Ok, so I entered this contest on Ideas Happen (http://ideashappen.msn.com/). Basically in this contest, you are to come up with an idea for a product or service. The winners get $25,000.

So I entered my idea of a Re-sealable Vacuum Seal Bag, which is basically a ziplock bag with a plastic one-way air valve, so you can seal your bag, then push all the air out. This last week, my idea jumped from the 10,000s to #7!!!! So as of now(10/31), I'm ranked #7 out of over 19,000 entries. But since I'm ranked higher, more people are voting on it, and my likeability rating has dropped from 81% to 33%....meaning, I'm probably gonna drop out of the top ten.

So I'm asking for your help. If I win the contest, I plan on getting a computer system of that I can edit shorts on. So if you want to help a filmmaker out, please take the time to vote for me.

http://ideashappen.msn.com/Entries/Default.aspx?id=33648

Thanks!

I gave you the "i'm feelin it"
fandittilytastic

Yup, I felt it too.

Good idea! I voted for it, and entered my own product, a scaled down reverse bicycle pump that attaches to the ziploc. Apparently I'm beating you. :)

I voted for it, and entered my own product, a scaled down reverse bicycle pump that attaches to the ziploc. Apparently I'm beating you. :)
:idea: .... I smell an accessory line....


Thanks for all the support guys and gals!

:idea: .... I smell an accessory line....


Thanks for all the support guys and gals!

Dude...

Don't want to screw the idea up for you but we had bags like that in the Navy... So they already exist. But not a consumer version I guess.

Good luck with it...

filmy

Don't want to screw the idea up for you but we had bags like that in the Navy...

Damn! The same thing happend with the idea I had for a submarine that runs on nuclear power....

So were the bags just like that? How were they used?

Damn! The same thing happend with the idea I had for a submarine that runs on nuclear power....

So were the bags just like that? How were they used?

I thought about it a little more... These are definitely MilSpec bags but the idea is similar. We had numerous sized bags with a bladder and valve. All you had to do was adjust the valve and pump the bladder to get all the air out of the bag thus vacuum sealing whatever you needed to seal... We used them to keep things from getting wet. These bags also had a zip-pull on them so you could instantly tear the bag apart if needed.

But they came in pretty small sizes up to a couple of feet long and wide. They were similar to those bags they sell on television that you suck all the air out with a vacuum cleaner... LOL --except that you didn't need a vacuum.

We had several cruise boxes on our helicopters and everything inside was in these bags...

filmy

you got my vote good luck..

Damn! The same thing happend with the idea I had for a submarine that runs on nuclear power....

Don't forget about the gun that shoots real bullets.

Poke

its now back up to 44%.

:D I felt it.. I dont know what it was I felt but it was kind of squishy.

i felt it

was it squishy?

There already is a consumer version of these... it's called the "Space Bag"

There's infomercials about em every once in a while..

http://www.spacebag.com

http://ideashappen.msn.com/Entries/Default.aspx?id=33648

Thanks!


I voted for ya man... good luck.. :D

There already is a consumer version of these... it's called the "Space Bag"

Yeah, my bag looks similar to the Space bag, but the space bag is not for food and the bags are huge. But I guess it's the same idea.... :grumpy: Mine is just a small version that's meant to store food and doesn't require a vacuum cleaner. I guess I can argue it's a different product.

Did I mention you can vote more that once? :D

Like in Florida? :huh:

You know I am pretty sure that the campaign finance reform bill included a provision that states (I paraphrase here) "all really bad election jokes shall be band in the 48 hours preceeding an election day. any person(s) violating this ban shall be 'gitmoed."

Like in Florida? :huh:

Now, Now Zen and MikeyD...let's keep the politics off the site......well...at least off this thread so it doesn't get locked... :D

ahhhhhhhhh

Is THAT what gitmo means?!?!









Oh my am I full of myself this evening :evil:

Resisting ... urge ... to lock ... thread ...

Poke

You know.. to be on the serious side for a moment. The concept of this bag is pretty cool at first.. but Im thinking of the sanitary issues here. How could you clean these bags out to be reused if you're storing raw pork or chicken or whatever.


Not as easy to clean. I suppose once you cut them open to be emptied you would just place them open side face down in the dishwasher and let them be sterilized. But then the heat would probubly reseal the bag.


-discuss.

not if it was heat resistant plastic. :)

not if it was heat resistant plastic. :)


LOL.. but thats how the bags work. The reason I posted this was because 15 years ago, around the time these things started to come out. My wife and I (We got married around that time) was at the local county fair. and some guy was selling them. They were expensive back then. Like 300 bucks is what we paid. Luckily the company was in San Francisco near my wifes work.. so we could always get bags.

But anyways, We tried to recylce the bags. it clearly stated not to wash bags in hot water. it will start to seal up or will cause damage to the seals chemical structure.

TMI but those bags dont make good for reusing. So I wouldnt see the purpose of a quick release valve or a hole to vacume out of. Since you have it set up to slip your items in there and seal it shut.


But I voted for you just for the effort , itself.


Now Go Vote :D kidding poke.

I think the point is simplicity of use. Make 'em disposable.

Im feelin it :yes:

The bags are supposed to be disposable, not reusable.

Poke