# What's your million-dollar idea? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487 "2011-09-07T10:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/41 "2011-09-11T02:07:51Z")
One my father had, no idea if it would actually work: A long rubber tube to “balance” the air between a flat tire and a full one, giving you enough time to get to a gas station if your spare is no good or you don’t want to mess with it. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/42 "2011-09-11T02:30:30Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > A long rubber tube to “balance” the air between a flat tire and a full one… Two flats for the price of one. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/43 "2011-09-11T02:37:08Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > One my father had, no idea if it would actually work: > > A long rubber tube to “balance” the air between a flat tire and a full one, giving you enough time to get to a gas station if your spare is no good or you don’t want to mess with it. You used to be able to get foam in a can for that. I don’t think you can anymore though. Something to do with having to chuck the tyre unless you replaced the foam with air within a few hours. It was handy though. From memory, I used it to wreck a couple of tyres. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/44 "2011-09-11T03:30:15Z")
Like I’m gonna tell \*\*you \*\*guys. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/45 "2011-09-11T03:35:51Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > Like I’m gonna tell \*\*you \*\*guys. :rolleyes: The gig’s up, people. He’s on to us. . ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/46 "2011-09-11T04:20:25Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > I need one million people to send me $1 each to find out how I became a millionaire. I have it on good authority that there’s one born every day, so by my count you’ll be a millionaire in just 2,700 years. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/47 "2011-09-11T04:44:53Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Some of you may be interested in the [Half Bakery](http://www.halfbakery.com/). > You’ll fine some of these ideas there..including comments on them. And you may be surprised how many have actually been baked. > > -D/a There’s also [www.kickstarter.com](http://www.kickstarter.com) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/48 "2011-09-11T05:17:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Caffederm Patch. [Son of a _bitch_](http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/caffederm.shtml), I’ve been robbed! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/49 "2011-09-11T15:52:07Z")
You know how in pregnancy threads someone often ends up saying “no one has ever gotten a medal for giving birth naturally”. Well, that’s true. _Until NOW!!!_ Introducing the all-new “Congrats, you gave birth naturally!” medal, perfect for those arrogant new mothers that feel the need to be speshul as if no one else in the history of time has accomplished what they just have! Just send us $19.95 plus shipping and handling and your new medal will arrive within 2-3 weeks!. And for a limited time, order now and we’ll throw in the “Congrats! You’re breastfeeding!!” medal for FREE! And for just $7.99 more…that’s right folks, just $7.99 more… you can get the “_I_ co-slept and never killed my baby!” medal, which comes with swappable inserts for “My baby slept on his/her back!” or “My baby slept on his/her stomach!” You can walk around the house and town adorned with these medals and everyone will know just how awesome and speshul and unique you are! ---
**Author:** ![MeinView](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@MeinView](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeinView)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/50 "2011-09-11T18:38:45Z")
A social networking website for anti-social people. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/51 "2011-09-11T23:13:31Z")
A patch for Windows, that automatically detects and diasbles malware. What, you have to pay extra for this? Seriously, isn’t it time we had software that isn’t open to attack? ---
**Author:** ![Uber\_the\_Goober](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/58956e/32.png) [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/52 "2011-09-11T23:33:35Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > A cup holder that holds your drink in front of the a/c vent in your car. Hot drinks in the winter and cold drinks in the summer! Yay! Quite a few manufacturers do this already, although I can’t tell if it’s because of a lack of convenient dash space for a different location or if it was because someone had a good idea. It’s a damn good idea though. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/53 "2011-09-12T00:08:51Z")
Coloured charger leads. Especially the generic ones (‘kettle’ leads, micro-USB to USB, Nokia chargers). They’d save me an immense amount of headache with my multiple tangled leads. I bet someone here will find such a product online, but I haven’t, so if it exists then it needs better marketing. ---
**Author:** ![Uber\_the\_Goober](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/58956e/32.png) [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/54 "2011-09-12T01:31:22Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Coloured charger leads. Especially the generic ones (‘kettle’ leads, micro-USB to USB, Nokia chargers). They’d save me an immense amount of headache with my multiple tangled leads. I bet someone here will find such a product online, but I haven’t, so if it exists then it needs better marketing. I’ll do you one better. I’ll invent a _gasp_ universal charging system!!! Yeah…it’ll look like usb, no wait, mini usb, no wait, micro usb, except it’ll be better, and cooler. 🙂 Oh wait, you mean every single one out there was trying to do that? And the end result is that there’s a million different types of “universal” chargers? Ok then. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/55 "2011-09-12T15:05:07Z")
A TV show called “The Day Before.” About the trials and tribulations about a group of people working in a fictional office on the 99th floor od the World Trade Center. On Monday, September 10, 2001. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/56 "2011-09-12T16:02:55Z")
> [@echo6160](#): > > I’ll do you one better. I’ll invent a _gasp_ universal charging system!!! Yeah…it’ll look like usb, no wait, mini usb, no wait, micro usb, except it’ll be better, and cooler. 🙂 > > Oh wait, you mean every single one out there was trying to do that? And the end result is that there’s a million different types of “universal” chargers? Ok then. ☹ There are basically two in Europe now, at least for newer phones and computers. For phones, the companies now _have_ to use a universal charger and most laptops (well, all the ones I’ve used) have a kettle lead for the section that goes into the wall. But the different items all still have the same colour leads and now the same ends, so it’s actually got even harder if you have multiple items plugged in. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/57 "2011-09-12T17:39:13Z")
In the '60s, when I was a kid struggling with binding straps, I invented ski brakes. I had the engineering all worked out, pretty much identical to today’s, except I had the prongs facing forward. I should be getting a royalty. ---
**Author:** ![latch33570](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@latch33570](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/latch33570)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/58 "2011-09-12T18:39:09Z")
a saILING BLIMP THAT USES AIR FOILS FOR KEELS AND MAYBE THOSE ROTATING CYLINDERS INSTEAD OF SAILS. SOUNDS LIKE FUN TO ME. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/59 "2011-09-12T23:14:54Z")
> [@Telperion](#): > > I have it on good authority that there’s one born every day, so by my count you’ll be a millionaire in just 2,700 years. I believe the expression is, “…a sucker born every minute…”, in which case, if I get $1/minute, in just under two years I will have my $1million. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487/60 "2011-09-13T00:48:39Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > A 6 hour energy drink. It will sell better than that _other_ energy drink, because mine lasts an entire hour longer. That’s right. That’s - that’s good. That’s good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 7 hour energy drink. Then you’re in trouble, huh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-million-dollar-idea/595487.md?page=4)