Technofender

Edmund Scientific is a complete, vertical portal dedicated to the professional and non-professional Sci&Tech-stuff customers. Highly organized in structured categories, it offers its clients and visitors many interesting products, most of them related to a set of specific disciplines and some also of general interest.

One key feature of Edmund Scientific is the good user-experience that it provides. Usually, it’s hard to find a verticalized shopping portal dedicated to Sci&Tech stuff that might be at least relatively easy to browse. If there is something impressive and relevant in Edmund Scientific is the way that information is organized and how few clicks away lies a product that a potential customer searches for.

Another outstanding characteristic of Edmund Scientific is the catalog of products. I found - when browsing the catalog - interesting and useful items as Metal Detectors, Dissecting Sets, Stethoscopes, Optic Microscopes, Solar Panels, Astronomy Software, Small Electric Engines and many amusing items for gift. And if you are wondering if the site is only for Geeks, then you might probably want to browse the catalog previously filtered by age segment. In fact, I found a few items for my own kids at very reasonable prices.

The site encourages the people to review their items, and from what I saw the reviews are mainly positive. Edmund’s Scientifics also provides basic, useful information related to the technologies being browsed at an article level. For instance, if you choose to see the details of a Levitron Antigravity Top- a magnetic gadget - it provides a couple of links related to the topic.

What I would suggest - in feedback - is that the items descriptions would include the period of warranty, it’s rather important for us - the customers -to know that specific detail. Another suggestion is the inclusion of the Wish List support. Personally - as the Geek that I am - I will be more than pleased if I can put a few items of Edmund’s Scientifics in my Wish List.

Finally, I believe that what Edmund’s Scientifics would get high benefits of, is a Weblog. A weblog associated to the main site would help to portrait much better the experiences of bloggers with the products and would allow to portrait some specific items in a much better way.

And the prices? I’d better not tell you, but encourage you to take a look at www.scientificsonline.com. What I can promise is that you won’t be dissapointed. Not at all.