Roy Rindom struggled using everyday items like soap dispensers after his left hand was amputated due to an accident earlier in his life.

He was frustrated with the accessible options on the market – so he made his own.

The Bottle Station (asi/41275) holds products between 7.5 and 12 ounces and has four suction cups on the bottom to secure it to surfaces, making it easier for people with limited mobility or disabilities to use things like liquid soap and hand sanitizer because they don’t risk knocking them over.

Roy Rindom created The Bottle Station (asi/41275) to help people with limited mobility or disabilities more easily dispense dish soap, hand sanitizer and other products.

“I know that The Bottle Station can help millions of people,” Rindom says. “I am all in on The Bottle Station and believing how many people this little invention can help – people such as myself with a hand mobility issue.”

Rindom, originally from South Florida, first started working on the idea a decade ago. After stepping away from the product for a few years due to family circumstances and then the COVID-19 pandemic, he went into production in 2021 with Sam LaBanco, who served as the product designer.

After Rindom came up with the concept and some initial sketches, LaBanco used computer-aided design to render fully dimensional drawings. The product designer also helped create illustrations for patents and resolve challenges with the plastic molding because of his engineering background.

It took nine revisions to come to the final product, LaBanco says, after making adjustments to the product material and thickness.

“I thought it was a great idea,” he says. “My mom had dementia and Alzheimer’s, and I could see that it would help her reach the bottle without any trouble.”

Outside of working on The Bottle Station, Rindom is a board-certified therapist who works in the Broward School District in Fort Lauderdale, FL, helping kids with autism stay focused during school.

That’s where he met Michelle Skoien, another counselor in the school district who gave The Bottle Station to her mother-in-law, who was paralyzed on one side of her body after a stroke. Skoien’s mother-in-law found it easier to reach basic items with The Bottle Station securing them to a surface, she says.

“She couldn’t really move very well,” Skoien says. “When she would try to reach for something, if it wasn’t for The Bottle Station, she would knock things over.”

The Bottle Station is easily customized and can be used to keep items steady on a boat or RV, or on counters in high-traffic business areas.

Skoien still uses The Bottle Station in her kitchen to hold soap and says it comes in handy, even though she doesn’t need it in the same way her mother-in-law did.

“It was very frustrating for Michelle … to watch her mother-in-law struck with her hand lotions, her dish soaps,” Rindom says, recalling when he gave Skoien the product. “Two days later, she rings me up and she says, ‘Roy, you have changed my mother-in-law’s life.’”

Rindom adds that The Bottle Station can be an effective promotional product because of the space on the front and back for logos or brand designs. It’s made with entirely U.S. materials and is typically kept on a counter or busy area where people can see it. The product can also be used to keep items steady on a boat or RV, in high-traffic business areas and in healthcare spaces to minimize people touching the exterior of the same bottle, Rindom says.

In the future, Rindom wants to implement options for customization, like Halloween or Christmas-themed stickers. LaBanco says he and Rindom discussed creating a wall-mounted version of the product, which he may help design in newer versions of The Bottle Station.

“My success is really helping other people live easier, without the anxiety or frustration,” Rindom says. “This is the thing that’s new and novel … The Bottle Station will be able to reach so many more people than myself.”

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