New Invention Ideas
A few more new invention ideas. Read about them, laugh at them
if you must, modify them, use them and call them your own if you
want.
Air conditioning shirt. Backpacking in hot weather, I often stop
to wet my shirt in a stream. The evaporative cooling as it dries
is wonderful. Now if a shirt had little water "tanks" on the
shoulders, a shirt could be kept wet and keep cooling for hours,
perhaps. They would have to be lightweight, and they would have
to release the water slowly. Even better would be tanks with an
adjustable rate of flow, so you could have the shirt wetted at
the same rate is was drying.
Motorskimobile. This is a motorcycle for snow. It would run on a
track like a snowmobile, but it would be a different kind of
ride. The user would be sitting higher, just like on a
motorcycle, and would be able to maneuver tighter turns. It
could also go down narrow trails more easily.
Wave power generators. As kids, we roped, chained and tried
everything we could think of to keep our raft anchored. When the
waves came, though, even the chains broke. Why not use this
lifting power of the waves to run a generator? The whole unit
would be anchored to the bottom of the lake, or ocean. A float
would move up and down with the waves, lifting and dropping a
plunger that turns a generator with each movement. Additional
units could be easily added to a collection, and the resulting
electricity wired to shore.
Caskets for possessions. A novelty invention, the idea here is
to have something to bury your favorite possessions in when they
are broken or otherwise "dead."
A wall that changes colors. You have probably seen those
billboards that use three-sided rotating panels to instantly
change the picture on the sign. There are three possible views,
of course. The new idea here is to apply this invention to walls
for homes. When you get bored with the color of the wall, you
push a button and it changes to another color, or a mural, or
whichever of the three choices you set it up with.
Paintings that change. This is the same concept as the above
invention. It's just scaled down to a frame that can display any
of three prints with the push of a button. Disposable picnic
backpacks. They are plastic, strong enough for a few days use,
and come with the snacks and bottle water already in them. Buy
one for each of the kids before you hit the hiking trail.
Chip dip tubes. No more messy bowls of stale, drying chip dip
with broken chips in it. Instead, you just apply the dip from a
toothpaste-like tube, directly onto the chip. You get exactly
the right amount, with less mess. They could be sold in six
packs, so everyone can have their own tube. Hmm... What else can
be put in tubes? What size should the tubes be? Here's a concept
ripe for some new invention ideas.