If you could start your own business or invent a gadget..

[Arch]

I have deleted my post so you can do.

Oh, sweetie, you shouldn't have....

Everyone! Alan got there first!

I thought of somehing the other day - a sort of vertical treadmill climbing wall, so you could keep climbing and climbing, but only need a 'wall' about 7 or 8 feet tall.

Apparently, it's been done...

 

[Dayvo]

Would I come on a public forum and tell everyone first ......

I think that kind of confession belongs on another forum!

 

[Dayvo]

It's been invented, but I'd like to see jet-packs available at a reasonable cost, and chavs banned from having them!

 

[very-near]

Would I come on a public forum and tell everyone first ......

The devil is in the detail.

A good idea is nothing without the resolve to carry it forward.

I think what I'm asking is do you have possession of individual train of thought in sufficient capacity to come up with a new idea and carry it forward into a functional gadget, or a viable business plan.

Here is something.

25 years ago I had a fairly serious m/cycle accident which resulted in a fairly serious lifelong injury (break).

Whilst convalescing (sp) I had an idea for a garment using silly putty in the panels as it is malleable to mould arund the user but doesn't like moving quickly (hence you can bounce it like a powerball).

It came to nothing because I didn't have the nouse at 18 to develop it, but a canadain company started marketting clothing with this in a few years ago, and even more cleverly, some geezer got backing on dragons den a few weeks ago for laptop bags and phone cases with the same technology.

An opportunity lost - you bet, but I do now know what the active ingredients are in this substance to give it the qualities

 

[papercorn2000]

I like it! A sort of MTB body armour?

 

[very-near]

I think that kind of confession belongs on another forum!

 

[just jim]

A toothbrush where one disposes of the head only and not the whole thing.

And it has to be incredibly lightweight to save me drilling holes in it for touring.

 

[Haitch]

A toothbrush where one disposes of the head only and not the whole thing.

Got one of those, battery-operated bought in Canada about three years ago.

 

[just jim]

I'm thinking the manually driven type!

Say a titanium body with plastic/ carbon head?

 

[Haitch]

I'm thinking the manually driven type!

Why not a toothbrush that consists of a head only? You could fit it to the end of your index finger and use that as the handle.

 

[Fnaar]

Why not a toothbrush that consists of a head only? You could fit it to the end of your index finger and use that as the handle.

They kind of exist (Oral B brush-ups, use once and chuck, so not exactly what you had in mind)

And they exist for pets too (see pic)... guess a person could use one if you find yourself with dog-breath one morning!

 

[very-near]

Why not a toothbrush that consists of a head only? You could fit it to the end of your index finger and use that as the handle.

Already done

 

[just jim]

It needs some ears and whiskers!

 

[Haitch]

A man used to advertise a hygiene product.

It will never catch on.

 

[very-near]

D30?

Yup