British summertime calls for ice cream, but anyone who has gobbled down a cone this week will tell you the heat is no friend to chilled out snacks.

Enter the Drip Drop – an invention so mind-numbingly simple you’ll wonder why someone hasn’t come up with it before.

Simply put, it’s a wafer saucer that fits around the cone to catch any errant ice cream drips – and it’s entirely edible, so no waste.

It’s the invention of two 14 year olds who overcame their brain freeze long enough to take a long hard look at our summer snacking habits.

Sam Nassif and Oliver Greenwald from Denver, Colorado, first came up with the Drip Drop notion when they were 10.

They came second in statewide invention contest, The Gates Invention Program, in 2011, and by last year were granted a patent.

This year they have been seen on the hit show Shark Tank – like Dragon’s Den – and were selected from among 50,000 applicants.

The boys are the youngest entrepeneurs ever to pitch to the Sharks without an adult, and they impressed the hosts.

“We then noticed how their mom used a handful of napkins to try to clean them up. This image stayed in our minds and a few minutes later suddenly we both turned to each other and had the same thought: something should be done about that problem!”

http://so-dawn.com/2016/08/27/two-14-year-old-boys-invent-anti-drip-ice-cream-photos-and-video/

This is why the whites are ahead of us in terms of development. They meet problems and create solutions, we meet problems and walk through it.