Things you were so sure you invented or done first.

[Prometherion]

I think everyone has thought of an ingenious product or trend, marveled at our own intelligence and never acted on it. Only to find months or years later someone else has done it and made a fortune.

Heres my list:
Coke zero - "Why does Pepsi have Pepsi max but Coke doesnt have anything?" I noticed.
Akimbo 1887s: "This is awesome, why is no-one else doing this?" I wondered.
iPhone vibrators: (probably best to not to tell you why I thought of this, suffice to say i live with 5 girls and females are more filthy than they let on)
Radio toothbrush: "Why do you need both toothbrushes AND radios? I pondered.

What about you? (We'll believe you honestly...)

 

[Raven's Nest]

I wrote a guitar riff that Sipknot now use. Yeah they didn't copy me but the riff is note for note identical... It's Gemetria by the way...

Also, heated windscreens, hard drive media players in cars and I knew about rule 36 before it became rule 36... I also predicted Muse would be this big by now...

 

[Gxas]

In my home town, the sixth graders have a project called the "invention convention". This project consists of creating an idea for a product and attempting to sell it to the teachers and parents on the night of the convention.

Well, not all of the ideas are terribly good, and a ton are extremely uncreative, but there was one about fifteen years ago that was called Lepsi. They added lemon juice to Pepsi. This was about 6 years before Lemon Pepsi was available in stores.

I had talked to one of the kids who worked on that project about Lemon Pepsi when it first came out, he was livid. Said he should've patented it or something.

If you are wondering, my groups idea was Central Trash. It's like Central Vac, but with trash cans and recycle bins.

 

[Cargando]

Crackpot ideas? Why, I have plenty no-one could possibly steal them [i/]all[/i].

I wrote a guitar riff that Sipknot now use. Yeah they didn't copy me but the riff is note for note identical... It's Gemetria by the way...

And that is ridiculously awesome.

Edit: Fuck. I was sure no-one would have thought of the magnet-powered generator before me.

 

[Cmwissy]

The phrase 'Come to the dark-side; we have cookies'

I was using it in '96.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

I've invented a new method of applying butter to bread.

I could tell more but then I'd be forced to murder every last one of you in order to protect my future millions.

 

[Batfred]

I have some. I have even been dumb enough to go down the patent office with one.

I will remember this thread fondly when I'm a trillionaire... Muahahahah!

 

[Mushroomfreak111]

Socks without toes^^ (turns out they call them legwarmers...). I bought a bunch of the exsisting ones tho, loooove them!

 

[Garaw]

When I was jacking around with an Apple IIe, I was convinced that I'd invented the bubble sort. That little fantasy got wrecked quick.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

I had doodled ideas for a star wars RTS that played like Age of Empires. 2 years later and battlegrounds came out, I was dumbfounded.

EDIT: Thats STAR WARS: Battlegrounds... i forgot there was a game called battlegrounds.

I had a similar scenario with star wars battlefront (i was thinking wouldn't it be great if they made a star wars game that played like battlegield 1942), but i was sure at that point none of my ideas were original

 

[NIHILHATE]

When I was ten I invented Guitar Hero, 'cept mine was gonna be called Arockalypse, featuring mainly metal, and would take you to various cities and landmarks, and succesful playing would destroy the area, and eventually the world. Also the controller was gonna be a B.C Rich Warlock, not a Les Paul.
AND Blackberries (Phones, not Fruit).
AND Rum/Absinthe Marshmallows. I don't think that's been done yet. Just think of this post as a sort of patent.
AND that Iron Maiden album cover with the skeletons and the Tank.
AND The Fear by Lily Allen, 'cept my lyrics were slightly different (better). Exactly the same thing though.
AND the floating mountain things from Avatar. I drew them in school when I was six.




I've been unknowingly ripped off alot now I come to think of it.

 

[aruseusx]

When I was ten I invented Guitar Hero, 'cept mine was gonna be called Arockalypse, featuring mainly metal, and would take you to various cities and landmarks, and succesful playing would destroy the area, and eventually the world. Also the controller was gonna be a B.C Rich Warlock, not a Les Paul.
AND Blackberries (Phones, not Fruit).
AND Rum/Absinthe Marshmallows. I don't think that's been done yet. Just think of this post as a sort of patent.
AND that Iron Maiden album cover with the skeletons and the Tank.
AND The Fear by Lily Allen, 'cept my lyrics were slightly different (better). Exactly the same thing though.
AND the floating mountain things from Avatar. I drew them in school when I was six.




I've been unknowingly ripped off alot now I come to think of it.

How much Megadeth and Death was gonna be in it.

OT - Buttoning up the blazer. I'm certain I was the first human being to do that. Now everone else I know at school is doing it.

 

[D-Cypher]

This is an absolutely true story and shit the fuck out of us when it happened. Back when I was in school, me and 2 mates were walking back from the shop at lunch while discussing terrorism. My mate Jamie says "why dont they just hijack planes and crash them into buildings?", to which we just laughed. This was about 2 months before 9/11. I SHIT YOU NOT.

 

[Woodsey]

Use the word 'done' correctly.

Ho ho.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

That joke Family Guy made about does this cloth smell like chloroform to you I had that before Family Guy used it. Granted I took insipration from The Simpsons for the joke but I still had it first I don't mind if people don't believe me but I'm sure someone else has had the idea of it before to.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

I was sure I had invented the idea of the Lego bible.

Someone on the internet had already done it sadly...

 

[Jark212]

(After the invasion of Iraq) I asked a friend of mine when we were going to leave, she said when Al-Qaeda was dead, I replied by saying that's going to take some time and a few more invasions, she insisted it would take a few months...

I was in middle school at the time...

 

[similar.squirrel]

I've never been egotistical enough to doubt the several billion lunatics who came before me, and with whom I share the planet. I'm pretty sure most stuff has been thought-of.

Japan, also. They come up with stuff that I wouldn't even hallucinate about.

 

[Ocelot GT]

pretty sure I invented "yuss" as in yes.

 

[GreyFox389]

That pot with the holes in it for straining water was MY IDEA.