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Invent Boston designs and develops original products to add science + whimsy to  every day tasks at home.   Our first product is a Two Minute timer, Two Minute Turtle, a visual timer. The Two Minute Turtle helps children and adults focus on two minute tasks such as brushing teeth, physical therapy, taking a shower and speaking (practicing a presentation or learning a language).

InventBoston.com Designs Simple Solutions to Healthy Habits, Starting with Toothbrushing

Invent Boston™, Home of the Two Minute Turtle Timer™

Invent Boston™ blog offers tips and stories by parents, for parents of children ages 4-12 to make toothbrushing and other healthy habits at home, more fun. We write about simple tactics to help kids do what they like to do-touch, seeing, play games and strive for independence. We recommend products to help stay healthy while being kids. We share stories to transform daily healthy habits from something kids resist (for example, toothbrushing, handwashing, toilet training, organizing, taking time-out or pausing, yoga, and taking turns) into something children are motivated to do independently, without parents’ reminders. The original physical product Invent Boston has designed for families is the new light-up Two Minute Turtle Timer, an analog, interval toothbrush timer to make brushing teeth fun for kids. Kids like to press the button, follow the flippers and brush until all the lights blink—the Victory Lap signals to brush the tongue.

InventBoston.com Designs Simple Solutions to Healthy Habits, Starting with Toothbrushing

Virginia Berman

Two Minute Turtle Timer for Brushing Teeth

What Does InventBoston Design? What’s InventBoston’s Message?

With 960 waking minutes in a day, InventBoston asks you to focus on toothbrushing for just two minutes, twice a day. Success is likely AND a real problem is solved, with benefits in: heart-health, long-term brushing habits, general hygiene, and smiles.

We look for a way to help parents, kids, and adults by turning a task we have to do into something we LIKE to do. Making success very likely in a vital daily activity is InventBoston’s Sweet Spot!

Welcome to our first product, the Two Minute Turtle Timer for toothbrushing. The Turtle-Timer design has count-down turtle flippers; each one blinks 30 seconds. Kids like to press the soft green turtle shell and guess which flipper will blink first—the random start makes it a game, as in Simon Says. The guided flippers give kids a turtle-foot to focus on. Each succeeding flipper blinks faster than the previous one, building momentum. When the two minutes are up, all lights blink as a signal to brush the tongue. The victory lap of simultaneous blinking celebrates the completion of toothbrushing and keeps kids coming back for the fun of more turtle success.

No more nagging. No relying on another device at bedtime. No more expensive toothbrushes. This simple Turtle Timer design, made for kids’ little, wet hands will bring a sparkle to more than just their smiles. Feel their pride in their success brushing teeth for 2 minutes with their adorable Turtle Timers.