What is your unsellable genius idea?

A sock dispenser.

A printer that makes the food you order online.

i.e. order a pizza, wait a few seconds, pizza is dispensed from the printer.

bowler hat with sleeves , i made a dozen up and not one has sold ha ha

30-pack of drinks called poontang, in every pack there would be 4–7 cherry flavored beverages.

lol4rl.

I have an idea for a non-lethal way to hunt. See, I think I’d enjoy the stalking and being outdoors, but I really don’t want to kill anything.

So my idea is to get a paint gun rifle-type gun, but with water-soluble paint. That way, you can aim and shoot and know you hit your target, but the animal doesn’t get hurt and the paint will wash off, so it won’t make the animal more of a target for predators or hunters.

@MissAnthrope they actually make bullets that work in hand guns that do just that, or you could use a paintball gun, both are water-soluble. They would both hurt, but not kill.

So there’s the pedestrian signal at intersections. [In the US] when it’s the person, you walk. When it’s the hand, you wait.

As a driver I hate when people cross the street when I have a green so I can’t go. Therefore, I want to invent a button in every car. When a pedestrian’s in the way, you push the button.

The button alters the lit-up hand that the pedestrians see. Specifically, it exposes just the middle finger. Teach them a lesson for crossing when they’re not supposed to!

@limeaide – I really would want to make sure the animal doesn’t get a broken rib or something.. I know those paintball guns hurt!

I’d then invent a button on my cell phone that when pressed shuts off the offending drivers car completely and siphons off their gasoline.

Haha good call.

Fluthering as a source of sustainable energy.

One of these that is also an Xbox game controller, vid cam and bluetooth.
NSFW
http://www.fleshlight.com

Hopefully it would be disposable too. That’s where the money is. Pack of twenty.

Anti-microwave – makes stuff cold.
Anti-flashlight – makes stuff dark.

Maybe not unsellable, just unpossible.

A silent hammer.

@nisse – Anti-microwave – makes stuff cold

Out here, we call that a refrigerator, or maybe a frizzer. :D

@missanthrope: Yeh but mine would use microwaves. :)

Mint flavored condoms.

I call them, Condomints

Hmmm.. I think someone beat you to it.

Well it figures. I thought of that 20 years ago. But they do not have the name.

Propaganda is everything. ;-)

Maybe a glow in the dark flashlight for a black out! ...wait no never mind. I was thinking about Night at the Museum haha.
Socks with sandpaper at the end so that you can file your nails while you walk.
*note: may cause bleeding

@eLenaLicious – I think you might have something there.

How about a glow in the dark Dildo/flashlight in case of a black out.:-)

@ChazMaz wow that’s a brilliant idea! I’ll keep that in mind (;
that’s hilarious though! You can’t play with yourself in the dark, ya know what I’m saying?

A weed eater-metal detector combo unit.

@azlotto wow that is actually a great idea.

My friend wants to invent a spray that you spray in your mouth after taking a bite of too-hot food. Immediate relief!

Milk spray?

Men have to deal with Levi jeans having the waist and length in big numbers on the back, that are not covered by a belt.
“Whoa, Jeff! Does that say 42?”
My idea: a Levi jeans line called “6 under”, that show a waist size 6” less than what you are. If you are wearing 42’s, they say 36.

Silent vacuum cleaner billions would sell, a no-brainer really, so why hasn’t anybody invented one yet?

The United State should stop giving $20 billion (includes above board foreign aid, and black military aid) each year to Israel.

#1. That snakes prove exactly opposite man – both functional anatomically and behaviourally… and that that supports the Adam and Eve account of the Holy Bible

#2. A 4-winged, food cooler that mounts from the centre of the table and will blow up to 4 meals simultaneously at variable strengths when your food is so hot it would take more than 4 mins waiting for it to cool down.

#3. My MagnaCopter, which uses the principle of the Magnus effect to effect left-off.
It would probably cost too much to prototype and test!

The sci-fi saga that I have been working on for the last 20+ years and integrated into a few role-playing games. (What better way to realistically see how a new species would interact with humanity than to expose them to humans? RPGs are great for testing a fictitious character concept. Just introduce them as NPCs (non-player characters), see how the players react, and learn. Feedback-driven fiction!)

@denidowi – #1 – Huh??

@denidowi (Denis Towers)

You have been exposed as a scientific fraud with ludicrous excuses to hide behind.
You have gone from website to website promoting your lies and delusions are science.
I have no patience with intellectual dishonesty

You are the author of the book “Two Birds… One Stone” that you have been plugging in every thread you can as if the author was someone other than yourself

It is published by Xulon Press – essentially a vanity press,
a self-publication described by you as:
Subject: Religion: general
Christian Theology – Cosmology
Science & Religion
Religion / Religion & Science
Religion-Christianity – Theology – Cosmology
General: Disproof of Evolution
Religion
Religion – Socialissues

Your shameless promotion of your pseudoscientific paperback is a combination of promoting your book for profit (SPAM) and promoting your own religious view as if it were science.

Your entitled to believe anything you want but don’t pretend to be a scientist.

I will be watching you as long as you are on fluther and I will expose your dishonesty and fraud whenever you promote your pseudoscience as science.

Feel free to take your lies elsewhere as you have done many times before!

Goodbye Denis!

Please list Your peer-reviewed scientific publications as first author on your research.

If you can’t, then stop pretending to be a scientist.

So… you thought, @Dr_Lawrence – DH for short that you would treat the case as some Sherlock Holmes… Did you??
I know you’re quite a vain man underneath that suave facade – or perhaps the facade itself gives you away.
Er… BTW, pehaps you should try reading other Questions or threads even on Fluther, and you will see that I state in many cases, not all, that I was the Kinesiologist, or that I was part of the team researching… If YOU happened not to pick that up, Please don’t run to me when you are looking for sleuth work: Will you??LOL!!
In instances, I just did not promote or expose that I was, but if you had been following my case with any sort of specific interest, you would have quickly picked up that it was I who was in the research.
Yes.

Sorry once again, to steal your ThunderLOL!!!

You DO try hard though to get that limelight: I will grant you that. ;)

In case you don’t see this thread, I’ll post this on your caseLOL!!
BTW, in actual fact, you DO remind me of the Sherlock Holmes movie, but in the role of the inspector [LOL] – Always well behind Holmes [who might Holmes be then?] Ha Ha Ha!
Oh you’re fun, “Doc”!!

@denidowi @Dr_Lawrence Please take your quarrel somewhere else!

@Dr_Lawrence I share your impatience with intellectual dishonesty, but I think you will agree that a person of faith may let said faith skew their judgment. Edison and most of his peers at the time had faith in the superiority of DC over AC.

@denidowi While I personally am not fond of that idea, I know you are a sincere man and all, but I gotta admit that proselytizing is a quick way to earn enmity so you may want to back off a little on that one. However, you did answer the question so I can’t fault you for that.

@jerv Scientific missteps are numerous and good methodological research in peer reviewed scientific journals lead to new and better studies that advance our knowledge. Previous theories widely believed to be correct are displaced by more parsimonious, better supported explanations. Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling’s triple-helix theory of DNA structure was so respected that even after relative unknown scientists Watson and Crick et al’s clear demonstation of DNA’s Double Helix was presented and replicated, it took a while before scientists were willing to reject the great Pauling’s explanation.

People cling to what they believe despite evidence to the contrary. In science, this tendency is less robust than in areas where belief is all that matters. When people of faith want to “disprove” science they attempt to use arguments cloaked in the trappings of scientific wording to confuse those who can’t tell the difference. Such people will doggedly promote their “pseudoscience” any way they can.

It is up to all of us to be skeptical and to educate ourselves about how conflicting views are supported by peer reviewed scientific challenges to the original conclusion. Cumulative verification of observations add weight to scientific explanations.

Mere repetition of the same old beliefs may add adherents but they fail to add evidentiary support to beliefs. Believers believe because they were taught to and that is good enough for them. When they do not feign scientific support that does not exist, they stay within the bounds of religious belief. No one should deny they their right to believe and worship as they choose so long as they do not harm or exploit others.

@Dr_Lawrence Some would argue that Faith is “belief without proof” by definition and therefore doesn’t need to follow the scientific method. However, I would like to leave it there for fear of a thread-jacking digression.

@Dr_Lawrence – what you don’t realize is that Jerv is a long-time ‘sounding-board’, you might say, on this discovery.
He doesn’t necessarily hold to it, or the conclusions drawn, but he already knows a heck of a lot more about it than you – we have had quite some engagements over time previously.
And quite often it is only ‘time’ that allows adjustment of one’s past beliefs and acceptances, even in the wondrous realms of science.
The dust will need to settle.
It requires a mind reflecting over new concepts and possibilities, and in time, suddenly, when you’re not even thinking of it, ‘the penny will drop’ adn it will begin to fall in place.
You must realize, I have been aware of this factor between man and the snake for nearly 12 years all up.
So I have had time and patience to put all the pieces and findings together.
There are many things, already, I would change and correct that were written in the book: we have learned much just over past years since the work’s publication.
But at least, as it stands, the concept itself, and the observations sighted, basically hold true.
It merely needs more refinement and some conclusions more specifically and more precisely enunciated so that they are more correct.
But its potential is all there.

@denidowi
I’ll agree not to pretend to be a Christian theologian or a self-promoting author if you agree not to pretend to be a published scientific researcher who has “disproved” Evolution.

You may be a persuasive writer and you may have a following among non-scientists.

I have contributed to and coauthored peer-reviewed scientific research over two decades in a number of disciplines but I admit to having no fan club.

I wish you continued satisfaction with your work and you have every right to deny or ignore science if you choose.

I bear you no animus and I respectfully request that you cease to malign my hard earned expertise. You do not know what you do not know about me.

@Dr_Lawrence – Yes; well you can pretend all you wish on your doctorates and pretence to professionalism re science, Dh, but you’re just one with a way with words, but no real substance to your “arguments”, shall we call them, re this study at all.
You are so FALSE in fact, that you make all your wonrous claims of authority not having even read the first word in the study.
So with such belligerant ignorance and orientation for the pre-conceived, no wonder I knew not to bother trying to post you the entire bookLOL!
I do wish you all the best Sgerlock, in life, but you will have to at least, open that deadly locked, set, mind of yours.
Logging out now.