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An invention a day for the past 4 years

iotd.patrickandrews.com

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It scares me to think (parts of) how many will probably be patented even though this guy thought of them by himself.

That is part of his strategy, by publishing the ideas in his blog the ideas are now in the public domain and therefore not patentable. IBM used to publish a quarterly magazine with details of inventions they didn't think worthy of patenting so that others then could not patent them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Technical_Disclosure_Bullet...

TDBs were one of our (many) standard resources for finding prior art when I worked in IP.

This is like a more realistic Halfbakery.

http://halfbakery.com

I've been following the ideas of this guy also: http://stealchoofsideas.blogspot.com/

Would be worth a post of its own, some are really technical.

Cool site. I like this one http://www.antiyawn.com/stealmyidea/socialnewstime.jpg against the eternal september.

Didn't pg do this and found it made no difference in the quality of the posts?

it seems that he actually types his posts on a typewriter and scans

Typewriting has a visceral pleasure to it (correction tape and all) that no MacBook will ever come close to. I think this appeal to the visceral is why sometimes I will just pick up my notepad or find a napkin to brainstorm and avoid the iDevices.

He's the walking one man reason a lot of people would like to change patent law to be "first to file".

That is really impressive. Has anything been actually made yet?

And I really miss a rate system and/or a Best Inventions section. The "Feasible inventions" is not a complete replacement because it's ordered by time, not rate.

At least one has been made :) : http://www.patrickandrews.com/design/index.php?next=25

But I suspect he has more projects going on.

That is one product I would buy.

Is anyone else recieving a "bandwidth limit exceeded" message when they try to view the link?

http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/

Yes.

Text-only-semi-Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9INmQEi...

Apologies....situation fixed now at http://iotd.patrickandrews.com Thanks for all the comments, by the way.

The White Knight from Through the Looking Glass would be jealous.

The re-roll idea is brilliant.

silly Ideas are a dime a dozen

Four years of sustained imaginative effort isn't.

Also, at the very least going rate ($.10/12) his website is worth $146. That's more valuation than most startups (i.e., the countless failures) :)

Hm. Its an accomplishment I guess. Like a huge ball of string.

He gives all these ideas away for free, seems to have fun writing them, while making a point about IP in general ( http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/about/ ).

Why belittle the effort?

Doesn't belong here. How about pictures of my wife's cats?

Take a picture of your wifes cat every day for 4 years and then get back to us.

Exactly. Its a stunt, but not otherwise interesting.

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