BadComrade wrote:Another one of my ideas was a winter coat lined with a heating element (basically like an electric blanket) which would run off of a (pretty large) battery. I know I wouldn't mind having to carry a 5 or 10 pound battery in a backpack while walking down the street being nice and warm when it's freezing fucking cold out.
Couldn't you make it so it ran off solar energy? Shit it might not work at night and the days are shorter in the winter but who knows. Maybe it could store up solar heat. Thermal transfer should be easy too harness. They should make a coat that you could put in the oven and it would heat up and retain that heat for an hour or two but that would only work if you're going between places that have ovens.
I was stumbling home drunk one evening in college and came up with the idea of shoes that you could wear and attach rollerblade wheels to. I was thinking I was going to be a fucking millionaire until I woke up the next morning and saw that there were already like 2 or 3 companies doing this.
I also had a friend who, when we were 8, came up with the idea of putting a beeper on the TV or VCR remote and a button on the TV or VCR you could push and it could help you locate it if it was lost. This was a brillant idea but we were really young and knew nothing about getting the idea sold. I think it was even a few years later that companies were putting this feature on their products so he might have had time to promote it.
