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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: NUKE on February 12, 2005, 07:05:06 PM
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Anyone ever tried to come up with a new invention or product?
I have three ideas in my head for a long time:
1. A GPS trolling motor ( I call it the "Magic Anchor) for small fishing boats. Programable to maintain a position in the water or patrol a small area automatically.
2. Power comsumption meter/ bill calculator for inside the home. To measure and calulate your electric usage and bill up to the minute. I figure a passive device coupled over the main power line installed after the meter outside, with a small display and interface on your phone or something.
I was thinking it would be nice to see my electric usage and cost each month......how many people actually read and keep track of their meters and what the electric companies are charging?
3. A pet door that only opens for your pets. On the collar of the cat or dog, just have a small device that allows the pet door to unlock as they get near it.
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I just submitted three patents.
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lol
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Very good ideas nuke. However, I dont think GPS has that kind of accuracy. I believe the U.S. military purposely keeps civilian gps units inaccurate below 30 meters to prevent foreign militaries from using them. This may have changed since the late 90s.
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Originally posted by mietla
I just submitted three patents.
ROFL
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Good ideas. Your GPS-attached-to-motor gave me one.
What if you attached the Clapper to a hand gun?
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Originally posted by mietla
I just submitted three patents.
Exactly. What the heck kind of benefit do you get by posting this stuff online, compared to possibly developing them?
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Originally posted by SunTracker
Very good ideas nuke. However, I dont think GPS has that kind of accuracy. I believe the U.S. military purposely keeps civilian gps units inaccurate below 30 meters to prevent foreign militaries from using them. This may have changed since the late 90s.
I have one hand held that is accurate to within 1 - 3 feet.
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Originally posted by Thrawn
Exactly. What the heck kind of benefit do you get by posting this stuff online, compared to possibly developing them?
I just figured I'd never get around to developing them, because I have had them for at least 10 years or more.
Plus, just wanted to see if anyone here thought the ideas were good.
Feel free to take the ideas and run with them if you want.
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When I was a kid, I hated putting toothpaste on my toothbrush. So I invented a toothbrush with a hollow handle and hollow bristles so that you only had to fill the toothbrush up with toothpaste about once a week. I made some drawings of it, but never made it. This was in 4th or 5th grade.
Well turns out someone invented one and called it the "travel toothbrush". Not sure if that person is rich now, but they got my invention.
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When I worked for my dad at his car stereo shop, we got the Pioneer ( I think) CD player for a car.....one of the first on the market. It was HUGE. It had a CD drawer and a seperate box that was about the sixe of a shoebox.
I told my dad that I thought digital music would someday be on chips...like computer RAM with no moving parts.
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You don't have to develop something to patent it. It just has to be feasible.
Go ahead and apply for patents Nuke... about $14k a piece... maybe only $8k if you do most of the legwork yourself.
Either that or wait for someone else to come out with a patent on it and then site the timestamp on this thread as proof that you were the original inventor and sue them.
I'm waiting for the guy that patented using a laser pointer as an exercise tool for cats to start knocking on the door of every cat owner that bought a laser pointer.
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LOL, cats love chasing the lazer pointer!
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They've changed the GPS systems now. Previously the GPS information was made inaccurate but it's not anymore.
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You've been scooped, Nuke! :p
http://www.nautamatic.com/gold/
http://www.seanadams.com/pge/
http://www.petsafe-warehouse.com/dog_doors/electronicdoor.htm
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lol SOB!
It figures..... nothing new under the sun and all.
Back to the drawing board.
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Too many people in the world.
Odds are, more than one of them is both
smarter & more amibitious than you & thinks along similar lines (but sooner and at a faster rate).
Havent you seen what a get rich quick scheme can do to a guy? Ralph Kramden & Ernie Bilko both died young.
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Hey, all workable ideas, some marketable. Good on ya.
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Years ago I was going on a first date with a pretty hot girl. She showed up and before heading out to eat we decided to have a drink at my place first.
She very gingerly sat down on a chair while I went to grab the drinks. I noticed this and later noticed that she seemed to be uncomfortable every once in a while and sort of switched positions on the chair and winced everytime she did so.
She then offered the reason before I even asked.
"Sorry, I had some hemoroids removed today and I'm pretty sore."
For some reason I could never look at her the same way again after being told that. There was no second date.
But...it prompted a rather interesting conversation with a friend of mine a few days later while in the car. We talked about this poor girl's predicament (and he concurred that her admitting to having hemeroids cut off just before a first date would have resulted in an immediate end to any future dates) and I came up with the idea for toilet paper that was lightly treated in anti-hemoroid preventative medication as a way to possibly mitigate any such pre-date conversations in the future.
About a year later I saw an ad for roughly the same product...made by one of the larger bum-wipe maufacturers.
I should have patented that.
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Interesting Curval.
You could have been Mr. Bum-wipe :)
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beer goggles.
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not bad at all JB88.
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GPS is satelites right?