tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145568412011-04-21T22:15:21.127-07:00A blog full of ideas and thoughts that pass through my brainLeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443403385599206364noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14556841.post-1121891625299446062005-07-20T13:33:00.000-07:002005-07-21T20:29:57.456-07:00<img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 99px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 50px" height="64" alt="takeaway coffee" src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/uk/03/whats_in_whats_out/img/coffee.gif" border="0" />My wife is always having a quiet joke at my expense, seeing as how my aging Mitsubishi Verada doesn't have a cup holder but her WRX does.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.autogaleria.pl/tapety/img/subaru/subaru_impreza_wrx_sti_wr1_2004_03_s.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.autogaleria.pl/tapety/img/subaru/subaru_impreza_wrx_sti_wr1_2004_03_s.jpg" border="0" /></a>But when we were out foraging in our weekly Saturday morning shopping expedition recently I was struck by how difficult it is to manage a trolley with over-steer and bad wheel alignment while holding a <a href="http://www.junglecoffee.co.nz/images/products/coffee_disposable_cup.gif">large takeaway cappuccino</a> in one's hand.<br /><br /><a href="http://us1.webpublications.com.au/static/images/articles/i17/1781_9mg.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://us1.webpublications.com.au/static/images/articles/i17/1781_9mg.jpg" border="0" /></a>Looking around, I noticed similar couples equally challenged by the desire to push a heavy trolley with one hand and hold onto a cup of their beverage of choice with the other.<br /><br />So I thought, there's a useful add-on that can be fashioned by some enterprising designer -- they can sell the idea to the retailer as a useful customer service.<br /><br />After congratulating myself on such a mental leap, I then realised that an even better add-on would incorporate both a cup holder AND a magazine/newspaper tray, so that one can read one's magazine AND keep one's cup safe.<br /><br />Over to you, enterprising designers...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14556841-112189162529944606?l=leesideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443403385599206364noreply@blogger.com5