{"id":200560,"date":"2025-10-09T16:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200560\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:48:12","slug":"a-box-with-a-reversible-butterfly-lid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/200560\/","title":{"rendered":"A Box with a Reversible Butterfly Lid"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Aerohart<\/a> is a Boston-based company that makes metal EDC-style objects inspired by flight, whether by airplanes or butterflies. Their business model is untraditional: Company founders Steph and Seb Emerson (of whom no details exist online) design something they like, then Kickstart it so that they can get paid to make a batch of them. In this manner they’ve done over a dozen projects.<\/p>\n

The object of theirs that we’re looking at today is this butterfly-inspired Flutterbox<\/a>. CNC-machined out of aluminum, it has an absurdly overengineered hinged lid system that sort of turns inside out.<\/p>\n

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There are people for whom this type of mechanism scratches an itch, and the Flutterbox was successfully Kickstarted last year. For the campaign they sold them below-cost, by their own admission, at $57 a pop. Now that the campaign’s over, they’re selling them for $300 each. <\/p>\n


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