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128 Birch Street
Boston, MA, 02131
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(617) 390-4076

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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This Friendly Companion Makes Brushing Teeth More Fun

Virginia Berman

The Two Minute Turtle Timer is a companion for 2 minute tasks to help you focus.

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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.

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tags time-out-timer, kids-timer, 2 minute timer, kids timer

Which Toothbrush Timer is Best for a Manual Toothbrush?

Virginia Berman

Which toothbrush timer is the right one for kids using a manual toothbrush? We tested the options. This is why we designed and developed the Two Minute Turtle Timer.

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tags manual toothbrush, 2 minute timer, kids manual toothbrush, kids timer, toothbrush timer, 2 minute timer for toothbrushing, 2 minute timer for kids on the spectrum

This Friend Makes Morning Routine More Fun

Virginia Berman

The Two Minute Turtle Timer is a companion for 2 minute tasks to help you focus.

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Slow, Steady Two Minute Turtle Timer

Virginia Berman

Slow and steady wins the race. Two Minute Turtle helps you slow down and get the job done.

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Enter contest to WIN an original, hand made Two Minute Turtle Timer

Virginia Berman

WIN a Two Minute Turtle Timer!  In exchange for your email or write how you'd use the Two Minute Turtle  at home.  Does Two Minutes seem short? Day after day those 2 minutes add up.  

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