Inventions, anyone here ever come up with one?

[rijruna]

Gday again ppl, this is something Ive been curious about for a while. Has
anyone here ever invented something that has gone into production?
Me?
Yes. the first one I came up with got me to the Worksafe awards but,
except for limited sales generally, I only had 1 major customer but that
was a major league player called Boeing Aircraft. Not large enough
sales-wise for me to retire on tho.
BUT.
My latest is a game-changer for the industry it`s aimed at. ATM I cant
give too much detail, suffice it to say this.
If someone gets paid $100+/hr to do his job & you come up with
something that gets used by that person that does it at 1/10th the time
& is stronger than existing products for them to use, do you think I
have a winner this time? Methinks yes, & so do a coupla ppl with $$
to back me for mass production. My first was entirely self funded, I
could have bought a house for what i spent. This time, others are going
to spend their $$ to get it up & going. The moneymen went to a
conference in the U.S. for the industry concerned & found absolutely
nothing that compares. It seems I`m on a winner, not bad for a solo
operator with a shed & some toys, oops sorry, tools to play with
dont you think? Next wednesday I go & sit down with them to work out
timelines & sundry bits needed. To say they are more than excited
about the prospects is an understatement. Me? I`m bouncing off the walls
in anticipation & not sleeping well because of it. They are not an
unknown quantity trust-worthy-wise, the trust is there from 15+ yrs of
friendship. They setup a company 2&1/2 yrs ago with 2 of em, &
now employ 24. So they arent dumbnutz & can recognise a good thing
when they see it.
It will take a coupla months to make tooling etc but its a go, just have
to work out details.
I cant yet tell what it is or what it does but that will come.
Has anyone else had success doing similar? I`d be very interested in
finding out & also what your thoughts are.
Enough teasing for now
Cheers
Rij