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8-year-old twins invent wedgie-proof underwear
Categories: Kids 8-11, In The News, Education, Kid Decor & Style
Ah, child inventors. Leave it to 8-year-olds to come up with a remedy for a problem that most adults probably forgot even existed: the dreaded wedgie.
Jared and Justin Serovich were messing around one day, giving each other wedgies, when mom's partner joked about the need for wedgie-proof underwear. Little twin lightbulbs must have gone off in the third-graders' heads, because it wasn't long before they unveiled the "Rip Away 1000." The invention involves some customized boxers with rip-away seems held together by Velcro.
"When the person tries to grab you - like the bully or the person tries to give you a wedgie - they just rip away," Justin says.
The idea not only got the boys to the finals of an Ohio invention competition, it got them a spot on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday. Way to go, boys!
Jared and Justin Serovich were messing around one day, giving each other wedgies, when mom's partner joked about the need for wedgie-proof underwear. Little twin lightbulbs must have gone off in the third-graders' heads, because it wasn't long before they unveiled the "Rip Away 1000." The invention involves some customized boxers with rip-away seems held together by Velcro.
"When the person tries to grab you - like the bully or the person tries to give you a wedgie - they just rip away," Justin says.
The idea not only got the boys to the finals of an Ohio invention competition, it got them a spot on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday. Way to go, boys!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Uly 11-03-2007 @ 3:12PM
Yes, but does it protect against Kancho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho)?
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Psychoticnewbie 11-03-2007 @ 4:08PM
ouch! and Japan considers this a prank... yeesh
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Jessica 11-04-2007 @ 7:05AM
I love the name of the product! It screams 8-year old :)
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