People who drive race cars understand that they are hard to enter and exit. There may be roll cages and carbon fibre tubs to negotiate as well as seat bolsters and head restraints.

Much of this driver packaging doesn’t work very well in a road going sports car. Not only do race cars offer a restricted field of view, but ordinary drivers are a good deal fatter and less mobile than the average track pilot.

Yet, roadgoing sportscars tend to mimic the features of their racing brethren. This means that the ‘racing’ seat option will often have side and leg bolsters which rise high above the seat surface to provide some bracing as you enter the Mulsanne straight (in your dreams).

After a short while, the leather or alcantara gets so badly scuffed here that it looks like an old teddy bear’s paw. This is costly to fix/replace.

Today’s invention is therefore sportscar seats whose bolsters hinge out of the way to allow the driver/ passenger easier access (along axes A-B and B-C) (There would need to be a locking mechanism too).

Yes of course these can be motorised (at the usual enormous cost of options).

I live in a house with lots of books (good) and dogs (not so good).

Animals create a lot of dust and this clogs the outer page surfaces of books, even when stored in a bookcase.

Today’s invention is a better dust cover. It comes with an extra flap on one side (a) which can be folded into the other side of the cover (c), leaving a roof over the page edges (b).

A similar flap could be made to wrap the front edge of the pages (opposite the spine).

Although marginally more expensive, this dust cover could be filled with even more breathy praise for the work inside than normal…(or just ads for the next book).

(I didn’t like yesterday’s lens cap thing, on further reflection, so I just replaced it…)

Hospitals, labs and kitchens are badly affected by micro-organisms on many working surfaces.

Normal taps are in contact with infected hands, and may act as a source of cross contamination, if they not cleaned frequently.

Today’s invention is therefore a tap shaped so as to ensure that the touched surfaces, and the user’s hands, get washed every time it’s used.

Call me an intellectual snob if you like, but I mistrust eg hotel ratings which are made by people who can’t write reasonably well.

Today’s invention is therefore to re-evaluate the ratings which people apply to products and services inversely in proportion to the calculated reading age of writers of the associated comments.

It seems that it’s not to hard these days to compute reading age, based on smallish numbers of words.

(I talked this idea over with some of the good folk at Google, but they didn’t like it).