Product Customers Love

Because they resinate with their personality and way of life.

Products Retailers Love

Because they arrive fast and sell fast, with superior customer service at every step.

Products We Love

Because they're well-made, intententinal and add joy to the world.

Product Design

We sketch, sample, test and tweak. With an obsession for detail and drive for customer experience at every step of the value chain.

Shipping & Fulfillment

We do it ourselves so it's done right. Fast, accurate, multi-channel fulfillment from Cleveland, Ohio.

Responsible Sourcing

We build supply chains rooted in values. We partner with ethical suppliers who follow the rules and are small and independent like us.

Product Photography & Listings

We know our products and show them in the best light possible. Being accurate and informative with a brand personality.

Spark Joy

We add to Net Global Joy. By caring deeply about the satisfaction and quality of life of everyone who comes in contact with a Picobarn product.

Custom App Development

We build tools we use: Shopify integrations, powerful supply chain software and internal optimizations to make work joyful.

What is a Picobarn?

Pico•barn (n.) – in physics, a unit of surface area equal to 10-12 barns.Barn (Unit) is used in all fields of high energy physics to express the cross sections of any scattering process. More simply, it is a unit of sub-atomic measurement.
History of ‘Barn’When the first experiments to “split an atom” were being performed, Enrico Fermi named the unit corresponding to the area of a typical atomic nucleus. At 10-12 cm, the nucleus is a very large sub-atomic particle. Fermi joked “it was as big as a barn”. (Source, Cornell)

Why are we Picobarn?
E-commerce introduced an "endless shelf" where people can find the perfect product and where small brands can compete on more equal footing with large ones. Our goal is to fill small niches with products customers love because it's exactly what they were looking for.