Assignment

Class is cancled on November 22, 2011. I want you to produce a small blog talking about thse three inventions. These are three ideas that I have had over the years that I have since abandoned.
I would like you all to critique them on how creative you think they are and how well they fit the idea of a design patent. Keep the whole thing short, maybe a paragraph.
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the ball drop
this was an idea that I had back before the turn of the century. I thought that a clock that used an ornamental design in order to count down to New Year’s for the turning of the millennium might be a hot seller. The idea that there is a clock underneath the 10 and when it hits 11:59:50 it starts the top clock to do a countdown and then the ball on the top would drop just like it does in Times Square.

Critique
Its use is only once a year, for a holiday that is not celebrated by all. At best its a contemplation of nostalgia and lack of access to the real thing. However uncreative it is, it can quite easily sell if it was not the year 2011 going to 2012. These days a screen with a recording of the event would sell better. As a design patent it would be questionable since its a miniaturization of a already designed mechanism.
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the airplane spoon
this is an idea that I mentioned in class a few times. You know how most parents play the airplane game to get their children to eat. Open the hangar and let the airplane land. Over the summer I came up with the idea of making a spoon shaped like this. So that it would be creative and somewhat fun for parents to engage with their children using a spoon shaped like an airplane.

Critique
Unlike the design above, this one is actually unique, to my knowledge, I would not be surprised if it has not been doen already. However lets humor the idea, its actually pretty cool, it serves function and it might also be able to entertain the child. Creativity wise it is not mind blowing, it is a combination of two very familier objects/ideas.
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this last idea is a design for a tool that would work as a starter for drilling holes in a printed circuit board. This tool would act like a tap and die and would allow little holes to be started so that a drill could be used to make the full holes that are needed in a printed circuit board.

Critique
The visual image does not display its function fully, however I am not one to judge, having no idea how circuit boards are made does not help. Its description seems that it would be a tool to provide a certain type of function on under certain conditions. But since I have not heard of a similar tool, it seems creating enough, just not creative in its design, it does not say that it speeds up production or how it is used or why not using is worse.