Here you have the provervial million dollar idea. Here is a link: Post-Star
Posted on 06/04/2006 12:57:28 PM PDT by Read2Know
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- It all started last winter, with a faulty remote starter on her 1996 Chevrolet Lumina.
Like many others, Sarah Dodge dreaded the thought of having to brave the elements to warm up her car before school.
In today's world of high-tech gizmos, the 18-year-old senior at Saratoga Springs High School figured there had to be a better solution.
Turns out, there was -- and now Sarah is the first student in a pre-engineering program at the school to have a federal patent pending, teacher Michael Gallagher said.
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Here's hoping she's not ripped off.
Good for her! Hope she does well with it.
Her first mistake was buying a Lumina. Perhaps she should use her phone to call a wrecker to haul that piece of sh*t to the junkyard.
Hmmmmmmmm....not many engineering majors looked like that when I went to school.
She looks like she might inspire a few million dollar ideas! Good for her:) looks and brains, the perfect combination.
Very clever, but ...
I guess the cat is out of the bag. This is terrible. I assume that readers are thinking what I am thinking.
I wonder if it takes 2 cell phones?
Relax. THEY have been using cellphone ringers to trigger realys for years.
The good thing is they never published, patented them or sold them, so she will not have Prior Art problems.
Nice rack, I'd motor boat'em...
Oppppppssss...she's still in HS, nevermind...
Good idea on the cell phone, great kid.../ducking from flying objects...
$50 says Nokia or one of the other manufacturers will have it as an expensive, optional feature, long before her patent is granted. Too bad.
I bet GM's On Star engineers are red in face and green with envy.
"For all her electronic wizardry, Sarah plans to pursue computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the fall. (RPI doesn't even know about her new starter.)"
SWOON ....thud....
Use an inverter/transformer to plug in a phone charger.
Use the ringer on the phone to close a relay to the starter.
Mount it all under the dash, or stuffed away within the crew cabin to prevent the elements from getting to the phone.
You could block all calls on the receiving phone, so that it only receives from one phone number.
She's got the date from the Provisional.
They had better have their checkbooks ready.
At what the poor kids is going to shell out for the patent process, the best thing that could happen for her would be a buyout. It would be far cheaper for any interested cellphone companies to do it that way, also.
Imagine her as the plaintiff in a Jury Trial..the David And Goliath sympathy would be a very Bad Thing for the company that infringed.
Most corporations are very aware of the laser lawsuit settlement, and the Sears quick-change socket wrench invented in a garage..and what happened to the Big Guys when it got to a jury.
The only way the trial would last more than day would be if the Court liked having her around a little longer....haha...
About 35 years ago, I got a $50 ticket in the People's Republic of Maryland for leaving my car running unattended while it warmed up on a cold winter morning.
When your are mad at your girl/boy friend call their car and let it run out of gas.
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