My New Travel Invention: The SquatStrap™

Posted by Mike Richard on August 8, 2007
Filed under: Gear

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I’ve had a lot of entrepreneurial ideas lately. None of them particularly good, but amusing nonetheless. I think my coup de gras is what I’m officially trademarking as the “SquatStrap”. Actually let me officially make that SquatStrap™ so no one steals my idea.

For the average What About Bob? germaphobe subway traveler, there’s the TranStrap. Now imagine we apply that idea to squat toilets: we take the TranStrap and attach a suction cup to the business end.

Forget the burning leg cramps from hovering above the bowl for five-ten minutes. After finding a suitable squat toilet, the user simply suctions the Strap to a nearby wall and presto! No more cramps from holding yourself up. Let your hands, not your hams, take the beating.

TranStrap

Imagine the entire worldwide community of backpackers with SquatStraps™. You could sidle up to your fellow leather tramping chaps as you hover virtually effortlessly over the bowl, chatting and giggling for hours while the SquatStrap™ does all the heavy lifting.

Sure, it’s a bit flawed. What if there’s no nearby wall, for example? It’s just a first draft, people. I’m still working out the kinks. Rome wasn’t built in a day, ya know.

(Please send all venture capital funding to: sheerbrillance [at] vagabondish.com)

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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Preya
August 8th, 2007 - 6:13 pm

I’m thinking of roadtrips across Vietnam…the walls were either moldy and peeling or dripping with humidity; I doubt that even geckos and other suction-footed creatures manage to make it up and down those walls:) You could totally market this for train use though. Or maybe they all have regular toilets now..I don’t know.