By Melanie Potock
Sippy Cups became all the rage in the 1980s, along with oversized shoulder pads, MC Hammer parachute pants and bangs that stood up like a water spout on top of your head.Ā Ā A mechanical engineer, tired of his toddlerās trail of juice throughout the house, set out to create a spill-proof cup that would āoutsmart the child.āĀ Soon,Ā PlaytexĀ® offered a licensing deal, the rest is history and I suspect Ā that mechanical engineer is now comfortably retired and living in a sippy-cup mansion on a tropical island in the South Pacific.
