Anyone got ideas for inventions?

Lemlin

Friend of mine has to think up a new invention that would be useful for people in their everyday lives. Anyone got any ideas?

Beruthiel

ya
a money making machine
I'd find that very useful, I'd never have to work again

Firewalkwithme

Well as I can never find my paper punch when I need it, how about a combined paper punch / lever arch file. There would be no excuse for leaving stuff unfiled ever again!

Lemlin

ya
a money making machine
I'd find that very useful, I'd never have to work again

Realistic ideas please!

Endurance Man

Tell him to think himself, we not doing your damn homework for you .

Lemlin

She's just looking for a bit of help.

And its not as if the topic isn't interesting. Someone could be sitting out there with the idea of a lifetime!

Sleepy

If I could come up with a marketable idea for a new product, I wouldn't be sitting in this office posting on boards now would I?

kenmc

Lemlin wrote:

She's just looking for a bit of help.

And its not as if the topic isn't interesting. Someone could be sitting out there with the idea of a lifetime!

Until the patent rolls through. If i had any invention ideas I'd not say a word.

cormie

I've got ideas, but they aren't free, it's a good investment they'd make you quite rich, I just have too much on my plate at the moment to venture with them I've got some business ideas and more too:D

ExOffender

An intuitive mouse programme (acronym IMP is just a marketing brainstorm away) that guesses where you're going to click next and offers several options based on your profile and/or 'most clicked'/current cursor position/your stated intent. If such doesn't already exist. I know nothing about coding so this idea is virtually worthless to me. But it's now in writing that I thought of it first. Which probably means nothing legally, but morally. Or something.

And a remote control for online poker play. Niche market for pros, novelty market for suckers. Winner.

Beruthiel

Lemlin wrote:

Realistic ideas please!

are you saying it's not!?!?
*weeps*

/edit
I have a fantastic idea btw
it will cost you 5 billion for the details

Raytown Rocks

I know.
Why doesnt she invent a machine, that thinks up new inventions for people like her, who are looking for help on how to think up an invention.

ambro25

[bait]I have several, available in many technical flavours (ICT, biotech, mechanical, golf, kitchen, bathroom)[/bait], but you'll have to first tell me why you want them...

homah_7ft

What about a device that makes bread crispy and hot. Instead of using an open fire it would use an electical element. People could then have it in the morning instead of having to wait until they had the fire lit.

Dinner

homah_7ft wrote:

What about a device that makes bread crispy and hot. Instead of using an open fire it would use an electical element. People could then have it in the morning instead of having to wait until they had the fire lit.

Ah come on now. He specifically asked for realistic ideas. Lets at least try to be reasonable.


Love the sig by the way.

Paladin

Beer vending machines in pubs that take credit cards + PIN/fingerprint/some security so we can avoid retarded queues for incompetant staff.

Steoob

homah_7ft wrote:

What about a device that makes bread crispy and hot. Instead of using an open fire it would use an electical element. People could then have it in the morning instead of having to wait until they had the fire lit.

love it... youve taken someones sarcastic comment already said and taken it to a new condesending fu(k you level i like haha

whiskeyman

homah_7ft wrote:

What about a device that makes bread crispy and hot. Instead of using an open fire it would use an electical element. People could then have it in the morning instead of having to wait until they had the fire lit.

But that could be hard with chunks of bread.
Perhaps if bread could be cut in pieces of equal and uniform dimensions and sold in such a manner, this would aid in the cooking process for your unique invention as the bread segments size would conform to a common standard!
People may hold this to be the best thing!

PTL

Actually, does anyone know what to do with good ideas? Say someone here or his friend thought of a great product .... Where to go next... like take the beer vending machines which i think already exist in bar code but not sure about that at all... But say someone said ... great im going with that .....

What next? has anyone ever thought of an idea and made it and made money? did they go it alone or are there companys that can help and have the contacts? How much for patents in ireland and then how much for european or american patents and how long do they last... Maybe this is the only information we can provide your friend.

No one will give you an idea where they think they can make millions for free... but they will happily take it to there grave and do nothing with it

whiskeyman

PTL wrote:

Actually, does anyone know what to do with good ideas? Say someone here or his friend thought of a great product .... Where to go next... like take the beer vending machines which i think already exist in bar code but not sure about that at all... But say someone said ... great im going with that .....

What next? has anyone ever thought of an idea and made it and made money? did they go it alone or are there companys that can help and have the contacts? How much for patents in ireland and then how much for european or american patents and how long do they last... Maybe this is the only information we can provide your friend.

No one will give you an idea where they think they can make millions for free... but they will happily take it to there grave and do nothing with it

so many questions...
Google is your friend.
(you have the general idea..)

Edster

Beer vending machines in pubs that take credit cards

Hick
I came up with this idea a few years ago (while sitting in a pub strangly enough). The idea was to take the simple flow beer taps (the ones where you just flip to tap and it pours) and put 2 or 3 of these in the middle of the tall round tables. You then sit there with your mates and pour away at will (after swiping your credit card at the start of the evening).
As we chatted about this idea (and the beer kept on flowing) someone suggested that if you were going to be that lazy that the table leg should also have a whole in it for getting rid of excess beer



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Binomate

A heated toilet seat, for winter.

whiskeyman

Binomate wrote:

A heated toilet seat, for winter.

http://www.us.kohler.com/pr/n_seamless.html

"Our heated toilet seat truly elevates the bathroom experience"

Binomate

whiskeyman wrote:

http://www.us.kohler.com/pr/n_seamless.html

"Our heated toilet seat truly elevates the bathroom experience"

Awww crap, in that case you should build a time machine that will transport you one day into the future in 24 hours and that also will help you to lose weight, if you get in use it and don't eat anything.

toiletduck

^^^
been reading dilbert in the indo over the past few days have ya? :rolleyes:

Binomate

Yes, but as far as I know they havn't invented it yet so it's ok to steal it.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Sleepy wrote:

If I could come up with a marketable idea for a new product, I wouldn't be sitting in this office posting on boards now would I?

You might if this office you speak of was your own companies corporate headquaters, where you now sit marketing your own multi-zillion dollar invention

Really though, I don't know what the OP expects here... like a few others here, if I had an idea that was original and marketable, I wouldn't be telling some random boob on the internet about it.

ExOffender

I like my ideas.

D

The easiest way to secure your idea is to send a sealed package or envelope to yourself by registered post. Well until your patent application is confirmed.

ExOffender

I heard that the existence of it on a computer had superceded that even. Probably wrong, I'm no law head.

Diver79

Im never going to do this so I will post it on condition that you actually do it. So many people need this.

Have you ever been stuck in a pub or cafe and your battery is dieing a horrible death, and that hot chick uve been flirting with is going to call any minute?

Here's the solution, Charger pods at each table. You put in your 1 euro and out comes a multi connection charger cable. Stick in your phone have a few beers/Dinner/wine whatever and hey presto, you just hooked up with the hot chick cos your phone didnt die.

i reckon with a bit more thought and planning that this could work. How much are a few batteries and some cable?

Red Alert

The 'de-hangifier', a device resembling a sunbed into which the user with any degree of hangover can get into. After 10-15 minutes they'll have no headache, look great, feel great and sound great. Right, let's the tools...

ambro25

D wrote:

The easiest way to secure your idea is to send a sealed package or envelope to yourself by registered post. Well until your patent application is confirmed.

ROFLMAO - how is the patent applied for, if you've applied nowhere else but to yourself :rolleyes:

The easiest way to secure your idea is to talk to noone except your patent legal type (for legal privilege to prevail) to get a patent application filed, until such time as the patent is applied for.

Any discussion to anyone else will amount to a public disclosure = no chance of a patent, ever = not able to control commercial exploitation of his invention, ever.

Hobbes

Lemlin wrote:

Friend of mine has to think up a new invention that would be useful for people in their everyday lives. Anyone got any ideas?

Then he should think up that invention themselves. Any suggestions here that your friend implements he would never be able to protect with a patent as it would be prior art. This means if it is a really cool idea that was posted here other people can just rip off his invention and resell it.

Hobbes

Edster wrote:

The idea was to take the simple flow beer taps (the ones where you just flip to tap and it pours) and put 2 or 3 of these in the middle of the tall round tables. You then sit there with your mates and pour away at will (after swiping your credit card at the start of the evening).

They have these in Brazil. They monitor how much you have poured and charge you by that.

Stark

ambro25 wrote:

Any discussion to anyone else will amount to a public disclosure = no chance of a patent, ever = not able to control commercial exploitation of his invention, ever.

It's okay if they sign a non-disclosure agreement though. And it only stops you from filing a European patent. You have up to a year after disclosure to file an American patent. I have one or two patents that were disclosed to the press but still got filed in America. I'd be bragging if they weren't on the intellectual level of "It's a toaster, but it's a smart toaster". Good ideas are one thing, hundreds of lawyers are another.

Diver79 wrote:

Im never going to do this so I will post it on condition that you actually do it. So many people need this.

Have you ever been stuck in a pub or cafe and your battery is dieing a horrible death, and that hot chick uve been flirting with is going to call any minute?

Here's the solution, Charger pods at each table. You put in your 1 euro and out comes a multi connection charger cable. Stick in your phone have a few beers/Dinner/wine whatever and hey presto, you just hooked up with the hot chick cos your phone didnt die.

i reckon with a bit more thought and planning that this could work. How much are a few batteries and some cable?

I've seen that done in some places.

Stark

Edster wrote:

The idea was to take the simple flow beer taps (the ones where you just flip to tap and it pours) and put 2 or 3 of these in the middle of the tall round tables. You then sit there with your mates and pour away at will (after swiping your credit card at the start of the evening).

They tried that in a pub called Barcode in Fairview/Clontarf, Dublin. Never went live though and they just ended up with staff manning the taps. Too much risk of underage drinking I guess. They also have vending machines for beer but they only turn them on after a certain time (when children are no longer legally allowed on the premises).

Tar.Aldarion

Lemlin wrote:

Friend of mine has to think up a new invention that would be useful for people in their everyday lives. Anyone got any ideas?

i assume he is a first year engineer in Nuig, get him to do it ....although i gave my friend his idea....

bounty_hunter

"A friend of mine..."
I've heard that one before

*hides inventions*

D

ambro25 wrote:

ROFLMAO - how is the patent applied for, if you've applied nowhere else but to yourself :rolleyes:

The easiest way to secure your idea is to talk to noone except your patent legal type (for legal privilege to prevail) to get a patent application filed, until such time as the patent is applied for.

Any discussion to anyone else will amount to a public disclosure = no chance of a patent, ever = not able to control commercial exploitation of his invention, ever.

No fool! The registered post is dated so you have proof of when you came up with it. You keep the sealed envelope until your patent application has been approved. pffft. :rolleyes:

Pigman II

I don't get this. Are you just looking for requests from people for problems they would like to have solved or are you actually looking for our actual invention ideas (solutions) themselves?

If the latter then rest assured I have plenty of invention ideas but you're not getting any of them.

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Binomate wrote:

Awww crap, in that case you should build a time machine that will transport you one day into the future in 24 hours and that also will help you to lose weight, if you get in use it and don't eat anything.

toiletduck wrote:

^^^
been reading dilbert in the indo over the past few days have ya? :rolleyes:

In fairness to him the Dilbert time machine only claimed it could go 1 hour into the future in 60minutes. A time machine that could go 1 day into the future in 24 hours offers all new kinds of possibilities

Stark

Extending an existing idea... You'd make a great patent lawyer

Hagar

Here's an idea that might catch on. I want a percentage if it does.

For road safety reasons drivers should put on their dipped headlights when it rains. Not everyone does. Why not stick in a bit of electronics that automatically turns on the dipped headlights if the windscreen wipers are on for say 5 seconds?

Royalty checks by PM.

biko

Hagar wrote:

Why not stick in a bit of electronics that automatically turns on the dipped headlights if the windscreen wipers are on for say 5 seconds?

There's a car whose windshield wipers start automatically when it start raining. Saw this on some ad on telly.

How about a toilet brush with gears on it? For when you drive the porcelain bus

AndyWarhol

An auto ironer.

Should work something like this:

Inputs: a basket full of newly washed shirts, electricity, water, reasonable amount of time.

Outputs: a rail of perfectly ironed shirts hung neatly on hangers.

I'd be willing to pay €2,000 for such a machine.

Pigman II

That's already been invented. It's called a woman.

whiskeyman

Pigman II wrote:

That's already been invented. It's called a woman.

Brilliant!


(and beat me too it...)

senordingdong

Wouldn't apy two grand for one though.
Not my one at least!

I'd like to see a 'blowjob button' invented.

Take a guess what it does.

AndyWarhol

A quick google search and look what turned up!

I must look in to getting one of these for all my shirts/t-shirts!

Siemens

Wow! and it's £999 in John Lewis stores!

Big Nelly

biko wrote:

There's a car whose windshield wipers start automatically when it start raining. Saw this on some ad on telly.

opel ad.......pity rest of car was a ball of s**t!!! lol!! alot of newer cars have these already!!!

ambro25

D wrote:

No fool! The registered post is dated so you have proof of when you came up with it. You keep the sealed envelope until your patent application has been approved. pffft. :rolleyes:

It wasn't exactly explicit from the post, now, was it?!? :rolleyes:

...and you don't need to keep a sealed envelope until the patent application grants, either. As an aside, the envelope thing is a myth anyway (if and when it has to be 'battle-tested' in Court).

Automatic dippers - my dad's 3-year old C5 does it with penumbra (i.e. when luminosity drops below a certain level), and wipers auto-wipe when the windscreen gets wet. So, you might get novelty for the idea, but there's a good chance it will be deemed obvious.

The Siemens thing - seen a real live one in France last Xmas, they were selling it for something like €1,500 in DARTY (= Dixons or samesuch, but in France). My mom was oohming-and-aahing about buying one... but I talked her off it, build quality felt very flimsy, and there seemed to be far too many moving parts for the thing not to end up in repair most of the time. Also, it wasn't 6 minutes or so quoted per shirt but closer to 20, and it had a C energy rating.

So she's stuck with her ventilated ironing table - now there's a useful invention for ye lads hopeless with an iron. Google it up

Now the predictive mouse-thing... that was interesting - just don't say anymore in here