when i was a kid, we had this thing called the invention convention every year, and it was totally my favorite part of the year. so each year i would out do myself trying to come up with the next as seen on tv product.
one year i made it to the school finals, but some kid that made a musical toilet seat that played, "the wheels on the bus go round and round" when the toilet seat was up, like, as a warning so people would remember to put it down, won that year. i think his invention was supposed to be for blind people or something? i invented magnetic scrabble that year and it worked like regular scrabble, except instead of losing all the little pieces when you tried to clean up, you just waved the little magnetic wand over the board, and the tiles, which had magnets in them, stuck to the wand. i thought/think my product was/is infinitely better than his.
my favorite invention though, was the one i made in second grade. i had this deep rooted fear of touching sea weed while i was swimming, so i invented these things called "sea weed pushers." it was like, velcro attatched to a thin dowel with a thin piece of wood at the opposite end of the dowel. you were supposed to strap them around your legs, and the little piece of wood would push seaweed away before it ever came in contact with your feet.
i still stand behind the brilliance of those inventions.
one year i made it to the school finals, but some kid that made a musical toilet seat that played, "the wheels on the bus go round and round" when the toilet seat was up, like, as a warning so people would remember to put it down, won that year. i think his invention was supposed to be for blind people or something? i invented magnetic scrabble that year and it worked like regular scrabble, except instead of losing all the little pieces when you tried to clean up, you just waved the little magnetic wand over the board, and the tiles, which had magnets in them, stuck to the wand. i thought/think my product was/is infinitely better than his.
my favorite invention though, was the one i made in second grade. i had this deep rooted fear of touching sea weed while i was swimming, so i invented these things called "sea weed pushers." it was like, velcro attatched to a thin dowel with a thin piece of wood at the opposite end of the dowel. you were supposed to strap them around your legs, and the little piece of wood would push seaweed away before it ever came in contact with your feet.
i still stand behind the brilliance of those inventions.
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at my school we had to invent a device allowing people to get an even tan while subbathing. everyone took it very seriously. my design was a giant tortoise which followed a piece of lettuce around in a circle. you were surposed to sit on it's back. i was a strange child.
Funny though, I glossed over it for years and only remembered recently when my husband asked why we couldn't have turtles.