| Easy invention ideas? Why easy? Sometimes it's | | | | festivals, so the market might be there. |
| just too intimidating to think about building a new | | | | Disposable Clothing |
| type of car, television, or other complicated | | | | If dollar stores can keep putting t-shirts on the |
| invention. So these are ideas for garage or | | | | shelves, we know they are getting cheap to |
| basement tinkerers. Coming up with a prototype | | | | make. So how about a line of shirts that are |
| for most of these will cost no more than the | | | | low-quality, but good enough to use, and cost |
| money in your pocket. They are not patented | | | | very little to manufacture? You sell them in boxes |
| yet, as far as I know. | | | | of 12, as "disposable clothing." Where's the |
| Wild Game Carrier | | | | market? Maybe people who want less laundry to |
| Deer hunters regularly die of heart attacks while | | | | do on long trips. I set aside old clothes for just |
| carrying their bucks out of the woods. The | | | | that purpose, which is where the idea came from. |
| invention here would solve that problem. It would | | | | Also, some people might want to have some |
| have an inflatable wheel, using coated nylon that | | | | cheap things to wear for doing dirty jobs. |
| won't puncture easily. Once you get your deer, | | | | Kayak Shoes |
| blow up the wheel, and using the clamps on either | | | | Imagine this: You are wearing two little "kayaks" |
| side, you attach two poles or sticks that you cut | | | | on your feet. Two more smaller ones at the end |
| on site. Attach the simple nylon sling between the | | | | of two ski-poles help you balance as you walk |
| sticks, and you have a wheel-barrow-like device | | | | across the nearest lake. At 8 feet long and 8 |
| that will carry a deer over even rough trails. | | | | inches around, they would hold about 170 pounds |
| Probably weighing no more than two pounds, it | | | | each, by the way. To try this one, remember |
| could be carried easily in a day pack. | | | | that to figure the volume of a cylindrical object, |
| Helium Kites | | | | you multiply pi (3.14) times the radius squared |
| Perhaps its been done, but I haven't seen them | | | | times the length. Oh, and each cubic foot of air |
| sold yet. With some lift from the helium, these | | | | will support about 64 pounds. |
| kites could be flown in any amount of wind. | | | | Wind Tents |
| Properly designed, they would still fly something | | | | An easy invention idea from childhood. Me and my |
| like a kite, and with some maneuverability if | | | | brothers spent summers at the beach, on Lake |
| designed like a stunt kite. A first prototype could | | | | Michigan. Many nights, the wind blew steady off |
| be a kite with a small helium balloon attached. | | | | the water, and we discovered that we could |
| That's an easy invention. | | | | make a "wind tent" out of an old blanket. With |
| Ad Kites | | | | three sides pinned down, using rocks and sand, |
| This is more of a marketing idea than an | | | | the wind held the "tent" open. We camped out in |
| invention. Have advertisements on kites and get | | | | these tents, although when the wind died, the |
| paid to fly them at the beach or during big | | | | tent did. Maybe someone could make and market |
| outdoor events. In my former small-town home | | | | a plastic version. A colorful square of plastic - this |
| they paid for planes to drag ads around during | | | | is one of the easiest of the easy invention ideas. |