It's that time of year - I need ideas for my PLAN B.

[woohoo]

How about a VR app on filling cars with the correct type of fuel.

Right I know you are making a joke but when I first started driving around the continent I used to panic about filling up.

I would have defo paid a pound for a vr app that had all the different types and their translations.

Something like a topless Helga showing the vr viewer how to fill her up, the car I mean.

[woohoo]

more nuclear power stations etc.

but yes using TV's could be a use case.

Unfortunately I have limited knowledge with nuclear power stations.

[OwlHoot]

So go on and patent it !!! AFAIK, you don't have to construct it and make it work in order to file the patent.

I think with something like that you need a working prototype.

Otherwise you could just patent a 3D human organ printer or some similar "aspirational" device that might take decades to realise (and having been patented in abstract would deprive anyone of the financial incentive to actually develop one that worked).

[BrilloPad]

Unfortunately I have limited knowledge with nuclear power stations.

Sadly so does the whole of the UK.

[OwlHoot]

Right I know you are making a joke but when I first started driving around the continent I used to panic about filling up.

I would have defo paid a pound for a vr app that had all the different types and their translations.

Something like a topless Helga showing the vr viewer how to fill her up, the car I mean.

I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to develop a tiny Bluetooth Low-Energy gadget with a micro-spectrometer you could stick to the inside of a car's fuel inlet, to trigger a warning alarm in the car if it detected the wrong kind of fuel starting to be poured.

Come to think of it, garages have number plate recognition systems. So why can't the garage do a check to see what type of fuel the car takes and warn you if you unhook the wrong nozzle!

(It would have to be advisory, asking you to press a button on the keypad to confirm, because for example you might be driving a petrol car but wanting to fill a can of diesel for some other vehicle.)

[greenlake]

It's that time of year - I need ideas for my PLAN B.

How about jumping on the bandwagon, and introducing your own cryptocurrency? I'm sure scooter will invest....

[BR14]

How about jumping on the bandwagon, and introducing your own cryptocurrency? I'm sure scooter will invest....

or a library app ??

[PhiltheGreek]

If I had the time (and money, TBH) I'd be trying to develop a small robot using AI to identify pests such as caterpillars and beetles on plants in a greenhouse and then destroy them or suck them into a hopper.

Sounds pretty low key and niche, but when used commercially it could literally revolutionise agriculture by avoiding the need for pesticides and would make the patent owner millions.

Something that would let Charles spend more time in the house?

[BR14]

Sadly so does the whole of the UK.

not me, - i worked in one a very long time ago.

[BR14]

not me, - i worked in one a very long time ago.

Is that why i glow at night?