Hey thats MY idea!

[avelmen1889]

Have you ever thought of something, some cool gadget or product that should be sold, then the very next day... you go to the store and you see the very same product or a similar product.

Stuff like this has happened to me before. One day i was sitting at my house one day and I thought "Do you know what would be a good idea? cheese flavored ramen noodles." A week later I was at the grocery store and lo and behold there it was in the 'Food Around The World' aisle mocking me. So i bought it. It wasn't Half bad though.

Has anything like this happened to any of you? If so, describe what it was and what happened when you saw your idea being used.

 

[the Dept of Science]

Me and my friends had a joke that once the Higg's Boson was discovered, all of reality would dissolve into an empty room, with Jesus sitting at a desk. He would then say "You have now reached level 2".

It was said on Mock the Week very shortly afterwards.

I get a similar feeling of annoyance when an obscure fact I know is said on QI, because then if I say it in conversation, I just get "yeah yeah, we all watched that episode as well".

 

[Dango]

Perfume that smells like the beach!

Cookie for reference.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

I can't stand cheese. Like, at all. Anybody else like this?

 

[Blemontea]

This happened to me all the time as a kid, i drew up planes for a floor mat that would be a controller for your feet about a week later DDR comes to the stores. I thought about a little pile filled with little army men that would clean your teeth for you i tell it to my parents they tell me they heard scientist were already in development of it.

 

[flying_whimsy]

This happens a lot to me for story ideas; I'll come up with something and then while I'm working on it a movie/anime/comic/book will come out with something eerily similar. It's like there's some sort of pattern to creative outbursts that I'm slightly out of time with.

 

[Emperor Platypus]

The Large hadron collider.

It's double annoying because they even stole the name I had in mind. (yea, yea. 'The blackhole machine' might have sounded better. But 'Large hadron collider' is tax deductable.)

 

[One Seven One]

This has happened to me many times.

The first example to come to mind was space lasers, I was talking to a friend about it at the bus stop, then the very next day [or close to that] I find it here, on this site, in the news section.

 

[ducktapemax]

Most people olny care who pattened it first. Still it says your a smart person.

 

[lasherman]

I wanted to write a story where an average guy decides to become a superhero for no real reason, who doesn't know how to fight, has no powers or gadgets, and gets his ass kicked during each fight. Soon after, Kick-Ass comes out. I even had a similar idea to where

Spoiler

Big Daddy and Kick-Ass are tied up and about to be executed on live TV

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

Well, I was one of the first people to come up with the concept for pants. Right before I get to to the patent office, I find out that some dicks from a few thousand years ago stole my idea.

I will also note that my friend used to use the name "Jango" for his game characters back before Star Wars introduced Jango Fett.

 

[CaptainKoala]

Hahahaha, yesterday I was thinking "Wouldn't it be cool if they made boats with glass bottoms so you could see through." Apparently someone beat me to it many, many years ago.

 

[Plurralbles]

Um.. duh. The thing is, no matter what you come up with, someone else thought of it and probably thought of it in a way that made it leaps and bounds ahead of what you just thought of. The scary thing is how even the simplest things are getting patented and they're patenting things that rely on inventions not created yet. No matter what you do, you will probably be a year or so behind a corporate think tank. even if they don't make the product you're thinking of, they probably own the rights to it just in case you come up with it.

I always thought that Inception gave a very scary window as to how this happens without the simple explanation that there are billions of people spending billions of dollars with huge companies made of sections of these billions of people vying for dominance and therefore are in the position to out think an individual.

 

[Instinct Blues]

Perfume that smells like the beach!

Cookie for reference.

Seinfeld man thats probably the easiest cookie I'll ever earn on the internet.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

I can't stand cheese. Like, at all. Anybody else like this?

Well, I have a friend who's intolerant to dairy, but I myself can't get enough of cheese, you should see my sandwiches.

I don't have brilliant ideas that people would make much, though I did have an eerie moment with an episode of Scrapheap Challenge once. It went like this.

"You know what they should make? Siege weaponary."
"Next week, our qualifying teams battle it out to create the best Mini-launching machine."
"Holy crap!"

 

[Dango]

Perfume that smells like the beach!

Cookie for reference.

Seinfeld man thats probably the easiest cookie I'll ever earn on the internet.

Well to make it more difficult, you have to steal it from the cookie monster

Spoiler

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Perfume that smells like the beach!

Cookie for reference.

Seinfeld man thats probably the easiest cookie I'll ever earn on the internet.

Kramers idea to be specific.

I swear epic stole the chainsaw bayonett idea from ME! I SWEAR!