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BountyQuest CEO Patenting Lighting Toilet Water
theodp writes "Charles Cella, CEO of the widely-hyped Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly funded patent reform vehicle BountyQuest, has filed for a number of patents since BountyQuest's demise, including one that covers illuminating water in a toilet bowl (see FIG. 7). Cella's co-inventors include principals of Color Kinetics, which has come under fire for strong-arm patent tactics and whose Board colorfully likens its IP to nuclear weapons."
Bah!
When I was young, we used to chug a pitcher of Plutonium and really light up the bowl.
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I think they can have that patent
for all those who think that the sun shines out of their backside ...
Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do!
Is persistantly glowing toilet water, so when that Charles Cella goes in and drops that big brick (that he's so full of) and water splashes his undercarriage, he can walk around with a glowing backside!
I filed a patent for turning the lighted water in a toilet bowl yellow.
What kind of stupid moron thinks this patent is worth the paper its written on? Is there a large market for lighted toilet water? What kind of competition is out there?
If he has a patent on lighting toilet water and I have lights in my swimming pool... does that mean I can be sued if I pee in my pool?
Oh wait, prior art. I did that twenty five years ago. *Whew*
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
This shit is very illuminating!
You can't handle the truth.
...lighting a fart?
Unless someone claims prior (f)art??!!
Sorry.
AT&ROFLMAO
Lighting toilet water ? Patenting it ? America truly leads the world in innovation.
Bring on the Vogon construction fleets. Truly our species no longer has any worth.
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
IOW he's trying to patent any use of LED lighting anywhere in or around a toilet. Surely the requirement for inventions not to be obvious would prevent this patent from being granted.
63. A system of claim 63, wherein the light system is disposed on the seat of
the toilet.
I like the recursive nature of this item though, maybe the guy is a GNU fan.
Oh no... it's the future.
67. A system for providing illumination for a toilet, comprising: a school of sharks with frickin' lasers beams attached to their heads.
Imagine the endless hours of fun you'll have creating a short in one of these toilets so that when your drunken buddies go pee......ZAPP!!!
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I don't think I'd feel safe if I dropped the soap in that bathroom.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
i'm thinking they just found SOME way to light things in water, or under water, with a microchip. Once discovered, you've got to CYA just in the off chance that it's used for something that actually makes money. You'll see EVERYTHING on there: shaving cream, perfume, any container, any container with a liquid.
I'd be inclined to think someone told them "It's a good idea. Better include everything AND the kitchen sink on your patent." So they did.
"There is a reason Linux is free"
~me~
Don't worry. Robots never have any interest in abusing the orifices of innocent humans. Not even in Japan.
That's the tentacle demons' job, and their union is very touchy about demarcation issues and has high-level contacts with the yakuza.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
This guy is full of shit
No pun intended (?).
... until we find a way to grab the legislators in the balls.
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I'm sure we can come up with a toilet design that grabs the legislators by the balls. Prior art will be the work of the winner of the 2004 Darwin Award: http://www.big-boys.com/articles/2004darwinawards