Category: Feasible inventions

According to Targeting Innovation 4.8 billion people have a mobile phone while only 4.2 billion own a toothbrush.

Given the general health benefits of oral hygiene, today’s invention offers a way to combine these two devices.

Each basic mobile phone (with a protuberant aerial) would come supplied with a rounded crocodile clip on the end.

This would be used to secure a natural brush, such as a thistle, burdock or a clump of wool to the end of the antenna.

Engaging the phone’s vibrate mode would create a primitive but effective buzzing, similar to that of electric toothbrushes, and enabling a more effective tooth cleaning regime.

I can’t understand how all those Holywood companies expect people to consume movies on handheld devices.

The screensize in general makes watching a film on one wholly different from the big screen experience in a cinema.

Today’s invention is a way to make better mobile movies.

A film is shown to a test audience using eye trackers. This allows determination of where people are looking on the screen.

Small areas centred on these points of interest would then be automatically extracted to form a sequence – a more watchable mobile version of the original product.

Today’s invention is a bicycle frame which incorporates two solid rear wheel discs and a chain cover.

The rear wheel axle is held between the solid disks, so that all the chain and gear change mechanism is encapsulated between them.

This reduces greatly the amount of drag associated with spinning wheels and thrashing drive train on a high speed racing bike.

I hate having to inflate the tyres on my car. Specifically, I hate having to crouch in the dark, whilst using a filthy, heavy piece of communal equipment which hisses sporadically, rasps the paint off my vehicle and charges me 10p per tyre.

Then there are the dust caps. Working so as to get the job done before the compressor gives out requires a certain deftness. Should the caps all be removed beforehand to speed inflation?

Today’s invention represents an attempt to avoid losing one’s dustcaps (and temper) on the forecourt.

Each cap is made in two sections joined by an integral strap. The cap is rotated as a whole until the top half comes free. This helps wipe the threads clean.

Now the airline is attached, so that at no point must cap be removed from valve.

If for some reason it becomes detached, then the dayglo green colour makes finding it relatively easy.

Children and adults differ in terms of the amount and type of illumination they like to see applied to their meals.

Today’s invention is to supply meals for fussy eaters in a transparent, modular tray, fitted to and placed upon the surface of an iPad or other tablet.

This machine knows the location and type of food in each modular recess, and can illuminate each from beneath with light of the most appetising colour(s).

Once a section is sensed to have been emptied (ie by the decrease in screen pressure of a moulded bump on the underside)…a small animation could run within that section, saying ‘well done’.

Today’s invention is an application which makes airline meals a bit more interactive.

Before any food arrives, passengers (probably in business class only initially) could choose items using their seat-back touch screen, from a menu showing actual photographs of the meals.

If a particular dish had run out, the system would apologise and suggest alternatives.

Elements of the meal would, once touched, display data about calorie count, the chef who thought it up, its ethnic origin and statistics on how many people had chosen it.

On delivery, diners could then rate each item via the screen.

There are two different scales of Lego brick. The normal size and the much larger Duplo size (shown).

These are incompatible in terms of joining the two types together.

Today’s invention is therefore a Lego/Duplo interface brick.

The underside would be ‘female’ and allow accommodation of Duplo ‘male’ brick surfaces. The top surface would be male and accommodate the ‘female’ underside of the smaller Lego bricks.

In this way, a child growing out of Duplo could still use their old bricks with the finer scale Lego ones.