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Re: Office chair rolls that don't ruin the floor

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:00 am ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Office chair rolls that don't ruin the floor ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 32738

It's not the chair, it's the MagLev axle-less sphere wheel assemblies that can mount to any movable device that you sit on or move. Also, by nature of its method of function it also eliminates the possibility of any 'rocking motion' due to uneven (even cobblestone) floors. Two bird killed... It's 4:...

Re: Install directional sound tv in hospital rooms

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:48 am ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Install directional sound tv in hospital rooms ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 3795

Can you imagine a 500 room hospital with 500 patients buzzing for the nurse to come rotate their screen every time they roll over? Besides that, the last three hospitals I visited patients in, all TVs were mounted near the ceiling out of harms way and out of reach of most nurses arms without a stepp...

Re: Electric Bill Calculator

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Sun Jun 08, 2008 2:42 am ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Electric Bill Calculator ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 11884

There was a similar topic in CP years ago. In that thread there was a post about at least one existing device that was a combination of a common clamp-over AC current meter and a calculator. You type in your cost per kilowatt hour as shown on your electric bill and then clamp it over any wire on you...

Re: Rotated TV picture for hospitals

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:35 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Install directional sound tv in hospital rooms ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 3795

My guess is that an existing (already on the market) wireless remote pillow speaker would be better for the sound. As for tilting the picture, this would be an excellent idea to suggest to TV manufacturers who could simply redesign the display circuitry to rotate the picture electronically (and sile...

Re: Advertising idea

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:23 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Advertising idea ¦  Replies: 7 ¦  Views: 6740

You're right, that would be an ideal method and place to advertise especially if the ads were both entertaining and only about the businesses within the building or hotel. Anything else might be regarded as audio visual spam. It would only take one offended person to easily destroy it. I once had an...

Re: Office chair rolls that don't ruin the floor

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:37 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Office chair rolls that don't ruin the floor ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 32738

It took a few hours of Googling but I found a company in China that can make the 5 inch (127 mm) hollow neodymium spheres with thick anti-static silicone rubber coating that contact the floor/carpet. ..don't worry, this info is not a patentable detail.

Re: Office chair rolls that don't ruin the floor

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:19 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Office chair rolls that don't ruin the floor ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 32738

BTW.. I now have 7 patents and prototypes in process at local inventor workshops and all are funded by investors that found me here in the CreativityPool because CP threads are high in the Google hit lists these days. I'm hoping the MagLevGlide will be #8.

Re: Office chair rolls that don't ruin the floor

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:51 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Office chair rolls that don't ruin the floor ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 32738

This turned out to be so easy to design and prototype and so needed and practical that I couldn't resist. I already have a MagLev (Halbach Array) appliance being prototyped at a local inventors work shop and have a ton of extra neodymium magnets left over so why not do both? Thanks for the idea Steve!

Re: Taco In a Bag - TIB

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:20 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Taco In a Bag - TIB ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 4218

I have never seen nor heard of "Taco in a Bag" but you've made me curious. Does the bag have multiple chambers to separate the ingredients during storage? I love tacos -- who sells them? Also, with all those sticky ingredients like salsa, cheese, grease, and sour cream, how would you get i...

Re: Receipt Scanner in Cars

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:59 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Receipt Scanner in Cars ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 3543

Now THIS is a really great idea! ;D I was just thinking about this last night when I dialed into my bank account for a balance and noticed that my bank, unlike some others do, do not post impending charges that haven't been processed yet. I have bounced more than a few debit payments because of an i...

Re: Star-wars style mosquito zapper

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:41 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Star-wars style mosquito zapper ¦  Replies: 7 ¦  Views: 11333

In Waco, Texas USA, where my father lived, mosquito's were a huge problem. Everywhere you went you would see back yards with multiple bird houses up on tall thin poles designed for mosquito eating birds. One summer in the 1980's during a visit, I noticed that there were no more mosquitos and no more...

Re: Pests controller

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:15 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Pests controller ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 3024

A Laser powerful enough to kill a flying insect is also powerful enough to damage an eye. Fail safe sensor circuity that can tell the difference between an insect and a human eye would be VERY expensive these days. And thus, there would be attorneys with cameras hanging out at every entrance using o...

Re: Alarm Clock

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:04 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Alarm Clock ¦  Replies: 6 ¦  Views: 20775

Yep.. I just had to try it to make sure it was still there. If you only type "ALARM CLOCK" into the search box you'll get 4 or 5 pages of different alarm clock ideas. If you type "ALARM CLOCK SQUIRT GUN" into the search box you'll get the thread I was talking about: http://www.cr...

Re: Alarm Clock

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:56 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Alarm Clock ¦  Replies: 6 ¦  Views: 20775

Hello Scout.. This was fully covered in a previous thread (years ago) here on the CreativityPool. The end result (alarm squirts water in face) ended up winning awards at two different school science fair projects. Try searching for it in the search box above right. There are complete instructions in...

Re: Cheap fast house

 by Michael D. Grissom ¦  Sat May 24, 2008 10:46 pm ¦  Forum: Creativity Pool ¦  Topic: Cheap fast house ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 5524

George.. this is the cheap fast house (3 story Geodesic Dome) I built. It took 3.5 years of weekends and evenings and the insides looked like the bridge of the BattleStar Galactica. Once I had lived there for a few years I knew I could never again be satisfied with a standard box home with square ro...

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