Dear friends Roger, Kevin & Mr. Ed;
I respectfully took the liberty to create this heading for the discussion of the guns subject. Please, understand that all i want is the “Tempering your Expectations” created by John Larkin, and supported by yours truly remains tempered and focused.
Thanks!
Luis
Roger Brown
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Kevin, look at the first picture of the article you posted it says one dumb idea was a machine gun that shoots around a corner. The picture shows a machine gun with a curved barrel from 1953. That idea was definitely going to kill the user. Now look at this link to a new gun that actually is able to shoot arounds corners. It was developed this year. 15 countries are testing the weapon now for their military. http://www.gizmag.com/go/2576/ It took over 50 years but someone figured out how to do it. The technology of the time in 1953 was just not able to meet their creativity. Sometimes Inventors are way ahead of the curve. I’m sure the person that came up with the idea was thought to be nuts at the time.
Kamala, everyone is not a salesperson, not every idea is marketable. As I have said before you can give the same idea to three different people and get three different results. There are peole that can sell anything to anybody and others that could have the most perfect idea in the world and could not sell it if their life depended on it.
I get items from Inventors all the time to review. One of the basic mistakes most make is that they don’t do a good job of pitching their idea. Look at infomercials, in 30 seconds they have told you the benefits of the product, how much it costs, how if you order now you can get another one free, just pay shipping. Do you think their sales would be just as successful if it took them 30 minutes to make their pitch once? Consider the long pitches you see on TV that picth the product for 30 minutes. Count how many times they get in a full pitch during the 30 minutes. You can change to that channel anywhere in the 30 minutes and “get” what the benefits of the product are right away.
Inventors kill their chances with a good marketable idea because they don’t get to the point soon enough. If you were going to cook a meal from a new recipe would you want to read a short one page of instructions that tells you the procedure and all the ingredients needed or a 22 page book that in the end tells you the same thing the one page did? By the time you got through the 22 pages you are no longer interested in the meal and eating out looks like better option. The same goes for your pitch. Make it short and concise and grab the readers interest quickly. Your success rate will go up if you do.
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kevin da biskit
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Right, Roger…after I posted those photos, I looked a bit slower at all 30 of them, and there were MORE than a couple that actually turned out to be the foundation or motivation or groundwork or whatever of some items that actually turned out being invented in more recent times.
Funny how that is.
Maybe my “fly-less” boxer briefs are just a bit ahead of their time. Maybe when we’re all wearing jet-packs or something they will be of value. In the mean time not so much. Thank Hanes.
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Mr. Ed
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Although the StG 44 with a curved barrel got a few hundred shots off before the barrel became unstable up it was a weapon out of necessity because as I recall the Germans built a tank which had no side mounted light caliber weapons and was easily mounted and overrun by the allies. Thus, the curved barrel offered the Germans the ability to pop the weapon out the top hatch and spray anyone hiding alongside the tank. Other uses followed but it came out of this necessity.
Man, things you recall hearing nearly 20 years ago from the PMI during grass week at the Edson Range. Amazing bit of semi useless military trivia. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z56SNHHL60U
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