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Yormii get’s a pretty fantastic 1st birthday present! 0

I was the first to join the Incub program a year ago now, followed closely by Lucy at Frontline Forensics. I entered the Gripple and Load Hog Ideas & Innovation centre with a number of product ideas, and one patent application for a very different way of grinding salt and pepper. One year on, Yormii [...]

It’s not ‘Run of the mill’ – it’s ‘Rub of the mill’ – www.yormii.com 0

Yormii has launched their new website which showcases their first product, the innovative millmii pepper grinder, designed and made in Sheffield UK. Take a gander (www.yormii.com), pass it on, share it, like it, tweet it, bookmark it, run around your neighbourhood shouting about it if you like it that much. But for those of you [...]

Yormii prototype line-up… Not quite as many as Dyson 2

The photo shows a timeline of development for the Yormii salt/pepper grinder – which we’ve named Millmii. The first prototype was a very basic mock-up made from acrylic tube and some canibalised parts from an existing salt and pepper miill. I tried and tested various iterations; dual compartment, wings with rollers, gearing to make the [...]