{"items": [{"author": "Cortland", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/top-loading-tumble-washer-magnetic-headphone-connection/466421761212/?comment_id=466432416212", "anchor": "fb-466432416212", "service": "fb", "text": "http://www.replug.com/ for the latter, and the former I think I've seen. I may have been dreaming, though.", "timestamp": "1292102537"}, {"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/top-loading-tumble-washer-magnetic-headphone-connection/466421761212/?comment_id=466436596212", "anchor": "fb-466436596212", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeff - Front-top loader: The advantage of a top load is that the tub contains all the water under gravity. I have not looked closely at a front load, but I cannot believe the door has a sliding seal. My guess is that the front loading drum rotates within a box, one side of which is the door sealing on the stationary wall of which it's a part. Try rotating a front loading drum by hand. Headphone connection: A fast-to-market widget would be a connector set. One side of the set goes into the sound device. The other side of the set accepts the plug on your headphones. Then folks plug the two halves of the connector set together to make the connection. Maybe this was what you envisioned. Because of standard connectors on both ends of the connector set, this is a product you could develop without interacting with either headphone or sound device manufacturers. You could market it through Radio Shack. But be warned: If it worked, a Chinese manufacturer would be on it within months. You would want to spend some serious money on a broad-claim provisional patent which would be good for a year. During that year, you'd could shop it around to some manufacturers and get them to buy you out. But even before that, you want to do a patent search. Apple might have the concept locked up. Ideas are actually fun, entertaining and relatively easy to come up with. Commercializing them is a bitch. Steven Bittenson, a Scout House regular, is a patent agent - not a lawyer, but someone who knows the system. BTW, I don't know that Facebook constitutes publication, but publication has IP (intellectual property) consequences. - Mac", "timestamp": "1292103357"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/top-loading-tumble-washer-magnetic-headphone-connection/466421761212/?comment_id=466455591212", "anchor": "fb-466455591212", "service": "fb", "text": "@Blake: I'm excited this exists.
@Walker: there has to be some moving seal on a traditional front loader somewhere. Though I guess you could make a new design with two separate doors. That would be a lot like this: one door is large and opens the whole front. The second door is small and just opens the drum.", "timestamp": "1292106793"}, {"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/top-loading-tumble-washer-magnetic-headphone-connection/466421761212/?comment_id=466560036212", "anchor": "fb-466560036212", "service": "fb", "text": "Lisa Sieverts had a top-loading washer of the type you envision. She eventually replaced it with a standard front-loader.", "timestamp": "1292129836"}, {"author": "Rick", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/top-loading-tumble-washer-magnetic-headphone-connection/466421761212/?comment_id=466685106212", "anchor": "fb-466685106212", "service": "fb", "text": "Steve Bittenson is, of course, your uncle.", "timestamp": "1292161458"}]}