New light "invented"

[rjm2k]

I guess the guy deserves some credit, but is this really invention? Have they not heard of windows, or is glass just too expensive in these places? Is it just a slow news day or a "journo" in desperate need of a story?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914

 

[Bosswhite]

This idea has been going for a couple of years, mainly in the third world countries where properties do not have windows, and are very close to each other. The video in this link explains.
A simple clever idea, I`m not sure if you have to change the water every so often though.


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/dec/23/sunlight-bulbs-plastic-bottles-light

 

[joe-90]

That's a great idea. Cheaper than chips and quite effective.

 

[foxhole]

Fine till a really hot day and the bottles melt or explode with pressure from expanding air.

 

[JBR]

Not terribly effective at night either!

 

[joe-90]

Fine till a really hot day and the bottles melt or explode with pressure from expanding air.

Well there isn't any air in them.

 

[joe-90]

If you fill them with coloured water you can have a disco.

 

[sooey]

I guess the guy deserves some credit, but is this really invention? Have they not heard of windows, or is glass just too expensive in these places? Is it just a slow news day or a "journo" in desperate need of a story?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914[/QUOTE]

Of course this is invention. Using something that's widely available and cheap to help really poor people. It's the best kind of invention you can get.

 

[EddieM]

hardly an invention, more an application of existing stuff, like to see you get a patent on that.

 

[rjm2k]

I guess the guy deserves some credit, but is this really invention? Have they not heard of windows, or is glass just too expensive in these places? Is it just a slow news day or a "journo" in desperate need of a story?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914[/QUOTE]

Of course this is invention. Using something that's widely available and cheap to help really poor people. It's the best kind of invention you can get.

I'm not saying it isn't clever and hasn't helped lots of people, but an invention?

 

[joe-90]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention

 

[EddieM]

I feel you would really really struggle to patent this as an invention.

 

[joe-90]

An invention isn't something that is patentable.

 

[noseall]

An invention isn't something that is patentable.

....and is summat that has been patented "patentedized"

 

[sooey]

I think you all need to read the first post again, he said

but is this really invention?

not...is this really an invention.
I didn't say that this was an invention, but it is certainly invention on the part of the guy who came up with it, bloody useful too, good on him.