not that you'd be inventing something, but you could make yourself a homemade mortar. Everyone needs their own homehade cannon!
Lets invent the next big thing...
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gonna need a couple of thermocouples for that
Superhero armor! 
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
It's actually quite simple.
Cover the ground in Neodymium magnets, cover the underside of the hover board in them, make sure they're on the same ends facing and the thing will hover. Then just either use your foot to move it along or use some kind of small aft propulsion device.
I've thinking about an ipod touch mini
just wait until the poles flip and the board cuts your foot off and/or pins you to the ground
Long tube, rollers on two or four sides (or a different arrangement?) that can be rolled by the rubber ball that will be passing through the tube. Rollers generate electricity. Tube sits perpendicular to the ground. Non-roller surfaces inside the sides of the tube are coated with teflon or a similar friction-reducing material. Bottom of the tube contains an electric popper like is used inside those old indoor office golfing setups. Half (or some portion) of the rollers send electricity to the popper, which pops when enough power is there and the ball presses against it. The other half (or some portion) send electricity to a light bulb.
This is not a perpetual motion machine - power is added by the gravitational pull of the planet, and it would stop if that stopped. I'm honestly not sure if enough efficiency can be achieved to make it useful, but it would be interesting to try. I've just never had the workshop skills.
This is not a perpetual motion machine - power is added by the gravitational pull of the planet, and it would stop if that stopped. I'm honestly not sure if enough efficiency can be achieved to make it useful, but it would be interesting to try. I've just never had the workshop skills.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Or just have a wind turbine with one blade (with a weight attached) fall towards the ground and then utilise a small amount of the power generated to push it back to the top and release it again.
As it falls towards the Earth it will go beyond the very bottom point facing donward, it will have so much speed it will go 'upwards' meaning it's dropped more of a distance due to gravity than the distance required to get it back to the top.
More energy will be generated from it.
Plecostomus
Commodore
We already have Nemesis.
Plecostomus
Commodore
ROBOT WARS!!
I want to see the PlecBot
A PlecoBot would be a Sears ShopVac with RC controls and a 100hp hydrogen-burning suction turbine
I don't plan to put much energy into this.
Dual purpose, all-in-one powered nipple propellers and shockers.
I would attach a rough blueprint, but then I'd probably get banned
Ok the propellers I get... I'm visualizing my wife with propellers and it's humorous and oddly erotic.
But shockers?! No seriously... WHY?!
It's hard to see what will be the next big thing to come along. I mean, who could have foreseen back in days gone by, say, that the humble telephone could be carried around, play music, take pictures, send text messages, carry computer files, play games, and become a major video and information communications hub for the discerning man of the day?
That said, I'm still waiting for the day Monkey Tennis™ becomes a reality.
That said, I'm still waiting for the day Monkey Tennis™ becomes a reality.
Plecostomus
Commodore
That said, I'm still waiting for the day Monkey Tennis™ becomes a reality.
Will the monkeys be made out of brass? I hate working with brass.
Yeah good luck with that. Why don't you ask Tachyon Shield to help you.
I for one don't want to be arrested for breaking the laws of physics.
They're funky monkeys.That said, I'm still waiting for the day Monkey Tennis™ becomes a reality.
Will the monkeys be made out of brass? I hate working with brass.