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Would like to post the following in the Electeical/Electronic engineering other topics Group under New Product Ideas.
"I have been requested to come up with new product ideas. Not having much success, so am positng this for help.
Interested in ideas for electronic or electrical products involving metering, control, high voltage or high current. Prefer ideas for equipment that would be low volume, medium to high price.
If you have had a brilliant idea for a new product or the improvement of a product, now's the chance to place it before the world and see what they think of it.
Thanks"
THE QUESTIONS ARE:
Do you think the preceding post is acceptable?
If you don't think the preceding post is acceptable, how would you re-write it so that it is acceptable?
Do you think that "New Product Ideas" is an unacceptable subject for these forums? (Such as sex, politics and advertisements)
"I have been requested to come up with new product ideas. Not having much success, so am positng this for help.
Interested in ideas for electronic or electrical products involving metering, control, high voltage or high current. Prefer ideas for equipment that would be low volume, medium to high price.
If you have had a brilliant idea for a new product or the improvement of a product, now's the chance to place it before the world and see what they think of it.
Thanks"
THE QUESTIONS ARE:
Do you think the preceding post is acceptable?
If you don't think the preceding post is acceptable, how would you re-write it so that it is acceptable?
Do you think that "New Product Ideas" is an unacceptable subject for these forums? (Such as sex, politics and advertisements)





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"Eat well, exercise regularly, die anyways."
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After all, engineers are paid to solve problems as well, but they're encouraged to seek help here; and this is a problem to be solved.
While you might not get any suggestions from your competitors, your potential customers might certainly be interested in providing input to your future product decision process. This is really no different than surveying your existing customers; which presumably you've done?
TTFN
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Coka
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Proud Inventor: "I want to invent a thingo and I need some help"
Focus Group: "OK, what is this thingo?"
PI:"Ah, that's where I need the help"
The End
Cheers
Greg Locock
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Regards
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Free ideas are worth many times what you pay for them.
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The cord that opens and closes drapes are not marked. So there is a 50% chance that when you go to close the drapes, you will pick the wrong cord. This is very annoying.
Why not mark the cord with a 1" red area and next to the red area, a 1" green area and then 12" of natural cord. (mark cord throughout it's length)
The cord is looped through a holder on the floor, so to open the drapes, select the cord with the red on top and to close the drapes, select the cord with the green on top.
This idea is useless to me and my orginization. Why not let someone else use this idea.
I realize that anything posted on this forum is public property, so feel free to use my idea. Unless of course this idea has already been patented by someone else.
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Your post looked like your shilling for these guys or any number of similar outfits.
http://www.lambertinvent.com/inventions.htm
They find people who have ideals they think are patentable and and take them to the cleaners.
For a mere $15 or 20 grand they will help you patent ( or after taking a lesser sum tell you it's a bad ideal) your ideal for curtain cords. Not their problem if you only sell a dozen sets.
The people who do this stuff advertise on the the radio, infomercials, matchbook covers etc. Why would anyone be supprized to see a post of this forum soliciting for ideals and not suspect the motives.
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You're thinking like an engineer, not like an interior decorator. Only geeky engineer-type (myself included) would see the appeal in a system like you described. The rest of the world probably doesn't want to see drape cords that look like Mexican or Itailian flags.
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I kind of like the drape string idea
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TTFN
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Some of the discussions that come up naturally will often touch on limitations of current technology and/or test equipment. Every limitation is a potential product or feature enhancement of a product.
Pick a product/area, ask existing users about it or problems it is used with- then post for discussion.
Be very slightly creative, and you can probably learn a whole lot!
(then there's the beerstorming...)
happy brainstorming!
Jay
Jay Maechtlen
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If you click on my handle and check some of my postings, you will see I am not against giving away ideas -- but I would like to know more about you.
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