Lois Crouse

Sports & Outdoors

Fling Golf

Lois Crouse - May 12, 2021 0

FlingGolf is a sport that combines golf and lacrosse. It’s played on a regular golf course with a FlingStick thrower, a lacrosse stick reimagined to hurl a golf ball farther and with more accuracy. The basic game can be learned in a matter of minutes and yet presents a...

Home, Garden & Tools

Pluto Pillow: Personalized Pillows

Lois Crouse - May 9, 2021 0

Consumers today are shifting from being the traditionally passive recipients of merchandise to being a part of the process. Personalize a bottle of Coke, if you like. Build a bear, design your own Oreo cookies, co-create your Nikes or construct a car and have something that is unique to...

Clothing, Wearables & Accessories

The Original Stretchlace Elastic Shoelaces

Lois Crouse - May 9, 2021 0

It may be that the last time you got excited over shoelaces was when you first learned to tie them yourself and had to demonstrate to everyone. If so, prepare to get excited again over Jamie Montz’s The Original Stretchlace, the only elastic stretch shoelace that looks like a...

Sports & Outdoors

GRIND Basketball Shooting Machine

Lois Crouse - May 5, 2021 0

Thomas Fields was on his way to the NBA. He started playing basketball in the 2nd grade. In the 8th grade, he practiced with the high school varsity team. As a freshman, he not only made the varsity but was the starting shooting guard. He received a lot of...

Food & Drink

Creation Nation: Protein Bar & Energy Bite Mixes

Lois Crouse - May 3, 2021 0

Karen Nation has been creating healthy recipes since she was very young. She spent some her growing-up years in foster homes, and there were families who could not afford to provide the most wholesome foods or accommodate her food allergies. She found that protein bars were bland, high in...

Home, Garden & Tools

SneakERASERS Shoe Cleaner

Lois Crouse - April 30, 2021 0

Imagine this: You have an important business meeting. You have the perfect outfit: dark jeans, crisp button-up shirt, and the Nike sneakers that will put the exclamation point on your fashion statement. (You are in the film industry and the suit-tie-wingtips uniform does not work—ever.) Panic sets in—the pristine...

Home, Garden & Tools

The Scrubbie: Faucet Sponge Attachment

Lois Crouse - April 21, 2021 0

The “Side Hustle Homies” want to follow in the rich tradition of Wichita, Kansas, entrepreneurs. Wichita has proven to be a fertile environment for successful innovation and here-to-stay companies. Cessna, Koch Industries, Learjet, Lawn Buddy, Pizza Hut‚ Taco Tico and White Castle are among the companies that got their...

Food & Drink

The Bumbling Bee Vegan Junk Food & Burger Bar

Lois Crouse - April 19, 2021 0

Cassandra Ayala had been a real estate agent for 25 years when the market crashed. She saw it as an opportunity to reinvent herself. She wanted to go into business with her three daughters, and the four put their heads together to decide just what business. Olivia and Alexandria...

Food & Drink

Truffle Shuffle

Lois Crouse - April 13, 2021 0

Chefs Jason McKinney and Tyler Vorce and Jason’s wife, Sarah, became passionate about truffles while working at The French Laundry in the heart of Napa Valley, deemed the best restaurant in the world by many. They marveled at how a dish made with truffles and a few simple ingredients...

Beauty & Health

Suds2Go Portable Hand Washing Bottle

Lois Crouse - April 13, 2021 0

Cindy and Gabe Trevizo and their four children are an outdoor family. There is soccer and baseball, picnics and weekend camping, monkey bars and sand castles. Too often there isn’t a suitable place to clean the dirt and germs off of all those little hands—and the big hands also....

Home, Garden & Tools

Salad Sling Drying Towel

Lois Crouse - April 11, 2021 0

Many inventions are born of frustration. There are the people who will take the frustration for granted, and there are the people who will decide to do something about it. Jill Visit is the latter. Jill loves making salads for her family, but was annoyed by needing to get...

Home, Garden & Tools

The Cheese Chopper

Lois Crouse - April 8, 2021 0

Finally! No more high-priced, low-quality packaged sliced or grated processed cheeses infused with harmful chemicals, preservatives, and anti-clumping agents. Now you can buy a two-pound block of cheese and save money, avoid eating unnecessary additives, and enjoy freshly cut, creamier cheese. The Cheese Chopper's patented ergonomic design allows you...

Home, Garden & Tools

FurZapper Laundry Pet Hair Remover

Lois Crouse - April 7, 2021 0

Michael Sweigart is a work-from-home dad and launderer-in-chief. He does laundry every day for the family of eight—Mom, Dad, three kids, two dogs and a cat—and was constantly frustrated by the pet hair that gets embedded in the fibers of clothing and bedding. He couldn’t understand why, after all...

Home, Garden & Tools

DynoSafe Delivery Lockbox

Lois Crouse - March 31, 2021 0

The corona virus pandemic has intensified the already growing trend toward online shopping, and there are no signs that it will slow down once we are “COVID clear.” We will continue to take advantage of the convenient and time-saving way to shop. Which means we will continue to have...

Food & Drink

Numilk Dairy-Free Milk

Lois Crouse - March 25, 2021 0

Almond milk is delicious, nutritious, low in calories and sugar and high in calcium, vitamin E and vitamin D. Enough reason right there that almond milk is increasingly popular. But for those who are lactose intolerant, allergic to cow’s milk, suffering from kidney disease, it is an absolute must,...

Beauty & Health

Mad Rabbit: Aftercare for Tattoos

Lois Crouse - March 22, 2021 0

Oliver Zak and Selom Agbitor met at Miami University in Ohio. They came from very different worlds—Oliver grew up in Ohio, Selom in Ghana—but they had a lot in common. They were both working toward a degree in Finance, and both, from childhood, dreamed of owning his own business....

Home, Garden & Tools

Hairy Grabster Shower Hair Trap

Lois Crouse - March 20, 2021 0

We lose 50-100 strands of hair every day. Long or thick hair loses more. Short or thin hair loses fewer. It’s all part of the “circle of life” of a hair. We don’t even miss them, because 100 strands are nothing compared to the average 100,000 we have on...

Home, Garden & Tools

Chill Systems Beverage Cooler

Lois Crouse - March 10, 2021 0

Chase Mitchell and Brian Bloch never missed an episode of Shark Tank. The college friends were aspiring entrepreneurs and bounced around countless startup ideas while cheering on the lucky people who appeared on the show. But their “eureka” moment happened at a bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate...

Food & Drink

Misfit Foods: Meats With Added Veggies

Lois Crouse - March 8, 2021 0

Misfit Foods are for “flexitarians” (aka semi-vegetarians). Not that flexitarians are misfits. The name of the company is carried over from when it produced juices from “misfit” fruit and vegetables—the ones not pretty enough to go to the supermarket or produce stand. The mission of the company at that...

Sports & Outdoors

Tandem Boogie: Body Board for Two

Lois Crouse - March 6, 2021 0

John and Manya Clark created the Tandem Boogie so that others could have the fun and “moments to remember” that they and their three daughters have had playing in the surf on their surfboards, paddle boards and bodyboards. The innovative Tandem Boogie is designed so that anyone, with any...

Beauty & Health

Pinch Me Therapy Dough

Lois Crouse - March 4, 2021 0

Nancy Rothner, a clinical and medical hypnotherapist, has used her life to help people deal with stress and anxiety. Her clients have included those dealing with traumas, phobias and addictions, as well as people needing help to manage pain without drugs or lose weight—all situations that cause or result...

Toys, Kids & Babies

Busy Baby Mat Placemat

Lois Crouse - March 1, 2021 0

Many of us have been through this. Baby loves to play fetch with Mama. Baby throws toy on the floor. Mama picks it up and gives it back. Baby giggles and throws it back on the floor. It’s cute until it’s not, such as when the game is preventing...

Pet Care

Walkee Paws Leggings for Dogs

Lois Crouse - February 24, 2021 0

Lisa Baronoff loves her dogs, Toffee, a Cocker Spaniel, and Stir Fry, a Goldendoodle, and takes wonderful care of them. She likes them to be happy, safe and comfortable. So when she realized that, while she was walking them, they were picking up on their paws all kinds of...

Apps

Hopscotch Game Coding App for Kids

Lois Crouse - February 22, 2021 0

Hopscotch is a free iOS app designed to teach kids the mechanics of coding so that they can: Create games, turn drawings into animations, and build anything they can imagine. Publish the finished games for family and friends to play. Explore projects made by other kids, for the fun...

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ToyBox 3D Printer For Kids

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Fling Golf

Pluto Pillow: Personalized Pillows

The Original Stretchlace Elastic Shoelaces