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Posted on 04.28.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 8:37 pm
With the internet firmly planted in place, it is about time for doctor’s appointment scheduling to go online. It would be nice to go to your doctor’s website and pick from several open time slots, rather than having to call your doctor and negotiate the time of your appointment. Online doctor’s appointment scheduling would be especially useful in cases where you are juggling lots of commitments at once. For example, if you are a mother who has to negotiate your schedule with your husband and four children before making any appointments, such a system would be a big improvement from the old way of scheduling by phone. You could just gather everyone around the computer screen and find the first open slot that works out for everyone’s independent schedule. Filed under: Possible and Realistic and Useful and Simplifies your Life and Graphical Comments: 1039 Comments |
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Posted on 04.27.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 11:22 pm
This kitchen appliance takes shredded, grated, or crumbled cheese and transforms it into a solid block of cheese. It sounds pointless at first, but give it a chance. Here’s why: you can mix different varieties of shredded or grated cheese together to create your own new types of cheese. For example, let’s say your favorite cheeses are cheddar, parmesan, and feta. You put shredded cheddar, grated parmesan, and crumbled feta cheese into the appliance. Flip the switch, and wait for the cheese to be created. When the light turns off, your cheese is done. Remove your cheese from the appliance and slice it. Congratulations, you have successfully made cheddar-parmesan-feta. Use the slices of your cheese for sandwiches, or serve them on a pretty tray with crackers. Your party guests who have already tasted every standard variety of cheese will be pleasantly surprised. Filed under: Strange and Potential for Infomercials and Improbable and Useful and Utility Patent Comments: 204 Comments |
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Posted on 04.26.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 9:57 am
Like a bread machine, a salad machine turns raw ingredients into something delicious that would otherwise take time to create. Put the head of lettuce in the main compartment. Add hard vegetables, such as carrots and cucumbers, to one of the side compartments to be sliced. Add soft vegetables, such as tomatoes, to another compartment to be sliced more carefully. Add dressing to another side compartment to be tossed with the salad. Add cheese, nuts, and other small bits to another side compartment to be mixed in during tossing. To clean it, you just have to fill the side compartments with soap and water, put the machine into cleaning mode, and simply turn it on. It washes itself, collecting bits and pieces in a single mesh-lined compartment for easy disposal. Filed under: Possible and Realistic and Potential for Infomercials and Useful and Simplifies your Life and Utility Patent Comments: 1429 Comments |
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Posted on 04.25.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 10:08 pm
These parking meters automatically detect your car when you park at them. Then they charge your parking account automatically, rather than requiring quarters or parking cards. In general, they are less of a pain than the parking meters that take quarters. You never have to scramble for quarters, buying unnecessary cups of coffee just so that you can get your parking meter change. They don’t let you get away with anything, though. If you’re parked for more than two hours in a two-hour parking space, then you automatically get charged the price of a parking ticket. Filed under: Possible and Realistic and Utility Patent Comments: 351 Comments |
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Posted on 04.24.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 4:46 pm
This chair has an attached blanket, to keep you warm. Sit in the chair, and pull a flap of the blanket over yourself from each side of the chair. Since the blanket is actually part of the chair, the seal between the blanket and the chair is much stronger than if you had covered yourself with an ordinary blanket. To make the blanket easier to wash, the chair-blanket cover could be removable. Simply slip off the cover, put it in the laundry, and it’s fresh again. Filed under: Possible and Realistic and Potential for Infomercials and Useful and Utility Patent Comments: 460 Comments |
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Posted on 04.21.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 1:38 pm
This refrigerator has a stationary exercise bicycle attached to it. The only way to open the door of the refrigerator is to sit on the bicycle and pedal for 0.5 miles. That way, you never eat without exercising first. Did you forget something in the refrigerator? Oh, then you’ll have to pedal for another 0.5 miles before you can open the door again. Sorry. The disadvantage would be that it encourages the owner to eat out more often, because it becomes a million times more convenient. Also, someone could just prop the door open, which is even worse because keeping the refrigerator door a crack open is a waste of energy. Filed under: Possible and Improbable and Useful and Utility Patent Comments: 180 Comments |
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Posted on 04.20.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 11:59 am
The Air Bookshelf prevents books from collecting dust and acquiring odors over time. It works by circulating a current of air throughout the shelves, once a day. Dust is dislodged from the tops of books, and enough air flows between the pages of the books to keep them fresh. Vents along the sides, tops, bottoms, and backs of bookshelves remove the stale, day-old air and replace it with purified air from the room. Purification ensures that the dusty air is not recirculated into the room, nor is unclean air from the room (e.g. air with oil and cooking odors) circulated into the books. Filed under: Possible and Realistic and Potential for Infomercials and Useful and Utility Patent Comments: 149 Comments |
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Posted on 04.19.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 10:41 am
Taxonomy refrigerator magnets are simple enough for a small child to understand. These flat refrigerator magnets have pictures of animals printed on them. On the reverse side of each magnet, you have the taxonomic classification information about the animal. So you can try grouping the animals using your memory and your common sense only, and then you can peek at the reverse side of each animal to check your groupings. Why bother with this? Because kids love animals, and there’s no reason not to teach them about taxonomy before they start losing interest in animals. Filed under: Educational and Graphical and Design Patent Comments: 156 Comments |
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Posted on 04.14.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 11:51 am
Let’s face it, getting a patent is a long, arduous process. You have to break through various levels of bureaucracy, including lawyers. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could type in a simple Unix command to get a patent? Just specify a filename where your invention’s description is located on your computer. The computer would search for existing patents that are similar and return a list. You sort through that list, and if you still want to go through with the patent, it’s easy. The computer prompts you, “File patent? There will be a $500 charge to your PayPal account. Is that okay?” If you go through with it, the computer pays the filing fees, and then you get a confirmation receipt. Then you get a certificate in the mail, or whatever you’re supposed to get. But isn’t Unix terribly complicated, you ask? Yes, but nowhere near as complicated as the process of getting a patent. Filed under: Strange and Improbable and Useful and Simplifies your Life Comments: 269 Comments |
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Posted on 04.14.05 by Patent My Ideas @ 2:25 am
This device induces dreams in the subject of your choice. Dreams can be productive, or they can be a utopian vacation. You can meet people and fall in love, or you can hang out with your childhood friends. At a chosen interval, the device will speak keywords and key phrases relating to the subject that you want to dream about. The voice is soft enough not to awaken you, but it is loud enough to influence your dreams. Dreams are often filled with highly creative, random thinking. A dream inducer can help you make the most of your dreamtime, in the ways that you want to use the time. Filed under: Possible and Realistic and Strange and Potential for Infomercials and Utility Patent Comments: 590 Comments |
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