Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Shopping wellies. A combination of blogs and shopping g bags, leaving your hands free for important tasks, like paying the bus driver.
Your simple, but briliant inventions....
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Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Why doesn't someone invent tarmac that absorbs the sun's rays then stores the energy to keep the tarmac warm in winter so road salt isn't needed. Also how about tarmac that doesn't reflect the sun, when it's wet!
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Globalti
Legendary Member
Back in about 1972 I invented a thing called a mountain bike when I had the idea of butchering the tiny chainring off my brother's Triang trike and bolting it to the inside of the chainset on my 10 speed racer. You had to shift it over by hand but I was amazed at the hills it could climb and how much out of breath it made me.... until the chainring collapsed under the strain. Then about ten years later somebody copied my idea.
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
Lots and lots of years ago I had an idea to invent something to go into polypak containers to make pouring of the contents easier, a retro fit kinda thing. It would probably have looked something like this
I'd have been very rich and important if I wasn't so lazy and lacking in self motivation, hey ho.
I'd have been very rich and important if I wasn't so lazy and lacking in self motivation, hey ho.
MossCommuter
Guru
- Location
- Salford
[QUOTE 3710213, member: 76"]Another industry niche one....
When you are giving someone a blood transfusion there are lots of checks to go through, some involve checking the donor blood group against the recipients. My idea is to cross match someones blood on admission, then give them the wrist band of a specific colour. The donor blood bag labels are the same colour, so orange for A, blue for B etc. A final bedside check would be to check the donation blood bag and the wrist band colours matched. Way safer than checking lots of tiny writing on poorly printed forms.[/QUOTE]
I'll baggsy the ward without the colour blind nurse
When you are giving someone a blood transfusion there are lots of checks to go through, some involve checking the donor blood group against the recipients. My idea is to cross match someones blood on admission, then give them the wrist band of a specific colour. The donor blood bag labels are the same colour, so orange for A, blue for B etc. A final bedside check would be to check the donation blood bag and the wrist band colours matched. Way safer than checking lots of tiny writing on poorly printed forms.[/QUOTE]
I'll baggsy the ward without the colour blind nurse
marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
- Location
- Derby.
Add a tilt-switch for the bottom element and you're on. I'll take 90%, as it's my bit that prevents toasty armageddon.
machew
Veteran
Uber are half way then then
jayonabike
Powered by caffeine & whisky
- Location
- Hertfordshire
My invention is a microwave bed. Get 8 hours sleep in 10 minutes.
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
As a young horticulture student I was digging something or other. I'm sure some of you are aware that when you drive your spade/fork into the soil and hit a rock that the pain that goes through your wrist isn't pleasant.
I hit upon the idea of a shock absorber in the tool shaft, just enough to dissipate the impact. As usual I did nothing about it.... 20 years later-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilkinson-Sword-Absorber-Border-224594/dp/B0001IWEN2
Either they can't get enough or it didn't catch on!
I hit upon the idea of a shock absorber in the tool shaft, just enough to dissipate the impact. As usual I did nothing about it.... 20 years later-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilkinson-Sword-Absorber-Border-224594/dp/B0001IWEN2
Either they can't get enough or it didn't catch on!
lee1980sim
Senior Member
- Location
- South Yorkshire
I've always said they're -1 channels as you're an hour behind
simon the viking
Guru
Not just me then....
Years ago I had the idea of a smart remote control for the TV. As well as all the channel and volume changing, you'ld be able to point it at a character on the screen, right click and see what else they'd been in.
The other day I was watching something on my computer, using Kodi (used to be xbmc). I've got an app on my phone that lets me control it. But what's this? Page through the options and a cast list pops up. Highlight a cast member and boom!, you get taken to their IMDB page showing you what else they'd been in.
Bah.
The other day I was watching something on my computer, using Kodi (used to be xbmc). I've got an app on my phone that lets me control it. But what's this? Page through the options and a cast list pops up. Highlight a cast member and boom!, you get taken to their IMDB page showing you what else they'd been in.
Bah.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
You are always ahead of your tim, Time.
Lisat
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Bournemouth
28 years ago driving around Derbyshire lanes with boyfriend of the time, his sister and her boyfriend I suggested that auto dipping headlights would be a great invention. Oh how the Oxbridge graduates laughed at me.
