A service where you agree ahead of time and whenever you need a dental appointment instead of emailing you they just kidnap you with a panel van and you wake up later after the procedure.
Interesting. So you don't even have to know that you just had surgery. You could just go to sleep as you would normally, wake up, and everything is better. if anything you'll probably think you just had some weird kind of dream because of the anesthesia.
But patents are supposed to cover implementation, are they not? (I know they are completely messed up and don't work properly for that purpose currently)
Patents are not required to cover implementation details, and in fact, it is not even required to lay out any detail of the mechanism. As an extreme example of this physicist Leo Szilard was granted a patent on nuclear chain reaction in 1936, three years before it was discovered scientifically. It was sufficient for the British patent office that if such a mechanism existed, it could release large amounts of energy.
This may be an extreme example, but it illustrates that implementation details is not a requirement for a patent. This is also the case for a lot of software patents. They are broad enough to cover nearly anything, but not detailed enough to be useful as a description to build useful technology.
Mobile supermarkets with base requirements (TP, Sanitary Napkins, Water, various Food stuff).
Drive around take requests through a perspex wall, stick items in a secure box and push through to outside truck.
This concept has legs if ask you me. Wish i had the capital and time to try it.
In my country this is still common in countryside without the secure box. Various "themed" trucks go through small villages and you can hail/stop them to buy stuff. They also each have their theme music so you know which one is it.p
Ideas are incredibly cheap. Execution is hard as someone else pointed out. Beyond that, a random AI crapsoup of techonerdmangled words would give a pretty good "billion dollar idea":
AI ML crypto spaceship
Nano modular ML-based DNA aggregator
Crypto but actually is useful
And some of the most important ideas require the most boring execution:
- safe, clean toilets for the next billion
- all-display walls, e-paper that can act as lights too
- instead of self driving cars how about simple government intervention to provide sensors on roads for augmented-driving cars?
- continuous study of flu via most populated areas to predict flu vaccine 6 months from now (Bedford lab but super charged and automated)
- and finally, 5$ hospital saline solution
These seem stupid and naive but I believe they are some of the most important "ideas" and again without any execution plans.
Nowadays, the ideas/execution dichotomy seems to be repeated more or less blindly whenever ideas are discussed. (I do hear you and what you say above though - not blaming you for this, just responding with what arises in me. I'm not saying the following to devalue execution - just to devalue the dichotomy.)
I suppose that this is/was originally a well founded defense against, for instance, people being overprotective about their business ideas to a degree that it was undermining actually getting the implementation done.
To me this seems to mask the fact that not all ideas are made equal. There may be a mountain of user research behind one idea, and another may be just a spark of "wouldn't it be cool if..."
As long as we're working with information, all we're ever doing is in one sense or another dealing with ideas. If we only respect the work of those who deal with the business game or with the bits & bolts, we will keep ending up with poor user/client experiences. Understanding the ideas inside the head of the user often is the difference between a functional product and a brilliantly enjoyable one.
Curious about the saline solution problem, it appears 0.9% concentration is available for roughly $10/L on internet marketplaces, likely can be manufactured much cheaper, but getting it for that price in a US hospital might be a challenge.
My point is the insane supply chain costs that permeate the insurance, hospital and medical manufacturing industry. I used the saline solution as an example based on an LA Times investigation that found out saline solution is charged 1000$+.
Again a very hard problem as it involves innovating across the board in boring ways.
Toothly: Anxiety free dentistry.