Have you ever had an Idea...

[newParadigm]

so wahts teh idea, an engine?

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: newParadigm
so wahts teh idea, an engine?

Yes sir.

 

[habib89]

i'm tellin ya, i'll do up some drawings for you..

edit: i had an idea years and years ago... i was at a pizza place with my dad.. one of the delivery guys came back with an empty pizza bag thing.. the one they use to keep the pizza's warm.. anyway, i said "wouldn't it be a good idea if they had some heating pads in there and you could plug it into the cigarette lighter to keep the pizzas warm?" fast forward a few years later and dominos (or pizza hut) had commercials advertising this product.. i was very sad..

 

[spaceman]

i have.and i always forget,it seems to happen most when i am half alseep :/

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Ever have an idea... some kind of concept, an invention maybe... that you couldn't get out of your head? That you knew would work, and work better than what is out there today. And if you try and explain the idea, people just blankly stare at you - they either are too confused about what you're talking about, or try and debate against you why it wouldn't work.

My brain is going to explode...

That was what I did when I was working on my first million $$$$. Now, that happened to fail so I'm working on the 2'nd million now.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: habib89
i'm tellin ya, i'll do up some drawings for you..

I know, and that would be great, but I also need it to be animated - a simulation. And then I need money, and a prototype, and patents, and...

 

[BrianH1]

A pizza place where you make your own pie!

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
That was what I did when I was working on my first million $$$$. Now, that happened to fail so I'm working on the 2'nd million now.

Wait - what? You have a few millions dollars?

 

[xirtam]

Mine was a jump to conclusions mat, and on it you'd have conclusion written on it that you could jump to.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: mitmot
put down teh crackpipe

I invented the crack pipe YEARS before they became popular.

I shoulda got a patent.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
That was what I did when I was working on my first million $$$$. Now, that happened to fail so I'm working on the 2'nd million now.

Wait - what? You have a few millions dollars?

:laugh:
I said the first million failed so I went ahead and started on the second.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: xirtam
Mine was a jump to conclusions mat, and on it you'd have conclusion written on it that you could jump to.

You read my mind.....

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: bradruth
Yeah, a washing machine converted to make large quantities of hot chocolate.

:laugh:

 

[DAGTA]

Yes.

Remember, "invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration".

A good idea is a great start but it's useless unless you work hard to make it a reality.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
That was what I did when I was working on my first million $$$$. Now, that happened to fail so I'm working on the 2'nd million now.

Wait - what? You have a few millions dollars?

:laugh:
I said the first million failed so I went ahead and started on the second.

Ah too bad. I hope you can get it worked out on the 2nd go.

 

[JTalbain]

Originally posted by: xirtam
Mine was a jump to conclusions mat, and on it you'd have conclusion written on it that you could jump to.

damnit beat me to posting this....

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
That was what I did when I was working on my first million $$$$. Now, that happened to fail so I'm working on the 2'nd million now.

Wait - what? You have a few millions dollars?

:laugh:
I said the first million failed so I went ahead and started on the second.

Ah too bad. I hope you can get it worked out on the 2nd go.

Sure hope so.

 

[Jon855]

Originally posted by: leftyman
stop smoking so much herb

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: Bozono
mini-dv to VHS conversion. Now that would werk.

You win the award for dumbest invention idea. The sad thing is, people would buy it because they're too dumb to realize what they're doing.

It was a joke

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1692695&enterthread=y

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: DaShen

There are a lot of technologies for combustion engines out there that would improve efficiency and clean burn by 10-15%+, but never get the funding because all the money in oil.

That's a bunch of BS.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: DaShen

There are a lot of technologies for combustion engines out there that would improve efficiency and clean burn by 10-15%+, but never get the funding because all the money in oil.

That's a bunch of BS.

Well he is right about there being technologies that would improve the piston engine by 10-15% ... but they did get funding and were terminated because they either made the engine too complex for marketability, weren't ready for economic mass product (like ceramics), or were hard to maintain stability of the engine i.e. weren't reliable enough.