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Flashing-light soap dispenser teaches kids healthy hygiene.(design trends)

Packaging Digest, May, 2007

Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s Henry the Hippo Hand Soap packaging, part of the seven-product Huggies[TM] Cleanteam[TM] Alphamals personal-care product line for toddlers, has gone high-tech, with a 20-sec flashing-light timer that teaches tikes how long to wash. Says Amy Attenberger, associate brand manager, Huggies Baby & Toddler Toiletries, “It provides a fun and unique product solution to help moms teach toddlers good hygiene habits and adds a feature to help morns and toddlers ‘engage’ with the Cleanteam Alphamals.”
Henry was originally introduced in 2006 along with six other Alphamals (explains K-C, the Alphamals name is derived from Animal Alphabet), including such kid-friendly character-based products as Billy Bison Bath Wash, Carley Crab Cleansing Cloths,…

Tea is for danger

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England), April 4, 2009

ON my way to work I gave way at a junction in Honley for a female driver, who did not bother to acknowledge my courtesy for giving way to her.

Because she was driving a posh car my first thoughts were she must be stuck up.

I realised that was not the case when I got a better view as she passed. I believe she would have waved had she been born with a third hand.

She had one hand on the steering wheel and a pot of tea in the other.

PETE Honley