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The clapper. That was me.

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i thought it was the clap [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Yeah, your toilet-breaking girlfriend invented that one.

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When I was 16 I was a cart boy at Target. Pain in the ass. You'd have to have two people, one pushing (which was a bitch on a snowy Minnesota wintry day) and another steering. I knew there HAD to be a way to make a remote-control cart that would push those f'ers while you just walked at the front and steered them. A few years after I quit, I'm at Target, and some lazy-ass 16 year old is steering a cart with a remote-control in his hand and a motorized cart pushing those things.

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When I was 13 I decided it would be awesome to make a toilet bowl that was also a fish tank. Couple years ago I was thumbing through a magazine and saw the same idea for sale.

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You can probably stop sweating this one. I'm pretty sure these guys aren't really rolling in the toilet bowl fish tank dough....

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In or around 1988 I shared with my wife and some friends my idea for what is now referred to as an e-book--a paperback-sized LCD display tablet onto which one could load books. Since this was pre-internet, I assumed that the books would be on chips about the size of a gameboy chip.

Of course, I did not have the means nor the wherewithall to know how to turn this into a reality. However, even then, as is true today, I knew it might be a tough sell, since many people would not want to either read a book on a screen and/or deal with the hassle of carrying around a LCD tablet that could get lost or stolen.

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I had a really great idea once. I called it the "Jump to Conclusions" Mat. You see, it's this mat you put on the floor and it has different conclusions that you would jump to. Still don't know if this has been done.

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When I was 13 I decided it would be awesome to make a toilet bowl that was also a fish tank. Couple years ago I was thumbing through a magazine and saw the same idea for sale.

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You can probably stop sweating this one. I'm pretty sure these guys aren't really rolling in the toilet bowl fish tank dough....

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while this is true, they are still rolling in more toilet bowl fish tank dough than I am.

FWIW, they were selling for $2K. So even if they only sold like 100 they turned some nice coin.

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Toilet seat warmer is an idea I want someone to create.

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When I was 13, I was massively into music which I still am...This is 1994/1995

A friend and I, thought we should start a business that involved all the major record labels....(Remember this is before the Internet was around as much as it is now...), and specialise in making Compilation Albums on request. In the sense that whenever you buy a double cd compilation album..the 1st CD has great tunes and the 2nd is dogsh*t !

We thought that this would have been a money spinner and I'm in no doubt it would have been...

However, since Napster, this idea has become worthless due to the fact that :

* Music is downloaded now for free...
* To get all the big labels...Sony, EMI, Warner etc would have been very difficult and how royalties etc would have been calculated etc...Never the less, I still think that it had potential...

Maybe I'm delusional.... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]