Author: Kirk

Idea: Anti-Splashback Toilet

You know you hate it, particularly if you’re faced with using a public one.  Having to sit on a toilet and endure unfortunate splashback.  I know, not a pretty topic, but perhaps a universal one.  Well hear me out – I have seen the solution.

Imagine a toilet bowl that uses invisble lasers to monitor the span of the bowl.  Anything going through this invisible layer of laser would trigger the toilet bowl ito action – blast that “thing” that is traversing the laser.  This instantly stops all splashback.  However it needs to be smart enough to recognize the direction the object is going – we only want to block things that are going from the bowl into the air.  I’m certain that an intelligent laser could determine diretionality by looking at the object’s movement through the laser field.

So there – all we need is the laser technology and electronics to make the toilet.  I figure once we have that the toilet itself won’t need to worry about flushing as we’ll simply “eject” the contents into another laser field further down which disintegrates everything.  The laser could in fact detect metallic materials and whatnot to avoid blowing away accidentally flushed rings.

My mind is wandering, sorry about that.

Slugs vs. Nematodes

Apparently slug problems can be solved by bringing in specific soil-dwelling roundworms called nematodes.  Natural frenemies, the nematodes will help “edumacate” the slugs to the way things work in your garden.

See this here tomatos plant?  Yeah, you don’t touch that no more.  Them lupins?   Fuhgeddaboutit!

Idea: Intelligent Coolers

The Bridger family recently went on our first camping trip as a family – even Dazy tagged along.  Boy do dogs take up a lot of space in the car!  Anyhow, the nights were cool but the days were warm.  I thought it would be really cool (pardon the pun) if our cooler was able to detect the cool night air, and if the outside air is cooler than the inside air it could open a hatch or something to allow the cool air in.  Once the outside air warmed up the hatch could close, keeping the cool air in.  Basically the cooler would always try to stay cool, using the environment’s air when needed.  Naturally this requires power, so you could put a rechargeable battery in it, maybe even with solar panels to recharge during the day.  Don’t want to put your cooler in the sun all day?  make it reflective rather than absorbing of heat and sun.

I’ve got it all figured out!