When dropping off my daughter at Indiana University in Bloomington, at a co-ed dorm, (separate floors for each sex) I accidentally got off on the wrong floor. I was immediately greeted by the sight of a mostly naked guy running down the hallway making a valiant but loosing attempt at holding up his towel which was somewhat wrapped around his waste and maintaining control over his student ID and room key. That night when I returned back to my hotel room I had a vision of this product in my sleep.
September 9, 2009
The Aqua Short is the ideal way to exit the shower. Toss on these one of a kind towel shorts to get dry and to get ready before changing into what you're going to wear for the day. Besides post-shower, the Aqua Short is a comfortably soft fashion statement to wear wherever you are headed.
Wearable towel fashioned into comfortable short with generous specs, deep pockets and elastic waste. Start your own fashion and wear these shorts beyond just after showers. Wear them around the house, playing basketball or out and about.
Available in: Black, White, Red, and Royal (S/M/L/XL)
Each size trends a little larger than the actual size.
Inventor: Mitchell Dobies
Mitchell Dobies has a long history of introducing creative niche products to the market place. His main employment has been 25 years in the women’s apparel business and 10 years in the men’s apparel business. Current product lines are B.A.T. Wear urban tees, The Aqua Short, and The Negro Basketball League, which is a homage to the semipro black basketball leagues in the 20’s and 30’s.
The product is basically the same one I originally conceived and through many focus groups the only changes made were deepening the pockets and inserting the brand label in such a way that it could be used as a locker loop.
The Disc Garden stores, and displays, and protects CDs, DVDs, and video game discs directly, without the use of jewel boxes. When stored, each disc is immediately accessible. The disc garden is modular so that its storage capacity may be customized.
Keep your favorite DVDs stored in a fresh and creative way.
ADVANTAGES
- makes storing and retrieving discs quick easy and ergonomically efficient.
- Minimizes the handling of storage hardware when storing or retrieving discs.
- Makes storing a disc almost as easy as laying it down on a table.
- Displays CDs in a visually striking configuration.
- Fun to use.
- Looks interesting and enticing and is quite unlike anything CD users have ever seen.
Here's a bit of our story...well, the original idea for the Disc Garden was conceived way back in February 1999 in Boulder CO, by the co-owner of Disc Garden, Oliver Hoffmann. We returned to his apartment after a night out on the town. I (Kerry Kelly) was raiding the fridge, and he was rifling through the tall stack of un-cased CDs sitting on the shelf next to the stereo. This was right after Ollie and I graduated from CU. I was back in Boulder to continue studying music at Naropa University. 'There should really be something that holds CDs without the cases, nobody uses the cases.' Ollie said as he put a CD into the player. 'You know, that's actually a pretty decent idea, nobody does use the cases' I said. We talked a bit about how the CD holder might work, and for some fateful reason, I casually started looking in to the idea. We were also showing our idea drawings to a few different people, plastic molders, engineers, eventually we showed our idea to some of the more stylish design firms we could find. Pollen Design hooked us up with one of their contract designers, Joseph Gasparino, who designed the Solidworks file for the final product. All this while I'm working odd jobs in Aspen, and gradually, eventually this project sucked me in past the point of no return.
Inventor: Kerry Kelly
Although many people are certainly more expert than myself, my area of expertise is meditation and psychology in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. I studied music theory, composition, and guitar performance at CU, and extensively at Naropa University in Boulder. By odd jobs, I mean, waiting tables at the Chart House, working a the High Alpine Restaurant on Snowmass Mountain, delivering sandwiches, delivering flowers, etc.
Well my first major bad decision in developing this product was getting into the idea that we should get a patent. On the rotten advice of a book called Patent it Yourself, I actually wrote the patent application, which I would never recommend to anyone. They finally broke me down with the editing process and we ended up enlisting the help of a patent attorney to get it accepted.
Amy Swanson says:
Sep 10, 2009 at 9:58 pm
This looks like fun to use. Are there other colors? Would be perfect for my brother's Play Station games.
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James says:
Sep 10, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Cool design. Great toy to have on my desk at work. It looks like you can add more levels to hold more CDs.
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RJ says:
Sep 10, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Looks great. I leave CDs all over my stereo, desk, and floor - they get all scratched up. Looks like this will solve my problem. Plus it looks awesome!
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ty says:
Sep 10, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Looks genius to me b/c I cannot tell you how many cases just disappear and we now have a stack of cd's. My only qualm is that it isn't larger, but I know this is only the beginning stages so I understand. It does look very intriguing, quite an attention … more piece if it is utilized. I like it. Not to mention great this would work on my computer.
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Holly says:
Sep 9, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I think this is very cool. And the comparision of "not putting them in the case so why would you put it in the garden" Doesn't work for me. Looks super easy to drop the disk in! Good Luck !
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Tilly says:
Sep 9, 2009 at 10:25 am
I think these rock - no more embarassing towel moments ever! Shame for that very small percentage where you kinda hope for it ;0) but great - good luck!
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Susan says:
Sep 9, 2009 at 9:09 am
Good idea and the price is right.
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