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I think the copper guy is smoking something with the copper!

The swimming guy should hang from resistant wires so he can swim in the air.

hmm. if i kept on going to visit someone and they had disgusting towels, i think I would just bring one with me the next time i visited. don't need to be brillant to think of that answer.

condom keychains are already invented

I don't know why they couldn't have included that in the jewelry box idea.  It had everything else. 

The prescreening judges are horrible. They make children cry on TV.

its a really smart idea - its like handball without a wall.  but i can't believe his product would be the next american inventor. 

Peter jones said yes because he likes the person. Not much of a contest of looking for an invention.

It is already out on the market.  I've bought them.  Maybe that woman should have walked through a baby store first before coming on TV

Id say the shower curtain idea is the best so far.  Even though it would cost more you wouldnt have to spend time changing it.

I would totally buy that shower curtain. Smart and simple. Good idea.

Peter says he couldnt believe if they searched the whole America they would find an invention like the helmet connected to the shoulder pads. If they advertised they wanted crazy ideas im sure they would get even crazier ones.

Judges make the children cry...but they must do their job. Sure, they could be more compassionate, but rejection will still hurt them, as they are not old enough to understand "constructive criticism". Kids are just as serious (if not more) about inventing as everyone else, but think of how emotionally scarred they can be after getting rejected. On last week's episode, the boy with the doggy air conditioner (from season 1) was shown for a couple seconds, and he didn't look very happy sitting there, waiting for his turn... it looked as if he was ready to fight the judges this time! Maybe it was too ugly to show on TV...revenge of Kyle?

Anyhow they shouldn't allow kids to enter, or have a separate "junior inventors" contest that encourages kids to continue inventing and not discourage them.

www.DiscEraser.com  Why shred? Recycle instead!

Nascar   uses the helmet already!

$300K Holy F **** Shit.  I think $3K would have been too much. 

Theres no way he spent $300,000 on a matchbox track but I guess lies gets a yes when the judges use their personal feelings to judge a contest.

Some fellow beer lover thought of this idea.

Cougarize.  Is that a word?  Why are they at his house in Yonkers?

no finalist from New York?

I'm really surprised by editing allowed couger to say the 76's suck!

I quess we know how things are staged for the show because they went to his house before he auditioned.

Hey could this be the same guy as the copper guy?  Carlocopper.com?

I really don't understand why American Inventor went to the Black Cougar's "inventor's" house if they weren't going to add him as a finalist.  AI did that last week too with the guy with the stick from New Mexico.   Are contestants required to submitt videos of themselves?  I'm thinking if they do, maybe AI cut something out of the contestant's video?  Am I stretching?

They should stop bringing little kids on. It's clearly just to humiliate them. There's absolutely no chance they'll become one of the 12 finalists.
The Expert Racers is one hell of a stupid idea. How is it better than Hot Wheels? Answer: it's not. Five seconds and it's over. It's not like a Hot Wheels set where the race could go on and on for 15 minutes or even longer. And just where are Hot Wheels and Matchbox today? It's just not a hot field anymore and kids won't buy into it. Kids want more action and interactivity, more like something they'd get from an Xbox or PS3 racing game. This is just another silly middle-aged man who's longing for the joys of his younger days, just like the Bulletball man from last year. Give it up, guy. The shower curtain is yet another affront to the environment due to the American mindset of disposability. It was disappointing that they couldn't find any finalists yet in NYC. But it's no thanks to their emphasis on toys and gadgets as opposed to real, useful inventions. Luckily, there's still next week, the host and his anxious "real possibility there won't be a New York finalist" announcement notwithstanding. I doubt it was really that barren. They're probably saving the real entries for next week.

See:

Carlocopper.com (this guy has a patent on it! - freepatentsonline.com/#6266824)

dogball.com

expertracers.com

blackcougar.com

Thanks for all the responses guys.  Clearly you all had more to say about making kids cry than DiSalvatore and his Black Cougar. 

 I understand your sentiments about making children cry, but remember that the parents of these children are willfully letting their kids enter the contest with the knowledge that they might not make it through.  Sure she was cute and gave a good pitch, but is it worth it to put her through knowing she isn't going to make it?  I guess one could argue...hey, why not put her through just for this round just to make her happy?  I don't know...the argument can easily swing both ways for me.

 Like I said, I was suprised more of you didn't comment on Black Cougar!  But, what else is there to say really.  I mean, seriously...

 A forgetaboutit, it's fantastic entertainment wth the couger. You got a problem with that? oh!!!!!  
I predict a kid will make it through. Forgetabout it !

OK in 1969 -1970 Topper introduced Johnny Lightning cars with a race track that lets you drag race the cars down a track, like real drag racers.  Spending $300K on a track that makes drag racer sounds I am sorry to say is too much money and this poor fellow was taken for a ride by unscrupulous individuals that made money off of him. The best thing AI could do would be to expose these sharlitans who pray on peoples dreams and put a stop to it.    As for Kids on AI, it should be up to the parent to explain to the child that this may or may not happen.  My daughter and I went to the Tampa Auditions and we didn't make it, I told her to be realistic and the best thing that happened was they told us up front, They intoned that because I am a professional designer it wouldn't make for good TV, that is fine with us, I have the means to make her ideas a reality.  But for the parent's of all the children that auditioned and didn't make it, don't dispair, explain to them that it is more about entertainment than Ideas and that there are respectable people who will genuinly help them if the idea is great.

If the pre-judges (they screen twice before they get to the celebrity judges) didn't spend 99% of their efforts in getting insane & wacky inventions they could send through some decent inventions. Thus, the bad moves forward. The celebrity judges can only judge what they have! I stood in line and know just beside me the inventions were 99% better than what I've seen so far! How about a security problem going to the houses of these nut's. Yet entrants are heavily screened before they go before the 3 panels of judges.

The swimming machine which was a waste. The peal-a-way shower curtain which I haven't seen before, at least as its intended to be used. but the Dogball is something i've never seen before or anything like it, but they didn't show much of it.

Finger Tunes is designed to promote kids to want to play real instruments by getting them excited about making thier own music at a very young age. Yes my demonstration was a bit wackkkked, but that is what the judges are looking for(it makes for good TV). Getting your product in front of as many people as possible is priceless. Do you know how much it cost for a 30 second commercial? Oh yeah, this is nothing like the nintendo game. To see one of my products hitting store shelves this month, go to www.jokari.com and check out my Ice Cream Cool Ups. Kids are going to love them too!

As for Christina Ritano and the Cart Cure. SORRY-Bad Idea. If you are going to cover the germs on the cart handle, what about every product in the store that the people before you touched and put back. Are you going to cover all of those cans an packages that the germs have now infected. I say no, and I say no to putting germs back into the baby bag, or purse, or car or wherever you plan on putting it once it is contaminated. Yeah, that's a good idea, lets carry the germs home with us. Stores that are now aware carts and the germs they collect have sanitary wipes available for customers, which you can throw away germs and all.

Howard Batterman/Inventors Helper, Inc. 

Before you call someone a lier you should do a little research. Obviously you no nothing about developing a product from scracth. The tooling alone cost nearly$100,000 dollars. These are injection molding parts. Also the TV did not show much of the electronics portion of the track. There was software that had to be developed, circuit cards, led lighs, remote foot pedals and sound effects. Also there are many componets to the track. Not just a plastic piece of track. There are many internal pieces to the starting unit you don't even see. Such as a electric motor that releases the cars. OK that's part 1 to your so called lie. Part two is How much money do you think you would have to pay a engineering company to develope all this?  I think commen since would tell you at least another $100,000 dollars.  So here you are at $200,000 dollars just for developement and Tooling for all the injection molded parts and guess what you don't even have product yet. So of course there is a cost for each race track that needs to be manufactured. Say I manufactured 3,500 race sets to start with.  That's really not a whole lot would'nt you agree? There's a cost for each race set. I can tell you this that it puts the investment well over $300,000. This is just a low estimate because there was a whole lot more to it than this, for example, Graphic design for packaging, Web-site, and many more smaller things that add up to well over $300,000. There's your lie. Wes.

Do you even know what a hot wheels track is? It does not sound like it. I can forward you hundreds of emails from people who have purchased a track and the praises they have made about it. before you start talking out your  a**  you should set Expert Racers drag race track up in front of some kids and watch them play for hours. If you would have done that first you would not say something so ignorant.

do a patent search for Patent #6266824

Let's face the truth.  This show is OVER.  DONE.  KAPUT.  THE YEAR TWO CONTESTANTS ARE AWFUL.  REALLY AWFUL.  Probably not intentional.  And the judges are hard to figure.  From what they have shown, they are weak, but i'm sure they filmed many hours to get the short snips.  It all simply doesn't work.  Last season had some problems-- especially in the second half of the season, when it had to run against ORIGINAL EPISODES OF CSI AND EARL AND THE OFFICE.  This year's there's almost nothing else on.   Season two ratings are in the toilet pathetic.  And AVCstopped promoting it.  And Simon has disappeared.  It's an orphan.  Just wait till it re-runs the first episode on July 4th!!  it's a shame really.  but it's OVER!!

I give a Hoo Rah for all the contestants! It took a lot of guts and cash to get there!

Most of them spent a lot of personal time and effort  and $$$$ to promote their dream....something they believed in...no matter if the product was GOOD or BAD it was part of some one!  I'm sure it became part of their everyday life for a long time, and it can be a real blow when someone trys to  knock you down.

I say Go for it people!!!!  Don't give up, there is always going to be  someone out there that thinks like you and would love to have that product.   PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND and it's a big world!!!

I took a serious life saving invention there and was told " I think you have a wonderful invention that will save lives, but that isn't the direction the show wishes to go at this time".

WTF? Look at the stupid stuff that made it there.

Getting defensive won't help you. There's nothing novel and thus patentable about Finger Tunes. There are lots more gloves like that. Google music glove or midi glove.
Wes was taken for a ride for his $300,000. Besides, if he already has all the tooling, packaging and marketing materials, what does he need a $50,000 finalist prize for? Would he scrap all his stuff if the design company Fremantle hires tells him to do so? I didn't think so. AI is or at least should be for inventions that really need help getting finished. Wes basically claims that Expert Racers is finished. He apparently just wants the $1 million to buy advertising.

Gee -

Don't you think she did go to a baby store and that is all there was.....handle covers for babies!!!!

I think Care Cure is for ALL ages, not just for babies!  I would love to see something on the market that I suites my personality trait...maybe tyedye or an american flag...I hope she wins!  I recorded the show, if you pause it and read her sign....Her invention is actually awesome!  They're small enough to fit in your back pocket and they come with a case!  I would buy several!

Duh -

I taped the episode and paused the section to read her sign...This product is actually Ingenious!

First of all it said due to an ABC news report shopping cart handles are the #1 germ invested item in america, above public restrooms...not cans!  It also shows that Cart Cure comes with a compact case that is small enough to fit into your back pocket or purse (then to be dissinfected when returning home)...duh!

I absolutely would be them...I have four kids, too old for Sesamee Street covers, but that help me shop....I totally would buy them.  I'm sick of my kids getting sick froma freakin cart handle from the dollar store!

AS FOR THE DISINFECTANT WIPES...

Did you know 83,000 tons of wipes rot in our landfills a year!  That's 9000, 18-wheel trucks, that caravan 68 miles...ENOUGH!  Wipes have been on the market for years....yet there is more shit on a shopping cart handle than a toilet seat!    America needs something that is reusable!

4 years ago my 3 year old daughter got cox-sacki virus (hand-foot-mouth) from a shopping cart.  It was terrible.  She had sores in her mouth, on her hands and on the bottom of her feet, along with a very high fever...The virus is from fecal matter getting into their system, which I feel she obtained from a shopping cart handle...I hope to see these on the market, buying wipes and using them for everything gets costly and I don't even know if they work!

We need good live saving inventions!  With everything they had on these  three episodes, I can't see why they would not include your invention.

 I guess we know for the most part that  T.V. is going to show what keeps people watching and thats wacky, crazy, different and out of  the ordinary.  It  gives them something to talk about for the rest of the week!

If you have a good invention, you could probably pitch it to a company that would be more than willing to license and market the product!

Don't give up on it!

 Sure, we have alot of trash on this planet. We could take a look at alot of big issues, but sanitary wipes is not one of them. Be honest with yourself. We do need sanitary wipes in the world we live in. Why don't you use the sanitary wipes first and then put the cart cure over the handle if you have a youngster. But as for me,  if someone were to ask me if I would like someone's germs to take home with me or would I like to throw  them in the trash? uhm,

TRASH THE GERMS!!!! Thank You.

OK

Lets carry bleach wipes EVERY WHERE WE GO, to every store we go to....from Sears, Walmart or to your local grocery store and oh, hopefully every store you go to will have a garbage can right there, or maybe you'll just throw it on the ground like so other people who care less about our earth!

Thank you for all the interest but I wanted to present my side of what went wrong from the show. First, I had to assemble the thing in the dark cause we needed to move it on to the stage. When I assembled it I did not make the length adjustment properly and I did not realize that unitil I was on the DrySwim Trainer and falling off of it BECAUSE I was not able to reach the foot stablizer stirups so it appears not to work. But as you can clearly see from my website it DOES WORK. www.dryswimtrainer.com and click here:  http://www.dryswimtrainer.com/dryswimtrainer-video/ and double click on the arrow button.   

If you want to be the first one on your block to own a DrySwim Trainer click here: http://www.dryswimtrainer.com/Own-Your-DrySwm-Trainer/ 

I know some people think that I have a totally finished product in Expert Racers. This is true to a certain degree but there are many things you can do with this race system for die cast cars. Internet racing with Expert Racers? To me American Inventor is about giving people the oppertunity of a life time to show case there invention. Even if it is finished somewhat. Maybe the mass retail stores will see the Race system and want to place an order? Who know's but this was the only way they would ever see Expert Racers. You really can't even get an apointment with the big retailors unless your a big time toy company. Hard lesson learned.

Um, ever hear of hand sanitizer? No muss, no fuss. Stores like Rite Aid and CVS even have ones shaped like pens that you can spray your hands with. Or you can buy the tiny, pocket size Purell bottles. Honestly, the parents commenting on this are none too bright. Even if you cover the cart handle, kids will touch absolutely everything else and will continue to put their hands in their mouths. That's what kids do, unless you teach them otherwise.

It's a solution looking for a problem. It takes away all the joys of swimming. You're not weightless, but instead feel pressure from the small pads on your chest and hips. Your neck will get tired quickly from trying to hold the weight of your head horizontal. You don't feel the water gliding past you. There's nothing to give any resistance for the arms, so it's not much of a trainer. It's little better than standing up and swinging your arms around. You're much better off buying a punching bag, which would give the same workout of the oblique abs and upper body, the only muscles this thing exercises. Why is it so hard to get into? Any exercise equipment that needs a helper or a ladder to get into is badly designed. Why is it so high anyway? The "swimmer's" hands aren't anywhere near the ground so it looks about twice as high as it needs to be.

It is true that kids put hands on everything. I agree with the fact that covering bad germs is not good or smart. If you cover the handle, you better cover the seat because you don't know if the little one before you had a leaky diaper.