When I was a little tike I had a couple of ideas for future inventions that I never did anything about; One was a computer which would store all kinds of songs, sort them by categories, moods, etc., and play them for you, which has since come to pass, and another was for a mat called the " Jump To Your Conclusion!" matt, where there were different conclusions written on a matt you put on the floor,and you would 'jump' onto the matt to make a decision. Okay, so the last one's a lie. But the point is that i never remotely did anything about the forst one, because I was completely techincally disinclined, and after a while it sort of faded into the corners of my mind. I am not sure if I ever could have done anything, nor do I know whether I was ahead of anybody, but I do know that my idea was, as far as I knew, original to me at least. So I have three questions for you folks: 1) Have you ever had any ideas for inventions that later came true? 2) Do you have any now? Or any inventions that you wish someone would devise ( That is, if you trust us not to steal it.) 3) Does anyone know how a non-technically inclined person goes about getting an idea put into motion while retaining some credit? And while further Office Space quotes are probably an inevitablity now that I've opened that can of worms, I don't think we need to discuss the Superman fraction of a cent 'invention'.
When I worked nights and slept days I had a foggy dream about inventing a "Dark Bulb" which was the opposite of a Light bulb. You flipped a switch in a room that was illuminated and the dark bulb made the room dark. I'm still working on my patent so I don't steal my idea.
I wanted to make a helicopter for kids out of wood that would pedal powered like a bike. That was when I was like 10 and a big fan of Airwolf. When I first saw a USB port and how versatile it was, I thought it would be cool to be able use that instead of a floppy drive. Of course it probably alread existed before I had the idea. VaPoorize was another one.
I invented the first automated credit card processing software to run against the national credit database for CitiBank.
Years ago I thought of making house slippers that looked and wore like Converse All-Star tennis shoes. I then saw some like that in the mall a couple of years after. It freaked me out.
Things I invented that were stolen from me. Tape player that plays music while rewinding. All 80's music station. Frame to put a hat in to wash it. What I'm inventing next... A bag of Frozen Peas to replace the ice packs that athletes use after games. It's a bag filled with small round plastic thingies filled with liquid that you keep in the freezer. It conforms to whatever shape you want to ice down so instead of filling plastic bags with ice and all that pain in the butt time it takes and how it never applies just right to whatever area you're trying to ice down, you can just pop on a bag of Frozen Peas and tape it to ya. Frozen Peas is a trademarked name so don't even think about it. And they'll come in cool colors for the kids too. Neon this and that for kids and poke-a-dots and plaid for old fogies. The sports teams can even put their logos on them, yet another way to advertise to the public. Just imagine Christmas, "Mom, I want a Manchester United bag of Frozen Peas for my soccer games!". Oh yeah, it's a winner.
There is a movie coming out in which something is sprayed on 'excrement' and it vaporizes. I assume it was in reference to that movie.
Not an invention, but when I was young, I suggested that the government should pay back the debt. My mother laughed at me and said they'd never pay off the debt. Fifteen years later, they were actually talking seriously about it -- that is, until the budget surplus mysteriously vanished and we started spending ourselves into oblivion again. For a different story, I had a coworker whose father was a tinkerer on the side. He invented a combination lock of some sort and tried to sell it to a big lock company. He got an offer that was not laughable but also not nearly what he wanted for it. But, he couldn't get them to up the offer so he went elsewhere with the idea, trying to sell it. After several years of not being able to sell it, other new lock inventions made his invention obsolete and he couldn't even get the original offer anymore for the patent.
-Ultra light Shoe fingers that when you put your foot in a shoe automatically allow you to put on your shoes without jamming your fingers in there. -Fish food on a string so that your tank doesn't get dirty with extra fish food. -mimi-fans that pop into your ears for good sleeping. -Nipple protection for runners -mp3 players so small they fit into a ballplayers ears during the game. -expandable mail boxes -a postage system that bills you after the mail is delivered, rather than before. -magnetic toilets that don't need water -Shoeleaces and wires that don't knot up -Hampers that do your laundry for you. -carpet filters that clean your carpet 24-7 -hooter's owned stadiums
