13-Year-Old CEO Invents Cure for Hiccups: What Do You Do To Get Rid of the Hiccups?
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2012/05/14 02:46:09
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There are hundreds of home remedies out there—and you probably already have a favorite. But the next time you get a bad case of the hiccups, you might want to give the Hiccupop a try.
This new cure was invented by 13-year-old Mallory Kievman after she suffered a stubborn bout of the hiccups two years ago. While attempting to ease one of the world’s most annoying maladies, the preteen tried out about one hundred folk remedies. At some point in the process, Kievman realized that she could combine her three favorite cures—sugar, apple cider vinegar, and lollipops—to make an interesting product.
Apparently, that combination of ingredients "triggers a set of nerves in your throat and mouth that are responsible for the hiccup reflex arc . . . It basically over-stimulates those nerves and cancels out the message to hiccup," Kievman explained to the New York Times.
Mallory Kievman may be a minor, but she is already well on her way to turning her innovative idea into a marketable product. She has filed for a patent with the help of intellectual property lawyers. She has the support of Danny Briere, a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Startup Connecticut. And she even has her own team of consultants, a group of graduate business students from the University of Connecticut.
Kievman and her team hope to get Hiccupops onto drugstore shelves this summer. But until then, you’ll just have to stick with your own go-to hiccup cures. So SodaHeads, what do you do to get rid of the hiccups?
This new cure was invented by 13-year-old Mallory Kievman after she suffered a stubborn bout of the hiccups two years ago. While attempting to ease one of the world’s most annoying maladies, the preteen tried out about one hundred folk remedies. At some point in the process, Kievman realized that she could combine her three favorite cures—sugar, apple cider vinegar, and lollipops—to make an interesting product.
Apparently, that combination of ingredients "triggers a set of nerves in your throat and mouth that are responsible for the hiccup reflex arc . . . It basically over-stimulates those nerves and cancels out the message to hiccup," Kievman explained to the New York Times.
Mallory Kievman may be a minor, but she is already well on her way to turning her innovative idea into a marketable product. She has filed for a patent with the help of intellectual property lawyers. She has the support of Danny Briere, a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Startup Connecticut. And she even has her own team of consultants, a group of graduate business students from the University of Connecticut.
Kievman and her team hope to get Hiccupops onto drugstore shelves this summer. But until then, you’ll just have to stick with your own go-to hiccup cures. So SodaHeads, what do you do to get rid of the hiccups?
Read More: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/a-13-year...
Top Opinion
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~*!MCR FOR LIFE=D!*~ 2012/05/14 02:58:48
My hiccups never last long. 2-3 runs of above and they've gone. (The telltale is when you don't hiccup during the "hold breath" part. Also, I should probably mention to breathe in like you're short on air before holding breath. Like you were holding breath with nothing in lungs.)
till then I'll stick with my tried and true water trick:
1] fill glass halfway
2] stand up and bend over
3] drink from the OPPOSITE SIDE of the glass
works every time.
However, you know some teenager has parents with extreme amounts of money :P
Take care, bye
"She has filed for a patent with the help of intellectual property lawyers."
Step 1 in the process of monopolizing her idea.
Step 2 offer to buy her patent for a sum of money so large her parents (who probably have custodial control over her finances) can't refuse.
"She has the support of Danny Briere, a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Startup Connecticut. And she even has her own team of consultants, a group of graduate business students from the University of Connecticut."
I don't know who any of these people are but I trust none of them. So many greedy paws all over this, it makes me ill just thinking about it. This is why we need to abolish the patent system, or replace it with a system that gives people credit without giving them a monopoly. There would be no need for patent protection if the patent system wasn't simultaneously facilitating patent predation.