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What frustrates you?
auggywonger
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Hi guys,
I'm a senior electrical engineering student and for one of my project courses, the professors want us to invent a product we can eventually patent. Obviously, coming up with a patentable idea is proving difficult. And that is why I am here.
I want to create something that alleviates people's frustrations with something. So, I just wanted to ask you guys what frustrates you in your daily lives? What gets you worked up? Maybe we can create a product which can cure that.
Thanks!
I'm a senior electrical engineering student and for one of my project courses, the professors want us to invent a product we can eventually patent. Obviously, coming up with a patentable idea is proving difficult. And that is why I am here.
I want to create something that alleviates people's frustrations with something. So, I just wanted to ask you guys what frustrates you in your daily lives? What gets you worked up? Maybe we can create a product which can cure that.
Thanks!
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You could take an existing product and think of it in a new way, re-designing it to perform in a new way. Or you could possibly take something that the public as no access to and make it available. One example is this:
You have no doubt heard of OnStar, correct? That system that tracks cars and links them through to the manufacturer to allow them to see if it has been in an accident or open the car if the keys are inside. Another example is that Link Schlag phone activated door locking system. It allows you to lock and unlock the door with a simple button push from your cell phone. You may be able to see if you can come up with a consumer version of that system but allow it for cars, truck, w/e. I am not sure of the patent holdings for this system though, and cannot say whether it would breach their patent holdings, but you could always look and then patent it yourself.
I'll say it again, think of an idea that would either solve a small problem most people encounter, or a large problem few encounter. You could shoot for world changing, but that would take a lot of time, effort, and of course capital. Best of luck to you in this regard.
PS- What frustrates me? hmmm.... well, I would say mostly other people are the cause for such frustration, but you cannot create a school project that would "solve" the "problem" of other people short of creating a weapon. :P I am kiding of course.
Best of luck.
"It is not enough that I succeed, all other must fail." -Genghis Khan
Not one product that claims to eliminate them actually does.
also something that will boil potatoes faster.
basically i hate potatoes.
electronic tracking devices for money so you can follow it if it gets stolen. (though i think this has been done and also i just thought of it because i mentioned it in another thread.)
oh. how about a pip boy in some form or another. well, i'm trying to help for "ideas", none of these are good but they might lead to something.
I don't think you can patent a subway system though.
Nightmare mode:
I want ONE. SINGLE. CABLE. per device. Period. I don't care how, just do it.
our college had some clauses that anything created for a class was intellectual property of the college. Now they ask you to come up with something patentable which you cannot now own with their silly rules of hey we are gonna steal this from you without some giant legal battle.
this was for computer science majors. you don't want to be the guy who creates the next yahoo, google, etc... only to have no rights to it. Look up in your school rules/handbook or ask your professor about this. If you do manage to come up with a good idea the last thing you want is having it stolen or having to fight in court for it.
or just look for ideas to something so unnecessary it makes you laugh, think Billy Mays type garbage or that recent episode of Sunny in Philly.... are your Kittens too loud? Try Kitten Mittons!
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I'm with this guy.
If you can fix this, it would be epic.
My new iPhone headphones came with a little triangular case, completely eliminates tangled headphones so long as I store them in there.
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I want no cables. Or, like, 1 cable that links to a hub that connects to another hub wirelessly where all my stupid wires are. I hate having 80 million wires sprouting out of my computer and all over the floor (my desk isn't against a wall), I want more wireless, and fewer wires
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH