How The PiggyCounter Was Created
You saw an advertisement for the latest game console on television. You started to wonder if you have enough money in your piggy bank to buy it. You go get your piggy bank, but it is time-consuming to count all the coins in it. It is a frustrating problem not to know how much money you had saved when you want to make any purchase. Would it be wonderful to have a device that can count all the coins and display the amount as you make deposits into your piggy bank? Watching your money grow and being able to use the money to get what you want (in this case a new game console) inspires people to save. Moneycrashers.com stated that “ the earlier you start teaching your children to save money, the better off they will be”. Here is where the PiggyCounter comes into play.
Problem
After a piggy bank is full, it may take a little while for anyone to count all the coins the bank held. My invention fixes that by displaying your total saving at a glance.
Crowd-sourcing
Synthesis Feedback
I crowdsourced from five different people. The people that crowdsourced on a scale from 1 through 5, 5 being the best, 3 people chose 4 for my slogan. The other 2 chose 3. To me this means that by slogan should be a little bit better, but so far i don’t have any ideas for a better one. For the name of my invention all 5 people chose that is was a good name. This means that I don't have to change anything about my Invention’s name. For the price of my invention all of the 5 people chose that $25.50 was a little too much for a piggy bank that can count the coins by it self. So i decided to change the price down to about $20. In the poll i also asked “What would you like to change about the product”. 2 of the people said the price, 1 said that the slogan needs a little work ,and the last 2 said that it was fine. The last question I asked in the poll was if the product was necessary. All of them said yes. With the advice from Thomas Vaughn, Darren Banh, Finley Jones, Isaac Jimenez, and Geraldine Ly. I think I would definitely have to change the price and work my the slogan.