Baby Safety Stuff

Our eight month old baby is crawling now, and pulling himself up on things, and seems determined to bash himself on every sharp edge he can find. My partner spends every day carrying him to safety as he moans, ‘Someone should invent something to keep babies away from the dangerous stuff.’ So this post is for him.
I [...]

Cottage Concierge

We’re thinking of going on holiday and staying in a cottage in the country. It’s nice that there are so many cottages around with inglenook fireplaces, exposed oak beams and even four poster beds, but I didn’t see any with wireless internet. I know it’s not exactly in the spirit of ‘getting away from it all’ to [...]

A C.C.C (a bit like a P.P.P)

My daughter loves going to the ‘P.P.P’ which stands for Plate Painting Place. This is also her favourite tongue twister. It’s a cafe where you paint ceramics – plates and cups and bowls and teapots. She usually paints a plate. They fire your art in a kiln when you’re done and you collect it a few days later. [...]

A fake robot goldfish

Our pet fish, Shiny, died yesterday. I feel quite sad about it. It’s not like he had any real personality to miss, but he did look so pretty swimming around his designer fish tank filled with its pretty fish tank plants. I got quite a shock when I went to feed him last night and saw his dead fishy eyes [...]

An eBay of Betting…

Yesterday I talked about a kind of eBay for services, as you may know I’m quite keen on gambling, so I started wondering how the eBay model could be adapted to make a gambling website?
I think it would be good to have a betting exchange  just for friends. Members could set up password protected markets on absolutely anything. [...]

Email Mentors

I love eBay. I just now went and bought some travel sick bags for car sick kids. Those were going to be one of my inventions-of-the-day, until I found out they were already invented. But mine would have been better and have jolly pictures on them.
Anyway… My invention today is for a site that’s similar to [...]

Bleeping Dots

This invention is about little stick-on dots that you put on things you sometimes lose, like purses, keys, TV remotes, combs, kids… And there should be a device with buttons that you press when you’ve lost the thing-with-a-dot on it, and then the little dot bleeps so that you can find it again.

‘Use by’ date bar code reader

There’s a big fuss about not wasting food at the moment, and I don’t just mean the battles at our tea table when we try to get our eight year old to eat her vegetables…  Apparently a third of the food we buy ends up in the bin. You may well have seen the fruity newspaper [...]

Idiot Driver Reporting Machine (gun)

There’s a website where you can name and shame bad drivers. If you see an idiot at the wheel you can note their registration number and add it to the ‘Better Driving Please’ database. The police won’t actually act on these reports, and that nutter at the wheel probably won’t realise he’s been added… Um, what [...]

The behind-the-sofa sofa pockets

Just a quick invention today as I look for a comb to I can get ready for Kempton’s Family Day of racing. I can never find my comb. It’s often on the shelf under the coffee table, but not today.
So I was thinking, I’m always short of places to put little things in the living [...]