To
elaborate on the story of the
invention of the Post-it Note,
Dr. Silver was looking for a bookmark that wouldn't fall out of his
Hymn Book in
Choir. (This is what reading every
Newsweek special insert during childhood gets you) The adhesive he used for the Hymn bookmark had been tested and
failed for a different product.
A few interesting Post It
innovations: Post-it
glue stick, which (much to my
chagrin after assuming it was regular glue stick and using on a
school project) affixes the object with the strength of a Post-it.
I don't know why anyone would use it, nor if it is still
manufactured (mine turned up in my
pencil drawer and was labeled '
Not for individual sale').
Another, more recent Post-it product is the
transparent post it. It's made of a sort of
clear, thin,
plastic. The best thing about these (besides the fact that they're more
durable and you can see the
text of whatever a normal, opaque Post-it would cover) is that when someone says "
Wow, thats amazing.
Clear adhesive!" you can say...
"Yeah. Like Scotch Tape."
(
Take that.)