on Dec 30th, 2005
ah, cerumen
For all you burgeoning business people out there, I have for you the greatest money maker of all time today. Stay tuned.
We all know the iPod, in all its ubiquitous glory, comes with those tiny earbuds instead of full fledged headphones. And we all know that everyone except my mom has an iPod -or a cheap knockoff -that also packages their “portable music player” (read: iPod wannabe) with earbuds.
While the tiny speaker and/or the cords may be white, blue, purple, tweed, whatever, they always have a little black foam cover that is lodged into your ear canal in traditional Kamikaze style.
Now, I consider myself on the upper echelon of the hygienic crowd; I shower each day, brush my teeth, put on deodorant. And, despite the fact that doctors will tell you not to, I even clean my ears everyday. Yup, everyday.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I pulled from my ears the spankin’ new iPod nano’s earbuds the other day and found them covered with earwax. I mean, I clean my ears everyday and I’m still socially unacceptable.
I can’t be the only one with this issue.
Therefore, it’s a simple, guaranteed money maker of an idea that I present freely to you. I’d do it myself, but I lack resources, money, and well, the motivation.
Remember that little black foamy cover that comes with the earbud? Make and sell an earwax colored one. Seriously. You’ll be freakin’ rich. And the hyper-cerumen producers of the world will thank you.
