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Ok the idea of this thread is to share with us all those brilliant ideas that you have. The ones that YOU know would make life better for just about everyone, even if they don't know it yet, ideas a bit like...

A breathalyser feature on mobile (cell) phones to prevent those regretable drunken calls. It gives you an electric shock if it detects you are over the safe 'calling' limit, BUT it has an over-ride feature to allow those "I can only say this if I am drunk" calls......GENIUS!

Remote control for unruly children in shops, it enables the user to make the child silent and slow moving long enough to enable you to continue to shop in peace. It also has an additional advantage in that it can be used to make the people in the line in front of you move more quickly....GENIUS!

Please share with us all your total genius and help make the world a better place. :D

Sorry, keeping my good ideas to sell. Gonna get me a good few bob some day :)

oh go on....you can tell me, I won't tell anyone else...promise :)

I like your breathaliser/mobile thing, that's pretty cool.

oh go on....you can tell me, I won't tell anyone else...promise :)

Well...ok. Just one. A metal pod that is magnetic. Above and below there are electro-magnets that suspend it away from the sides of the pipe/tunnel it passes down. The pipe is vacuum pumped, so there is almost no air at all. To propel it magnet acceleration is used (like is gauss rifles), to propel it at super-sonic speeds. Without much air there is little friction and no terminal velocity. It can transport people and goods from one side of the world to the other faster than a plane, and using much less power. However after I drew up all the designs I found out there plans just being put into action to investigate the possiblility of one between here and america. I swear my home is bugged :(

You take a buoy, one that floats on the water. You fix it to the ground with a chain with teeth on it, somewhere near the coast where there are lots of waves.

Inside the buoy, there is a dynamo that is powered by the chain being pulled up and down, as waves lift the buoy up and let it fall down again.

Multiply by a large number.

Now I want some engineer to tell me why that wouldn't be a way to generate power.

Well...ok. Just one. A metal pod that is magnetic. Above and below there are electro-magnets that suspend it away from the sides of the pipe/tunnel it passes down. The pipe is vacuum pumped, so there is almost no air at all. To propel it magnet acceleration is used (like is gauss rifles), to propel it at super-sonic speeds. Without much air there is little friction and no terminal velocity. It can transport people and goods from one side of the world to the other faster than a plane, and using much less power. However after I drew up all the designs I found out there plans just being put into action to investigate the possiblility of one between here and america. I swear my home is bugged :(

That's not a new idea at all, it's been around for 20 years or more.

That's not a new idea at all, it's been around for 20 years or more.

I know that now. But I didn't when I designed it. It is both irritating and gratifiying to find out brilliant minds have got there first. (although they had an advantage, I wasn't even BORN when the idea was first made.)

It's not my own idea,

it's by a dutch comedian:

There are warning labels on everything these days, from cigarettes to manuals for appliances. Why not have a warning aimed at the watching of too much television. If you watch more than say, two or three hours of television, a voice starts talking through the programming on all channels: "Warning warning, television is polluting your mind, television is dumbing you down, television is killing your thoughts"

It's not my own idea,

it's by a dutch comedian:

There are warning labels on everything these days, from cigarettes to manuals for appliances. Why not have a warning aimed at the watching of too much television. If you watch more than say, two or three hours of television, a voice starts talking through the programming on all channels: "Warning warning, television is polluting your mind, television is dumbing you down, television is killing your thoughts"
That's a bit much...what if you want to watch Ben Hur or Gone With The Wind when it's on tv?

"The TV Slapper"

This invention is much like a remote control for any television, but all it does, it deliver a powerful slap to the image on your screen.

For instance...during the State of the Union address, anytime Bush says anything stupid...SLAP!

Annoying commercial?

Slap!

Jerry Falwell on TV?
Slap the Bejesus outta him!

"The TV Slapper"

This invention is much like a remote control for any television, but all it does, it deliver a powerful slap to the image on your screen.

For instance...during the State of the Union address, anytime Bush says anything stupid...SLAP!

Annoying commercial?

Slap!

Jerry Falwell on TV?
Slap the Bejesus outta him!

Now that is genius!

First Genius Award today goes to BackwoodsSquatches for the GENIUS that is the "The TV Slapper" ****

The Anti-gravity device:

OK, when you drop a piece of buttered toast it always lands butter side down and when you drop a cat, it always lands on its feet, so my invention involves strapping a bit of buttered toast on a cat's back which when dropped will end up floating just above the floor.

Mine's kinda lame, but feasible: a Bollywood version of 'The Wizard of Oz'.

The Anti-gravity device:

OK, when you drop a piece of buttered toast it always lands butter side down and when you drop a cat, it always lands on its feet, so my invention involves strapping a bit of buttered toast on a cat's back which when dropped will end up floating just above the floor.

Old.

Every time I come up with a really good idea I find out that someone has recently invented it :( it's so darn frustrating (and also rewarding since I can just go buy one without all the research and development)

so, I have 2 now, one of which I know isn't on the market yet, but hubby and I are working out the logistics for (which I will not share) and one that there is something so similar on the market that I figure either A) someone is working on it right now or B) the technology is so old they are ignoring the need for it.

okay, so you know how I have highspeed internet (okay you know now) and I have this cute little box that plugs into it, and then this cute little thing that plugs into my computer so that I can surf the net wireless all over my cute little house (highly technical language I know)......I want a similar wireless set up for my cable, see I could have a box plugged in to the main TV and then wireless recievers on all my TV's and not have to worry about where the cable outlet is or finding 100 ft of co-ax to make my furniture plan work all the while trying to hide the coax so that my house doesn't look "wired".

See? good idea, however cable is really old, so they probably don't care.

I think there is such a thing for satelite tv, and actually I think it might work on cable (I live in a village where we still burn the wicker man, so no cable) it is called a sender...it works the same way as a wireless network. But as the children are way more concerned with talking to their friends on MSN than watching TV we have not investigated further. But even so, its a damn good idea, and if I am wrong and the thing I am thinking of is not what I think it is..then quite a money spinner if you have the know how.

How about an alarm outside your bedroom door for when the children are about so that they dont burst in on you during sex?

or an alarm for outside your house for when Jehovas witnesses are about so you dont have to burn them....

Or a device that enables you to drive from the passenger side, meaning that you never have to worry about the idiot in the driving seat again...

oh the things I could invent if I was clever enough, had enough time and could be arsed.