Yes, a novel arrangement of existing items, doesn't matter if it works or is garbage, is patentable!
Bingo. George Carlin used to say, "Nail together two things that someone hasn't nailed together before, and some schmuck will buy it!"
Comment on patent searches, don't forget the entry for status amazing how many are abandoned especially the pro se ones that were unsuccessfully shopped around.
I sometimes Google myself - mainly to discover who is finding my website useful. I was amused to find that comments on a European patent application for some sort of folded antenna mention a tutorial page on my website as prior art (not sure if this was in the application, or the examiner's comments). Nothing on my page which you could not find in a decent antenna textbook. The brief description of the 'invention' seemed to contain nothing new at all.
I read a short book on Tesla lately. He was the father of so many things and died penniless. He had little problems too, like causing earthquakes. Tesla claimed there was an 8 hertz tone from the earth and that he could manipulate that. That was so many years ago. No patent that I know of though. If you want to read about an incredible mind this is one you don't want to miss.
I often wonder what is around today that we don't know about.
Grant.
Was waiting for Tesla to get mentioned.. His name is often invoked during all things psuedo-science - almost as a God figure who could do all the things we see in sci-fi's but was 'silenced' by 'the man'.
The fact he really *did* contribute to todays technology, compounded by much documentation of his work is used to validate ridiculous claims like he could 'wireless power a car up to 100km/hour', or 'made a small device that caused earth quakes'. But don't even try to question any of this, because that's just what 'big corporations' and governments want you to do...
He was a serial bull-shitter who was quite good at getting funding from easy-to-fool investors, and a show man who knew the power of being able to 'see' electricity (thus the large tesla coils).
The very fact that of all the 'silly' claims made by so-called Tesla-followers, not one has been reproduced by anyone is surely a bit of a hint that the 'legend' has been created, warped, and sustained by those who, rather than study engineering, or make something useful, would rather spend their time making poor quality gif's of what a 'tesla earth quake machine might look like'.
There is a huge sub culture on the web surrounding Tesla, and the poor mans legacy is dragged into everything from UFO's, to anti vaccination campaigns. I used to find it intriguing, then laughable... but now down-right worrying as it highlights how easily people can be led to believe certain 'facts' just because there are others who believe it. That is how Jonestown started..
The fact he really *did* contribute to todays technology, compounded by much documentation of his work is used to validate ridiculous claims like he could 'wireless power a car up to 100km/hour', or 'made a small device that caused earth quakes'. But don't even try to question any of this, because that's just what 'big corporations' and governments want you to do...
He was a serial bull-shitter who was quite good at getting funding from easy-to-fool investors, and a show man who knew the power of being able to 'see' electricity (thus the large tesla coils).
The very fact that of all the 'silly' claims made by so-called Tesla-followers, not one has been reproduced by anyone is surely a bit of a hint that the 'legend' has been created, warped, and sustained by those who, rather than study engineering, or make something useful, would rather spend their time making poor quality gif's of what a 'tesla earth quake machine might look like'.
There is a huge sub culture on the web surrounding Tesla, and the poor mans legacy is dragged into everything from UFO's, to anti vaccination campaigns. I used to find it intriguing, then laughable... but now down-right worrying as it highlights how easily people can be led to believe certain 'facts' just because there are others who believe it. That is how Jonestown started..
It must have been a relief that the patent application for the US did not contain a reference.
Exactly. I run a mile if I see anyone coming clutching a book on the "Magic of Testl" or somesuch...
Tesla was very clever. He was also somewhat barmy. Some of his fans are barmy too, but rarely clever.
I always wonder if someone has actually opened a Bybee device. (Burr-Brown?{TI})
Kinda like the cardas innards photos (isnt it funny how cardas sounds so much like canare and even the jacketing looks the same)
I imagine that the bybee works quite differently from the photos shown. Id guess that the device actually operates using a gold/neodymium anoxide alloy in a gel. This over an element emitting rf housed in a metallic tube of sorts (guess is copper over iron).
The mini antenna would emit the rf which would than jiggle the powdered alloy causing it to dissipate. The alloy would help because the neodymium would absorb the field incredibly and incredibly increase its frequency, the gold absorb the field as well yet not increase its frequency. Keeping the neodymium content low would cause it to be encapsulated in the gold creating a sphere around the neodymium causing the field within the dust to reflect within the sphere more readily. This increases absorbtion. The energy would then dissapate itself into the gel in the same fashion based on reflection/refraction fresnel equations.
The dust and gel will also physically move in rf and audio fields.
I guess a fuse would work pretty well for generating emi.
The tube would provide shielding from the mini antenna as well as dissapate more energy.
I would also imagine it to be near impossible to create neodymium anoxide without a reduction getter and oxygen free environment (barium).
Kinda like the cardas innards photos (isnt it funny how cardas sounds so much like canare and even the jacketing looks the same)
I imagine that the bybee works quite differently from the photos shown. Id guess that the device actually operates using a gold/neodymium anoxide alloy in a gel. This over an element emitting rf housed in a metallic tube of sorts (guess is copper over iron).
The mini antenna would emit the rf which would than jiggle the powdered alloy causing it to dissipate. The alloy would help because the neodymium would absorb the field incredibly and incredibly increase its frequency, the gold absorb the field as well yet not increase its frequency. Keeping the neodymium content low would cause it to be encapsulated in the gold creating a sphere around the neodymium causing the field within the dust to reflect within the sphere more readily. This increases absorbtion. The energy would then dissapate itself into the gel in the same fashion based on reflection/refraction fresnel equations.
The dust and gel will also physically move in rf and audio fields.
I guess a fuse would work pretty well for generating emi.
The tube would provide shielding from the mini antenna as well as dissapate more energy.
I would also imagine it to be near impossible to create neodymium anoxide without a reduction getter and oxygen free environment (barium).
lol cant give less a damn, I could operate my tube amp in a radio station antenna tower, sound would be as good. Bybee , bye-cash
Actually, those aren't for sale here till next month, some kind of licensing squabbles.
I doubt any of those would provide the visions of RF absorbing gels reported above, though.
I doubt any of those would provide the visions of RF absorbing gels reported above, though.
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