INVENTION Suggest:  A bean-bag Hover-Chair - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2023, 04:24:25 pm
content: Ok, no antigravity Hover Chair feature, I lied to get your attention.The suggestion, of a nano-tech device based 'chair' comes after contemplating the original classic chair as filled with medium sized objects (i.e. 'beans'), that give their advantage, by shifting under a person's weight, sitting.Completely ridiculous, but idea is to use some small Arduino like 'pebbles' that can move a bit on their own. Smart beans, as it were, but you'd need quite a few...up to 125,000 for a bigger chair. Maybe could make for a super-comfortable chair, at certain 'bean' sizes.Price ? / Cost ? Yeah, uh, let's let the 'bean counters' figure out that part._____________________________________________INVENTION suggestion #2.)'Presidential Escalator Aircraft Ramp'With a 'clumsy' p.o.s. they could still use a normal looking jet ramp, going up into fuseilodge...instead of the baby-ramp now being used for public appearances.

author: luma
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2023, 02:14:14 pm
content: Upon further reflection, maybe there were some downsides to legalizing marijuana.

author: Andy Chee
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2024, 05:45:05 am
content: It sounds like your chair invention is basically a version of the biobed seen in the movie 'The Wolverine' (2013)

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2024, 08:22:30 am
content: Thanks for reading and reply, that looks worth while thinking about!I say thanks partially because a person has to be a little 'out there' when in inventor's mode,...willing to suggest, even things we cannot achieve (yet).Miniaturization techniques being stretched, to the max (or actually 'shrunk'). Costs have to way way down, before some quantity like 125,000 Arduino-like 'dust' pebbles become practical, although still probably expensive.That chair you show might have application in a hospital burn-care situation.Thanks

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 01, 2024, 08:47:41 pm
content: Thanks to Mehdi, (Electroboom) for inspiring by way of his ideas on 'fireflys'.Small LED circuits were put in a jar, where an up drafting fan would cause the little winged assemblies to flit around randomly like firefly's.Meanwhile he designed a tiny coil system, in each 'firefly' so that the whole mass of separate LED Firefly would be powered, by a base coil on the jar's bottom.If it was, instead, a little processor, perhaps more limited than the usual little Arduino, then each little chair 'bean' could be reacting to weight applied, or even body heat, with an IR responsive sensor.Then, plus an actuator for crude movement and direction guiding.We aren't there yet, in lowered manufacturing costs, but such little 'beans' would be limited, to some sensing and some crude directional movement. Perhaps a 6 bit word and BUS sizing, in a module slightly resembling early 4-bit ICs.

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2024, 05:27:27 pm
content: Here is another INVENTION suggestion:(Actually more literally a product suggestion).Front yard Package Locker:Sad, but in U.S. apparently with the recent pandemic driving commerce changes, that being a more 'delivery' economy, we are now witnessing a huge spike in package thefts.Thus one newer measure might be the more common sight, of having a Package Locker somewhere near the front door and driveway.That's a product that likely couldn't be patented, although I'm not expert on copyrighting various business plans...more like just a (sad) trend and commentary on the state of things.Any locker would be accessible when empty, but could be only be unlocked and opened by the house residents. These things already exist, of course, in various offices.Thanks.

author: Andy Chee
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 02, 2024, 07:29:26 pm
content: One of the jobs of any inventor, is to research whether anyone has solved the problem.A simple Google search shows plenty of home parcel boxes, both versions DIY and commercial products.Given your research failure, it doesn't bode well for your inventing career.And FYI, an "ideas man" is not the same as an inventor.

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2024, 03:29:26 pm
content: Quote from: RJSV on January 02, 2024, 05:27:27 pmI guess you are a decade or so late.Let me google that for you:https://www.google.de/search?q=paketbox

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2024, 06:23:53 pm
content: Yes I expected to see some of that done before, mostly in offices, but In residences there is certainly room for smaller improvements, (rather than some lock-box from 1978, where a UPS driver keeps a key.). Smaller increments such as incorporating cell phones (somehow) are always possible, and serve to expand the common usage.Sad but true, the inventor's burden is most usually one of 'failure'...; that's often the first dynamic uttered, by anyone familiar with jobs/occupations. I sometimes wonder what a biography, or auto-bio would say, quoting from someone like Edison. (I heard a few of Edison's summaries, local library has a whole section of those books).I see what is meant, by the meaning of 'Ideas man'. My (often stated) example is a hypothetical 'Pocket Shower', having a clean and dirty water reservoir, pump and heater. THAT kind of product idea had to wait a bit, until the kind of battery tech we now have.(So where's my 'Travel Shower' ...I need one!)It's a lot of grunt work, research and, especially, producing the required documentation to satisfy some Patent Office requirements (and pay fees up front). I found that part interesting, but many folks aren't going to go that whole route, or don't want to.Rick

author: Andy Chee
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2024, 06:30:39 pm
content: If you're going to have investors put money into it, your documentation better satisfy the IRS as well! Otherwise you'll end up like Theranos!

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2024, 07:22:56 pm
content: Yes Andy! I see that, ...will read your comments in a sec..thanks.Talking about this Pocket Shower again;I WANT ONE OF THOSE !

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2024, 07:40:11 pm
content: And sorry to bounce around here, my cellphone posting is a pain.No investors (me). Suppose someone was to make 20 of these, go to a trade show, and sit there , AVAILABLE TO SELL...$ 46 each.Try a show with MAKERs or a even a trade show that's kinda unrelated, to electronics....Like even some backroader dirt bikes or something. Selling 20, at your little table.I bet those would sell out, at least by end of (tradeshow) day !Let's see, $46 X 20...that's, uh, some 900 dollars, assuming you can 'bypass' the usual consumer safety protections, in a 'prototype' sales mode. (And of course that's going to cost quite a bit to make 20 devices).Now see that logistical part is where I'd fall short, having only attended a few trade shows.But...I WANT ONE IF THOSE !Pop into a bathroom, and fill the clean water tank, you can at least do a few seconds on 'armpits'....(lol).The device is heavily dependant on battery capacity, but these days very buildable.My crude schetch includes those battery units that hold numerous lithium 'button cells'.You want a heater, of course, but also perhaps TWO pumps, one to distribute water pressure to your personal shower head, but also a WASTE pump, to suck the semi-soiled.water.back up, avoiding any heavy soiling of clothing.My crude drawing shows the little thing as similar to a pair of headphones, a bit bulky but with approx 1/2 pint of water.I cannot imagine this thing, (again, at $46) NOT generating interest, with folks walking by your booth...They, (perhaps) will want to buy one, right there.

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2024, 08:08:53 pm
content: I have some simple improvement ideas, for CELLPHONE product.Tried Google 'Improvement to cellphone'.Of course, now Google has seen my ideas...but that's a common problem these days!The Google search, uhh, DID turn up,...a few.

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2024, 08:26:38 pm
content: Seriously though; Andy, I liked your video featuring model airplanes with novel spring fusalodges...I'm interested in the process, that is; how did that IDEA come about ?(There is, of course that Slinky Toy Story doggy)

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 04, 2024, 08:30:18 pm
content: ...sorry about my trouble, getting photos to attach seems to have glitches...