What have you invented?

Question

I don't mean anything great or famous, but something that exercised your abstract reasoning.

I will start: The chicken hawks were having a feast on my wild chickens (Guineas). So, I invented a reverse chicken trap. I lived out in the wilderness, so I placed these traps so when the chickens needed to find cover from the chicken hawks, they could run into these little boxes and the door would automatically close behind them. It was designed to open when the chicken simply pushed against the door. But the poor chickens couldn't muster the courage to come out or even touch the door. They seemed afraid to move once the door slammed shut behind them.

Dear "apoll" and "bronze" please tell a few details.

These are good answers. When I lose confidence in the human race, I simply like to ask folks "what have you invented", your answers are examples of proof that we are not robots.

Answer 1

I never really considered what I do to be inventions but I guess they could be. I create solutions to business problems. I work in a fast-paced, ever-changing eBusiness environment for a large distributor. I create and implement new business processes that my employees use every day.

Example: I worked with programmers to create a database for storing business communications about new, changing, or discontinued products that my company sells. We have to notify all locations across the country when these situations occur. Now, communications are sent via email to all locations and stored for future reference. This is just one example of many.

Answer 2

Not an invention, but a series of adaptations.

I have very active rheumatoid arthritis, and my hands don't work well. I can type easily, but things such as opening pull-top cans, holding a telephone hand set-they present a challenge. I had to find ways around this.

For opening pull-top cans, I use a fork with a round handle as a lever. I can get the pull ring in an upright position by using the tines, then I insert the handle and pull. Simple.

I attached a self-sdhesive velcro loop-large enough to fit around my hand-to the back of my telephone. Now when I need to talk, I simply slip my hand through it. This eliminates the need to bend swollen, painful fingers.

There are other little tricks that help me through my day.

Answer 3

Okay, I'll take a go. In my truck we have automatic windows. Our darling cat would sometimes put his feet on the door to look out the window and suddenly push the button and roll the window all the way down as we are driving down the road at 65 miles an hour. It was scary and I was afraid he'd get pulled out of the truck.

So I trimmed a hard piece of plastic to fit directly over the button on the passenger side and taped it down with gorilla tape. Now when he goes to peek out the window, his paw steps on the plastic and doesn't activate the window button. We can still reach under the plastic cover though to roll the window up and down.

Necessity is the mother of invention, eh? :)

Answer 4

My son makes Houdini look untalented (he's not even 2). I have invented many many devices to keep him out and stuff in places. We are also trying to rig a button that you have to push to flip the light switches, my house is like a disco some days.

Answer 5

I have no shame...... so.....



As a young boy i invented this.... You take a small match box attach a rubber band to it and to a peace of note paper inside. This you put on your wrist under you sleeve. On the paper you put notes for you exam. If the teacher walks by they snap back into hiding.

Answer 6

when we were living in our shack in the bush my husband and I invented an awesome board game, does that count? We are still waiting to afford to patent and market it, but everyone who's played it loves it! We spent countless hours and days making little pieces for it and getting it all just perfect.

Answer 7

My last "invention" was a means of generating square-waves of arbitrary duration. We had an arbitrary waveform generator, but the clock frequency of this generator limited our ability to create precise square-waves at low frequency. Low frequency sine generation was possible at precise frequencies, so I used the sine-wave generator to trigger a comparator, thus achieving precise, high-resolution, low frequency square-waves.

Answer 8

I invented something to help people with arthritis open pop cans and pull zippers

Answer 9

I invented a rubber glove, with it's fingers having a spoon to help those who lost their hand eating.

Answer 10

The wicked b!^@# doctrine degree!