Ive always been able to come up with inventions, or modifications to existing items, that I think would be beneficial to people and/or could make a lot of money. But, Ive never done anything with these ideas, mainly because I am not any good at building or creating the things I think up, or even drawing them well enough to take to a patent office. If I understand the whole patent process correctly, an inventor has to actually build the thing he invents to prove that it works, then pay a huge amount of money to get a patent, and wait a long time to get it. Time I have, money I dont.
Over 20 years ago, while working a night job in a boring work center, I came up with what is now an E-Book. I remember drawing it, and what I drew looks pretty much just like a Kindle does today, screen and buttons in the same place, and I explained it to the guy I was working with as an Electronic book, where you can download entire novels to it from a computer, and then press a button to flip the pages. Of course, Im guessing there were a lot of other people out there who thought up the same thing, and someone actually made one and probably became rich.
Heres one I thought up about 10 years ago: You know how a lot of people can't figure out how to set the time on their VCR, and it just blinks 12:00 all the time? Why not use existing technology, and create a small box that downloads the exact time from a satellite every minute (I have a digital thermometer that does that now), and then cycles through every known signal from all the VCR brand's remotes, and sends a signal that re-sets any VCR's time to the exact time. A Universal remote has the ability to set the time on just about any VCR out there, so creating something that would just shoot the time out and cycle through all the remote settings for all the VCR's every minute or so shouldn't be that hard. You could make this thing look like a digital clock, and sit it on a table, or make it look like a remote and keep it with your other remotes.
Anyway, now Ive got a new idea that Im sure would be a money maker, using existing technology but in a new way, but Im in the same boat Ive been in all my life, no idea how to get a patent on it. Ive thought about contacting some of the major manufacturers who make a similar technology to try to make a deal with them, but how could I trust them? They might just take my idea, say they arent interested, and then a year later Ill see it for sale. I actually tried this approach years ago, emailed several companies, but never heard anything back.
Ive heard that these commercials you see on TV that say they will help inventors are just rip offs, and the websites that do it are the same, so Im looking for some advice. I dont have the money to put into getting a patent, I dont have the ability to create the item Ive invented, I cant draw well enough to make a drawing look good enough that someone would know what the hell it is Im drawing. I just have a good idea for an invention that could be worth a lot of money. Has anyone out there invented something, and do you have any advice?
Over 20 years ago, while working a night job in a boring work center, I came up with what is now an E-Book. I remember drawing it, and what I drew looks pretty much just like a Kindle does today, screen and buttons in the same place, and I explained it to the guy I was working with as an Electronic book, where you can download entire novels to it from a computer, and then press a button to flip the pages. Of course, Im guessing there were a lot of other people out there who thought up the same thing, and someone actually made one and probably became rich.
Heres one I thought up about 10 years ago: You know how a lot of people can't figure out how to set the time on their VCR, and it just blinks 12:00 all the time? Why not use existing technology, and create a small box that downloads the exact time from a satellite every minute (I have a digital thermometer that does that now), and then cycles through every known signal from all the VCR brand's remotes, and sends a signal that re-sets any VCR's time to the exact time. A Universal remote has the ability to set the time on just about any VCR out there, so creating something that would just shoot the time out and cycle through all the remote settings for all the VCR's every minute or so shouldn't be that hard. You could make this thing look like a digital clock, and sit it on a table, or make it look like a remote and keep it with your other remotes.
Anyway, now Ive got a new idea that Im sure would be a money maker, using existing technology but in a new way, but Im in the same boat Ive been in all my life, no idea how to get a patent on it. Ive thought about contacting some of the major manufacturers who make a similar technology to try to make a deal with them, but how could I trust them? They might just take my idea, say they arent interested, and then a year later Ill see it for sale. I actually tried this approach years ago, emailed several companies, but never heard anything back.
Ive heard that these commercials you see on TV that say they will help inventors are just rip offs, and the websites that do it are the same, so Im looking for some advice. I dont have the money to put into getting a patent, I dont have the ability to create the item Ive invented, I cant draw well enough to make a drawing look good enough that someone would know what the hell it is Im drawing. I just have a good idea for an invention that could be worth a lot of money. Has anyone out there invented something, and do you have any advice?
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