It was at a music festival in Atlantic City that brothers Dan and Connor Murphy first envisioned a refillable kiosk that would dispense sunscreen and hand sanitizer to the public at no cost.
“When we went through security at the festival they made us throw out our sunscreen,” said Dan. The Murphys were left without sunblock, but with a great idea.
Under the banner of Vital Signs Media, the brothers began working out the details of their product, with assistance from a company in Australia that has been marketing similar dispensers for the past decade.
As Connor explained, the kiosks offer free and easily accessible sunscreen and hand sanitizer, and the structures are…
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