electronics founded 1992 headquarters nashville tennessee u.s. key people paul griffin founder van thompson co founder products cables loudspeakers ipod accessories smartphone accessories computer hardware revenue unknown number of employees 60 website www.griffintechnology.com griffin technology is a privately held u.s. company founded in nashville tennessee in 1992 by paul griffin . the company designs and manufactures computer peripherals consumer electronics and accessories for smartphones and mobile devices . the company s first products were primarily video adapters in particular those to enable the connection of db 15 based macintosh computers to the more popular vga based monitors of the time . june 1998 marked griffin s entry into usb based computer peripherals with the introduction of the imate a device that allowed the use of apple desktop bus adb based devices with the newer and increasingly more common universal serial bus usb . griffin introduced additional usb devices such as imic and powermate over the next two years and continued to enjoy moderate growth during this period . griffin was one of the first 3rd party vendors to produce peripherals for apple s ipod . one year after ipod came out at macworld san francisco 2003 griffin introduced itrip . itrip is an fm transmitter that allows ipod owners to transmit audio from an ipod to a nearby fm receiver . the company experienced rapid growth fueled by the success of its ipod accessories especially the itrip . as evidence the number of people employed by griffin technology increased four fold between 2003 and 2007 . this growth allowed the company to take on more ambitious projects such as the evolve wireless speaker system and to diversify the product line to include accessories for ipod competitors such as microsoft s zune and sandisk s sansa . at present the company s accessories line up includes those for apple s ios devices as well as popular smartphones tablets and handheld devices from google amazon samsung htc and motorola . products range from protective cases for these devices to consumer electronics and accessories for audio performance and playback remote controlled model cars and helicopters consumer electronics accessories for children and products for retail and healthcare markets . griffin technology currently employs 350 employees world wide . in 2014 griffin became one of the first nashville companies to become a naming partner at a career academy of a local high school . the griffin academy of design and technology is located at hunters lane high school of metropolitan nashville public schools . 1 contents 1 selected products 2 survivor cases 3 external links 4 references selected products edit itrip fm transmitter imic external audio in out peripheral for computing devices powermate programmable control knob survivor cases mil spec protective cases for mobile devices moto tc and helo tc app controlled model cars and helicopters woodtones stereo headphones with wooden speaker enclosures myphones protective volume limiting headphones for children powerblock and powerjolt ac and dc chargers woogie plush toy protective play cases for mobile devices olli handheld card and barcode scanner for healthcare and point of sale applications of iphone 5 and ipod touch 5th generation survivor cases edit in 2011 griffin technology released a series of milspec cases for smartphones and tablets named survivor 1 . the mil std 810g claims were verified by an independent third party lab nts national technical systems . as part of the marketing campaign for survivor griffin released a series of youtube videos in a lighthearted reality show style . the videos showed griffin certifications director michael o connor performing various real world experiments throwing the phone through drywall off a 150 foot bridge dragged behind a motorcycle etc. with an iphone in a survivor case . external links edit griffin technology ilounge 2005 award page griffin survivor cases references edit capps milt 18 august 2014 . griffin technology commits 200k in time talent for academy of design and technology . venture nashville connections . milt capps . precision content group . retrieved 18 august 2014 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title griffin technology & oldid 730552442 categories companies established in 1992computer peripheral companiesmanufacturing companies based in nashville tennessee navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last 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