Journal

I’ve had an IDEA! The only problem is I can’t share it with you or put it on my portfolio page because I’m scared that someone who’s better at making manufacturing happen than I am will steal my idea and I won’t be able to make $$$ off of it, which would be truly awful. There are some interesting aspects to this whole process which I want to discuss later (if an invention is a design for a digital display, is patenting it technically a software patent? embedded devices make the anti-software-patent stand a little more complicated). But for now I just want to mention how totally cool google’s patent search system is. One thing that I’m really getting a kick out of/being inspired by is the art included in the patent. Try to imagine what this thing is just by looking at the artwork…look’s to me like a patent for either a Utopian community or Disneyland…or maybe a cult: