BEARDSELL LAUNCHES 2000+ MGO MANUKA HONEY - From Recovery to Royal Manuka
After surviving cancer, Rick Beardsell rebuilt his life around health, nutrition and an uncompromising commitment to fitness — ultimately returning to elite competition and becoming a multiple Masters World Champion. That journey inspired a search for something exceptional: an extraordinarily potent, completely natural Manuka honey worthy of becoming part of his own daily routine. The result is Royal Manuka Honey 2000+ MGO — rare Australian Manuka honey selected for its exceptional natural potency, purity and quality. Now Rick is bringing it to others who share the same belief: when it comes to your health, never settle for ordinary.
ShakeSphere Business Life
Created by world record–holding sprinter and entrepreneur Rick Beardsell, ShakeSphere is more than just a shaker bottle — it’s a symbol of innovation, discipline, and performance.
Born from frustration with flimsy, outdated designs, ShakeSphere’s patented capsule shape eliminates mixing balls and grids for a faster, cleaner blend that reflects the same precision and purpose found in elite sport.
Now headquartered in Bahrain, ShakeSphere continues to expand across the Middle East, Asia, and the USA, driven by the shared vision of Rick and his business partner and wife, Eszter Beardsell. Eszter has been instrumental in scaling ShakeSphere internationally — leading growth across the GCC and U.S. markets while strengthening partnerships and operations globally.
For ShakeSphere partnerships or business inquiries, contact Eszter Beardsell at eszter@shakesphere.com
From an Idea to a Patent Portfolio: The Story Behind ShakeSphere’s Capsule-Shaped Shaker
Great products often begin with a very simple question: RICK BEADRSELL ASKS: why does something we use every day have to work the way it always has?
That was the question behind ShakeSphere.
Traditional protein shakers typically relied on mixing balls, meshes, grids or other loose components to break up powder. I wanted to approach the problem differently. Instead of adding another component to the bottle, what if the shape of the bottle itself could help do the mixing?
That idea became the foundation of ShakeSphere: a shaker built around smooth, rounded internal geometry and what became its instantly recognisable capsule-shaped form.
The idea: make the bottle do the work
The principle behind ShakeSphere was beautifully simple.
Rather than allowing powder to collect in hard corners, the internal surfaces were designed to be smooth and curved. At opposite ends of the chamber, rounded mixing regions help liquid and ingredients travel through the bottle as it is shaken.
The early utility patent describes hemispherical mixing chambers at opposed ends of the drink-holding chamber. Justia Patents
That concept continued to evolve.
In the later Tumbler patent, the cup and lid work together to create an internal chamber described in Claim 20 as having a capsule configuration, which can be ellipsoidal or spherical in shape. The claim also describes smooth interior surfaces and smooth transitions between them. Justia Patents
It sounds obvious once you see it.
But, as with many inventions, getting from “I've got an idea” to a commercially successful product protected by intellectual property took years.
2014 — the design journey begins
The U.S. patent record provides a fascinating timeline.
On 17 April 2014, I filed two U.S. design patent applications for shaker bottles.
One subsequently became U.S. Design Patent D739,180, granted on 22 September 2015. The second became U.S. Design Patent D747,148, granted on 12 January 2016. Google Patents
These were design patents protecting the ornamental designs rather than the later functional technology, but they form an important part of the ShakeSphere story.
They document the development of the product before most people had ever heard of ShakeSphere.
2015 — protecting the functional idea
The next major milestone came on 25 March 2015, the priority date identified in the later ShakeSphere utility-patent family. Justia Patents
This was about much more than how the bottle looked.
The functional concept concerned how the geometry inside the bottle could influence the movement and mixing of its contents.
That distinction has always been important to me.
ShakeSphere wasn't created simply to make another good-looking gym bottle. The ambition was to rethink the mechanics of the shaker itself.
2016 — the capsule concept enters the public patent record
A U.S. utility application for the “Sports and/or Mixing Bottle” was filed on 19 February 2016 and published on 29 September 2016.
Its description is remarkably close to the philosophy that still defines ShakeSphere today.
It describes a cylindrical drink-holding chamber with hemispherical mixing chambers positioned at opposite ends. Justia Patents
Instead of starting with a conventional bottle and asking what mixing device could be put inside it, we had started with the internal geometry itself.
That application ultimately became U.S. Patent No. 10,661,945, granted on 26 May 2020 to ShakeSphere Products Limited. Justia Patents
2020 — the idea develops further
Innovation rarely happens once.
Products improve. Materials change. Manufacturing improves. You discover things after producing thousands — and eventually millions — of products that you could never have discovered from a sketch.
In March 2020, another U.S. application was filed for the ShakeSphere Tumbler Bottle.
The application was published as US20200283217A1 in September 2020 and ultimately became one of the most important patents in the ShakeSphere portfolio:
U.S. Patent No. 11,613,420 B2 — Tumbler Bottle
It was granted on 28 March 2023. Justia Patents
One particularly interesting part is Claim 20.
It describes a cup with a hemispherical lower mixing chamber and a removable lid with another hemispherical mixing chamber. When the two are connected, the internal surfaces define a chamber having a capsule configuration — described as ellipsoidal or spherical — together with smooth internal transition surfaces. Justia Patents
That is patent language.
But behind all that legal terminology is the same simple idea:
Remove the corners. Create smooth movement. Let the shape help do the mixing.
2025 — another chapter
The development didn't stop there.
On 2 December 2025, another ShakeSphere invention was granted as U.S. Patent No. 12,485,393 — “Shaker Bottle for Preparing a Health Nutrient.”
This is a separate patent family covering further developments in shaker construction, including double-wall architecture, cooling-related features, a sliding closure and, in one dependent claim, a capsule-shaped tumbler. Justia Patents
So what began as sketches, prototypes and a desire to improve an everyday product gradually developed into multiple generations of protected intellectual property.
The ShakeSphere patent journey
17 April 2014 — Two U.S. shaker-bottle design applications filed
22 September 2015 — U.S. Design Patent D739,180 granted
12 January 2016 — U.S. Design Patent D747,148 granted
19 February 2016 — U.S. Sports and/or Mixing Bottle utility application filed
29 September 2016 — Utility application published, describing opposed hemispherical mixing chambers
26 May 2020 — U.S. Patent No. 10,661,945 granted
30 March 2020 — Tumbler Bottle patent application filed
10 September 2020 — Tumbler Bottle application published
28 March 2023 — U.S. Patent No. 11,613,420 granted
2 December 2025 — U.S. Patent No. 12,485,393 granted Justia Patents
More than a patent
Looking back, what I enjoy most about this timeline isn't actually the patent numbers.
It's what they represent.
Every filing is a snapshot of a particular point in the journey — an idea becoming a drawing, a drawing becoming a prototype, a prototype becoming a manufactured product, and eventually a product becoming a global brand.
When I started developing ShakeSphere, there was no guarantee anybody would buy one.
There certainly wasn't a master plan stretching more than a decade into the future.
There was simply a belief that there had to be a better way to design a shaker.
The capsule shape became the answer.
And years later, that same fundamental idea remains at the heart of ShakeSphere.
Sometimes innovation isn't about adding more.
Sometimes it's about removing what was never needed in the first place.
— Rick Beardsell
Founder & Inventor, ShakeSphere
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The best products often solve a problem the founder has personally become sufficiently irritated by.
There’s a saying that the best products solve a problem.
I’d add something: the best products often solve a problem the founder has personally become sufficiently irritated by.
This race takes me back to a very different stage of my life.
I came to athletics relatively late and was trying to compete seriously while managing an existing business and developing what would eventually become ShakeSphere in the background.
It was relentless. I’d travel around Europe racing alongside training partners earning considerably more prize money than me. They were thinking about the next race. I was thinking about the next race, the next invoice, and whether the last prize cheque had covered the flight.
But those years gave me something more valuable than prize money: a genuine problem worth solving.
Like most athletes, I carried protein powder everywhere. After racing or training, we needed nutrition quickly before travelling to the next meeting or preparing to go again.
The shaker bottles were terrible.
Powder stuck in the corners. Old protein made them stink. Cleaning them properly was a chore. And flip caps had an unfortunate habit of opening inside kit bags.
Nothing improves pre-race preparation quite like discovering your sprint spikes marinating in chocolate protein.
I kept thinking:
Why does a shaker need corners in the first place?
Fortunately, I had an unusual advantage. I’d completed a four-year degree in product design and spent a year designing for a leading design firm in Milan.
So I wasn’t just an irritated athlete with wet spikes. I was an irritated athlete with wet spikes who knew how to design products.
I knew I could solve it.
Rather than adding another mixing ball, mesh or gadget, I went back to first principles.
If powder gets trapped in corners, remove the corners.
That thinking became ShakeSphere's capsule shape — designed to mix without a ball or mesh, while being easier to clean.
I secured our first patent in 2014. Since then, we’ve built a substantial global patent portfolio, notably protecting the capsule-shaped mixing technology at the heart of ShakeSphere.
Building a company while competing seriously hasn't been easy. But entrepreneurship and athletics have more in common than you might think: consistency, resilience and a willingness to keep working when the immediate results don't justify the effort.
Looking back, I probably wouldn't have one without the other.
Athletics exposed the problem.
Design gave me the ability to rethink it.
Entrepreneurship gave me the opportunity to build it.
And years of hard work turned an idea into ShakeSphere.
Innovation doesn't always start with “What can we invent?”
Sometimes the better question is:
“What problem has everyone simply become accustomed to putting up with?”
Then do the work to solve it.
Can Beardsell Slay A Dragon?
In 2017, entrepreneur Rick Beardsell took to the stage in front of a panel of seasoned investors, reminiscent of the high-pressure format seen on the hit show Dragons’ Den.
Facing sharp questions and rigorous evaluation, Rick presented his vision, business strategy, and growth potential. The atmosphere was electric—every slide, every figure scrutinised, every word weighed. The investors probed his assumptions, challenged his projections, and tested his resilience.
The session marked a defining moment in Rick’s business journey: not only did it expose him to tough questions under the spotlight, but it also sharpened his thinking, sharpened his presentation, and elevated his ambition. For visitors to this website, it offers a behind‐the‐scenes glimpse of what it takes to stand up and defend your business in front of top tier capital-backers.
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