Ideas for great new products can come from anywhere. When the muse of invention strikes, it's not like opportunity knocking at the door, it's like a bulldozer knocking it down and the operator standing on the seat with a megaphone yelling "get it together and get it done!"
My head is constantly filled with ideas for product improvements and new product ideas. 99% of these ideas are completely asinine and have no real practical value... but because my brain rarely stops churning through new concepts, that 1% still comes up pretty cool.
The challenge is how to protect the ideas from being capitalized on by someone else... the complexities of a patent filing make it a daunting process, and one that may well be quite expensive. Nonetheless, I'm going for it with this latest idea. It's simple, but useful. It solves a simple problem with a simple solution, marrying products that have not yet been put together as a single item. I really hope that it is a hit and that a big company wants to 1) buy the idea or 2) license the idea for production. and of course, it would be helpful if millions of consumers want one (or several).
More on this in the indeterminate future - perhaps when the patent filings are complete...
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