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. A mechanical engineer, tired of his toddler’s trail of juice throughout the house, set out to create a spill-proof cup that would “outsmart the child.” Soon, Playtex® offered a licensing deal, the rest is history and I suspect that mechanical engineer is now comfortably retired and living in a sippy-cup mansion on a tropical island in the South Pacific.
