Hannah Lutz, a recent design graduate from Brigham Young University, was trying to create a better dispenser for sanitary napkins and tampons for public restrooms. But the product packaging kept getting jammed in the mechanism of her device.
She was complaining to a friend about how her designs weren’t working when the friend suggested, “Yeah, wouldn’t it be so great if pads were just on a roll like toilet paper?”
“My brain just exploded and I was like, wait, wait, wait a second. This solves everything, all of these problems that I’ve been running into,” said Lutz.