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If it was simply perforations, it wouldn't work when the bottle is upright because those perforations would let the air into the top of the straw. Rather, the straw is made of a membrane which lets water through while blocking gas.
I’m not sure you can make a membrane that does that? I get the sense there is a membrane that wicks the fluid around the surface of the tube so you always have to pull in liquid before the gas? Maybe that’s the same thing.
A few years ago, a British inventor appeared on a TV show called Dragon's Den (UK version of Shark Tank) and pitched his idea of an improved spray bottle called the Anyway Spray. Instead of a normal plastic tube inside a bottle with an opening at the end, he designed a tube with millions of tiny perforations along its length. This meant the spray bottle could operate at any angle (even upside down) and could empty al…
Just pull the hose out and bend/twist it really hard in a specific direction. If it's not utterly stiff, winding it tightly around a pencil (or your finger, or just twisting the hose to that tight of a bend radius) is ideal. Hopefully this much flexing means that after naturally uncurling the curl will still "stick" to a useful degree for longer than a single usage.
One non-obvious extra detail: if the product is in a non-transparent spray bottle, before replacing the lid, rotate the spray pump so it faces the direction you've bent/curled the hose. Now a) you know which direction the hose is pointing and can eliminate "where is it in the bottle", and b) you just have to face it forward for it to work, which is intuitive.
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Why isn't this in everything? I'd easily pay an extra few cents to have this in spray bottles. It's such a frustrating problem.
Here's a cheaper and faster hack: soft tube + weighted end. The weighted end will tend to go towards where the liquids are. Imagine a bottle being held lengthwise. The weighted end will be in the same location as where the liquid is. Turn the bottle upside down... the weighted end drops to where the top of the bottle is, along with where the water is. Standard pressure thingies still work - you still get a spray. No…
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He had the option to reject the deal, no? It's a free market for venture capital, so if that deal is so bad and the opportunity is so good, he should have been able to find a better one. From my perspective, having a great idea is not enough. Even having a proof of concept is not enough. There's a lot more that goes into building a successful business. Investors have to price in the chances of all the things that can…
>Likewise, as a founder, you often need at least some investors that can help propel you forward in some way. Which is the infuriating part, when the "investors" contribute nothing to the project but a tiny slice of money they didn't work for to begin with, and get vastly disproportional returns for it.
A few years ago, a British inventor appeared on a TV show called Dragon's Den (UK version of Shark Tank) and pitched his idea of an improved spray bottle called the Anyway Spray. Instead of a normal plastic tube inside a bottle with an opening at the end, he designed a tube with millions of tiny perforations along its length. This meant the spray bottle could operate at any angle (even upside down) and could empty al…
If it was simply perforations, it wouldn't work when the bottle is upright because those perforations would let the air into the top of the straw. Rather, the straw is made of a membrane which lets water through while blocking gas.
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Here's a cheaper and faster hack: soft tube + weighted end. The weighted end will tend to go towards where the liquids are. Imagine a bottle being held lengthwise. The weighted end will be in the same location as where the liquid is. Turn the bottle upside down... the weighted end drops to where the top of the bottle is, along with where the water is. Standard pressure thingies still work - you still get a spray. No…
What cheap alternatives to small bits of metal could be used for the weight? Metal could interact with and damage a lot of different things.
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>Likewise, as a founder, you often need at least some investors that can help propel you forward in some way. Which is the infuriating part, when the "investors" contribute nothing to the project but a tiny slice of money they didn't work for to begin with, and get vastly disproportional returns for it.
Welcome to venture capital.
A few years ago, a British inventor appeared on a TV show called Dragon's Den (UK version of Shark Tank) and pitched his idea of an improved spray bottle called the Anyway Spray. Instead of a normal plastic tube inside a bottle with an opening at the end, he designed a tube with millions of tiny perforations along its length. This meant the spray bottle could operate at any angle (even upside down) and could empty al…
That episode of Dragons Den is infuriating. Here is a guy who has invented something with a widespread, common appeal. He invented a product that potentially fixes a real problem in 1,000,000,000 units per year and he has to give away 20% of his invention to get support.
[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4335468/Briti...
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That’s not “really misleading,” it’s “barely misleading” or perhaps “slightly misleading.”
I think most people would assume the marketing meant "can spray at any angle, even the hardest case of upside down". I knew I did when reading this thread until I saw this comment.