DU inventors

[HEyHEY]

Why don't you invent something that enables one to lift and put down a toilet seat without actually touching the seat..perhaps a foot peddle or something.

...That is all

[sus]

1. I already invented post-its.

I'm exhausted...

[Ganja Ninja]

2. It's already been done by the Japanese.

Wouldn't you know it.

[HEyHEY]

4. So how come it isn't over here?

Also, I thought the Japanese only had those squatty toilets

[Ganja Ninja]

7. I don't know if it's actually on the market but I remember seeing ..

it on TV. It will also check your urine if your a diabetic, wash you where the sun don't shine, blow you dry after the wash and it talks too.

[phoebe]

9. TOTO washlet - Japanese company with factory in Georgia

heated seat, washes and dries, etc.

[HEyHEY]

10. "Your rear is clear sir"

"Thanks MR. Robot wiper!"

[dedhed]

3. All the good ideas are already taken...

See...

http://www.magicjohn.com/mj.htm

:bounce:

[Tina H]

8. Even Magic John was not first to the "potty."

Since 1976, 20 or so US patents have been issued in the area of remote toilet seat lifting technology. For a list, see:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=abst%2Ftoilet+and+abst%2Fseat+and+abst%2Ftouc%24%0D%0A&d=ptxt


It looks like the basic idea of remote toilet seat lifting has been around for a long time. The impediment(s) probably exist in the detailed design work, cheap mass producibility of the design and/or somewhere on the business end (projected size of market, access to seed funding, access to retailers, etc, etc).

[johnnie]

5. OK, I'm serious here...

My aunt invented something like this...I'm not quite sure, but I thought this was it.

[tridim]

6. I'm trying to invent a hands free kitchen trashcan

foot free too. It senses the tossed garbage in mid flight and opens automatically. I've figured out the "trash sensor", but I'm stuck on a simple, low power solution to the top opening in a split second. Everyone I pitch this to suggest I use compressed air, but there's too much maintenance required for that solution. Springs are out too, because it takes too much power to compress a spring stiff enough to snap the top open.

If I lose my job again I'll get back to it.