The Missing Button! A neat idea that never caught on.
June 25, 2009 1 Comment Back to Dick’s Gadget Warehouse. Friday, June 26th, 2009 Netcast 860
This is another gizmo I thought would be BIG!
I met the man who found “The Missing Button” being marketed overseas. He decided to be the exclusive importer and contacted me to see if I would be interested in showing them on television. The Missing Button is actually a tie tack, except instead of a mini design on the front, there is an actual button. The idea is to keep a package of these tie tacks – there were two in a package – in your luggage, your glove compartment, your desk drawer, etc. Then in case you suddenly lost a button, you didn’t need to look for needle & thread, or even look for the missing button. You would just clip a new one on. And it functioned like a real button. The kit, which is a bit bigger than a book of matches, contained two button tie tacks. The larger one fit most shirts, and the smaller one was designed to replace a missing button on a man’s shirt collar. I liked the idea and showed them on Live! With Regis, but I never saw them on sale anywhere. And I couldn’t find any information on the web about The Missing Button. So I was really off base thinking they would be big seller! (I didn’t invest any money.) Today, there is a company that sells something very similar.
You can see by the photo, that I dragged this around for years & years in my luggage. But I never had to use it.
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