if i invented something,what do i need to do to get it off the ground?
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From the article "How to Protect Your Idea or Intellectual Property" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol81/protectidea.htm  here are some steps you need to take:\n\n1. Consult a patent lawyer and check if your idea can be patented. \n2. Keep extensive records tracking the development of your idea.\n3. Conduct an extensive research to find out if there are similar patents. \n4. Document where, how and to whom you showed your idea.\n5. Do your own market research if your idea is marketable\n6. Explore the possibility of developing the product yourself, or licensing someone else to make the product for you. \n\nTo bring your idea to market, here are some tips from the article "How to Get Your Consumer Invention to Market" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/012006/invention.htm\n\nGetting Started: \n\n- The Ideabook = Keep a bound ideabook of your invention idea. Date your entries. \n- Get it Notarized = get it officially confirmed that you conceived your invention idea on a particular date, and have your notes notarized. \n- Seek and Search = Do your own patent search to ascertain if your invention is original and prospectively patentable.\n- Create the Initial Prototype = Use simple materials to rig it up, to see if it works. \n- Get Educated = Educate yourself on the inventing process. Go to a bookstore or inventorhelp.com and review the plethora of books written on the subject. \n- The Non-Disclosure Form = Agreement signed between you and anyone you reveal your invention to. \n\nMoving Ahead \n\n- Analyze Costs to Produce = Ascertain what the costs will be. \n- The Evaluation Process = Analyze the benefits and features, strengths and weaknesses of your invention. \n- Get a Professional Prototype = Have professional prototypes made, the quality of which can be shown to potential retail buyers. \n- Protect Your Idea = Apply for a provisional patent yourself. \n- The Non-Provisional Patent = Your patent attorney files your non-provisional patent application.\n\nOptions for Marketing\n\n- Licensing = The inventor has the choice to license the invention to a manufacturer in exchange for a royalty percentage in sales. \n- Manufacturing = Manufacturing and distributing your invention entails higher financial risk but can reap greater profits.\n\nHere are some books that can help you:\n\nFrom Patent to Profit by Bob De Matteis \nProtecting Your #1 Asset : Creating Fortunes from Your Ideas : An Intellectual Property Handbook \n Patents and How to Get One : A Practical Handbook \n How to Register Your Own Trademark : With Forms \n Patent It Yourself \n Protecting Your Ideas : The Inventor's Guide to Patents
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You can contact NASA. Make sure your idea is presentable, plausible, and is based on some scientific ideas.  You say your designs have been tested. Can you test them again? Make a video, and publish it on the internet. Just dont give away your 'engineering secrets' to protect your ideas.
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You don't. You need a scam.\n\nThere is the force of gravity.\nYou need an equal and opposite force to counter it.\n\nSeeing people protend to levitate is fun to imagine\njust like Superman flying through the air, being invincible, living forever and shooting beams of light out of his eyes. But, it is just a fun fantasy.
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1) write a book like "lords of the rings" and make big buck and share with us here who have answer your question.\n\n2)invent something, just imagine what would it be like if edison didnt invent the light bulb. Imagine somebody at that time tells you the he will make light without fire or talk to a friends miles and mild away at that time.\n\nanyways...get a rest and do something like fishing, hiking, or better yet try to answer question on yahoo answer.\n\nhappy huntin'
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Just get a piece of plastic sheeting..Suspend it off the ground 6 inches..Put a weight of some type in the middle, to form a downward cone..thats about it..You might also look it up in your Boy Scout Hand Book..its a good read.
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Use a shoe box.  Tape on some wheels and axles.  Put the balloons inside the box with the base of the balloons taped so all the air will go out the back.  When the air is released it will form a primitive rocket, propelling the box-car across the floor.\n\nI can't say this isn't rocket science, because technically, it is.
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do a thing with conservation of momentum. make your own newton's cradle(or use one if you already have one). you'll need 5 balls of exact equal mass(marbles would work) glue string to each one and tie the other end to a rod or stick of some sort(make sure the strings are the same length, and the balls have to be perfectly lined up and touching). find a way to get the ends of the rod to rest on something to make the balls/marbles hang down. ok, now pull one back and let it slam into the line of them. they will all stay still except for the last ball on the other end, which will fly up, come back down, and hit the row of them again. if you take two balls and pull them back, two will come off the other end. same with three, even though there are only 5 balls. the middle ball will go twice, and the ones that come back down will always stop dead once they reach their original position and the others start moving.  this is because they transfer their momentum to the other balls. the reason that the same number of balls come out the other end is that the masses have to be equal before the collision and after.  the system will not go on indefinately as it will eventually be slowed and eventually stopped by friction and air resistance.
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Make one yourself, you'll have to do it yourself eventually, why not start now?
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that is not possible. if something has not been invented yet per so does not exist...\nso that way no one will be able to provide you with one.
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Start by finding a patent attorney. \n\nTo prove you are the original inventor, you want a patent. Whoever files in the patent office first wins (providing that the patent is ultimately issued).  File a provisional patent.  This will give you a "placeholder" and protect your invention for one year during which you need to prepare a full patent application. No other documentation will stand up to a patent. You can do the provisional patent yourself.  Look at this website:
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make a catapult or a trebuchet\nmake a lever\nmake a hydraulic lift ( soda bottle hosing balloon housing for balloon like a box or can, something to lift}
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Just work with what you have. You keep messing around trying to make it bigger and you're gonna break it!
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Come on, use your imagination and do it yourself!  This is not hard at all!\n\n(good one, goth_brat)
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Find something everyone will need and then patent it.\nIt could be anything that would do with or about computers.\nLook at RIM and the struggle it is now facing.\nWith good maketing ANY enhancement or a new design could be worth millions.\n\nHowever, the biggest path to being rich is with maintenece or service of systems/databases or with old programming languages.
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A lot of people have cool ideas. Very few people do something about converting an idea into reality. How easy it is to get his idea into reality depends what it involves. Is it something you can build/do yourself or something which needs 5 years of full time research and lots of expensive apparatus to do? Without knowing anything about the idea we have no way of saying go to this or that person. Would he have to talk to an engineer, a physicist, a farmer or a doctor...\nLook up the researchers of the closest university. Find from their research interest which one would be suitable to contact. Either phone or e-mail providing sufficient information for them to judge the merit of the idea and how realistic it would be to realize.
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Sit around and wonder how to create something that will destroy what you created
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You could try lots of things, like:\nbeads\nfoam balls with pieces of wood to hold the sides together\npaper mache \nclay \n\nReally anything that you can mold or put together would work.