Karl’s Age: 29
Frank’s Age: 33
Karl’s and Frank’s City/Neighborhood: Lincoln Park
Karl and Frank’s idea:
GoReturnMe: A line of “reward if found” labels and keytags for phones, keys, wallets, devices, pets, etc., featuring a serial number that can be registered online.
>> Karl and Frank aren’t great at keeping track of their stuff. “We are the type of people that lose things; I can’t even tell you how many hoodies, coats and iPhones I have donated to the bar scene and venues in Chicago over the years,” they said.
>> The two are surprised that the idea of reward-based incentive isn’t more popular in the Internet age. “Everybody can help everybody,” they said.
Other contestants in the technology category:
![“Let the music do the talking,” sang Phish vocalist-guitarist Trey Anastasio at the outset of the band’s concert Saturday at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Normally, hearing that advice from a well-disciplined virtuoso who seemingly never tires of the stage and worships the groove would pass without a hint of potential irony. However, given the group was not even one minute into the third of its sold-out four-night stand at the $2.3 billion dome — expressly devised to push sensory boundaries to previously uncharted limits — one couldn’t help wonder how seriously Phish would take its own instruction. Turns out […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CTC-L-ENT-PHISH-04-e1713888536637.jpg?w=620 "“Let the music do the talking,” sang Phish vocalist-guitarist Trey Anastasio at the outset of the band’s concert Saturday at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Normally, hearing that advice from a well-disciplined virtuoso who seemingly never tires of the stage and worships the groove would pass without a hint of potential irony. However, given the group was not even one minute into the third of its sold-out four-night stand at the $2.3 billion dome — expressly devised to push sensory boundaries to previously uncharted limits — one couldn’t help wonder how seriously Phish would take its own instruction. Turns out […]")
