Are you very close in discovering something new or inventing something that hasn't been invented yet?

If yes....give a small detail (not your secrets of course unless you patented it) to us!

Yes. A discovery, not an invention.

No. I can't share the details because I've not yet published the results.

I will give a hint though. It has to do with both physics and pure mathematics.

That's as far as I go.

Instant water. Just add water.

Not really an invention, but I am working on a PHP+SQL script that's going to be pretty awesome when I release it to the public.

It's a search engine script right now, but I think I will eventually evolve into a CMS/Portal type script.

chocolate covered Cheetos...

It looks so good. Especially in this heat. Thanks, James.

I'm very close to perfecting the first Virtual Treehouse where like-minded people can congregate and keep the riff-raff at bay.

To gain entry to a particular Virtual Treehouse, have the user type <CTRL> <#> <#> <#>. If the owner lets you in and you find it wasn't what you expected, type <CTRL> <ESC>. IF you want to throw an unwanted guest out of your Virtual Treehouse on their astericks, type <CTRL> <ALT> <DEL>.

Virtual Treehouse is brought to you by Uh-O Industries.

-Kerry O.

I wrote My Name Is Earl....before that show aired. It was called Step 9....about a recovering alcoholic who took Step 9.....making amends.....to a ridiculous extreme. It was a good idea........

I have an idea that I have been working on for sometime about how to improve our elementary educational system here in America. I will share it with everyone once I have the website created explaining it in detail through videos. There you can finally see how ugly I look! Ha ha!

I have it copyrighted so I don't mind sharing it in the near future. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have expressed interest in it, so if I can pull it off then I might have started a new revolution on education for young minds. Thanks to the many books and videos it has paid off to create a new idea. The idea came up in the middle of the night after an odd dream! I must say that our mind works in mysterious ways sometimes! lol

Ha ha too funny and thank you! Very cool!

LOL!! Nah, that was just an old prototype. The beta version more closely resembles an M.C. Escher drawing entitled "House of Stairs".

http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/A23L.html

-Kerry O.

I'm on the verge of resurrecting (a small business related to) something I invented...but trust me, it doesn't belong in the science/philosophy threads...more like the crafty/hobby threads.

There are always more or less brilliant ideas rattling around in this little brain. I've been asked if I'm ADHD!

Actually that could be signs of a Genius! I do hope that your business will succeed. I really think that is what makes America. The small businesses and the individual ideas and imaginations that make them work!

Thank you but I can assure you I'm no genius...
But I DO appreciate the whole concept of the entrepreneur (myself and others) and try to support the little guy whenever I can. It IS a great thing to have the opportunity and the internet makes it SO attainable for anyone with an idea to take it to the world. Very cool!

I have several inventions that are useful, are not commercially viable, and can't be patented, so I put them out here and now:

1. Cold coffee. Put ground coffee and water together. Shake the container. Let it sit, and shake it occasionally. You can put it in the fridge. A day later take it out, filter it out, and you have good coffee.

Notes:
- filter using a regular dollar-stove sieve. This makes the filtering fast and cheap, as you can re-use the sieve.
- The sieve may leave some smaller coffee grinds go through into what you would drink. If that bothers you, filter it through a clean jCloth. Does the job perfectly, quickly, and re-usably.
- Coffee won't taste great. I will be drinkable, with more caffeine than filtered coffee. But it won't be gourmet coffee.

2. Low-water, low-power, low-detergent, low human effort (work) consuming dish cleaning.

Fill three pails with clean water. Add 2 or four ounces of dishwashing detergent into the first one and some chlorine bleech. Add clorine bleach to the second one, and nothing to the third one.

Take off large food particles off plates, cutlery and cooking dishes. Better still rinse food remnants off.

Put dishes in soapy bucket, fully immersed; leave them there for at least an hour; take them out, rinse them quickly in bucket with bleech only, then quickly in bucket with water only, and set out to dry.

Notes:
- the soapy water you need to change once a month for one user; once every two weeks for two people, every ten days for three people, etc.
- the water with bleech is on the same schedule, as well as the clean water.

This might change depending on how much food you leave on the dishes to be cleaned. More food, more often change.

- make sure that the buckets are flat, vertically. Easier to handle flat plates, cooking dish lids, etc. this way.

3. Green bin that racoons and other scavengers won't get open and rummage inside of.

I am giving this up a bit more reluctantly, as it has some commercial merit.

In some cities the green bin is put out with the garbage, separate from grabage and from recyclable containers. The green bin is a haven for city scavengers. Once a scavenger finds a way into the green bin, then the practice spreads, as animals learn from each other.

- put a nail or two in the outside wall of your house, and hang the bin on that. (These bins have perfect handles for that.) Make sure there are no ledges close enough on which a scavenger can stand, and reach the bin with his or her mouth. Make sure the bin is hanging off a brick- or cement wall. Put a metal sheet around it on the wall if necessary.

Notes:
- animals don't eat into the surface on which they stand. Never. So if you eliminate surfaces from which to access the bin, the animals can still jump on it, but no matter how delicious the smell of rotting fish or eggs that comes from inside is, they will not dig a hole under themselves.

So make sure that you put the nails so high that the animals can't reach the bin from the ground.

4. Perpetual bicycle lights, that need no recharging.
Buy some garden lights, the ones that have no wires but which you stick in the ground. Rip the photocell and the rechargable batter out. Connect the battery to your bicycle light, to its switch. Encase the apparatus in a see-through, and preferrable water- and weather-proof enclosure. Use it to become visible at night to other bicyclists, cars, and pedestrians.

- this is involved
- soldering is required
- not easy to make, not trivial
- batteries go dead in a few hours, so set the switch to "blinking", that way the batteries last two, three times as long
- after batteries go dead, the next day they recharge, without need for intervention

5. Bicycle aerodynamic aid.
Make a cone, can be done from any light material, with tape and a sheet of plastic or paper, and attach it to your bicycle steering bar and steering rod.

This will surprisingly enough cut into the air as your pedal and progress, and reduce air resistance that hinders the bicycling. If you get a good strong backwind, this will help you harness it.

Notes:
- this is the same principle why people put their hands above their hands and cusp them when they jump into water. If you don't, your head will hurt upon impact with the water.
- I have no way of measuring in an objective way how much this will help. But subjectively, it is a great help. Remember, I am 57, fat, diabetic and a heart patient, and I make great distances with my bike, because my legs' muscles get tired less easily.
- in very high and strong head wind this contraption also helps, but you won't feel it, subjectively.

6. Prototype has not been built yet, but I am thinking on the design of a bike frame made of wood. The wooden frame would be lighter, and reduce vibration and shock on the buttocks and the hands.

Notes:
- wooden framed bikes exist. The cheapest starts at $2,000.
- I plan to build it of crutches that I bought at GoodWill.
- You need wood that does not corrode or decompose in weather.
- And wood that is strong.
- The gentle curves and the double-parallels of the crutches increase structural stability.
- the chain, brakes, gears, still need to be made from metal.

7. Device to keep pant legs clean off bicycle grease.
Most bicycles will grease up your right leg, on the pants or on your skin.
You can cut a stronger but pliable plastic sheet, and attach it to the pedal-front gears compound, so that grease from the chain or from the gear will never touch your pants or leg.

This can be seen on some children's bikes, but they don't make them for adult bikes. Some adult bikes have a rim between the gear and your leg, but the pants still get greasy when you pull up your leg in the back turn; the straign chain between the gears will make it messy.

There are several other ways a person can create this solution.

8. Cheap mudflaps or fenders for the bicycle wheels.

They make now very good fenders: light and easy, but they cost at least ten-fifteen bucks. But you can make them at home for yourself, using a plastic strip (rigid but bendable), and some wires. Use your ingenuity and creativity -- it would be too much bother and too tedious for me to describe the design and the process here.

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I have other inventions, as well, which can't be patented, and some which can. Interested venture capitalists, apply within.

Instant war. Just add soldier.

(Rainbow trout, it was my poor eyesight (I kept misreading your words) and your khaki fatigue (by its power of suggestion to war) that made me come up with this.)

HOW TO TURN WATER INTO WINE IN A FLASH

Ingredients:
- water

Tools required:
- Jesus.

Turn water into wine in an instant.

Note: this has not been approved by the FDC or the FTA yet.