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The Wand Company

The Wand Company is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Wand Company rather than just read about it. In short: The Wand Company is a United Kingdom company that designs and manufactures functional prop replicas. The company was featured on Dragons' Den in 2010, demonstrating its "Kymera Magic Wand Universal Remote Control".

Key takeaways

The Wand Company belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Wand Company to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Wand Company from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Wand Company is a United Kingdom company that designs and manufactures functional prop replicas. The company was featured on Dragons' Den in 2010, demonstrating its "Kymera Magic Wand Universal Remote Control". Since then, The Wand Company has created additional universal remote control prop replicas in the form of the Tenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver, the Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver, the Twelfth Doctor's extending Sonic Screwdriver and a Star Trek: The Original Series phaser. They released a functional Star Trek Bluetooth communicator replica in 2016, then expanded into high-end licensed collectibles for other entertainment franchises including Fallout, Pokémon and Starfield, with several products achieving significant commercial success.

History The Wand Company was founded in 2009 by Richard Blakesley and Chris Barnardo who wanted to combine their forty years of design, development and electronic development experience to make magical/surprising themed products that work as universal remote controls. The company's first product was the "Kymera Magic Wand Universal Remote Control" that is in the style of a wizard's wand and in the first year the product sold 10,300 units. In 2010 the company appeared on the television show Dragons' Den on BBC Two to ask for financial backing. Duncan Bannatyne agreed to invest £200,000 for 10%. In 2011 Bannatyne announced that The Wand Company had grossed £1 million in the first year, but his investment didn't proceed as the company no longer needed the money. In 2012 the company manufactured a new product in the form of the Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver, later in 2013 the Tenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver was released. A 3D Scan was taken of David Tennant's Sonic Screwdriver (which is the last remaining screen used prop from that series) to create the body of the Tenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver. In July 2014 it was revealed on the company's Facebook page that the next product they would be releasing would be a Star Trek phaser replica. Later that month the phaser replica was shown at San Diego Comic-Con by co-founder Chris Barnardo. The Wand Company stated that it used the same technology as the Sonic Screwdriver remotes and that a 3D scan was taken of the original prop to produce this replica. In July 2015, they revealed they would be releasing a fully functioning Star Trek Bluetooth communicator. The item was released in June 2016. In 2018, The Wand Company released a self-assembly kit replica of the Pip-Boy from Bethesda's Fallout 76 videogame. In July 2020 they announced they would release a fully functional Star Trek Tricorder. The finished replica began shipping in April 2025. In November 2020, The Pokémon Company International announced a partnership with The Wand Company to produce a range of premium die-cast Poké Ball replicas, which launching for Pokémon Day 2021, with a special edition of the Master Ball which was only available from Pokémon Center. The full-sized accurate metal Poké Ball range has gone on to be a huge success, selling over 300,000 units worldwide. In January 2024, the Wand Company launched a range of Mini Poké Balls, as replicas of the small Poké Balls that are stored on the trainer's belt before their expansion to the standard full-size dimension. It was leaked in January 2022 that they would be partnering again with Bethesda to make a replica of the watch in their upcoming game, Starfield. The existence of the watch was officially revealed at the "Starfield Direct" event in June 2023. In 2024 it was announced that The Wand Company had taken a license from Amazon to create a functional, wearable Pip-Boy from Amazon's highly successful TV show, Fallout. In May 2024, Chris Barnardo demonstrated the Pip-Boy to Adam Savage on his Tested channel. In November 2025, the company announced a fully functional Pip-Boy 3000 replica based on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, developed using original design data from Bethesda.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Wand Company

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Wand Company claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Wand Company before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Wand Company ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Wand Company

In research: The Wand Company appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Wand Company in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Wand Company is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2009 establishments in England, Electronics companies established in 2009, Electronics companies of the United Kingdom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Wand Company outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Wand Company in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Wand Company means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The Wand Company out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does The Wand Company matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Wand Company?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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