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Buck Houston
 United Kingdom
Friendly Bath Mat Seeking House-Share Printer Friendly Version
A bath mat made from rubber, with hundreds of 15mm tentacles which stick up vertically and cushion/massage the foot whilst draining the excess water away to the base of the mat (much as the latest pub drip trays)... There should then be a removable plug facility in the base so that the water which has drained into the capacity base can be poured away after use. The joy is that the mat may be used by a house-full of people without anyone suffering the soggy bath mat fate of going second etc. AND there are probably reflexology related benefits from the movable tentacles on the sole too. I think a transparent rubber would be cool and you could also do funky 'imac' style colours too as well as a kinky black version?
Reward: Some bath mats as described - various colours and a trip to the factory of origin.
 

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nine81
 Australia
Star-wars style mosquito zapper Printer Friendly Version
General Description:
I really dislike being woken by mosquitos during the night buzzing around my ears or biting me. The basic idea I have is to create a star-wars style laser based mozzie zapper that will work most effectively during the sleeping hours of the night. The zapper will be chemical free, which will make it safe to use in a babies room or for people with allergies.
To understand the method of implementation, a number of facts are required to be understood...
* The audio frequency created by the beating of a mosquitos wings is within a particular range of frequencies - This allows us to target that specific frequency range.

* An accurate point in space can be pin-pointed using triangulation.

* A laser can have it's output wavelength adjusted to effect objects of particular thicknesses (this works using resonant theory) and can have it's pulse adjusted allowing it to be most effective at a specific focal point.
Method of implimentation:
* Set up a room with four or more sensitive microphones - three of them must be evenly spaced around the upper circumference of the room and the fourth (and others added for accuracy to get around obsticles such as furniture etc) will need to be added to the lowest point of the room - at least four listening points are required to triangulate in three dimensions.

* The audio signal collected by the microphones is filtered to "listen" to only the frequency range that is emitted by mosquito wings.

* When the microphones detect a point source emitting audio within this frequency (ie - they "hear" a mozzie) the exact location in the room can be identified using triangulation.

* The correct pulse rate can then be calculated by the main system and the laser can be focused to the exact location in the room.

* At this point the laser is pulsed - which basically burns the wings off the mozzie. The mozzie will then die relatively quickly after the wings have been cooked off if not from trauma, then from starvation... Regardless, the mozzie will not be flying around any more.

* The mozzies can then simply be swept or vacuumed up in the morning.
Advantages:

* Due to the fact that the laser will be focussed to that point and the pulse width can be adjusted to suite, there is no chance of cooking your curtains or anything silly like that.

* No chemicals

* Safe
Disadvantages:

* Cost of manufactrue, and therefore cost to consumer.
Reward: free lifetime personal use of the finished product
 

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AlmightyGod
 USA
Electronic Arthritis Pain Reliever Printer Friendly Version
My idea is based on the simple electronic heating pad I frequently use at night for relief of the arthritis pain I experience often in my left arm. How often I have wished that...
1.) The ends were sewn together to form a sleeve that my arm would fit into comfortabley and...
2.) the pad was powered either by batteries (maybe convential aaa battieries or such... MAYBE watch style batteries since those last forever and/or was powered by a "recharge it during the day use it at night" type system... like a flashlight I have that always stays on the recharger... until I need it then I unplug it and use it). Either system for powering it would be better than plugging it into a wall where If I am wearing my 'Arthritis Pain Relief Sleeve' and fall asleep, turn over and as a result unplug it the heat goes off. If someone could invent this so I could eventually purchase one from Kmart or Wallmart I would be soooo appreciative.


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