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Yes Sharon this would also come in handy for the now popular " Murder Suicide"

They do have devices that slowly accordian up and down like small scaffold lifts. They are called "Scissor lifts". Now naturally you wouldn't want one that elevates to 25 feet and launches your equipment thru the roof, but there must be something out there that would lift from perhaps 6 inches off the ground, to 3-4 feet, and lift steadily and slowly with the push of some switch, or foot pedal


http://www.saxonlifts.com/

Perhaps even some type of hydraulic jack type unit ?

As for another option, Can't you put the rack units in smaller portable plastic SKB cases that hold perhaps 4 rack spaces per case, and at work put them on a higher sturdy surface ? Like the Roto-rack 4 space cases ?
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RotoRack4/

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Would switching the ground work on a wireless ?  you can lift the microphones ground with a switch and shock the singer at will, problem is, once his muscles stopped contracting on the microphone from the shock, he'd throw the thing down, and dent the Ball grill !    Wouldn't it be more economical to just mount a large rock, inside a sack secured to a block and tackle on the ceiling above the singing area, and when the guys a jerk accidently untie the rope and drop a large rock on his head ?  There's just something wrong with the idea of damaging a perfectly good quality microphone !

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Some of you might find this site interesting.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

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Cool site..I found it interesting reading the different things.  Especially the patents that are listed under the crazy patents.....

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Cool thread, Kapp!  It's kinda funny that so many of us do this.

My favorite idea that I come up with: putting transitions tinting on car windshields and windows (you know, the stuff that makes you eyeglasses tint in the sun) I would love to be driving down the road and have the windows tint up to keep the sun out of my eyes, but be clear at night....

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I find it interesting that many of you stated you "thought of this" when you were younger.  I think the younger we are the easier it is for our minds to fixate on the root of the problem.  We don't have tons of useless information clogging our brains.  I say this based on my son.

He is now 26 years old. But when he was 4 I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. Like most kids I expected to hear, policeman or firefighter, etc.  Well he simply said he didn't know.  This bothered me a little and I would frequently bring the subject up with him again.  He finally said he wouldn't be anything.  I told him that he had to do something to make a dollar because that's what it took to survive in this world.  His comeback was he'd just live with me all his life, or with his mother. (we were divorced)  I told him it didn't work that way.

Any hoo, time past and I asked him again and he said, "I'm going to be an inventor."  Great! (I could see dad's persitance beginning to pay off.)  "What are you going to invent?" I asked.  "Well, he said, You told me that in order to make it in this world I have to have money.  So I'm gonna invent me a machine that makes dollar bills."  At the time I remember thinking "Great Kelly! Your raising a criminal!"  But looking back on it I am amazed how simiple he broke down the problem and got to the crux of it.

Kelly

Oh, by the way. He seems to be a pretty good salesman.

The "Thumb Drives" are available now, and have audio out of any type.

Some call them "MP3" players.. and car radios now are being shipped with USB ports for the thumb drives.

I suspect the issue is the copyright for books..  :wave:

Kappy your on the right track. But I need it to have wheels so I don't
have to carry the heavy hydraulic thingie. I think we're on to something here.
Now we add wheels and make it so the rack case attaches to the top of it. That way I can hydraulic it down so it is compact and I'll make a ramp for it to roll up into my trunk, so I don't have to lift it.

Right now I do kind of what you've said. I use a shelve unit instead of a rack
case because it is lighter. Then I piece my equipment into it. That way I can carry everything seperately. My speakers are passive JBLs so they only way 30lbs each.
I have done everything in my power to create a light weight system.

what great ideas I've read already. You guys are so creative.

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I'm looking for an engineer who can create a 60 watt, tube powered guitar amplifier with two 12" speakers, with killer sound.  This whole package must weigh no more than 5 lb. and the dimensions should be no bigger than 12" high X 18" wide X 4" deep.

As soon as that's ready I'll be looking for something similar in a PA system.

For those of you much younger than I who scoff at my idea; I think what drives most people younger than me out of the business is having to lug that s**t around every week.

Some years ago I thought I had a great idea.  I called it the "Super Trio".  I don't recall where the idea came from but one day I got to thinking about the ideal female vocal trio.  I couldn't think of three I thought would sound better than Emmy Lou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton.  I happened to mention it to my then brother-in-law.  He agreed with me.  About 7 or 8 months later I read in the Sunday Paper that the three of them had recorded an album together.  Every since I have been wondering where I have to go to pick up my share of the profits that I'm sure someone has stored up somewhere.  I haven't got my share so far but I have run into a number of people who were happy to tell me where to go!

I really like the electonic book idea.  I don't have trouble holding the books but I've run out of places to store them.  I like going back and ready my favorite books again and again.  I've run out of shelf space and it's hard to find enough books of just the right size that you can stack them in 4 piles and use them as legs for the coffee table.  So the idea of a whole book being the size of the memory card on my digital camera has considerable appeal.

Kapp,

Your post that started this whole thing just blew me away.  My oldest daughter is starting medical school this fall and she talks just like that.  I don't understand anything she says either.  I was pretty much with you until you got to the Timothy Leary part and that's about all I remember.  The next thing I knew there was a suggestion for some kind of kinky blow-up love partner or some such.  That, I understood.

Seeing as how you are in a pharmaceutical (forgive me; I can't spell pharmaceutical)mood how about a pill that would make my hair (excuse me, I should have said "my remaining hair") grow to the length I like it and then stop.  I have always begrudged the amount of time I spend getting my hair cut.  And it's getting to the point where I'm going to have to consider taking out a second mortgage just so I can get a trim.  I did suggest that I give my barber a percentage of my next top 40 hit.  Keith would be able to identify with his response which had something to do with ". . . and the horse you rode in on!"

Another thing I would like to see is a remote control that can be controlled by a person's thoughts.  Imagine how much money you could save on batteries.  And it would never get lost in the couch or eaten by the dog.  Also, if you spilled your beer on it you could just clean it up with soap and water (this would be optional for guys).  And the beer wouldn't make it short out either.

The only real drawback I can see would be if the Chicago Cubs and "All My Children" were on at the same time in a one tv house occupied by a male and a female.  But I'm sure that technology could overcome that.

Kapp, I'm sorry I couldn't keep your thread more serious.  First off, that's not like me and second . . . uh . . . um . . . well, I'm not smart enough to have a second reason which is why I should have stayed out of here in the first place.  Lots of good suggestions, though.

Larry

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  Larry,  Wouldn't it be nice to cut down the weight and size of Guitar Combo's and Bass combo's that significantly.  Bose already has something close to your PA.  If you increase your cab dimensions by about 175% You'll have something close to a Fender Pro or Twin.  As to the weight,  well, you'd need to increase that by 15X.  :(  (that's what becomes a problem for those of us on the other side of 50)..  Speaking of "big being In", Did you know that last year Hammond re-issued the actual B-3 for it's 30th year anniversary of being out of production ?   After 1975 they stopped making the "B", and the "M" Series large wooden cab organs.... Last year they reissued the identicle (cosmetic) organ, to the original specs, only thing is, it's now solid-state technology.  I'd love to hear one live anyway, reason being, the great sound of the Hammonds' was proper Leslie placement within the room you are working. Digital has also created fabulour Tonewheel organ sounds... Since the Leslie used Doeppler shift principle, it also used the room it was placed in as a cab (of sorts) and more than not, players couldn't optimize it's great sound, learning leslie placement principles is tough, and not often convenient ! Digital Synth technology found a way to transcend the difficult task of Leslie placement, I know Korg Synths have a spectacular digital Hammond sound, which IMO sounds nicer than my B-3 (which doesn't have great speaker placement in my home) Digital technology did do an amazing job of Tonewheel organ replicating, and used the joy stick type device on the synth as a feature to control leslie rotating speed, intensity, fade, etc.....  Doubt many music stores will wish to carry, and sit on these 300+ lb reissued items..

I still doubt much will really match up to the sound of a properly conditioned B-3 with two Leslie 122 cabs.  Even my 770 cabs (which are hybrid, I believe the 122'
s were more of the tube leslies) don't sound that great... Unless the B-3 is really set properly, and kept in tip-top shape, digital technology actually did a great job of recreating the sound (in THIS particular case that is)..  String ensembles too ~

Hey Larry,  Speaking of clever inventors,  did you see my post about Mike Matthews ?  Remember Electro-Harmonix, Big Muff, and alot of the guitar stomp devices  from the older days ?  Mike Matthews is running into probs in Russia as a leading manufacturer or tubes.... He bought Sovtek when they ran into probs after the tube era, (bailed them out) He made Sovtek big again with HIS marketing ability (I beleve), and now the Russians want it  :shock:  They are making him offer's that aren't best to refuse  :(

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I thought of something when I was seven or so.

Burry a time capsule deep enough in a remote spot so that it won't be found for a few thousand years. Put a not in it giving coordinates and a time for someone in the future to come to if they have a time machine and feel so inclined.

If it worked, I would have met someone with a time machine, maybe.

Not meeting them doesn't mean that time travel isn't possible. If they did come to meet e though, that would have proved something.

I also used to try to imagine existance before chaos. I used to alternate that thought with trying to imagine an infinite universe. When I was a teen I used to bump into cars and lamp poles thinking about that. I'm lucky I didn't get run over. That was when I was walking home from summer school.

I believe they have memory that doesn't require a hard drive or trickle power to maintain itself, meaning that if all power was lost and the battery back-up power was drained it could still remember the page you last read and all of your personal settings you set for your current reading environment.
That's the only gimme you get there.

I have a Gigabyte of memory on my phone that I installed just to have music where-ever I go. That includes karaoke.

I hook my phone through an adapter to an FM transmitter to listen to it most places or plug it right in to my stereo.

Well, guys........ I'm depressed and excited all at the same time.

My invention is already for sale. Somebody from here found it and emailed me the link. So I guess I'm not as smart as I thought I was, my ideas all stink. I'm worthless, I'll never amount to anything.  :(  Ah, who'm I trying to kid?  :dancin:  :hi5:  Now I can get me one.  :whistle:

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No, that just means the other guy is really smart too!

Not at all,  You thought of it too,  you just weren't aware someone else marketed it first.  That's why I started this thread.  We should hear from others offering us idea's, or just letting us know that we aren't "The first".... People spend alot more energy, and effort (not to mention money) only to find out why their concept isn't patentable, or their book is waiting on :hold: by a publisher, all along while paying retainers..  Best to hear it here.. Assuming we don't hear it in here,  we've got it documented in here assuming someone thinks of it next week...


We have evidence.

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Can someone send me a link to this item you are talking about. I'll bet that it doesn't do everything I planned on putting on it.

Yeah Charmin,  is this invention marketed anyplace we can reference on the internet ? If it already exists, the patent is a public record, didn't I list patent sites in here at somepoint, or just references  ??

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