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The clapper. That was me.

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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...

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I invented a few concepts in how to use communications technology. One of the concepts was revolutionary and have become popular internationally and is now marketed by large multinational companies. Was very difficult to find any way to protect it, but I managed to gain some goodwill by helping them which indirectly resulted in some cash, and they provided me a lot of free resources to put it into live use. No real pay off, but got me a name so that headhunters call me with job offers.

When I worked with it I knew that I would be unable to protect it but I take pleasure in watching that it is developing into the "de facto" international standard.

Hope I can make a business of something similar sometime.

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What in god's name is that, Alobar on your Avatar ?

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lol. It even has labels.

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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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My real name is Forrest Gump.

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Here is my brilliant idea. I’ll never use it. Feel free. Also feel free to flame me for how stupid it is or that it’s already been done. It’s a stand-alone burglar alarm system. However, instead of having a monitoring service, the whole thing is just one little box. It’s connected to your telephone like an answering machine. Whenever it’s tripped, it dials 911 and a recording plays telling the operator your address and to send police.

I figure it could come as a kit with enough wiring and contacts for a few windows and a couple of doors. Pretty easy to install. You could probably sell the whole thing for <$30. And no monthly service fees like other alarms.

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

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I think their are toilets in Japan with this facility. Personally I hate sitting down on a warm seat.

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Jake, the problem would be balancing the machine so it didn't trigger too easily, which would lead to chaos.

Plus people getting in drunk and setting it off etc. I'm sure the cops would soon get pissed off.

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Personally I hate sitting down on a warm seat.

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Me too.

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mine was the radio that adjusted its volume as you drove at faster speeds (so it would stay constant with the windows down). you could have settings for drivers window down, front windows down, and all windows down and it would adjust the volume differently. this was like 8 or 9 years ago

then I heard they have something similar in SUVs now

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Jake, the problem would be balancing the machine so it didn't trigger too easily, which would lead to chaos.

Plus people getting in drunk and setting it off etc. I'm sure the cops would soon get pissed off.

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Yea. I know there are issues. You'd have to have some kind of delay to turn it off or whatever. Still I figure i could sell a million of them by infomercial.

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Personally I hate sitting down on a warm seat.

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I wouldn't mind as long as it was warm from the device, not someone's ass. I hate cold seats.