On September 28, 2017 at 19:38, Mac Burks (39) said...
Twist lock in-celing speakers. Trim ring goes in for painters. Then you come back and push the speaker up/twist...lock. Done. This already exists but it didn't when i came up with the idea 20 years ago. The first time i had to deal with painters dictating my schedule i thought...boy wouldnt it be great if they could just paint the trim ring and get out of my way...
There are shared space think tanks everywhere now. A bunch of designers engineers sit around all day thinking of gadgets toys apps etc. The one thing you have over them is experience in your industry. An engineer and designer would never have thought about an HDMI tester...but you did...at a job one day.
That's a fine idea, the twist lock in-ceiling speakers. Someone did it, and you're right, the idea probably came from the field.
My co-worker told me about this one time he was thinking "Man, it'd be great if drills came with lights and levels..." About a year later? Yup...
A few years before they became a thing, my friend and I...k, it was my friend's idea, thought about digital photo frames. He asked me if it was doable and I said "yeah, just need to get someone 'with these skills' and 'with these skills'" and etc. Yeah, I could be typing this from my mansion right now. That same friend, a builder, he once worked on a $600,000 house in Birmingham (here it would probably be 2 mil) for the guy who invented that three legged thing in a pizza box that keeps the top of the box from collapsing and smushing your pizza during delivery.
