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| Thread ID: 139635 | 2015-06-04 03:00:00 | 'Don't f@#k it up!' | Zippity (58) | PC World Chat |
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| 1401946 | 2015-06-04 08:32:00 | Oh? Another lame attempt at trying to be the funny man :( I wouldn't attempt humour with you,it would be wasted! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1401947 | 2015-06-04 09:25:00 | Surely USA Nasa and armed forces have done a ton of research and may have have plenty of them. And public demo's. Astronauts probably use them. I remember the 1984 opening of the Olympic Games had a Jetpack man: View Video. (www.youtube.com) | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1401948 | 2015-06-04 09:43:00 | Many inventors get carried away with their brainchilds, and few have commercial nous. There is also the common tendency, especially in NZ to re-invent the wheel. I used to see this a lot in DSIR. Edit: and also when inventors brought their ideas to DSIR for comment, if they were friends of a minister like Muldoon, then we had to pretend to take them seriously :) Interesting article here about re-inventing wheels...........www.stuff.co.nz " There's plenty wrong with the way New Zealanders invent and commercialise new products, says Slack, 38, who has lived here on and off since leaving his native UK in 1999. But by far the biggest bee in his bonnet is the vast amount of time, money and effort wasted when innovations are "invented second" (the oxymoron is his own coinage). "Invented second" is what happens when someone slogs their guts out to create something new, not realising it has already been done – sometimes decades earlier, or in an unrelated industry." |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1401949 | 2015-06-04 10:03:00 | I reckon he has bailed out in the nick of time before the company folds. I am a pilot and I wouldnt want to fly the damn thing. I bet it has a deadmans curve even with the ballistic parachute. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1401950 | 2015-06-04 10:08:00 | Yep, I agree with prefect, a strategic withdrawal from a massive P.O.S. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1401951 | 2015-06-05 00:29:00 | Many inventors get carried away with their brainchilds, and few have commercial nous. There is also the common tendency, especially in NZ to re-invent the wheel. I used to see this a lot in DSIR. Edit: and also when inventors brought their ideas to DSIR for comment, if they were friends of a minister like Muldoon, then we had to pretend to take them seriously :) Interesting article here about re-inventing wheels...........www.stuff.co.nz " There's plenty wrong with the way New Zealanders invent and commercialise new products, says Slack, 38, who has lived here on and off since leaving his native UK in 1999. But by far the biggest bee in his bonnet is the vast amount of time, money and effort wasted when innovations are "invented second" (the oxymoron is his own coinage). "Invented second" is what happens when someone slogs their guts out to create something new, not realising it has already been done – sometimes decades earlier, or in an unrelated industry." I use to see - dumped samples of so called new (or rather rebranded/reinvented) packaging products. Cardboard coffins,kennels, sheds, Pallets, 50 to 200 l paperboard drums, reinforced plastic - paper crates, etc. Lot of money, resources (including DSIR/IRL, Massy University, etc), and expert people from overseas were used. Products never really materialised commercially. Too many patents had to be circumvented. Patent attorneys were frequently at our test research facilities. |
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