* Posts by notice

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Jeff Bezos patents retro jets, and airbags, for telephones

notice
Facepalm

if the article has the word "patent" in the title...

...cue comments...

"I saw that in 1990..."

"Isn't that the same as (some completely unrelated technical field)..."

"That must be obvious..."

"How stupid could you be - can it really have taken 15 engineers to put that together?"

"PRIOR ART, PRIOR ART!!!"

BTW folks - it is perfectly allowable to transfer an idea from one technical field (e.g. car airbags) into another completely unrelated one (e.g. mobiles) and patent it.

Mostly because the engineers working on mobile phone casing/protection won't be up-to-date on NASA's thrusters...

And vice-versa - engineers from BMW don't usually consider that their airbags can be used on mobile phones...

it took a spark of ingenuity to make the connection, and usually some sort of technical hurdle - that, my friends, is an invention...

Apple pictures iOS on your wall

notice
FAIL

@leftalready

seems to be a disconnect between real life and sci-fi. Dr Who, Minority Report and Avatar did not actually happen - they are fiction.

Like AC says - it's just special effects.

Just because someone once showed something in a cartoon or film doesn't mean it was actually invented at that point - patents require that you actually are able to carry them out. That's what perpetual motion machines are always rejected by the Patent Office