QUIRKY BRINGS NEW IDEAS TO MARKET - WITH HELP FROM ITS ONLINE FRIENDS

摘要

Like many a great invention, Jake Zien's power strip was born of frustration. After completing his junior year of high school, the Milwaukee native was taking a summer course in industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design when the surge protector beneath his desk, overwhelmed by outsize adapters, invoked his ire one too many times. "I threw my hands in the air and said, damn, I wish I could just stretch this thing out and make 'em all fit," he says. "And then I thought, well, how hard could that really be?"