It is nice to see the youth of today being inventive. For his science fair Charlie Sobcov designed a plastic film that is in the shape of a falcon. This plastic is tinted with a color that humans can’t see under normal lighting conditions but birds can. The tint was already being produced for the Glow Bowling industry so it was just a new application of the color. I wish Charlie great success with his inventing future!
Thanks for the tip Bill.
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Too bad that this was already invented quite some time ago.
It is already a commercially available product.
Looks to me more like plagiarism than a “WOW” product.
Simply Google “window decal ultraviolet” and you will see
that this doesn’t deserve the space on CBC or this website.
Nice story if it were new…
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wow
it’s a fake??
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@ Ben: “plagiarism”…? How about coincidental reinvention? You must not actually do much innovation-based work if you’ve never come up with a idea only to discover someone already went to market with something similar. Happens all the time, our creativity’s not so unique as we’d hope.
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already made…
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Seems that you guys are right, it is just a reinvention of the wheel. I guess search skills may be lacking in the young inventor but I am still impressed by how far he took his idea though (even though some one else seems to have do it before him).
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yeah John: you are right when i was kid i had the idea what the sleep was for and when i toled my biology teacher she was surprised she did not believe me that i understood that without reading. she surprised that i solved by my self but i was mad that someone goat it before me. today i am 20 years old lats of thinking about brain i think i solved how brain memorizes things in my idea the brain like a computer uses binary cods one and zeros but how does it stores those data’s that is different from computers. i think i solved that two but i am not ready to tell you today
maybe later when i will be ready
but way i started this? ok if i will tell and some scientists will come and tell me that he or she found this first i would be so maaaaad like a pitbull dog
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Great idea. This could save many of little bird lives.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this invention is for the birds!
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Totally agree, even if it’s an “invention”, kids nowadays know how to use google and patents library. In that age I was browsing paperback patent issues in a normal library to “reinvent” things. I’d call this a plagiarism and that’s what the teacher has to explain to the kid. Idea is good, but sorry, try once more…