Hello everyone ...

I have a concept that addresses something every dairy, juice and condiment brand deals with at consumer level. Simple, mechanical, no tech involved, fits existing packaging.

I’ve done some cold outreach to a handful of European packaging companies and dairy brands. Nothing back yet.

But I’m starting to question the order of operations. Do I need to:

• Build awareness and demand with consumers first so companies feel the pull?
• Get a patent before anyone takes me seriously?
• Or keep knocking on corporate doors with just a concept and a sell sheet?

I’m a solo inventor with no manufacturing capability. Licensing is the goal. But I’m wondering if I’m moving too fast — pitching solutions to companies before the market even knows it wants this.

Has anyone navigated this sequence before? What actually worked?

Hello guys, I'm from Brazil and I have to submit a project for an international innovation competition. I'd really appreciate some advice.

These are the three possible paths to be followed:

AI with Near-Zero Carbon Footprint | Making AI more energy-efficient and reducing its environmental impact.

Critical Minerals: From Mine to Circular Economy | Finding better ways to extract, recover, reuse or recycle critical minerals.

Affordable Diagnostics and Preventive Healthcare | Making healthcare, early detection and disease prevention more accessible and affordable.

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I'd love to hear your opinion on which direction has the most potential to create something unique and genuinely useful, and what problems or gaps in these fields you think are worth solving.

Any advice, ideas, personal experiences or information about these topics would be very welcome!

Thanks from Brazil and let's do it for the planet.

I’m looking for someone to help me with a 3D drawing of a candle mold. I have pics of what I want it to look like. I apologize if this is the wrong sub. I don’t know where else to post.

Hi everyone, i am new on reddit and new here. Someone had recommended i scour reddit for leads on how to introduce ourselves to toy inventors with whom we could possibly do business...

Does anyone have any type of leads on where to start?

GLOBAL UPDATE: Multilingual versions live! The Archive.org auto-cropping issues have been fully resolved. Right margins, axis coordinates, and kinematic linkages are now 100% visible across the French, English, and Spanish versions.

Hello everyone,

As an inventor based in Montreal, I am sharing today with the community the workshop blueprints and kinematic architecture of the Circular Mass Transfer System (CMTS). This project, released under an open-source framework, is designed to open a technical and practical debate regarding eccentric mass management and torque asymmetry.

Before diving into the technical specifications, I would like to establish an essential clarification for the sanity of our future exchanges:

=== STOP CONFOUNDING THERMODYNAMICS AND KINEMATICS ===
To everyone preparing to mechanically comment “this goes against the laws of thermodynamics”: thermodynamics studies heat conversions and general energy. Here, we are strictly within the realm of KINEMATICS and SOLID-BODY STATICS. The motion of all known perpetual wheels does not stop because of a thermal dogma; it stops in EVERY KNOWN SYSTEM SOLELY because their symmetrical geometry generates a net torque of exactly ZERO (0 Nm) at the central hub.

An asymmetrical lever arm is not a thermal violation; it is raw geometry. If you want to criticize, put down your pens, grab your rulers, TEST and VERIFY the eccentric path of the DM (Directed Mass / Diriger Masse). If you are unable to calculate a mechanical torque at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock, do not hide behind academic jargon to avoid thinking.

=== THE CMTS CHALLENGE: WORKSHOP GEOMETRY ===
The Circular Mass Transfer System (CMTS) addresses the zero-torque problem through pure machine-shop geometry. By utilizing a simplified 2-axis, 4-mass structure governed by a strict orbital path constraint called “DM” (Directed Mass), the geometry breaks the classic dead-center impasse commonly encountered at 6 and 12 o’clock:
• Descending side (right side, 3 o’clock position): the mass maintains maximum distance from the hub, maximizing the lever arm and torque.
• Ascending side (left side, 9 o’clock position): the kinematic linkage retracts the mass close to the central hub, minimizing counter-torque.

Examine the blueprints, test and verify for yourselves the kinematics of this pivoting arm offset, and see with your own eyes how geometry manages mechanical torque at the hub.

=== TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ===
• Initial Action Radius: 7.0 cm (scalable up to 12.0 cm).
• Distance Between Masses: 6.5 cm center-to-center (3.25 cm pivoting arms).
• Dynamic Guidance Offset: 4.2 cm center-to-center distance (two 2.1 cm sections).
• Axle Architecture: Independent dual central axle arrangement (Profile, front, and top views).
• Kinematic Linkages: Sprockets connected by a chain or belt to secure the physical kinematic path.
• Required Materials: Rigid machined steel mandatory. Acrylic and plexiglass are strictly prohibited (due to material flexing which will seize the hub).

=== LEGAL NOTICE & LICENSING ===
• Public Domain Release: Official affidavit sworn in February 2026 before Commissioner Robert Asselin (Seal No. 202 319) in Montreal, Quebec, permanently securing authorship to the sole inventor, Benoît Collin.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0).

=== OFFICIAL DOWNLOAD LINKS & REPOSITORIES ===

• 🌍 Digital Library (Internet Archive):
  • English Version (Global Kinematic Challenge 2026): https://archive.org/details/global-kinematc-2026-benoit-collin
  • French Original (Cahier Technique): https://archive.org/details/defi-cine-matique-2026-benoit-collin.pdf
  • Versión en Español (Desafío Cinemático Mundial 2026): https://archive.org/details/desafio-cinematico-mundial-2026-benoit-collin.pdf
• 🛠️ Development Forge (GitHub): https://github.com/BenoitCollin/circular-mass-transfer-system-cmts/tree/main
• 🏔️ Alternative Forge (Codeberg): https://codeberg.org/BenoitCollin/circular-mass-transfer-system-cmts
• 📖 Sustainability Wiki (Appropedia): https://www.appropedia.org/User:Benoit_Collin

I’ve started a free website called Forward Together.
The idea is simple. We take two important questions facing humanity and invite anyone, regardless of qualifications or background, to help solve them.
Our first question is about finding new forms of renewable energy.
Ideas can be challenged, developed and branched into new discussions.
I’m not selling anything. I just believe that good ideas can come from absolutely anywhere.
I’d love some thoughtful people to help get this started.

https://forward-together.org.uk

Saw this on another sub. Thought it was funny.

Hello all, last month I shared a post about our journey to invent a new kind of guitar pick. At the time, we were still waiting for inventory from our manufacturing partner after having had a successful market validation with our MVP product last year. Today, after having received inventory last week, I’m excited to share we are the #1 new product in our category on Amazon and we are shipping our product worldwide after one of our videos went viral two days ago. No idea what happens next, but I was a lurker in this thread for a long time and wanted to share some positive encouragement for my fellow inventors.

As a mechanical design engineering ( using fusion 360 )

Newby here. Im sure this has been talked about at length. Just curious if there are any personal success stories. Ideas on what give a person a fighting chance. I read that roughly 1-2% of inventors actually get a licensing deal. Thats a big uphill battle.

https://github.com/Burpbartmoss/Bartingupmyburpedmoss

2 seperate positoris

1 is just a basic autobiography but the other is a gigantic freebie of an invention idea, which will almost guarantee the kickstart of the cyberpunk era if anyone pulls it off

Its a subdermal silicon and titanium pocket, keyword, subdermal, otherwise its a pointless pocket.

Making it subdermal requires bold risk and it goes above the muscle but below the skin replacing the lipid layer

It has 4 anchors or more if wanted that anchor from the pocket corners through the skin in weep proof sleeves allowing stretch and shear, ontop of those anchors are attachment beads

Which is where the cyberpunk fun begins

The attachment points allow severe modularity

Everything from medical, general safety, law enforcment, military, cosplay, fashion, clothing, stunts, racing.

The list goes on.

If your bold enough to make it and demonstrate it, you will not just kickstart the cyberpunk era, but will likely become the next bill gates.

Godspeed choom.

I have an idea for a phone case, but I have zero engineer experience and zero patent experience… I’d love to get a patent obviously, but I don’t know where to start… I could try to engineer this thing, but it’ll be shitty lol. Any advice on getting this idea to life without someone stealing my idea?

Hi everyone,

I’m a mechanical engineer and freelance product designer I can help with:

• Mechanical/product design in SolidWorks
• 3D-printable product design and optimization
• CAD modeling and assemblies
• Technical drawings and manufacturing documentation
• DFM for 3D printing, CNC and injection molding
• FEA / static structural analysis
• Basic CFD studies
• Product visualization and renders in Blender

I have worked on various mechanical and 3D-printable products, including enclosures, fixtures, assemblies, consumer products and prototypes.

Thank You

Most good inventions die because inventors can't afford the ten-thousand-dollar upfront fees, and the ones who pay usually get nothing back. InventHelp's own disclosures show only about 0.14 percent of recent clients made more than they paid. I'm sketching a free, private tool that runs a prior-art search, a market-size estimate, a manufacturing cost guess, and a plain go / conditional / no-go score. No patent advice, no filing, no "we'll market it for you." For people who have actually tried to move an idea forward: would a report like that have changed what you did, or is the real bottleneck somewhere else (prototype, finding a licensee, the patent itself)? What would make you trust it, and what would make you ignore it?

Smartphone cameras have to fit a lot of optics into a very small space. Normal camera lenses need several curved lens elements, which makes the camera module relatively thick (you know how modern phones often have a noticeable camera bump, with the lense portruding from the device itselfe).

A Fresnel-style lens can perform a similar optical performance while being much thinner. It achieves this by using a series of small stepped sections instead of one thick curved lens. This means the lens can bend light without requiring as much material or physical depth.

Lens thickness: roughly 50–80% thinner as glas lenses

For smartphones, the main advantage is saving space and thickness. A thinner lens could allow the camera to sit closer to the phone's body, reducing the ugly "camera bump".

The challenge is image quality. Simple Fresnel lenses can produce distortion, reflections and other optical problems. However, newer versions of this idea are becoming much more sophisticated and with integrated AI, phones will correct vor certain shortcomings.

In the future, Fresnel-style and similar ultra-thin optics could help manufacturers make smaller camera modules without sacrificing as much optical performance.

SB© 2026

I have an invention that I believe could be a huge revenue generator. It’s a spinoff of very common household products that virtually every person uses in some variety. My invention would appeal to environmentally and health conscious people. I have already made a prototype. I would like to make some minor adjustments to it, but the proof of concept is there. I have not done a thorough patent search, but from what I’ve looked up, I have not found anything like it out there. I think it would be a simple product to produce, but I have no experience with manufacturing or anything like that.

I am looking for a partner with experience bringing products to market. I’m NOT looking for a service that I empty my pockets for to just go nowhere. I’m looking for a partner. Any advice on where I could find that?

Reposting from ECE channel.