Toepeners

Twenty-five students gathered this fall in a University of Minnesota lecture hall when Max Arndt wandered up to a white board full of post-its and began to sketch a cube of sorts, to be bolted to the base of a door. It might be used in bathrooms, he explained, in dorms or bars or hospitals, anywhere one might not want to touch an often-gripped and likely germy door handle. The design was unclear, it just needed structural strength and the ability to be hooked by a human foot and the illustration imperfect. But the name rang like crystal. Toepener.

Source: inc.comAdded: 5 April 2011