your greatest idea for a business/invention that never/hasn't yet materialised

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I just thought about installing a mixer tap of vodka and coke on peoples' homes. (which may have stemmed from an earlier idea of having left and right nipples that squirt out vodka and red bull respectively)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

and also opening all nighter night-clubs around airports, so there's something to do for people with really early morning flights. And they can be called "mile high clubs", and the toilets can be made to look like airport toilets.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would you want to spend time in a plane like environment (even just the toilet?) before getting on a plane?

I like the nipples idea tho but it would be better if they made martinis.

― hnmmm, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Flying out of Jersey, our flight was delayed by two hours. Next door, there was a Spanish festival, we boogied for an hour then returned to the airport in case they called us early (of course this never happens).

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

One day, the world will bow before mke, the genius behind toaster-fishcakes, a wondrous car-crash of a fastfood, the 21st century lovechild of pop-tarts and fish fingers.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The bedside pancake-maker!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I invented Post-Its, y'know.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

I have come up with a great idea for a book. It would be a pop science study of the psychology and sociology of the subway. Topics would include:
1. The traffic patterns of commuters trying to get from one level to the next.
2. The personality traits of the person who ignores the "stand on the right, walk on the left" escalator rule.
3. How certain types of physical contact are acceptable in a crowded subway car but not in any other type of situation.
4. How the ways that the public transport companies design the stations (eg., automated handicapped doors, stairs vs. escalators, doors that swing out next to doors that swing in, etc) are exploited and subverted by the commuter in a hurry.
AND MORE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I have something in mind for the printing industry that I really think would be enormous. Has anyone here ever patented anything? How difficult is it? I'm not enough of an artist to draw schematics of what I have in mind — how badly would that set me back?

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

the self-cleaning ass.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

There is a thing called a "poor man's patent" - which is just to mail yourself a description of the idea via registered mail - and then don't open it. This won't save you from having someone else patent the idea first if they come up with the same thing, but if someone tries to steal your idea (like someone you ask for advice in how to obtain a patent) you can at least prove that you had the idea as of a certain date.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago)

and also opening all nighter night-clubs around airports

Years ago I read about an NYC nightclub that was designed to look like a first-class section of a 60-era airplane. It might even have been named Idlewild ... is this ringing any bells?

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

this isnt really an invention, but would it kill the heinz corporation to MAKE BIGGER KETCHUP PACKETS? I propose a total realignment of the packaging of condiments. Mayo packets are always the biggest, but who needs that much mayo? Not me.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

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― barieling cosder chout a fagh in a ballme thrantuman (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

Of course, once I patent this idea, sooner or later some cunt's going to invent one with four lids - but I'm already one step ahead. I already have the plans for the new 5Lid. Shhh!

― barieling cosder chout a fagh in a ballme thrantuman (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

I always thought it would be neat to have an electronic pistol that you could use to shoot at things on the TV, that would you know, make sound effects and bullet holes and all that, just for target practice during boring TV shows. I came up with that idea when I was 12 and still think it would be pretty amusing. Seems to easy to do too.

― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

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