"If you could invent one product, what would it be?"

I've answered this once, but my views haven't changed and (I had several messages of support, so here goes again - after all, the depth of your questions deserves full answers.

I want a Zapper. That is, a subtle and undetectable machine that I can point at any source of intrusive noise and shut it up, either temporarily or forever.

How did I come up with the idea? by being driven mad by not being able to escape it: restaurants, pubs, hairdressers, trains, not to mention neighbourhood parties ... and malls where each store has its own music, so you have two or three colliding. (If I hear Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You once more I'll throw a major wobbly). As it happens, I've got very sensitive hearing, but there's plenty of research showing that ambient unwanted noise is a huge cause of urban stress. So I think I've got my market.

How to make it? the technology exists. It's present in those noise-cancelling mufflers you can buy and it's built into some modern aircraft; the technology simply reads the sound waves and then over-writes a cancellation. My invention could take two forms: (i) kind - I'll just cancel your noise while it's in my area, and (ii) vengeful - I'll add enough energy to the cancelling mechanism that after a couple of squeaks it'll burn out your amplifier.

How to present it? Well, in order not to have the operator beaten up by the noise-maker, I suggest it comes in a variety of disguises - mobile phone, blackberry, etc., etc.,

How to market it? I think that once it was announced one would get killed in the rush.

There you go. May I have 5% of the earnings, please?

Well, one skill that I have always wanted to possess would be Darth Vader's ability to choke people just by looking at them (he could even do it to holograms of people).  I don't think that I will ever be able to use the force quite like Darth, but I sure would like to invent a device which had the same effect on others.  Of course, I would not want to market this product; I would keep it for myself.

a device to apply sunscreen/lotion/oil onto ones back.

It would be like the kitchen scrubber

http://www.kitchenniche.ca/scrub-brush-p-34.html?osCsid=b6a29599d03dfdd227fc469d860f7e56

on this line but long enough to reach your whole back.  You would fill it with your desired liquid and then be able to apply it without help.

This is the product I wanted when I was at the beach without my boyfriend.

I guess I could have started the product design with something like this and sell it on the beach or at school.  Eventually I would have an infomercial that would suck in everyone just like some of them suck me right in.........if you buy this product you will have the most beautiful tan back on the planet, you will be able to wear the most beautiful backless dress ever!!!!!

How’s that?

I first developed the idea for this product out of necessity. Who among us has time for travelling anymore? To the library? To work? To the bathroom? No sir, not in this day and age.

So years ago I began work on PenguinSage’s Super-Duper Handy-Dandy Teleporter! And after years of intense research and scientific application, I’m proud to announce my progress. So far I have a cardboard box, some string, and a couple tin cans. I feel I’m on the verge of a real breakthrough.

As for the future of PenguinSage’s Super-Duper Handy-Dandy Teleporter!, the product is so amazing it will sell itself. The only marketing strategy I need to consider is what pose I will assume when modeling for the statue they will surely build of me in every major city (and some smaller ones).

Don’t worry, I will remember you - my Askville friends - when I’m big and important from this invention. I will send you autographed pictures or something if you like. Maybe you can touch my statues.

How I got the idea STAR TRECK. You would not have to market it would market itself. It can make anything you want demonstrate it once to a group of scientists and reporters and you are world famous and rich. Of course it would destroy the world economy, no one would have to work but you would not have to if it gave you anything you wanted. Then theres the prroblem of who would install the things the replacator made like house parts. Then You would have to build a real big one. Maybe this is not such a good idea

Seriously. I have designed and manufactured a product. About five years I designed a new type of dinning room table based on the gothic style which is very heavy and bulky. I lighened up the design and called it NEW WAVE GOTHIC. Having a established furniture making studio and a web site we put in on the site and waited to see if anyone was interested in it. About a year later we got our first client for a 15,000 dollar table and once that was one the web site other orders have followed. The tables sell between 10-30 thousand dolllars depending how large, type of wood, amount of carving and were it has to be shipped.

Obviously this is not a mass market product and is geared to the high end custom market but that is what we do. The web is a very powerful marketing tool. That's may story.