Class project: Something that needs to be invented

[Gajin]

Idea #3... (a little tougher)

A microwave oven will heat food and drinks that are at room temperature in 60 seconds.
But if you want to cool food or drinks that are at room temperature... that takes a couple of hours.

Design a device that will cool food and drinks QUICKLY.

I also thought about this about 3 weeks ago

you should at least give this one a try.

 

[DJTJ]

Thanks again for the ideas. Apparently my professor decided to skip office hours today. I waited for 15 minutes and he never showed up.

I came up with an idea of a golf club washer that was portable, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to make in the time we have allotted since it would probably not be able to be made out of existing things.

sorry, but its not a great idea. club gets dirty, lake and a golf tee, and I have a tool that clips to my bag.

 

[MikeOC33]

The Golf Channel had an inventors series on a few years ago, and I know the portable club washer was one of the ideas. The two guys got pretty far in the selection process. Their idea was more of a manual cleaner... a waterproof sock-type unit that held a cleaning solution with like a scrubber surface on the inside... you opened the sock, stuck in your club, then put your hand in a sleeve like you would a puppet, and cleaned your club. But if you google portable golf club cleaner, you'll see there is all sorts of stuff on the market, including a rotary device... like a dremel or cordless drill with an abrasive head on it... looked like it would clean out the grooves in the iron faces pretty well.

 

[Damage]

This is a good idea if it wasn't so large, since I actually have to build whatever I decide to design. Perhaps I could think of a way to make a small model of it.

Well you'd have to start with raw materials. Silicon, sand, etc. You would have to create a software application that was inbeded inside the tracking system that would know how to track the sun. And you would have to be able to somehow inplement the shit into a wind-power system.

IN other words, it would take a really long time to make. :chuckles: Like years.

 

[xAusT1n]

Shoes that tie themselves

 

[MikeOC33]

Shoes that tie themselves

I give to you.... VELCRO!

Ta-da! What do I win?

 

[The Voice]

How about tags you can place on your keys and remote and when you press the pager it beeps.

These have already been made. Great for a senior citizen home...

 

[The Voice]

So basically something that carries your clubs for you? Like a segway that holds golf clubs? Cool idea, probably can't make something like that in enough time (project is due in a month or so)

No, it's like a caddy, but motorized. Apparently you haven't ever golfed before you were too young to rent a cart? They have things called caddy's that have wheels and you pull them with your clubs on them.

Judging by the picture, they're already made. I googled it and found it. Guess I should have done that in the first place.

How about carpet that uses the energy from you walking to power part of your house, along with a 360 remote that recharges the battery from button mashing as you play, and if you could get something to power off of human/dog/any type of fieces it'd be golden. Jigo_oi would buy it and sign up for product testing.

 

[BooyaCS]

If you still need an Idea how about a relational GPS. Instead of using the satelites to tell you where you are you can use a differing transmitter to tell you the proximity of your location to that of another location.

So lets say that cars come with these devices. Then the receiver can tell you how close you are to an oncoming vehicle. Another use would be hunting. Bow hunting especially. You hit your target and it runs off the "GPS" in the arrow head can determine the location from it to the receiver (hardware or software).

So while you can use the GPS to tell you where you are you can use the proximity locator to tell you how close you are, whether it is left, right, in front, behind and how high up it is.

The other is a remote transmitter (much like currently exists in the military for the drones) to function on a "dead" radio/hijacking of an airplane where the tower would have complete control of the air plane and the GPS would fly it to the closest airport. The stick inside the cockpit would be unresponsive and can only be overridden with a safety code.

 

[Phills14]

Idea #3... (a little tougher)

A microwave oven will heat food and drinks that are at room temperature in 60 seconds.
But if you want to cool food or drinks that are at room temperature... that takes a couple of hours.

Design a device that will cool food and drinks QUICKLY.

This type of product exists. It's called a blast chiller. It is used in the commercial foodservice industry to bring cooked food down to a low temperature fast. The usage is for bulk food to be cooked, stored and then rethermalized. As you can see it is very expensive but this is a commercial application. I am not aware of a consumer appliance that would bring smaller items such as beverages down to temp fast.

http://www.foodservicewarehouse.com/equipment/blast-chillers/c3689.aspx

 

[MikeOC33]

If you still need an Idea how about a relational GPS. Instead of using the satelites to tell you where you are you can use a differing transmitter to tell you the proximity of your location to that of another location.

Another use would be hunting. Bow hunting especially. You hit your target and it runs off the "GPS" in the arrow head can determine the location from it to the receiver (hardware or software).

Man, that is a great idea which would be easy to make. No more lost arrows, easy to track wounded deer... that really is a solid idea.

 

[BooyaCS]

Man, that is a great idea which would be easy to make. No more lost arrows, easy to track wounded deer... that really is a solid idea.

It has numerous applications and a transmitter is small enough that it can fit into just about anything. The problem is I don't have the capital at hand nor the electrical knowledge to create that.

I can write the iPhone, Droid or whatever "app" it needs to interact with.

You can also you this for your children. Attach it inside thier shoe or a piece of clothing and you will know exactly where they are.

 

[Collyflower]

How about something simple.

A friend of mine was out a couple of weeks back and she was in a bathroom looking for something in her bag. It was pretty dark and she was taking things out and putting them on the counter while she rummaged through her bag with her left hand and held her phone with her right hand because she needed its light to see into the bag. Anyways, while she did this someone took her purse.

So basically my idea is a strip light with a small battery pack that can be fixed into a handbag. It would probably need to be adjustable length but it doesn't seem difficult

 

[MikeOC33]

So basically my idea is a strip light with a small battery pack that can be fixed into a handbag. It would probably need to be adjustable length but it doesn't seem difficult

Man, that right there is another great idea. Couple of LEDs and a watch battery... maybe a little time to automatically turn it off in 20-30 seconds.... dude, people are giving you some great practical ideas.

 

[bcort]

If you still need an Idea how about a relational GPS. Instead of using the satelites to tell you where you are you can use a differing transmitter to tell you the proximity of your location to that of another location.

So lets say that cars come with these devices. Then the receiver can tell you how close you are to an oncoming vehicle. Another use would be hunting. Bow hunting especially. You hit your target and it runs off the "GPS" in the arrow head can determine the location from it to the receiver (hardware or software).

So while you can use the GPS to tell you where you are you can use the proximity locator to tell you how close you are, whether it is left, right, in front, behind and how high up it is.

The other is a remote transmitter (much like currently exists in the military for the drones) to function on a "dead" radio/hijacking of an airplane where the tower would have complete control of the air plane and the GPS would fly it to the closest airport. The stick inside the cockpit would be unresponsive and can only be overridden with a safety code.

I believe there is already relational GPS. I don't believe the public has it, yet. I was looking at a Coast Guard boat and I know that they have a unit (can't remember the name) that takes GPS signals and plots them on a map so they could see other small boats in the river. It's pretty new and not even all of the Coast Guard boats have it installed, IIRC.