The Best of Halfbakery – January Ideas
We’re off and running in 2010 with a brand new selection of partially thought-out ideas and inventions from Halfbakery.com. If you’re new here, make sure to check out the other posts in this series to see what its all about!
Our list this month features some pretty interesting ideas, in no particular order. If you’ve got some time, click through on each of the ideas, because the comments other members leave are often just as outrageous as the ideas themselves.
“Most paint programs allow you to do two things that are sadly missing from the paper world: 1) Select the color of your brush from a color palette, and 2) Select the color of your brush from an existing color. The AnyColor pen remedies this! The pen contains Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black ink cartridges, and adjusts the flow rate to create the desired color. (These are the same subtractive colors used in inkjet printers) The color can be specified by adjusting three (R,G,B) sliders and displayed on a miniature color LCD screen built into the back of the pen. Alternately, the user can press a button on the side of the pen and tap on any real world object. Photocells in near the tip of the pen register the RGB value of the of the object, and adjust the flow rate accordingly (the back of the pen also turns the appropriate color).”
Perhaps not be most essential office tool, but definitely a fun idea, and useful if you’re looking to match an already existing color. It reminded me of a high-tech version of the old-school color changing click-pens! Looks like it may have already been designed, but is still only in concept form.
“This is a half-circled-shaped thin wire mesh with a lip along the rounded edge. When you are nearly finished your breakfast cereal, place the mesh along the edge of the cereal bowl, tip back and the remaining milk passes through as the leftover bits of corn flakes or rice crisps are trapped in the mesh, where they can be collected with the spoon. Saves having to hunt for the last floaty bits at the end of the cereal session, and removes fear of choking while drinking the milk. Mesh would have to be flexible enough to adapt to different bowl circumferences.”
I envision this invention making more of a mess than anything, but this is a perfectly “half-baked” idea, and for you picky cereal eaters out there, this could be just the tool for you!
“A camera/small LCD screen combo device on the front of your toaster where you can take “after” pictures of your toast after cooking at different temperature settings. Subsequently, when turning the burned-ness dial it will display your previous toast pictures, so you can get an early idea of how much tan, brown or black you want on your bread prior to the magical transformation.”
Must be I was hungry for breakfast when I chose these ideas…. This idea aims to to be the solution for anyone looking to get that perfect slice of toasted slice without all the guess work and waste of several severely burnt slices – unless you prefer to eat charred toast..
“So the idea is a heating system that fully heats one’s cold clothes. A rack designed to hold ones clothes and fully heat them. Switches on 5-10 minutes before you get out of bed with a timed system, or do it yourself with a switch if you’re a snooze abuser.”
This is one invention that I would definitely invest in if it existed. Waking up in a room that is drafty in the winter is no fun, and this might even make me slightly less reluctant to get out of bed in the morning! There would be the possibility fire hazards, but in my opinion it’d be well worth it.
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