Final Assignment

My product is a toothbrush that with the click of a button, has toothpaste flow through from inside to the top of the toothbrush. The toothpaste is stored inside the toothbrush part where you would hold it. If you run out of toothpaste, you can throw it out and buy a new piece altogether, or you can refill toothpaste into the existing toothbrush for future use. It alleviates the consumers issues with squeezing the last drop out of the toothpaste and saves time in the morning and night. You can use it for travel as well in a great one-piece model. It will make those terrible mood mornings just a little bit better.

Similar products:

My idea is better than this product because my idea not only involves an electric functioning toothbrush, but also one where the electric function can dispense toothpaste on to the toothbrush just from pushing the button.

My idea is better than this product because my product is mobile and can be good for traveling and moving from place to place. This is a convenient way to have your toothbrush filled up quickly, but does not have the internal and mobile functions mine does. Mine also comes with toothpaste inside the toothbrush.

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Scratch:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/775475492

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Shared solution with Friend for Problem

I decided to speak to my friend Sol about this problem and potential solutions to see his feedback.

The problem: My friend is in love with his girlfriend, but his parents don’t like the girl and forbade him to date her, so they broke up. I felt the empathy as I went through something almost identical (I do understand no two experiences are the same)

My solution: Just speaking from my personal experience, I feel the best solution for my friend is to accept the situation that he’s currently in for what it is, and then try and think to himself, “did I do what was best for me, considering the situation I was in.” I think he can confidently say he knows his parents were never budging. He attempted to persuade them on her for a couple years already and this is the final straw. I think he needs to come to terms with the fact that he can’t date her and accept within himself that breaking up with her was the best choice for him considering the situation he was in. Once he comes to personal terms with himself, he will have a better outlook and feel a little better about the breakup.

Reaction of Sol: He thought my solution was a really good one and called it a very mature way of thinking. He thinks it would really be of benefit to my other friend having this issue. He agrees that coming to terms within what he was able to control is important and will help, but he doesn’t think it is just as simple as that for him to be happy again. He thinks that the love and bond connection that will now be taken away, will still pain him and be an issue for him. He did however say that the only thing he thinks will heal the problem fully is time. Once he moves on, he will be ok. My solution is the first step in the right direction of moving on.

Observation Exercise Real Problem!

I will identify a real problem that I observed this weekend from one of my friends, as the list of problems I wrote about last week were all minor easily fixable problems. I went to my friends house this past Friday (yesterday), and he and his girlfriend broke up because her parents didn’t like him. He was so sad and depressed and wanted to talk it out with me. I think this is a real problem because they both loved each other very much and really envisioned a future together, and now due to a third party breakup that ship has sailed. I had empathy for him, as I was in a sort of similar situation. I had a girlfriend that I was not allowed to date, and my friend knew this and confided in me. I was there to give him advice and really spent a lot of time just listening. I think just having someone to talk to about the situation really helped him.

Observation exercise

I observed my brother in law as we sat and watched football today. We were watching NFL Redzone, which is 7 straight hours of commercial free football that flips through all the different games in important positions. The purpose of watching is to root on our fantasy football teams. As I watched there were a couple problems I witnessed him have.

Problem #1- The player on a team he was playing against in fantasy scored a touchdown. He was very frustrated.

Problem #2- He complained that he was hungry and hasn’t eaten all day.

Problem #3- He complained about the traffic he had getting in to Brooklyn from Manhattan.

They are all pretty trivial problems, yet he found things that upset him throughout my time sitting with him.

Childhood Toys with Sentiment to me

Baseball glove and Bat.

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When I was born my grandpa Charles met me in the hospital with a mini bat and glove. He was so excited to have his namesake born and immediately threw me into the sports world. From then on I had an immense love for baseball and sports as a whole. I grew up watching the yankees every day with him and we bonded heavily over baseball. My grandpa made my childhood so special and he mapped it out from day one!