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Ideas For Invention

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by MacBeth, Aug 8, 2003.

  1. Joshfast

    Joshfast "We're all gonna die" - Billy Sole
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    A pillow that stays cold all night. Not just "cool" but one that stays cold like the first time you put your head down on it. I would buy it, I'm tired of constantly fliping and rotating my pillow all night looking for the coldest side.

    You know you want one too. :)
     
  2. Oski2005

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    I'd buy that for a dollar. . . or whatever you'd charged. I too am a fan of the cold pillow. I hate it when one side gets warm, then you flip it over and you just know that soon, this side will get warm too and you won't have anywhere else to flip to. It might be easier to do that with the pillow case instead of the pillow.
     
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    That reminds me. This isn't really an invention, but for a long time I've had an idea for a business. More like a franchise, actually.

    The idea is to "Hooterize" other elements of the service industry. The franchise name is "T&As." Each arm of the franchise would have a name that stems from T&A.

    Examples:

    *T&A barber shop: "Trims and Alterations." Your hair is cut by scantily clad, beautiful women. I'd pay more for a haircut, wouldn't you?

    *T&A airline: "Travels and Adventures" The stewardesses are all leggy blondes in bikinis.

    *T&A carwash: "Trucks and Auto wash" Sure, you pay a little extra for the carwash, but there are two scorching hot girls who soap up your car.

    *T&A cab services: "Taxis and Airport shuttles" In the back seat of your cab is a tv with p*rn. (This one isn't too far-fetched. Many nyc cabs now have tvs in them. p*rn isn't too far behind).

    *Of course, a T&A bar: "Tequila and Absolute" Guess what the bartenders look like?

    the list goes on and on.

    The GENIUS of this franchise is that it creates so much synergy, endless cross-promotion. When you sit in the back of your T&A cab, you see an advertisement for the T&A barber shop. Purchasing a T&A haircut gives you frequent flyer miles on T&A airlines. etc.

    (and to help reduce the ballooning number of lawsuits, there would also be T&As that cater to women, as well).

    Look out, Hooters!
     
  5. SLA

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    hehe...good idea.
     
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    I had/have an idea for either software for a PDA or a device that is like a PDA.

    I thought that, say any PDA should be uploaded with this software that is useful for waiters and waitresses. It would have menu infor, as in specials and answers to diners' questions. They could also wirelessly select and put in the order for food items immediately.

    Then, at the end of the meal, diners can use it with perhaps a credit card swipe add-on on the side, so that diners can pay for the meal, do the tip (with calculator on there and/or gratuity information) and get the hell out of a restaurant fast.

    But then I was told this type of software has been developed. :(
     
  8. RIET

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    My ideas:

    Giant Humidity Sucking machine for Houston - Have abandoned now that Im moving to Connecticut.

    Giant Hamster Wheel for kids - The "Fun Wheel". Moms too pooped to deal with their 2 year olds would love this.
     
  9. YoYao

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    alright, for the heck of it, pennis enlargement that actually works! :D or breast enlargement. :D (no surgery)
     
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    I'll tell you in a month. ;)
     
  13. Chicken Boy

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    Yes, its a fantastic idea, but it has already been developed I think.

    The restaurant I used to work at was gonna get a system similar to that, but didn't because it required the installation of a few computers, and it just took up too much room to do.
     
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    I think they have something like that at the Alamo Drafthouse theaters.
     
  15. Easy

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    I have too many invention ideas that I have wished somebody might get it done.

    One example: When I got our first baby, I always thought that if the infant carrier could also be part of the stroller and also be part of the car-seat and also be part of the high chair, that would be great. Several years later, it did come out to the market. Now I see that almost all strollers are designed like that.

    OK, if you are not a parent, you probably don't know what I'm talking about.
     
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    As far as a magnetic toilet. I've simply experimented with it in my mind. You'd clearly need the waste to have a positive or negative charge. Which it may very well have. If it already does, then your toilet simply needs to set up a magnetic field that will push that charge along an intended path. If that charge isn't natural to waste, you could somehow supplement the waste with a charge by adding it as a supplement to the food you eat or by giving it a charge when it is collected in a recepticle.

    There may be ways to charge your waste naturally as well.

    I just learned that 70% of dust is dead skin. Which contains dna and thus would have a charge to it. So you could theoretically use your household dust to charge the waste in your toilet. Thus making the toilet even more efficient

    And the same theory would apply to dust removal. If Dust does have a charge to it because most of it is dead skin. Then it shouldn't be hard to collect it before it hits the ground and before it begins to collect. Perhaps making my self cleaning carpet even more of a reality.

    As for some more inventions:
    -A sock washing machine that is specifically designed to whiten socks.
    -shirts with the sleeves already rolled up
    -Ink that vaproizes after 2 hours for Whiteboard
    -Self erasing chalk boards
    -Fashionable keys (add some color)
    -Printers that sort print jobs by bard code because people often forget to pick up their dicuments or lose them (Damn, this one is pretty good)
    -Self sorting mail
    -smaller fans with same coverage
    -Wall Calendars that mark off their own dates and se;f turn
    -Alarm clocks with birthday reminders built in
    -Simple contraptions that scrub your plates, bowls, and glasses as soon as you place them in the contraptions
    -Hiccup stopper
    -waterproof magazines for the bathtup
    -outlet anywhere device. Just pop it on the wall in and you have an outlet in seconds
    -video game channel
    -Wallets that count your money
    -backboards/rims that keep score of playround games
    -Foul detector for all sports
    -baggage trackers so you know where your luggage is at all times

    ok. time to rest. This is fun.
     
  17. OmegaSupreme

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    not really an invention, but an idea...

    a restaurant chain whose locations are next to colleges and universities for mothers who have the "empty nest" feeling after their children have left for school.

    i don't know. maybe about ten or so moms that cook really really dirt cheap meals for multiple students (since the students can't afford anything anyway). basically they're homestyle meals... meatloaf, tuna cassarole, chicken-fried steak, etc.

    i couldn't afford a darn thing while going to school, didn't have transportation to get off campus even if i could, and i would constantly run out of meals on my weekly meal card. the meals would be cheap... probably a buck or under... just enough to pay of the mothers that made the meal. the moms get the satisfaction of feeling like they're helping out kids of their own by helping out the students since their children are away.

    yeah... i know. stupid idea. :eek:

    the chain would be called, "Mom, I'd Like to Eat" or something cheesy like that.
     
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    I invented the "Quotation Mark".

    -Dr. Evil
     
  19. PhiSlammaJamma

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    Dude, you had the perfect name for your restauraunt.

    "Empty Nest".

    That's catchy enuff to work. Especially at schools with a bird as a mascot.
     
  20. Rileydog

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    i always got in trouble for not cleaning up after peeing on the toilet seat and for not lifting it, so I thought it would be really cool to invent a toilet seat that can be raised by stepping on a pedal.

    I have since heard that it has been invented. But i have never seen one.
     

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