Accelerator Campus in Palm Springs developed this clever device after having been asked for a solution at a local organic farmer’s market. In late July, Bill Schlanger, EV’s president asked Joe Wallace, the iHub’s managing director about the idea of a hand held radiation detector. In a period of 3 days Wallace and the iHub raised sufficient investment dollars to support building a prototype. Three weeks later Schlanger had a working model and three months after that the first production items were completed. The program that has now been established by the iHub as it’s 3-3-3 program with its mission to fund promising ideas in 3 days to prove the concept in 3 weeks, and begin production in 3 months.
The realization of EV Enterprises idea came about without a formal business plan or the involvement of any banks. “This is the way it was done in Silicon Valley back in the 80’s and 90’s” said Wallace in response to a question about the rapidity of the development of the Canary 100. “When the critical elements of a good idea, capital, and talented ambition come together a near magical reality can happen. Bill and his team being featured in Forbes is the exclamation point on an excellent first year for the iHub and it’s clientele” Wallace continued.
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Note: Joe Wallace is a mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Evansville and Stanford University and served as the founding CEO of the Growth Alliance for Greater Evansville before relocating to Rancho Mirage, CA. He also serves as a columnist for the City County Observer and advises several Evansville area businesses.
See what the City of Evansville could have had if Weinzapfel, Mayor Winnenke and Tom Shelter would had left Mr. Wallace alone to do his job at Guage.
Instead these idiots ran him off and replaced him with Debbie Dewey.
Wow, what an impressive political move by the above individuals.
My boss serves on the Gage Board and told me that Wallace was not only an outstanding employee but also knew his stuff.
He told me that Winnenke and Weinzapfel didn’t care for Joe Wallace becuase he was an independant thinker.
Wish Mr. Wallace would sue them for wrongful dismissal.
Have they actually found any significant or harmful radiation levels in food??
They whole need for the device is from concern over contamination from the Japan nuclear disaster. The answer to your question depends on your definition of significant. If I were one of the few to eat something with nuclear contamination it would be significant to me but the chances of that happening are quite low. This reminds me a bit of the radon testing devices from several years ago. It is real but not pandemic.
Had a family member who worked with Mr. Wallace on an important project.
She said he was great to work with.
Can’t wait till Tom Shelter runs for re-election. Mr. Wallace’s forced firing shall be a major issue in his re-election campaign. Can’t wait to hear Shelter answer the question on how much did Gage really lose on the Freedom Fest. Was it $280,000 as reported by Shelter, Winnenke and Weinzapfel or $625,000?
Congratulations Joe for getting away from the above three political idiots.
Speaking of Tom Shelter Jr., he is nothing but an empty suit that was borned with a silver spoon in his self serving mounth. I’ll do everything in my power to make sure that both he and the Mayor shall never be re-elected to anything.
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