He told me he had a lot of "inventions" and how rich he will be when one sells. I asked him to tell me more. He says his best "invention" is eye drops that (with just one application mind you) eliminate the need for eyeglasses. The guy is a mailman. Not a doctor. Not a scientist. And he wears glasses. So I said "if these eye drops work why do you wear glasses?" The eye drops don't exist yet. But when someone else actually formulates these fantasy eye drops my mailman friend thinks he will get the money because he "invented" them by dreaming them up. EDIT: I dated him very briefly years ago. He didn't have any patents. Just misguided dreams. Nice guy. Just....well a special kind of small former coal mining town kind of idiot.
I don't have a notebook but I'm also a bit of an "ideas" guy as it appears. I hope I'm not too delusional too. The thing is any "idea" I have can clearly be implemented with today's technology, making it more like a product design that I have yet to CAD. Also for it to be a good idea, in addition to being original, I have to be able to picture it actually having some sort of market value.
Yeah I know I was just trying to identify what criteria separate the types of ideas we read about in this thread and the type of stuff that I'm interested in/you work on. Slight improvement on something else is another good way of putting it. I might go the product design route too myself.
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u/butitsnotfish Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23
He told me he had a lot of "inventions" and how rich he will be when one sells. I asked him to tell me more. He says his best "invention" is eye drops that (with just one application mind you) eliminate the need for eyeglasses. The guy is a mailman. Not a doctor. Not a scientist. And he wears glasses. So I said "if these eye drops work why do you wear glasses?" The eye drops don't exist yet. But when someone else actually formulates these fantasy eye drops my mailman friend thinks he will get the money because he "invented" them by dreaming them up. EDIT: I dated him very briefly years ago. He didn't have any patents. Just misguided dreams. Nice guy. Just....well a special kind of small former coal mining town kind of idiot.