5 Product Ideas to Keep "Sand Out of Your Butt" At the Beach This Year

You could do it with bluetooth and an app. The idea is you set the umbrella up and position yourself in one place, then you tell the app what side you're on and it twists a small servo motor in the umbrella stem based on sun position to make sure you're covered as best you can be. At some point you have to switch sides, but the app tells you that.

I hate it when you get out of the ocean and your shorts cling to your body like plastic wrap. It looks dumb and it feels awful. Then you go and sit on your towel and the towel is wet for the whole day.

I'm talking we figure out how to make fabric that dries in like <60 seconds. The time it takes you to walk from the water up to your beach chair and stop partway for an ice cream sandwich.

Uneven, hand-shaped sunburns are totally avoidable if your sunscreen has a sun-bleaching, bright, unmissable temporary pigment that will show you how evenly you're putting it on. Spread it on, find the spots where you got lazy, and fix it before you sizzle. Simple.

Why do I have to go to a horrible NOAA mobile site if I'm trying to figure out the tide for the day? I don't want to put my beach chair in the muck while the tide's rising and then my lunch sandwich washes out to sea beacuse I had no idea which direction the tide was going.

Accuweather, Weather.com, Apple: if you know my location is right next to the water, automatically put the tide schedule on my forecast screen. Do it.

When I want an ice cream sandwich on the beach, I don't want to chase the 15 year old with the cooler down, I want to know when I can get that damn treat. We need a live tracking app that shows where the food carts are as they roll up and down the beach. I want to time my ice cream sandwich so its right after my big beach snack and right before I go into the water because it's 100 degrees.