There is no such thing as a new idea

petes · 23-03-2007 02:23PM

PeakOutput wrote:

i have an idea that will reduce household electricity bill to 0 and 2 engineers have told me it would work in theory but im broke so cant do anything about it so cum on invest in me

this is seperate to the idea i was talking about earlier

Steal it from your neighbour?

CodeMonkey · 23-03-2007 02:44PM

Kernel wrote:

Cock flavoured ice cream, that hasn't been done before.

I am afraid to google this at work but i doubt it's not been done before...

Or a chocolate wristwatch.

like this? http://www.cinderellaspumpkin.com/cgi-bin/spgm?dpt=H&srch=21&item=1105b

Or clear plastic curtains.

They use that on boats and garden pavilions. Search for clear plastic at
http://www.spiritelements.com/ProductDetail.aspx?c=1122&p=1288

Bah, there's loads of original ideas out there.

errrm...no...or maybe you just couldn't think of any

ROCKMAN · 23-03-2007 04:05PM

Original idea ie (thought)

Novels

BlitzKrieg · 23-03-2007 04:13PM

Just The One wrote:

As the title says - there is no such thing as an original idea - think of something new and it has been done before.

true

but there are unique perspectives.

The boy who cried wolf is only one story, but it can be told in many different forms.

astrofool · 23-03-2007 04:21PM

connundrum wrote:

Dunno if it was a re-run but last night's show saw two guys present an invention which will basically cut the power used by household items when on stand-by by 100%.

All 5 Dragons put 20k in and bought 50% of the business. Great idea, and its one that I would have bought into.

But on topic,

Everything is new, a lot of stuff may be a variation on an existing product/idea, but that fact that it was varied makes it new.

Problem is that it will only be economical for devices which use alot of standby power. There is a drive to reduce all devices to < 1w on standby in which case a device like this is little use.

Sam Vimes · 23-03-2007 08:08PM

connundrum wrote:

Dunno if it was a re-run but last night's show saw two guys present an invention which will basically cut the power used by household items when on stand-by by 100%.

i assume you mean 90% or some such number. if you cut power by 100%, there's 0% left to power them

PeakOutput wrote:

i have an idea that will reduce household electricity bill to 0 and 2 engineers have told me it would work in theory but im broke so cant do anything about it so cum on invest in me

this is seperate to the idea i was talking about earlier

may i ask, does it involve switching everything off?

or maybe your electricity bill and a pen to sribble out all the numbers except the zeros?

astrofool · 23-03-2007 10:57PM

It used a small battery that would detect the tv on signal, and so power up the tv and any devices attached to the same plug. It could be integrated into the tv directly if need be (by the tv manufacturer).

Steve01 · 23-03-2007 11:17PM

How about, Ghost Mutt :rolleyes:

L31mr0d · 23-03-2007 11:55PM

hmm.. what about:

gamma-ray flux enhancer magneto-robot?

I actually agree with the OP, there really hasn't been any new inventions in a long while, just old inventions reworked... even all the ideas people are coming out with are just amalgamations of inventions already thought of. A truly NEW invention, would have to make use of some element, physical property, human trait...etc that has never been concieved of before. In a sense it would have to be something so new that the word itself used to describe it would have to be a completely new word in itself as the invention would not of been formed out of any other invention already conceived.

PeakOutput · 24-03-2007 12:57AM

Commander Vimes wrote:

may i ask, does it involve switching everything off?

nope and even if you turn things off a plugged in item will still drain 2watts(i think thats the figure) of electricity

or maybe your electricity bill and a pen to sribble out all the numbers except the zeros?

nope but its not very complicated

Sam Vimes · 24-03-2007 09:35AM

PeakOutput wrote:

nope and even if you turn things off a plugged in item will still drain 2watts(i think thats the figure) of electricity

only if they're on standby.

PeakOutput wrote:

nope but its not very complicated

i'd really love to hear how you plan to get free electricity. the world would probably like to know too. does it stop pollution and does it require less energy at the source

astrofool wrote:

It used a small battery that would detect the tv on signal, and so power up the tv and any devices attached to the same plug. It could be integrated into the tv directly if need be (by the tv manufacturer).

sorry to spoil it but they already have remote control plug sockets for the terminally lazy. not exactly the same because it works for the whole socket instead of one device but pretty much the same idea

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=99745&criteria=remote%20plug&doy=24m3

Lisapeep · 24-03-2007 09:40AM

People doing PhDs in universities are working on new ideas. Sure, they may be using old techniques in the lab that have been used a million times, but the ideas are very definitely new.

PeakOutput · 24-03-2007 11:50AM

Commander Vimes wrote:

i'd really love to hear how you plan to get free electricity. the world would probably like to know too. does it stop pollution and does it require less energy at the source

there is no pollution from the creation of the electricity as far as i can see

limklad · 24-03-2007 12:27PM

Just The One wrote:

As the title says - there is no such thing as an original idea - think of something new and it has been done before.

You left your self open with this title. Because you did not specify the time frame.

If there is no such thing as an original idea then many things around you, mobile phone, tv, radio, computers , bread , chocolate, etc should I go on are all original from someone or another.

There are original ideas coming up all the time with new inventions. Yes there are others modifying other people ideas, and some made huge improvements with their own original idea from something else. Yes there are ideas that came about by observing things or by others actions or words. Some helped to spark that original idea.

You said think of something new and it has been done before. It call trial and error, most scientist/engineers and ordinary joe/betty soaps go through this.

WhiteWashMan · 24-03-2007 12:46PM

i bet no one has thought od shrinking themselves to the size of 1 trillionth of a nuclear particle and the liking on a nuclear particle and being the king of the 'nation of the nuclear particle'

i think id love to be the king of a proton. im really positive about that.

astrofool · 24-03-2007 02:59PM

Commander Vimes wrote:

sorry to spoil it but they already have remote control plug sockets for the terminally lazy. not exactly the same because it works for the whole socket instead of one device but pretty much the same idea

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=99745&criteria=remote%20plug&doy=24m3

That's pretty much it (their device was a 4 gang), except that the device would tune itself to the tv remote and so when you turn the TV on, the device would also get turned on (even less buttons for the terminally lazy).

The big point, is that there's no reason it could not be incorporated INTO the TV and thus drop the standby power to zero.

As I also said before, there's an EU directive that all devices have to use under 1 watt on standby in the future (so technologies like this could be used to get there). It also varies by device, the TV they demonstrated with used 25W on standby alone, other TV's use alot less, so it really depends. They also have a patent pending on this particular application.

runswithascript · 24-03-2007 05:12PM

The OP's notion is incredible and is easily demonstrated - did anyone ever fly two planes into the WTC before 9/11?

There is no such thing as a new idea

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