Bill's brilliant but unpatentable ideas, number two.
Situation: I have a mobile phone, Well, several actually, I never seem to get around to recycling the old ones. But they all seem to double up as music players/FM radios/audiobook readers or something that requires headphones - usually cabled, forget about Bluetooth for now.
Problem: Whenever I try to plug the headphones in, I discover they're all tangled up. I've had entirely silent bus journeys as it took me so long to untangle them I'd arrived before I'd finally untangled left ear from right ear.
Observation: we never used to have this problem with non-mobile phones: they had coiled cables that extended to just the right length, and if they did get slightly tangled you just dangled them and they'd untwist themselves under gravity alone.
Solution: a cable coiler. If they could coil the big old cables then I'm pretty sure it would be even easier to coil the newer, thinner cables we get. If you can't make them cheap enough to make people want one, sell them to mobile phone shops and let them offer cable-coiling as another service.
Downside: I guess whoever decided it was good enough for old phones already has the patent. If not, then the idea is MINE, ALL MINE! But you can have it for a small percentage of each device if you are going to sell millions of them. I'm not greedy - I'll settle for becoming a mono-millionaire.
Problem: Whenever I try to plug the headphones in, I discover they're all tangled up. I've had entirely silent bus journeys as it took me so long to untangle them I'd arrived before I'd finally untangled left ear from right ear.
Observation: we never used to have this problem with non-mobile phones: they had coiled cables that extended to just the right length, and if they did get slightly tangled you just dangled them and they'd untwist themselves under gravity alone.
Solution: a cable coiler. If they could coil the big old cables then I'm pretty sure it would be even easier to coil the newer, thinner cables we get. If you can't make them cheap enough to make people want one, sell them to mobile phone shops and let them offer cable-coiling as another service.
Downside: I guess whoever decided it was good enough for old phones already has the patent. If not, then the idea is MINE, ALL MINE! But you can have it for a small percentage of each device if you are going to sell millions of them. I'm not greedy - I'll settle for becoming a mono-millionaire.