Security - some say net curtains are the best

[Rigger Mortice]

Thanks. I trained as a patent attorney, so know a little bit about it. .

Good, you can get it done cheaply then! You don't need me to tell you that patent expertise ain't cheap.
I was going to warn you not to put too much into the public domain at this stage but you've obviously got that covered. Good luck with it.

I may even have a go at making my own. Getting it to flicker randomly with minimum component count would be an interesting little challenge.

 

[Sailingsaves]

I may even have a go at making my own. Getting it to flicker randomly with minimum component count would be an interesting little challenge.

Yup, the fewer components, the less to go wrong is the way I think. KISS is good principle.
Mind you, at nearly 2 hours per product (getting it all to fit and so forth), all for £12, not a very good business plan there.
Have to ensure proof of concept is sound before mass manufacture makes it profitable I suppose.

Good luck

 

[jbweston]

The most realistic anti-burglar device would simulate an elderly crew member telling a story about how he was caught out in the 197- Fastnet with a leaking boat and only a Woolworths Pack-a-Mac to protect him from the weather, then the pop of a cork, followed by a glug-glug noise, then repeating the same story with the year and the Race changed and then more glug-glug and repeated ad infinitum. The de luxe version would intersperse occasional rottweiler growls and increasingly drunken cries of 'Down, Hermione, down!'

But seriously - good luck with the new products and the business. I guess the original partners in Brookes and Gatehouse started as small developers of new niche products. 'Who would want an echo sounder on a yacht. You'll never sell any . . .'