How many inventors on KiwiBiker?

[degrom]

It is a very active industry and there certainly is a lot of money to be made, even in countries like New Zealand. However, in Asia the market is huge and grossly under-developed, Asian countries are only now realising the effects of their poor waste management.

The specific sector of the recycling industry I am in, depending on how you look at it, is worth approximately $22 million per annum (in NZ). But if you look at a country like Japan, it's worth nearly $1 billion per annum with very little "organised" competition.

Did anyone else hear about the scam where Japanese people were sold British and Australian sheep and told that they were poodles? Apparently one victim didn't find out until they took their "poodle" to the vet to have it's nails trimmed, only to be told that it had hoofs - and was a sheep.

1. Large market density
2. Lack of knowledge on the consumers part
3. Cheaply acquired product, re-sold for $1,600 if I recall correctly

Now that's inventive!

Yes.. Very creative seeing the gap with the sheep. Just sorry they could not put there creativity to good use.

Wonder if they would have been able to sell the same "Poodles" to Mr Bush and convince him it would help with the War that he is so addicted to!!!

[SwanTiger]

Wonder if they would have been able to sell the same "Poodles" to Mr Bush and convince him it would help with the War that he is so addicted to!!!

I think convincing George W. Bush Jr. would be the easy part, getting the sheep to live in a desert environment is where the difficulty would lay.

[Disco Dan]

I use a Co2 gas for feeding aquatic plants, gas bottles (like the sodastream) were expensive in the long term and required fiddly set-up (regulators etc).

Began using natural yeast, however if you get the mixture wrong it begins to flow up the pipe work and can enter the tank. It then multiplies in hours and will suffocate all the fish. I began to design a fluid trap, and it simply consists of a jam jar with the piping from the yeast container entering at the top and another pipe through the top to the aquarium. Any yeast mixture that does find it's way to the fluid trap drips to the bottom of the jar and the gas continues to flow to the aquarium.

Not really an iinvention as such, as they can be purchased but they are expensive for some reason. Which is why I created my own.

The only problems I encountered was standard airline tubing actually allows small amounts of Co2 gas to escape through the walls of the tubing. Only negligible amounts but at the start of the yeast cycle this can mean a longer pressurisation period before the gas bubbles begin to go through the underwater difusser. Also another problem is the yeast itself, as it will poison itself in about a week and needs replacement.

I wont go into the affects of Co2 and how it alters the PH, carbonate hardness and general hardness qualities of the water etc etc...

[Street Gerbil]

Did anyone else hear about the scam where Japanese people were sold British and Australian sheep and told that they were poodles? Apparently one victim didn't find out until they took their "poodle" to the vet to have it's nails trimmed, only to be told that it had hoofs - and was a sheep.

1. Large market density
2. Lack of knowledge on the consumers part
3. Cheaply acquired product, re-sold for $1,600 if I recall correctly

Now that's inventive!

Alas it is a hoax according to snopes.com which is usually accurate.

[Finn]

I heard that Cowpoos invented the Polariod camera. He needed a device that could take an instant photo so he could secretly take pictures of a contraption he labeled "the internal combustion engine" which he later put into a motorcycle and invented what we call the Superbike.

There we have it.

[The_Dover]

I heard that Cowpoos invented the Polariod camera. He needed a device that could take an instant photo so he could secretly take pictures of a contraption he labeled "the internal combustion engine" which he later put into a motorcycle and invented what we call the Superbike.

There we have it.

and then he learned everyone how to ride one.

fast.


really, really fast.

[SpinFx]

best thing I invented was a solar powered life bouy for boaties....... w

basically a standard life bouy with a solar panel that charged a battery that ran a light and flashing distress beacon. Ended up costing too much to manufacture back in 1990. However you have just reignited the flame so Watch this space.

[SwanTiger]

basically a standard life bouy with a solar panel that charged a battery that ran a light and flashing distress beacon. Ended up costing too much to manufacture back in 1990. However you have just reignited the flame so Watch this space.

I think a similar product is already distributed by a company in Christchurch.

[marty]

Kiwibiker is full of inventors. People on here are making shit up all the time.

[KATWYN]

Has anyone invented or build something specially for bikes?

My husband invents and builds. I think he is a genius
actually.

As far as bikes go, years ago he got annoyed with his KX500 dirt bike kick start...so he designed, machined up and chromed a new one!

talk about attract the magpies!

[KATWYN]

Kiwibiker is full of inventors. People on here are making shit up all the time.

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[Pixie]

Flavoured toilet seats? I don't even want to consider what would lead you to think of that.

Coprophagia?

[Pixie]

I invented a flashing light so that deaf people would know when the phone is ringing

[avgas]

I invented a flashing light so that deaf people would know when the phone is ringing

Isnt it funny its on most phones now

[avgas]

Got a few things in the works now. but i dont spend stuff all time on them, i think im lazy.
In terms of an invention - nothing i have ever made is an invention, like the car/computer etc
All are just innovations.
I prefer the research and design rather than all the rest.
Its a pity NZ is so constrained with whom it employs to do what. We leave everything else to entrepreneurs.
It sucks, unless your company is already started.