Inventor Spotlight:
Richard Trocino, Inventor, OHSO Travel Toothbrush
Richard Trocino is a computer scientist who graduated from
Oregon State University in 1984. He is the inventor of the
OHSO Travel Toothbrush (GoOHSO.com) and owner of Data Edge
Austin (DataEdgeAustin.com), a developer of air transportation
software. Believing Austin would become a world class technology
center, Trocino move to Central Texas after college. He worked
for Novell Development Products Division and authored several
books and papers on database technology. He worked for the
City of Austin as the head of software development for the
Y2K conversion. After a brief stint with Computer Sciences
Corporation, Trocino started Data Edge Austin and began developing
web-based software for FedEx to manage various aspects of
flight operations.
In 2005 he patented the OHSO Travel Toothbrush. Combining
his knowledge of computer science and his fledgling new invention,
Trocino started GoOHSO.com and began experimenting with viral
marketing. Since then, OHSO has shipped products to over forty
countries around the world and has been featured in countless
magazines, news papers, blog sites, and television shows.
When the US Postal Service produced it’s first ever
infomercial, OHSO was one of the five companies featured.
Thanks to innovative marketing techniques, OHSO has gained
a tremendous amount of exposure with virtually no advertising
budget.
Richard Trocino is currently working on new innovations to
develop and market and hopes to expand his consumer product
line and continue to find new markets for his cutting edge
software.
OHSO Travel Toothbrush
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