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Post by Capttrips25 on May 25, 2004 18:20:24 GMT -5
I just thought of a great idea, I looked for “tent burglar alarms” on the web and found nothing. I thought about taking a pressure mat like they use for machine shop safety shut-off and attaching an alarm to be set off when it is stepped on. Now put it under your tent and if someone goes inside the alarm goes off.
I liek the idea, but think what happens when a car alarm goes off somewhere. Everyone ignores it. I think Roob's suggestion of making friends with your neighbors worked out the best for me.
Now if you added a function to page you, I think it would have added value. At least if you were out of earshot you could come hauling @ss back.
I just thought of a great idea, I looked for “tent burglar alarms” on the web and found nothing. I thought about taking a pressure mat like they use for machine shop safety shut-off and attaching an alarm to be set off when it is stepped on. Now put it under your tent and if someone goes inside the alarm goes off.
Would it sell?
Everyone here is out of their gourd... if you make a cheap-o alarm set up, there are enough paranoid people out there to buy it!
plus, if i was going to try to steal something out of someone's tent, and a friggin alarm started going off, I would probably haul ass outta there. Could work... even if no one gives it a second glance. Just scare the shat outta some dumbarse
if you make a cheap-o alarm set up, there are enough paranoid people out there to buy it!
Patent applications, with the lawyer fees and such added up, are well over $6K. I've been involved with a few and they are very time consuming and expensive, with no guaranties of success.
I'd spend a little up front to have the patent DB searched for similar ideas before going forward. Chances are someone else might of already filed one for something like this.
Patent applications, with the lawyer fees and such added up, are well over $6K. I've been involved with a few and they are very time consuming and expensive, with no guaranties of success.
I'd spend a little up front to have the patent DB searched for similar ideas before going forward. Chances are someone else might of already filed one for something like this.
Post by JayFromRochester on May 28, 2004 14:05:30 GMT -5
You know, they do make these little things that hang from a door knob and serve as motion detectors. I've seen both ones marketed as toys for kids as "Room Alarms" and ones that were more expensive marketed as legit entry alarms. I've wondered in the past if you couldn't use something like this for a tent or camper.
Or perhaps modify the idea to better suit your purposes.
In any event, as long as we're all throwin' our two cents in, I'd give the little bugger a remote control--like the one you rich folks have for your car door locks--that activates and de-activates it. That way I don't get woken up every time the guy in the next site stumbles back to his tent and tries to get in--setting the b@stard off and then trying to figure out how to shut it off (like a d**ned car alarm)...
Post by JayFromRochester on May 28, 2004 14:13:53 GMT -5
Oh, and Capt., I think you can sell it. If you have doubts, just walk through a camping store and check out all the crazy stuff that people are buying for the great outdoors. Tent burgalar alarms wouldn't even stand out as off-beat.
