Ice cream is fantastic. There’s no questioning that. But what is the biggest problem facing ice cream consumers around the world? Melted ice cream! Ice cream melts so quickly on a hot summer day and millions of people struggle to deal with the mess. Children get absolutely covered in their ice cream and parents all over have to clean their kids’ hands, face, or maybe even feet. Two young high school entrepreneurs saw this problem, acted on it, and created “The Drip Drop.”
Sam Nassif and Oliver Greenwald joined forces in fifth grade to enter their idea into an invention competition. Their solution to dripping ice cream was simple: create an edible ring that slides up the ice cream cone and catches the running ice cream. The young entrepreneurs hit a major milestone in 2016 with Barbara Corcoran investing $50,000 into their company. After working on prototyping and manufacturing in 2017, they now set their sights on getting their product into stores with the help of a Kickstarter campaign.
Sam and Oliver began with empathy. They saw a mother using tons of napkins to clean her messy child and remembered the times they’ve dealt with melting ice cream. This was a simple problem with no solution. The two acquired a patent and are now on their way to helping people enjoy the greatest dessert of all time: ice cream.
I love how Sam and Oliver managed to make their product edible so it can be eaten right along with the cone. It quite ingenious for such a simple product, and it can’t cost much to produce. Maybe we’ll start seeing these in Hicks and MAP before long.
That’s such a cool idea! I’ve dealt with the consequences of messy ice cream so many times, and I wish I had something like that. The fact that it’s edible is even better, because then you don’t lose any of that precious ice cream. I like the innovation the boys showed, actually taking a problem that no one has bothered solve and doing something about it.
This idea is so awesome especially because it is edible! I love to enjoy my food so I can understand the idea of my ice cream dripping it always happens. The biggest plus to the Drip Drop is that i can eat it, so it just adds more to food for me to enjoy!
This is a perfect example of looking at pain and finding a way to fix it. The Drip Drop sounds great, especially the fact that it’s edible! Nice post!