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128 Birch Street
Boston, MA, 02131
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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).

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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.

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Would You Like to Have One of the Original Two Minute Turtle Timer that Speed People Up By Slowing Them Down?

Virginia Berman

Two Minute Turtle Timer For Time Outs Too

Invent Boston designed 10 versions of Two Minute Turtle Timer prototypes til we landed on the one that met our needs for design, function and price. We made 1350 Two Minute Turtle Timers. We sold 1200. We’re excited to be coming to the end of the bunch with just 30 left. We’ve done all we can making them by hand. It’s time to find support—investors—to mass produce and overseas.

Kids like to brush teeth with 2 minute timer Two Minute Turtle Timer

Thanks to the creative customers of the Turtle Timers we have new interval timer problem solvers—Time-out Turtle, Therapy Turtle, Talking Turtle and Toilet Training Turtle. How about the Five Minute Frog for…showers?

Would you like to be a supporter of the original Two Minute Turtle Timer? We would love you to join us—receive an email, ask a local store to carry the Time-Out Turtle, find a preschool to test it out and help make daily tasks for parents and kids, easier.

categories starting a business
tags time-out-timer, kids-timer, 2 minute timer, kids timer

Two Minute Turtle Timer Travels

Virginia Berman

Keep up healthy habits this Summer vacation. Bring the Two Minute Turtle with you on your trip!

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What Do You Want in your Two Minute Turtle Timer™?

Virginia Berman

You decide what’s best in a visual timer. Answer a 3 question survey to help design it.

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categories healthy habit, 2 minute talks, kids timer, starting a business, toothbrushing, toothbrushing timer, two minute turtle, visual timers, two minute turtle timer, two minute timer
tags two minute turtle timer, visual timer, toothbrush timer, designing a timer, invent boston designs a timer, kids toothbrush timer, yoga timer, homework timer, interval timer, mom designer, parent makers

Got a Big Decision? Need to Get Yourself Out of a Tough Spot? The Most Effective Tool for Making Decisions, you Already Have!

Virginia Berman

The least known and most effective tool to make your next big decision if free except it takes a lot of courage and honesty.  The old Quaker tradition of the Clearness Committee gives you the truth you're seeking by hearing your inner voice and listening to your inner teacher. 

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categories starting a business
tags decision making, clearness committee, invent boston, career change