Your Great Ideas/Inventions

[King of Camelot]

This threads purpose will be for people to post any ideas or inventions they would like to share or have input on. I will post one as soon as I have a good idea....

 

[.:KNAS:.]

Well, in school we got the assignment to make a invention and market it. My group choose... well i don't remember, but i do remember my idea: Toliet paper with hot chicks printed on it, along side dirty jokes and interesting short stories and stuff like that. Now don't go steal my idea, i plan to get rich from this...

 

[dannyevilcat]

Are you crazy? There's no copyright protection here! I'm not about to let you people cash in on my million dollar ideas!

Well, here's one you can have for free: Any art student knows about "pointalism", where you make a bunch of dots into a picture, which can look very cool.
In high school I devised a "pointalism pen", which comes with a varying amount of nubs, thus saving precious time

 

[Becka]

Sometimes I think I was born too late. All the good inventions and ideas have already been thought up already. I mean, gravity??? I could've come up with that!

When I was, oh, nine or so, I realized that if you have two points on a plane and draw a line between them, it will always form a straight line, or, as I said back then "everything in the world is a straight line from everything else."

And I also came up with reincarnation and planting trees for the specific purpose of harvesting them later for wood.

 

[starlifter]

I have a good idea, combining the best of Darkshade and the worst in software and the best in software:

"Let us Build a Battleship and Destroy our Microsoft Enemies"

Hmmm. Probably could not get a of money for that.

Maybe I can invent a Space Elevator! Ooo... nope, that is now taken. They just had a conference here in Seattle on it.

Hmmm.

Guess I'm out of ideas for now.

 

[gunning1]

Here's an idea from a kid in my history class.
Motorized desks. You just drive around in your desk through the school, instead of having to sit down, get back up and all of that. But it would get a little crowded....

 

[Pongui]

You're not too late, Becka. There is no real theory of gravity, only an observation.

Little inventions:

"Snooze" button for smoke alarms. Disables alarm for 10 minutes, then resets. This way people don't rip the batteries out (permanently) when they burn toast.

Inertially-tripped latch for cabinet doors. Triggered by earthquakes, it simply keeps cabinets full of dishes, etc. from flinging open and dumping their contents during an earthquake. I invented this when I found out that some people try to save the china by holding cabinets shut in this life-threatening situation.

Temperature regulator for showers. No manual tweaking needed, in normal use. This already exists in a number of patents - mine's better, of course.

Pen-cap that retracts when pen is lightly squeezed. Meant for brief-use pens like highlighters.

I have some secret, pet inventions. Actually about 100 pages total of various inventions including drafts and manufacturing process. No patents yet. No perpetual motion, either.

 

[Rodgers]

I had a good idea once - it was basically just a bit of moulded plastic designed to fit over the taps of a bath to allow couples, kids etc to share a bath without the argument over who got the "tap end". Unfortunately, I saw a similar devise on sale in some crappy household appliance catalogue.

That was my one good idea

 

[duke o' york]

One of my mates will always be ridiculed for a couple of wondrous inventions he came up with once.
The first was some oyster chopsticks, inspired by the paint stirrer he used when he was painting his house. Why the heck anyone would ever use chopsticks to eat oysters with is beyond me, but he thought it was the second best thing ever.
The best thing ever? Well, he came up with an organic version of the battery-powered "enjoyment sticks" that some of the more lonely ladies use. Basically a thin plastic tube full of bees - he was blind to the drawbacks of same and unconcerned about the bees' safety, let alone the safety of the user should one of these bees get a little too frisky.

 

[Pongui]

I was thinking about your pointalism pen, dannyevilcat. The way I imagined it, the pen would be a sheaf of very thin-shafted pens held together by elastic. Each shaft would be a cam-shaped rod, with the point therefore offset, so, by massaging (randomly squeezing) the cluster of pens the tips would be rearranged somewhat, and you'd always have a new dot pattern. To ensure all points contact the paper, the tips should be sprung. I guess your cap would be a block of rubber with conical holes in it to roughly match the (varying) tip positions. Forcing the cap on would orient all the points into the holes.

This pointalism pen idea could be of use in other applications where a cluster of randomly spaced points are needed. I can think of many uses in manufacturing.

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

A time machine built from an old VCR remote.

 

[gunning1]

I like that one Gastric ReFlux.

How about something that makes money really grow from trees.

 

[IceBlaZe]

A time machine built from an old VCR remote.

Hehehe... I actually tried something similiar.
When I was younger I took our old Nintendo 16bit, started messing with it, connecting all sorts of devices to it so it would become a time machine

It never worked

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

Originally posted by IceBlaZe


Hehehe... I actually tried something similiar.
When I was younger I took our old Nintendo 16bit, started messing with it, connecting all sorts of devices to it so it would become a time machine

It never worked

But maybe it did work. Unfortunately you then went back in time and did something that kept you from making it work, and you forgot all about the time it did work.

 

[jpowers]

I am currently working on a genetic algorithm to predict American Football results. If I succeed, my next posting will be from Vegas...

 

[allan2]

A tape measure without "tape", instead a button you push when you hold the device at point A, then another you push when at point B. A sensor keeps track of its movement in between and formulates the straight-line distance it travelled (even if you didn't move it in a straight line, it would detect the curves in its movement and compensate mathematically). Okay it might be a bit more expensive than a tape measure, but you don't have to worry about tape flying around or getting in the way or kinking up....

A "dream replay" device. This is probably fantasy, but how often it is that you have a REALLY COOL dream (maybe one with a hot babe), and you wake up and the memory fades all too soon? Or a complex dream with strange details you want to analyze, only you just can't put your finger on what some of those details were? Well, with this device from Shmidlap and Company, you just pop the suction-cupped wires onto your scalp and go to sleep--it records all the sensory data of your dream onto a computer disk, which you can reinsert and "replay" when you hook up the device to yourself again when awake--you essentially reexperience your dream!

 

[Dralix]

The Mother of all coffee makers.

This baby would store the whole beans in a vacuum sealed freezer component. When you want coffee, tell the machine how many cups you are making, and the beans are freshly ground, then passed to the filter basket. Water comes from a reverse osmosis line of course. No skimping on freshness.

Adjustable features would include a coffee strength selector, allowing for stronger or weaker coffee, different types of grind, from coarse to fine, and of course full programmability.

Not something I have invented. Just a dream.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that this would be a dual coffee/espresso machine.

 

[Dralix]

Originally posted by Becka
Sometimes I think I was born too late. All the good inventions and ideas have already been thought up already. I mean, gravity??? I could've come up with that!

I used to think that all the cool inventions were already invented now as well. Althought I don't remember actually thinking that I would actually have come up with them if they hadn't.

One of my more recent ideas was for a sprinkler/irrigation system that checks the relative humidity and doesn't water your grass and plants when it's raining.

But I've been told that such a thing already exists.

 

[gunning1]

I would make a time machine and go back in time where I would be credited for making all of the great inventions. I would just take some items, go back before they were invented, and beat everybody on making them.

 

[dannyevilcat]

Originally posted by Dralix
The Mother of all coffee makers.

This baby would store the whole beans in a vacuum sealed freezer component. When you want coffee, tell the machine how many cups you are making, and the beans are freshly ground, then passed to the filter basket. Water comes from a reverse osmosis line of course. No skimping on freshness.

Adjustable features would include a coffee strength selector, allowing for stronger or weaker coffee, different types of grind, from coarse to fine, and of course full programmability.

Not something I have invented. Just a dream.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that this would be a dual coffee/espresso machine.

I work in a cafe, and the espresso machine we've got is pretty much what you describe. If you empty the decaf compartment and replaced it with regular beans, it would be the same. An Americano with regular beans would be regular coffee.

Except it isn't vaccuum sealed.