10,000 Brilliant Ideas

Forget insurance, try our guaranteed preventive services instead! Better because: - You're less likely to have the bad thing happen to you. - It's cheaper than regular insurance. - It's more human. - It's guaranteed! E.g. If you have a fire while under our services contract, we'll reimburse you for the damages! It works like this. You sign up for, let's stick with fire prevention service. A technician visits your home annually and checks out potential risks. He might see a pile of oily rags in the garage next to the water heater with a pilot light. He then might say, "would you like a fire proof oily rag container to use for free?" And you would say "yes. yes, please." Then he might see that the your fuse box is located under your sink. He might then say, "hmmm, this could cause a fire. What do you say I arrange for this box to be moved to another location for a fraction of the cost it would normally cost you?" And you say, ...

An aluminum bridge shell that can be attached to SUVs that can go underwater. The SUV has a few modifications. It has a snorkel, sealed doors, roof access, and pre-mounts that make attaching the bridge easy. (or just pre-mounts if you dismount it before the flood.) You drive the SUV under the bridge shell (stored in a warehouse or somewhere), lower the legs (lowering device on the top of the shell) until it sits on the pre-fastened brackets, raise the legs up all the way, drive to and then into the flooded road, climb out the top, lower the legs until the bridge is free-standing, get back in and drive out. Each bridge can either stand alone with on and off ramps or be connected to other bridge shells. The trick would be to get the bridge to where it's needed when most often there would be a huge backup of cars. This isn't an easy solution, but it works. The bridge has wheels on the bottom of each leg and can be removed from the SUV at the back of the car line-up and walked ov...