Dad Turns Inventor To Spare Daughters Pain
Being a work-at-home dad offered George Stydahar many perks, from cooking breakfast for his two girls to being there when they got home from school. But brushing their hair in the morning was not one of them.
Both Hannah and Emma had long, fine hair, the kind that tangles easily. Every morning became a struggle between Stydahar’s desire to send his daughters off into the world looking neat and well-groomed and his anguish over their shrieks of pain when the hairbrush caught on a snarl.
“It would kill me. I said, ‘There has to be a better way than this,’ ” he recalled. He went online to research methods for brushing through tangles.
“I said to my daughter Hannah, ‘We need a magic brush that disappears when it hits a tangle.’ And it was like a lightning bolt. All I need is a brush whose bristles will disappear and reappear after a tangle,” he said.
The result, the OrbitBrush, a patent-pending hairbrush with rotating rings of bristles that free hair of tangles without painful tugs.
Photo by OrbitBrush.
T Edwards on January 26th, 2009 10:31 am
That is really cool. It is said that many great (all?) great products come from a simple need for a “better way”.
Awesome!
T
Mike K on January 26th, 2009 12:30 pm
This looks so great! I just ordered one from the link off your site, thanks for posting.
cassy on January 26th, 2009 2:14 pm
wow thats awesome,i cant wait to have one of that for my hair,its the great and new invention this 2009,a great inventor who came up with this great product,i think this will be a big hit in the market many will get interest to buy this new product coz its unique and cool, good luck on your new invention, nice post!
Melissa on January 26th, 2009 3:51 pm
I need this for my daughter!
Angela on January 26th, 2009 8:09 pm
Tangles aren’t limited to fine hair, that’s for sure. I’ve always had horribly thick hair and once it hits a certain length, the knots I get are insane.
However, I could really use this for my daughter. She has a problem with tangles and she hates having her hair brushed. This sounds like it would do the trick and stop the morning fight. :-)
danakeith on January 26th, 2009 11:56 pm
…. perfect….
i like this idea of inventing this so called hair brush… ” The Orbit Brush “…
[ congrats ]
Cary Richards, Marketing Mentor Institute on January 27th, 2009 7:23 am
Very cool idea,
How have you marketed it!
Are you in production with it yet?
Cary
Jaclyn on January 27th, 2009 3:21 pm
That is a great story and invention. i can remember being little and my mom having to rake a comb or brush through my hair every night after my bath…it was a horrible experience that i did not look forward to at all and i’m sure my mother didn’t either. this invention really would have been handy back then for the both of us.
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