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Spinning rollers won't work because you could simply stop the roll by gripping them with a pair of mole grips.
 
Dork (re)-invented a part on the top of extension ladders that saved hie employers £100,000's & didn't even get a thank you. In my second career I patented several software programs that are largely irrelevant today but worth £millions (on paper) in their day.

Even today, I cannot stop thinking outside the box on ways to solve problems or even just how to make things cheaper (competetive advantage, which is a major £money spinner).

They say that the most money ever earned will go to the first person to invent the silent fan !
 
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Dork Lard said:
Dork (re)-invented a part on the top of extension ladders that saved hie employers £100,000's & didn't even get a thank you. In my second career I patented several software programs that are largely irrelevant today but worth £millions (on paper) in their day.

Even today, I cannot stop thinking outside the box on ways to solve problems or even just how to make things cheaper (competetive advantage, which is a major £money spinner).

They say that the most money ever earned will go to the first person to invent the silent fan !
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Silent vacuum cleaner (y)
 
Here's a BIG thing begging to be exploited. Why can't 2x mobile phones be made to 'connect' with each other directly instead of through the network? Once you've cracked that then can you use the 2nd phone as a relay to a 3rd phone at a greater range . . . . Think of an 'area' network that bypass's any operators cellular network.
 
noseall said:
My underwater hair-dryer idea never really got going.
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How else would you dry your hair under water?

Over the years I developed lots of little gadgets or fixes, to make my life that bit easier. My last was a set of LED warning lights on my heating system, so I could instantly see what it was doing or supposed to be doing. Over the years, my 3 port actuator has been such a regular cause of problems and not aware they did a plug in version, I developed a much more simple way to swap it with a spare actuator - a method I have used on other things...

I use two blocks of 4x 5amp choc. blocks, side by side, linked by a short bit of 2.5mm from T&E, one connector on the actuator wires, the other in the joint box. The spare actuator has a similar choc. block fixed on the end. No confusion over which wire belonged where and just seconds to swap the actuator over.

Over the years, it has become less worthwhile/ easy to invent anything new at home, because anything new has already been invented and commercially developed. New ideas need a lot of commercial backing and development to get anywhere.
 
Dork also invented the mp3 juke box. Had a prototype all up & running, £500k of investment promises & went looking for a partner to manufacture & distribute it with little success.

Every licensed premises you step foot in today will have the great grand daughter of that box.
 
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