Update: Amazon 5000

August 14, 2012 News & Announcements
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Back in May we featured a post about K-TOR generators and the Amazon 5000 expedition led by Mickey Grosman.  Along his grueling, self sustained expedition across South America, Mickey expected to encounter many things.  The harsh environment, ragged terrain, dense pristine jungles and dangerous wildlife requires Mickey’s best survival skills as he lives off the land – [...]

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K-TOR® Power Box Nears Production Status

July 31, 2012 News & Announcements
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Last Friday we visited our manufacturer in Anaheim, SI Manufacturing, to review the production status of our soon to be released pedal power generator.  We built a sample production unit and discussed ways to streamline and optimize the assembly process as we look towards giving the green light for assembly. Before the Power Box goes [...]

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K-TOR® Pocket Socket Coming Soon to Infowars.com Store

July 24, 2012 News & Announcements
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Our hand crank generator, the Pocket Socket, will soon be available for sale on the Infowars.com store. Infowars.com is a website run by Alex Jones and is supported by his team of Infowars reporters.  The website’s slogan “because there is a war on for your mind” is an overarching theme for the content reported within [...]

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K-TOR® Power Box Featured in Move Magazine

July 17, 2012 News & Announcements
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Excitement and anticipation are building as we approach the release of our pedal power generator, the Power Box.  Questions and inquiries have been flooding in and we’ve been working hard to make this product the best it can be. The Power Box was recently featured in a German publication called Move, a magazine from BCD [...]

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The Sprocket Socket

July 12, 2012 News & Announcements
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At the end of May, we featured a blog post about a group of students at the Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz, CA, who were modifying a K-TOR® Pocket Socket for a high school project. As part of their final design project in their Intro to Engineering course, the team planned to mount our hand [...]

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K-TOR® Launches Affiliate Program

July 10, 2012 News & Announcements
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We recently launched our affiliate program with Commission Junction as a way to foster sales and brand awareness.  Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate (aslo known as the publisher). Commission Junction operates one of the [...]

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1,000 Likes on Facebook

July 3, 2012 News & Announcements
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We now have over 1,000 likes on our facbook page.  Over the past few months we’ve been working to take advantage of all the new features and functionality of Facebook’s timeline page.  Now you can read our blog posts, watch our youtube videos, look at pictures, and check the lastest updates all from our facebook [...]

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K-TOR Generators Power Ham Radio Equipment

June 28, 2012 News & Announcements
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Last weekend K-TOR founder Ken Torino (KB1YAO) attended the 2012 ARRL Field Day, visiting Rev. Homer Harden (KD8LNU) and other members of the Northern Panhandle Amateur Radio Club in Eastern Ohio. One of the main goals for the ARRL Field Day is to conduct an emergency Ham Radio test.  We also wanted to verify that our generators [...]

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10,000 Views on K-TOR YouTube Channel

June 26, 2012 News & Announcements
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Total video views on our YouTube channel recently passed 10,000! About a year ago we uploaded the first video to our YouTube channel.  It was a quick clip of the Pocket Socket hand crank generator charging an HTC Aria Android smartphone.  Since then we’ve added three more videos, one instructional and two promotional, and have another [...]

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K-TOR to Attend ARRL Field Day

June 21, 2012 News & Announcements
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This weekend (June 23-24) K-TOR founder and certified radio amateur Kenneth Torino will attend the 2012 ARRL Field Day.  The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the largest association of radio amateurs in the country with over 150,000 members.  Also called ham radio, amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency specturm for purposes of private recreation, [...]

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