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Got an Invention??

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laketrout

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I talked to a friend last night that is trying out for this reality show where inventors compete against each other...
It actually sounds like a pretty good idea... there is no telling what kind of crazy stuff you would see at those auditions.

I belive he said the show is called made in the usa.

Have you heard about this? Do you have any ideas?
 
I've been working on a new one...hear me out.

It's a globe of glass. When electrical current is allowed to flow through it, a coil in the center of the globe lights up. Just think, people will be able to work late into the night, now, and make all kinds of $$$.
 
Originally posted by: MogulMonster
I've been working on a new one...hear me out.

It's a globe of glass. When electrical current is allowed to flow through it, a coil in the center of the globe lights up. Just think, people will be able to work late into the night, now, and make all kinds of $$$.
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Nah they already made something similar, the darkness vacuum. It sucks all darkness in so the room only has light left.
 
Originally posted by: malak
Originally posted by: MogulMonster
I've been working on a new one...hear me out.

It's a globe of glass. When electrical current is allowed to flow through it, a coil in the center of the globe lights up. Just think, people will be able to work late into the night, now, and make all kinds of $$$.
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Nah they already made something similar, the darkness vacuum. It sucks all darkness in so the room only has light left.
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dammit :|
 
Mine would be the reverse microwave. Instead of heating something up in a short amount of time like regular microwaves, it would cool stuff in a short amount of time...

Think of those room temperature beers that you could pop in the reverse microwave and have them ice cold in 45 seconds.
 
my little lame invention was a magnetic milk-bag opener that you stick on the inside of your fridge. i think someone did it in 1978.

on the other end of the spectrum, i always wondered why more hydro power couldn't be generated by either a) creating turbines which moved rapidly through water generating enough motion to spin the turbines (sort of like a giant wheel) or b) why water couldn't be shot / dropped through turbines, sort of like an artificial Niagra Falls of sorts (obviously on a smaller scale).
 
*grin*
its like a microwave but it instantly makes things cold instead of hot.

(i dont know if anyone knows this movie)
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
i always wondered why more hydro power couldn't be generated by either a) creating turbines which moved rapidly through water generating enough motion to spin the turbines (sort of like a giant wheel) or b) why water couldn't be shot / dropped through turbines, sort of like an artificial Niagra Falls of sorts (obviously on a smaller scale).
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What you're asking for is perpetual motion. It won't work. It'll always take more energy to pump the water to to speed/height than you'd ever get from it.
 
I wonder how they deal with patent rights on that show. If a contestant comes on without a patent, is it a free-for-all with all of the viewers to see who can file the patent first and get the profits?

Or is it like American Idol and the TV producers pretty much own you?
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: meltdown75
i always wondered why more hydro power couldn't be generated by either a) creating turbines which moved rapidly through water generating enough motion to spin the turbines (sort of like a giant wheel) or b) why water couldn't be shot / dropped through turbines, sort of like an artificial Niagra Falls of sorts (obviously on a smaller scale).
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What you're asking for is perpetual motion. It won't work. It'll always take more energy to pump the water to to speed/height than you'd ever get from it.
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yeah, i don't think this guy ever took thermodynamics.
 
I wonder how they deal with patent rights on that show. If a contestant comes on without a patent, is it a free-for-all with all of the viewers to see who can file the patent first and get the profits?
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Well, from what I have read, the winner gets a year-long contract with the Home Shopping Network to sell the invention. Sounds like some serious moolah. I'm sure the inventor gets most of that...
Makes me want to go to the auditions.
Anyone else?
 
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