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Today I was in the shower and I had a great idea! I was so excited to get to work so that I could post it.
Unfortuneatly, the act of drying off erased any memory of the idea. I'm sure it's still in there somewhere, and I will recall it two weeks from now when I'm driving somewhere, and I can't
write it down.
So, we need water-activated *audio* recorders installed in showers.
home: shower
http://www.halfbake...ry/Home_3a_20Shower Catagory suggestion. [Laughs Last, Oct 04 2004]
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Is this the right category? |
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If not, let the idea read:
"Water-activated audio recorders for all halfbakery members". |
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Or you could get some of those bath crayons they sell in Crabtree & Evelyn, and scrawl the idea on the shower wall. |
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Or a waterproof pad and pen like divers have. |
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I saw an article on businessmen-oriented hotels trying to offer better services, and one had a whiteboard in the shower for just this sort of thing. |
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But the pens for whiteboards use water soluble ink...! |
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This is good. Maybe some would prefer a recorder that could also play karoake and record the results. You know, all those shower singers out there. |
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They had special pens for that shower whiteboard. |
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[lawpoop], get back in the shower if that's where you left it. |
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I'd prefer a whiteboard myself, but I like the idea. Although for some people, this would involve fast forwarding through about 2 hours of bad, bad singing. |
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This happens to me all the time. I am so glad that I'm not the only one with this problem.... |
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Sign me up for the first batch (+) |
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Just do what I do: keep a permanent marker in the shower, and when you get a good idea, write it on yourself. No danger of that sucker washing off anytime soon. |
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Call me a luddite <pauses while you comply> but my job involves nothing but coming up with ideas, and I don't think this'll work. One thing I've learned is that ideas are always elusive, and will nearly always chose to come out just when you can't record them. If you put a recorder in the shower, ideas will happen elsewhere.
My guess is that it's because most ideas happen when you're reacting to something, rather than when you're sitting still with a pen in your hand, waiting for an idea. The only real way to be sure to capture your brilliant ideas is to cultivate a brilliant memory.
Try visualising yourself using your idea/invention. Find an image, preferably one which you can add an emotion to. Focus on one specific point in your image which will act as a trigger when you try to remember it. In theory. |
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