Mom Hopes Her Invention Makes Mark

Deseret News:

Rebecca Davidson didn’t set out to be an inventor or an entrepreneur. She just wanted to stop throwing away dried-out markers every two weeks.

So she designed the Cap Trapper — her answer for missing marker lids, children putting caps in their mouths and dried-out pens that are good for nothing else but the garbage. The flexible, soft device holds markers of any size by their caps, so children or adults only have access to the marker and the lid never gets lost.

“This idea has been building for a while, out of a frustration,” the Orem mother of three said, holding her silicon solution that looks like a row of mini pink fingers. “I taught ninth grade, and even ninth-graders like markers more than crayons.”

The caps wedged in the trapper seem securely fastened. “I’ve never seen a kid get them out,” she said.

The idea was born one night after Davidson’s father-in-law came over and was bemoaning the fact that the dry-erase markers he had purchased days ago were already missing their caps.

“This bugs everyone,” Davidson said, remembering her reaction. “I gotta do something.”

Eight months later, Davidson now has her own company, Savvy May Creations, and a product she hopes will take the marker world by storm — hopefully by back-to-school season 2009.