ME TOO!!! Thank you again for the ideas.

Thanks Dorinda! EN is a wonderful community——glad you found it, and we found you! :-)

Congratulations Michael and Betsy and best wishes to you all for continued success!!

Thanks so much everyone! I guess I wanted to have a “real” product sample. I did have this idea on EN but want to take it further myself since I did not “make the cut”. However, I will look more for these materials and try the kitchen table idea. I so appreciate your advice. I am new to EN but not new to innovation and hope to continue like you all – with hope for success some day. You all are wonderful and I have found EN to be a wealh of knowledge for me.

Hi Dorinda…I agree with all the suggestions. I guess it just depends on if you want it for an EN search, or something else. For my EN submission, I didn’t even have a prototype. When a sponsor was interested and EN asked me if I had something—-I just sent them a very simple line drawing. EN has done ALL the prototyping, developing and testing of my product. If you watch some of the Everyday Edison episodes, you can see many of the behind the scene workshops with engineers, designers, etc….an incredible group!

Mogie—-I LOVE your dog! :-)

Good advice above, to engage someone to make prototypes you have the usual disclosure issues. I bought a quantity of fabric (far more than I needed!) & made my own. If you need small quantities, you can buy cheap disposable medical items like sheets, pillowcases, incontinence products, etc. Most large drug stores will carry them, if not go see a local medical supplier & they may give you a sample. The fabric is really easy to work with, even the most basic domestic sewing machine will cope.

Online look at www.medlne.com for medical items.

Great advice Mike, I will also add that if you need more of that type material you can get something very similar at a Party City type store. They sell it on rolls as very cheap table cloths(it’s like $5 a roll) and comes in many different colors. I would agree to keep proof of concept prototypes as cheap as possible. There’s no need to spend a bunch of money to prove your idea works. You just have to get creative and use your imagination. JMO

Hi Dorinda,
now I understand the product material you are looking for. If you would buy a throw away diaper,etc., would it be to difficult for you to cut, shape and glue these parts together to show the idea of your product? The reason why I am asking is, we all have had great success, building our own basic prototypes at home. It would save you tons of research/spending for now, would eliminate unwanted sharing of ideas and is definitely enough to submit as a raw prototype. Many beginner / inventors, and I am not saying you are one, put to much money into a very simple concept, which could have been done at the kitchen table. If you can solve this concept with your sons/husbands, etc. skills, go for it. If not, let us know again, someone here will be happy to keep on digging. Good luck. By the way, I am currently the Chosen One for ASOTV. And that prototype that brought me there, cost me $5 at Walgreens and some scissor cuts on my kitchen table. You can do it, girl…

Hi Michael,

I am looking for someone / company who uses nonwoven materials (i.e. like in throw away diapers, disposable breast pads, etc.) in small quantities for a prototype design / product design. This might be 2 separate entities – one who has the material and one who could make the product. Does that help?

Thank you for responding.

Can you be a little more specific, please?