Inventions

Many people believe that inventions are made in a laboratory by people in lab coats handling test tubes of bubbling gases. But most ideas are thought up in a completely different environment. It’s usually someone at home tinkering away in a garage. The key is getting people to invest in your idea so that you can purchase materials and time to build a prototype to market it into a product and convince someone that it's worth their time and resources to purchase. Take strawberry- flavoured sellotape. It's an idea of mine that's been floating around in my head for years. It's sticky and sweet without that gluey flavour. You can Google it and find sweets and patterned tape, but you can’t find what you’re really looking for. It's ideal for people who cut tape with their teeth as they’re always hunting around for the scissors. You could make it scented too. You could argue that it's not required, or you can buy tape on a roller with a cutter on the end, but you're still going to need refills. And imagine climbing a ladder only to find you left your scissors on the ground. There’s no-one about to hand them up to you, so you make the best of what you have rather than put effort into other resources, though you have to savour a gluey bitter taste.