

What's your dragons den idea?

(61 Posts)
ineedsomeinspiration Tue 18-Feb-14 21:19:13

Following a conversation with a friend mine just wondered if anyone had any great ideas or if there was anyone who'd been thinking of something only to see it appear on the shops shelves.
Since ds has turned into a wiggly toddler I've always thought some sort of means to Velcro him to his changing mat would be useful.

Mine involves moveable speed bumps (would love them on the rat run road through our village). The car travels on the lad, triggers the speed bump which moves down. If you are going above speed limit it would still be too high and knacker your suspension. If going at 30 mph you can keep driving as it would be a flat road.

I know it is a variation on stuff already available, but I'd really like this to be bough by all councils- not just to make me a squillionaire grin

Lighthousekeeping Tue 18-Feb-14 21:39:28

Slippers with some kind of perfume in them. I'm sick of chucking out perfectly good slippers because they pong.

WaitingForMe Tue 18-Feb-14 21:48:08

Lighthousekeeping - pop a small hand soap into each toe at night

brooncoo Tue 18-Feb-14 21:49:45

You trying to nick our million pound ideas?

riskit4abiskit Tue 18-Feb-14 21:49:54

some method of designing wet wipe packets so that you only pull one out at a time

HeyMicky Tue 18-Feb-14 21:51:10

Delivery service for hangover cure - fry up ingredients, pain killers, coke or lucozade, pot noodles etc.

For when even a trip to the corner shop is beyond you

Helpyourself Tue 18-Feb-14 21:52:26

It's not a money maker and someone has already done it (although they hadn't when I had the idea), I'd like to launch a campaign for everyone to carry dispersibl aspirin and know how to give it in case of a heart attack.

Lighthouse - Febreze? Wash them?

I actually had what I thought was a brilliant idea last week. My mum said she went to a concert (classical - don't know if it was a whole orchestra or just a string quartet or something) where she noticed some of the musicians had the music on their tablets and had some kind of foot pedal attached to turn the pages. For anyone who has ever played an instrument, you know what a pain turning the pages is while you're trying to play. So surely, someone (someone smarter than myself to be sure) could create an app that would not only separate out each part of a score onto individual tablets, but make them all turn pages automatically, at the right time. It would be complicated because differnt parts will turn pages at different times, but surely it's doable, right?

....erm, too nerdy?

honeybeeridiculous Tue 18-Feb-14 21:57:07

My DS ALWAYS moans about the awful noise our vacuum cleaner makes, (admittedly it does sound like a jet engine hmm ) and he says one day he will invent a Hoover that instead of making a noise, will pay music i grin then, he says he will Hoover the house for me every day!

SundaySimmons Tue 18-Feb-14 21:57:22

Spray on setting plaster in an aerosol can that almost instantly sets the bandages when you have to have a limb put in plaster. It comes in different colours as well!

My son has broken both his arms on separate occasions, each requiring an operation to manipulate them.

On the first occasion he had to be sent home and return the next day for the operation. When they set it in temporary plaster, I came over faint as in the room they had these giant bolt cutter things and other medical instruments that looked like instruments of fortune and I had to sit there pretending I was feeling fine, for the sake of my son.

As the chap put on the plaster, I just wanted to get the hell out of there as it was going on forever and I thought wouldn't it be easier if they could just apply some kind of quick setting spray to the bandages!

It would be useful for army medics in war zones.

treaclesoda Tue 18-Feb-14 21:57:25

20 years ago, as a teenager, I had a lightbulb moment when clothes shopping when I looked at my friend who was a similar height and build but much more flat chested and I thought 'women's clothing sizes are bonkers, they totally disregard boobs'. But, I was also hideously self concious of said boobs, and would have died of embarrassment before telling anyone else of my gap in the market idea.

Now I look at Pepperberry, with their ridiculously overpriced and not that nice clothes and I could weep that I didn't get there first.

Lighthouse alternatively, spray some deoderant on your feet before you put your slippers on. (Sorry, this is bugging me now!)

livenlet Tue 18-Feb-14 21:58:39

Im not telling you I want to be the one to get rich

WeevilKnievel Tue 18-Feb-14 22:01:49

I have a changing mat with velcro straps for my wriggly toddler!
Also there is a hangover service where they bring you stuff from the shop or a macdonalds or whatever. I read about it not long ago. It's not a national thing though, sadly..

Helpyourself Tue 18-Feb-14 22:04:33

Sunday not the same thing, but there used to be a spray on Elastoplast called 'new skin' I think. Probably discontinued because it was quite the most excruciatingly painful experience ever- far worse than anything that might need a plaster. As children my Dbros and I would hide our scrapes knees lest my mum got the death spray out.

plum100 Tue 18-Feb-14 22:05:02

Lighthouse i am with you! I have washed them twice and they still pong! There is no cure except new slippers!!!

Lighthousekeeping Tue 18-Feb-14 22:10:26

Or washing my feet before I put them on!

brooncoo Tue 18-Feb-14 22:15:37

Actually, don't know if it's been done. But I've been thinking of a head band with Velcro at the back. You put it round your young child's head and it attaches to the back of the seat to stop their head lolling forward when they fall asleep. I have been known to tie their head to the car seat with a scarf.

HenriettaTurkey Tue 18-Feb-14 22:18:52

Backpacks/shopping bags/baby carriers with a lining that can be injected with helium to make them super light!

SayraT Tue 18-Feb-14 22:18:53

HeyMicky that does exist! I remember seeing a facebook page for hangover/one night stand emergency kit delivery in Glasgow, they supplied Irn Bru, paracetamol, chocolate, crisps and some other stuff. I think the one night stand kit had condoms and clean knickers as well.

I just tried looking it up but can't find it.

trufflehunterthebadger Wed 19-Feb-14 01:19:28

mine involves a universal umbrella clip for pushchairs and prams. I simply can't push the pushchair and manage a brolly at the same time

HicDraconis Wed 19-Feb-14 01:23:35

The spray on cast idea (although not spray on but better still) won a James Dyson award recently : Wired article

SaucyJack Wed 19-Feb-14 01:31:11

Shoe cover type-things with large inflatable soles to make travelling long distances on public transport/planes more comfortable for shorter persons (such as myself) who can't reach their feet to the floor.

SpagBolgs Wed 19-Feb-14 01:32:03

Probably invented but a chair that you have to get specially molded into your back shape and reclines.

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