{"id":6780,"date":"2012-11-26T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2012-11-26T06:58:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:58:38","slug":"better-windshield-wipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6780","title":{"rendered":"Better Windshield Wipers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was driving in Salem, Oregon a few weeks ago and it was raining.\u00a0 No surprise there.\u00a0 The rented van had good windshield wipers but with the ever changing weather it was very difficult to keep the little intermittent knob that adjusts the speed set right.<\/p>\n

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Later on the same day I was washing my hands in a restaurant bathroom that had a automatic faucet and I had a minor epiphany: put one of the faucet type sensors in the car so that with a flick of your hand you could make the windshield wipers operate.<\/p>\n

This idea is so good and so simple that it almost certainly will be incorporated into high-end cars within a few years.\u00a0 Can I as the inventor make any money on it?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 It would require some investment and lots of work to patent it and sell the patent to a car accessory company.\u00a0\u00a0 It may already be patented and we just don’t know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was driving in Salem, Oregon a few weeks ago and it was raining.\u00a0 No surprise there.\u00a0 The rented van had good windshield wipers but with the ever changing weather it was very difficult to keep the little intermittent knob that adjusts the speed set right. Later on the same day I was washing my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[149],"tags":[47,310,53,52,279],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideapreneur","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-business-success","tag-marketing","tag-product-idea","tag-rain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1Lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6783,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}