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Hey anyone else going to this expo? (Opps forgot to add the link!)

 

George and I got a booth to go have some fun and we`d love to hook-up with any SuN folks who are going or live in Vegas.

 

We`re going to build another one of our cardboard "Taco Stand" (right now I`m torn between a homeless hobo shack and a Temple of the Box) and we`ve got a super secrete surprise to bring in the crazies!

Maybe you should ask Leslie of Grill Charms.  She`s a member on the mompreneurs board too.  Now those women,...... are some smart, inventors!. 

 

Be sure to show us a picture of your crazy taco stand.  Good luck and have fun!

 

Janie

What a blast!
I am going to try and embed two shots (we did "Temple of the Box" and our tacos won an award), but if my code doesn`t work and/or you want to watch another inventor knocking down our booth at the end of the show you can follow the hyperlink. 

 

(edit to try and fix image embed; didn`t work; going to come back some other time and try to fix again, but must go make tacos!~)

 

Temple of the Box

 

Show Swag (award!~)

Chris, you`re too funny, but I don`t get it.  Great taco award, you nut.  So, you`ve already done this show? What are we actually viewing here?  Oh yeah, the temple box!  Hope the taco biz is good!    

 

Janie

It is kind of hard to get; the "theme" was to build something out of cardboard boxes as Tiger Tacos are a one-to-one with the issue people have with box-flaps; and secondary to that is to make something visual that stood up taller and bigger than any of the other booths; so far we have done a "Taco Shack" and now the "Temple" where the top boxes have their flaps flared and the ones leading up to it have tacos ... it is kind of a stretch; I had a lot of people saying it was the best booth (and then a couple would ask us what we`re selling!~).

 

Taco biz is busy ... BlackBerry and American Eagle Outfitters are our latest "name" taco buyers and we`re now being used by five of the Fortune 500 companies; but it`s still a long and tortured road to where we need to be and all that jazz ... so might as well have some fun on this journey!

Glad you`re having fun Chris. Those are some big names.  Congratulations!

 

Janie

I figure I should update you (Janie at least!~) on the latest results from the InventBay Expo.

 

Last night, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno broadcast the Pitch to America: New Inventions and four exhibitors from the show got shown (and two from another one).  It`s done for fun and we "only" got 1:05 of airtime, but it`s fairly amazing and would not have happened if we didn`t do the show.  (I`m still disappointed nobody from SuN stopped by, but the national exposure does help heal my hurt feelings!~)

 

Here`s the link in case you want to see what was on Leno.

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/episodes/#vid=836981