Show Your Inventive Side

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We know that many autistics think outside the box. I thought this thread could show how inventive we can be.

Share an invention or idea you would like to see happen. It can either be a humorous or a serious invention....use your natural talents

The other day I was thinking about all of the pet owners that take care of older pets. Many of these pets are dearly loved but are becoming too difficult for their owners to take care of either because of meds or other special needs. I think it would be a good idea for someone to create an old pets home for those dearly loved pets that owners love but can no longer take care of at home. For a fee, the old pets home could be the purrrrrfect place for your furry child or friend with the option to visit whenever you'd like .

Another good idea would be a pet health care plan that you could pay for monthly, just like a human health care plan.

For other really funny and interesting ideas you can check out halfbakery.com before posting. Remember, the internet is a very public place, so if you have an idea for a really great invention, you might want to keep it to yourself and someday become filthy rich off of your idea

The only invention I wanna see's virtual reality.

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I know it sounds bad, but working at a grocery store you get ideas like this.
A thermos purse! One half could be a regular purse, and the other half could be insulated like those thermos-like bags.

And I had also thought of the idea for the PSP discs. Putting a disc inside a case. I hope they didn't patent that idea, I'll sue!! !

Another one is pretty simple. Add an extra line of keys to a keyboard for foreighn symbols and accentuations on letters. You hold down ctrl, the letter, than press the symbol you want attached to that letter. Like the wavy line thingy sometimes put above e's and a's, etc.

Laptop computers with a pop-out mouse pad and tray for people who suck with rollerball mouses. Just thought that one up!

Mini-discs were my idea too. So was the dryer,pure genius!! !

This is already available! I know of at least one vet that offers it via her office and I think there is an independent company doing it too!


I really like the idea of an old's pet home. It made me smile.

Anything thing that does exist and I think is really neat is that the local Humane Society has something called "PAWS=Pet adoptions without surendering." If you are in a position where you can't take care of your pet, but you don't want to just drop him off, you can enter him/her in the PAWS program. The Society takes a picture of the pet and all the history and any requirements you might have as to who you do and don't want to adopt your pet and this info is posted on the Societies website and at there shelter. If someone is interested in adopting your pet, they call the society and it contacts you. You can meet each other at the society or anywhere else. The "adoption" may be as open as the two sides wish it to be!

Okay, that's off tangent...

BeeBee

Awww Drat!! You see, no time to waste! I could have made money off of that idea
Oh well, there's always more where that came from. Another thought just occured to me. If we present our ideas here (each reply is dated) would that be proof that our idea came first? Hmmmm....just a little something to mull over as you're creating ideas & inventions [/quote]

I was laying in my bed one night back in August 2003 and I was thinking to myself that many people were getting rich quick by selling cheap, chintzy, but useful gadets that come and go with in the month or year.

And so I laid in bed thinking, what is something that everyone hates, but has never been improved on. My mind began running through all kinds of scenarios of things that suck that could be fixed for cheap.

And then, it hit me... Dribble proof measuring cups! Anyone who ever has poured anything out of measuring cup before, regardless of size has run into a chefs worst foe. No I'm not talking about those idiots on "Hell's Kitchen", I'm talking about surface tension. The formidable foe that always lets the liquid poor every where except where you want it to go.

So I thought about it. I devised a clever inverted lip system that when the cup was sitting upright, the lip was facing down, and when pouring, it would be up in the air. Gravity would keep the liquid from making it's way to the side, and eventually running down the side of the cup, and something would pour where you wanted it to.

I thought about, and then did a patent search and found out something similar was claimed as someone else's creation.

Drat!

Awesome! That's the one I'm holding out for too.

Though a feasible form of interstellar travel would be an excellent bonus.

Here's a practical one that I just don't have the programming skills to implement: a spectrum people search site. I can't count the number of posts on various internet groups I've seen by people on the spectrum wishing they had a local support group or simply possible friends living nearby. We need a centralized site to match people up.

I had an idea for personal tolliet paper rolls. I get sort of uneasy knowing that someones dirty hands have touched the toliet paper that I plan to use. And I also don't really like replacing the rolls. So I thought how about having personal toliet paper rolls for every person living in a house... and don't keep them on rolls, just keep them on posts or hooks... and just pick em up when you use them. As I always do.

Maybe keep on roller, just for guests. But you would never have to replace that one, since everyone is responsible for their own personal roll.

I also thought of some sort of high tech pen that would self correct for sloppy handwriting. This one is more of a crazy-high-tech fantasy, but they do have pens that remember what is written. So having a pen that self corrects by slight movements to adjust for really bad unreadable handwriting.

I also have come up with some ideas for video games and board games. Just initial ideas really, but I have never fully developed them. I tend to get bored with things that are the same all the time, so I tend to try to think up new game ideas that would be fun... yet easy to play with a fair amount of depth.

Doh! Somebody already took the Pet Insurance idea. You know, I just said that to my mother yesterday. NO LIE!

Humz... Perhaps a PDA system with enough bites to hold lotsa full movies. Like your entire movie library available on a little GB card and you could watch it on a handheld PDA or something similar. And that card could be used in players to hook up to larger screens like tv's.

Also, putting CD soundtrack on the DVD movie, so that a CD player could play the soundtrack and also a DVD player could read the movie. So you wouldn't have to bother with buying the CD soundtrack for a movie you really like.

Or even creating CD players that will read DVDs so that you could have SOOOO many more songs. Imagine how many songs you could have on a DVD! But make it so a CD player can read the DVD.

I want something that will walk for me which is compact, stable, able to climb over rocky and akward terrain, and can move at a decent clip. I would want it to be able to work indoors, and not be TOO heavy. I'm not disabled, i just really never ever wanna move my legs.

Sounds like you want a Segway...

-A restaurant table equipped with a waitress call button, and a built-in credit card reader so you can just swipe your card and get out of there when you're ready to go. The card reader idea might not fly since it might make it easier for people to skip out on the bill, and restaurants would lose out on desert sales. But I'm utterly astounded that call buttons don't exist in restaurants. They've been around forever on airplanes, and many restaurants give you pagers to let you know when a table is ready.

-A microwave with a flat-panel LCD screen in the front. It functions as a regular TV, or switches to an internal camera when you're cooking food. The camera would also have an infrared mode, so you can see where exactly any hot/cold spots are and rearrange the food accordingly. The microwave itself could even analyze the infrared picture and rotate the turntable in an optimal way to heat things up evenly.

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I have had some real awsome ideas for inventions before. This year in Economics we were supposed to come up for an idea for an invention and make a prototype of something that looked like it worked and make a commercial for it. I went with the most masculine idea I could come up with which was the high powered toaster. It could toast whole sandwithces and launch them onto a plate. I called it TOASTIMUS PRIME. Me and my partner, mainly me, made a working model. I steped up the voltage of a regular toaster to 225V and gutted the whole thing and put high tension springs in it. I constructed a new body out of fiber glass and plastic. It was so cool I even painted flames on the launching shute. We had the best commercial ever because I did my Bruce Camble impersonation for the voice and we had Metalica playing as the theme music. Brian had all of his hair out and it looks like the hair that the fat guy from LOST has except bigger, but Brian isn't fat. Then when we demonstraited it in class the fiber glass started to warp and it broke in half. We got some pretty good distance with the sandwitches though. If you greased them enough you could lauch them a whole three meters at a 45 degree angle. My Econmics teacher still couldn't believe that I made that on my own and she still swears that I'm the Antichrist.

Okay, here's another invention I want to see happen. I want to see a car that is totally made up of cartridges and cells that can just be popped into place when something wears out or runs out. If you need more fuel, you pop in a fuel cell. If your transmission goes out, a light comes on and you buy a transmission cartridge and pop it in. No evil mechanic telling you it will be another three weeks before they can work on your car....it's all "do it yourself." Clean & easy.

Not to worry, mechanics won't lose their jobs. Some people still won't want to do the work themselves and someone's got to still sell the cells/cartridges.

Little teleporters that you have implanted into your body- they automatically teleport any waste products to some big waste disposal station, and you never need to go to the toilet again! Yay! Yeah I reckon they'll have something like this in the future. Going to the toilet is such a waste of time...

I also had the idea for a heating spoon that cooks raw food on the way to your mouth, but they sort of ripped that off in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie with that lightsaber bread knife.

Or another totally infeasible idea I had (I actually dreamed this one), is a jacket with a (reuseable) parachute built into it, in case you accidentally fall of a cliff or something. Wouldn't work in real life, but in my dream it was really useful, it deployed at very short distances, and you could pretty much jump off anything and glide anywhere.

HAHA! That is awesome! I would so buy one of those. Have you got any pictures?