[geeks] Bad monster. No donut.

[Phil Stracchino]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:26:39PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Surely there's got to be a way to leverage that somehow.
> 
> Invent something. Patent it. Start a company to develop it. Work for
> yourself.

The part of that I'm still missing is "Come up with a useful, marketable
invention using technology that exists or can be created with existing
technology and scientific knowledge."


Actually, I *do* have one idea that I think could probably be built
today.  Whether it could be built light enough to *work*, I'm not sure.
 I've been thinking about approaching Dean Kamen with it.
Realistically, the cost of obtaining a patent has largely risen out of
the reach of the casual individual inventor these days - particularly
when so many companies will just infringe your patent anyway and bet on
you not having deep enough pockets to successfully sue them.


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