Good ideas make me want to kick my heels and dance. I get giddy when I see one, and this one prompted a little kick and a jig.

Amy Tenderich over at the Diabetes Mine recently announced the winners of her 2nd Annual Diabetes Mine Design Challenge. Real people submitted their designs in a contest aimed at improving the lives of PWDs (people with diabetes). One design that has really caught my eye just won the Under 18 Category.

Ten-year-old Max Wieder (diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2007) and his buddy, 14-year-old Ben Katz, entered their design for Maximum Slide, a PEZ-like glucose test strip dispenser and disposal unit. Max complained that the current method of pulling test strips out of a prescription-bottle-like-container is a messy hazard, especially when summertime popsicle juice from your fingers ruins the entire batch. Test strips are unfairly pricey.

And a cylinder prescription bottle tucks awkwardly in a pocket -- we all know ten-year-olds know all about pockets -- they carry everything in them.

Here's a colorful, comic strip slideshow highlighting Maximum Slide. I can see why they won -- Einstein woulda been proud. Now the concept has to get into the hands of industry and become a reality.