BDeVitis.net

No one has only good ideas, we all come up with duds. I thought it would be fun to share some of my bad ideas with the public. They may not be necessarily as bad as they are impractical or just impossible with today's technology. For each project I have explained the idea and why I think they are bad ideas.

Spherical Wheel for Automobiles

I went through a phase of interest in the idea of a spherical wheel as it would be applied to cars. While I still think it is an awesome idea I don't think its very practical/possible. Just imagining the possible maneuvers a car could do with spherical wheels makes me salivate.

Skateboard Glider

Long ago I was a skateboarder, not very good, but indeed a skateboarder. I had a park in my neighborhood with a huge grassy hill. Inspired by the steepness of the hill, I set out to design a glider that I could use to fly down the hill. Whee!!

Novel book Holder

In grade school I always hated reading books for many reasons one of which was holding the book open to read (lazy?). So I came up with two concepts that had the possibility of solving this issue. Both were somewhat impractical then but are even now more so with the advent of ebook readers.

Battle Bot

One of my favorite shows as a kid was BattleBots. I was determined to get on the show and I designed a few of my own simple robots that I thought could roast the competition.

Magnetic Subway

I don't remember what inspired this idea but here it is anyway. I wanted to make a subway train that would hover in its tunnel through means of both the tunnel and train being coated in super strong magnets. This is completely impractical for a few main reasons, the maglev trains are a much better idea.