Micro-sabbatical
I’ll be in Australia for the festive season and I’ll not be posting on IOTD until 9th January (although I’ll still be inventing, of course!) Have a great Yuletide and a highly successful 2012. Thanks...
View ArticleOn ideas
Here is an interesting posting about the fragility of ideas… There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea. Anyone who thinks ideas...
View ArticleOpen innovation?
What’s so open about Open Innovation? Big companies realised some time ago that maintaining a sizeable internal ‘Arrandee’ department was painfully expensive and usually not very productive when up...
View ArticleDefeating Counterfeiting*
What’s the problem? Counterfeit goods cost businesses -a lot. An FBI assessment from 2002 said that US businesses lose between $200bn and $250bn to counterfeiting annually.1 According to the World...
View ArticleIllustration competition
If you, or someone you know, is a keen illustrator, then this may be of interest. Simply choose one of the inventions below and create a presentation-quality drawing of it (as a high-res tiff). I’m...
View ArticleIOTD is 6 years old
It’s six years ago since I started writing this blog -that’s one invention pretty much every day since then. To celebrate, I’m selling an ebook which talks a bit about how you might boost your own...
View ArticleIOTD ebook
Dear Readers, There is still time to bag your limited-edition copy of the new IOTD ebook which talks about how you might boost your own ideas output and plan to make some money from the process. It’s...
View ArticleWDITOT?
“Why didn’t I think of that?” I’m always running across ideas by other people that are so great they need to be recognised. I’ve included a link to this growing list here....
View ArticleInventorMentoring
I’ve begun selling a new online service, InventorMentoring. For a modest fee, I’m running one-to-one support sessions for Designers, Inventors, Students, Makers…anyone with a serious interest in making...
View ArticleReader invention: Advertoasting
Here are a couple of genius ideas from readers Andy, Alan, Rob and Alex (with permission, of course)… An internet enabled toaster that toasts customised advertisements on your bread using a laser. The...
View ArticleIndeterminate hiatus
About seven years ago, I began posting a new idea here almost every day. I expect to continue to have and record new ideas, but sadly these must remain unpublished -at least for the forseeable future....
View Article…and we’re back!
It’s been a while, but now IOTD is back. The truth is, I’ve been just about bursting with ideas and I simply don’t have enough time to turn them all into products myself. In the interim, I’ve...
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Guest post -Rob Tillaart
Rob Tillaart, a good friend of IOTD over the years, recently sent me some of his ideas for inclusion here: Saw this one -and got the following ideas: 1) connecting air craft carriers suppose you have 2...
View ArticlePatreon
Ever in search of ways to generate income from inventing (it really shouldn’t be this difficult) I’ve been having some interesting discussions with the Patreon legal people. I wonder who actually reads...
View ArticleCollaboration = groupthink?
I thought I should write down some stuff, again, about Inventing. There is a great deal of horseshit about along the general lines of a) Ideas are worthless, only implementation has any value b) The...
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