Invention Aims To Keep Children Safe
Virginia Lu found a lost child crying at a Redskins football game last season, and thought it could easily have been one of her five youngsters who got separated in the crowd.
So, the North Potomac resident invented a temporary tattoo for tots, called Tottoos, which are aimed at helping lost children to reunite with their parents. Totoos is a copyrighted product that is rubbed on a child’s body, usually an arm or a wrist, and can include a contact number for a parent or school and any medical information.
‘‘We use ours quite a bit,” said Lu, whose children range in age from 14 months to 10 years old. ‘‘We use them for every school field trip, for every major outing, for birthday parties where we drop them off. A lot of times it’s just I feel so much better; it takes away that, ‘What if?’”
Lu, who runs the company called Tottoos.Org with her husband, Willie Lu, use special Food and Drug Administration-approved ink and medical adhesive for the product so that doesn’t irritate the skin and won’t come off in water.
Since she began the company six months ago, Lu has filled approximately 1,500 orders, and she has sold to 34 states, Canada and France.
Photo by Tottoos.Org.
MyGoodFinds on October 20th, 2007 4:56 am
That’s a really neat idea!
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