Some inventions get patented, licensed, sold. They belong to someone. They are proprietary.
Other inventions sit in drawers. In the minds of aging engineers. In notebooks no one reads anymore. They die with those who conceived them.
This site is for the second kind.
Here, inventions are released.
Ideas, concepts, approaches — documented and open. No patent, no license, no conditions. If you want to use them, use them. If you want to develop them further, do it.
Not because they're worthless. But because their value only emerges when someone does something with them.
Why?
A free inventor who turns 79 faces a choice: He can take his unpublished ideas to the grave. Or he can release them — hoping someone will find them, understand them, and carry them forward.
The first option is the norm. The second is this site.
It's not altruism. It's pragmatism. An invention that no one knows about might as well not exist. An invention that's open has a chance — however small — to matter.
For Whom?
Engineers who want to build something. Students looking for thesis topics. Tinkerers in garages. Companies searching for approaches that haven't been tried yet.
And perhaps: other old inventors who realize their drawers are full of things the world has never seen.
Under Construction
The first inventions will be published here soon.
Technical documentation, drawings, and background — open for everyone.