My daughter was helping me cut onions over the holidays when she discovered that onions make your eyes water. She ran from the kitchen and said to her mom, “Mommy, I am allergic to onions; they make me cry.”
My wife patiently explained to her that slicing onions creates a vapor that makes your eyes water and that it happens to everyone. My daughter then exclaimed, “Well, I am going to invent special goggles, like swim goggles, but for cutting onions so I don’t cry!”
I forgot all about it until I met Chris Hawker of Trident Design. Chris is a professional inventor out of Columbus, Ohio who has numerous inventions to his credit. We met at CES and he handed me his brochure and I was shocked to see – Onion Goggles! He already created my daughter’s idea!
And that is the point. How many times have all of us thought of something to make life better, more interesting, easier and not followed through? All of us have the ability to think of these ideas – but the real innovators are focused on trying, creating and doing!
We hope to sit down with Chris Hawker on our trip and talk to him further.
/colin
