Step Ahead Innovation Shuts its Doors, MindStream Future Uncertain

When the MindStream aquarium water monitor was first announced by its creator, Step Ahead Innovations, the device seemed so ahead of its time that it almost came off like a futuristic concept product. Six years have passed since that initial…

Mindstream Starts Fulfilling Pre-sale Orders, General Sales Soon

The Mindstream aquarium water chemistry monitor is one of the most highly anticipated new products in the aquarium hobby. After many, many years of being in development limbo, it was touch and go there whether the Mindstream would even see the…

Mindstream Will Go On Sale End Of Year, Shipping Early 2018

After many years of waiting, hoping, learning and asking again and again, we finally have the answer we’ve all been waiting for about the holy grail of aquarium monitors. The MindStream will officially go on sale at the end of…

Redesigned Mindstream Housing Hints At Progress Towards Launch

The Mindstream has been a long time coming, and questions of its continued existence seem to arise every couple of months. There is a reasonable amount of doubt that the Mindstream could possibly do all that it claims, but in all…

When Will the MindStream Finally Be Released?

The MindStream is just about one of the most highly anticipated marine aquarium products we’ve ever had the pleasure of writing about. However, the MindStream is a device which has been cooking in the oven for a really long time.…

MindStream statement assures us that the monitor is still coming

The MindStream Monitoring System is one of the most exciting products that’s ever been proposed to the aquarium hobby. Unfortunately, this type of sophisticated technology is much more capital-intensive than simply bringing a new LED light to market. While the…

MindStream MACNA workshop powerpoint now available online

The MindStream is clearly one of the most revolutionary aquarium devices ever conceived. The only thing you need to know to run a MindStream is that you put it in your tank, replace the disc once a month, and you have real time…

Update on the MindStream water monitoring system

The MindStream KickStarter may have failed to reach its lofty goal of $300,000 but that doesn’t mean that parent company Step Ahead Innovations is dead in the water. Far from it, while the successful funding campaign would have brought the…

10 innovations of the MindStream Aquarium Monitor

Being the reef aquarium technophiles that we are, we couldn’t spend a whole day at the offices of MindStream R&D without becoming smitten with what this device is, how it works, and what makes it work. If you thought the…

Video teardown of the MindStream aquarium monitor

It was super cool to visit the heart of the research and development of the MindStream aquarium monitor and pick the Step Ahead Innovations team’s brain about how their device works inside and out. However while we were there, we…