Removing most of your fingers off the handleba to use the brake on a bicycle is not efficient or safe.  I think that the best way to fix this is to keep you hands on the brake and handlebar at the same time.  Somehow the brake should be closer to the handlebar or incorporated in so that [...]

I think that there has been a lot of talk about virtual reality since computers became commonplace.  But not as much as I would have thought has happened with it over the past decade or so.  My idea is that there should be a Sharper Image pair of virtual reality goggles you can slip on, and press a [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you can have a hand-held metal detector which would tell you if the items you are wearing through the airport are going to cause a problem?  It would prevent you from having to get undressed when going through the airport metal detectors.  Simply run the item over the clothing (shoes, [...]

Shouldn’t pennies be removed from circulation?  And isn’t the concept of dollar coins a good idea?  Yes to both.  But dollar coins are so stupidly designed that nobody uses them.  They have a different color, but they feel like quarters.  That doesn’t make any sense.  Can’t they just design them with a hole in the middle, or a different [...]

Isn’t it frustrating to reach down behind the sofa to plug something in?  Or to not have enough cord and you never are able to find an extension cord when you need it?  Wouldn’t it be great if when you reach behind the sofa or are a few feet short on line cord, that you can push [...]

Here are some bullet points about success.  Learn cocktail conversation Be impervious to critics At first we put out fires, and later learned how to prevent them Ideas are cheap Know when to stop investing money in a business. Don’t worry about not having an opinion on a subject. It is ok not to know how [...]

Not a brilliant idea, just one that I thought about today.  Different horn sounds for your car.  I don’t know if this exists or not, but it would be good if you could have different sounds or even different volumes from your car horn.