A List of Inventions
The following is my personal list of inventions I am waiting
to see produced -- one I would probably buy or use. Invent these
and you'll have at least one customer.
1. An air conditioned jacket. One hot day I experimented and
found that the fan didn't cool me nearly as well when I was shirt-less
as when I wore a jacket or shirt and let the fan blow into it.
This sent the cooling breeze all around my torso and arms (the
air escapes out the bottom, collar and sleeves). A jacket with
a battery-operated fan would do the same thing. Add a wet t-shirt
underneath and the circulating air would make it downright chilly
in there.
2. A currency sanitizer. Bacteria, viruses and more are spread
by the handling of bills. A simple machine that used heat or
a disinfecting agent, could make those bills safe to handle.
3. New soles for hiker's feet. Backpackers get blisters on
their feet from friction. Feet move in shoes, parts of the shoe
rub on the feet, and "hot spots" develop, eventually
becoming blisters. A solution? Insoles glued to the bottom of
your feet. Make them of felt or some other material, and provide
a solvent for easy removal. Maybe they could be reused, gluing
and removing repeatedly, the way dentures are used.
4. Morbid soft drinks. For those who like the darker side
of things, why not have soft drinks with plastic animal embryos
in them? Make the embryos too large to come out of the bottle,
to prevent choking.
5. Padded snow sleds. Sledding is often painful and dangerous.
One solution may be to fully pad a sled, and provide some kind
of safety harness, so even after flipping over the rider can
remain uninjured.
6. TV goggles. We use headphones to listen to music wherever
we go, so why not have goggles that have a television screen
inside them?
7. Comedic insult toilet paper. Who would you want to use
in that way and flush down the toilet? Politicians would be well
represented on the list of faces printed on this toilet paper.
8. Mini poetry books. These tiny books would be attached to
bottles of wine, as a romantic novelty. They could also be included
with bouquets of roses, and boxes of chocolates.
9. Kite propulsion for boats. Sail boats are complicated,
with masts, booms, and keels. Want a simple way to propel your
canoe or rowboat across that lake, using the wind? A large kite
could do the trick. Make it like a para-sail, so it will be light
to carry and simple to use.
Of course, this is a partial list of inventions I want to
see made. Among the many more things I'm waiting for are flying
bicycles and in-the-home grocery stores.
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