Introduction

Welcome to Wiki Inventions!

The world in 2000: Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush become presidents, Snoopy and Charlie Brown mourn the death of Charles M. Shulz, American Beauty is the best picture at the 72nd Academy Awards, and the billionth living person in India is born. In this memorable year, a small website sees the light of day, known as the Creativity Pool. The Creativity Pool has a simple agenda - to preserve the unused ideas of mankind, and give others a chance to bring them to life.

In nearly 8 years, over 5,000 submissions are posted via the Creativity Pool submission form, and more than 1,700 ideas make it into the actual database. The Creativity Pool establishes itself as an invention resource, but the years also reveal the weakness of the project: visitors put a lot of thought, effort and love into their contributions, and the site also witnesses many an interesting expert discussion, but the final chapter is never told. The Creativity Pool was launched to be the penny cup next to the cash register in terms of ideas - but in terms of pennies it resembles more a wishing well, only one where you cannot hear the splash and never see the ripples.

Enter Wiki Inventions. In a way, Wiki Inventions is a cheap sequel: not only does it build on the Creativity Pool, it even uses its database. But Wiki Inventions also takes things one step further. It is designed as the place where you can hear all kinds of splashes, see the waves, count the ripples; a better Creativity Pool so to speak - a place where you can witness the impact, and follow the progress.

Creativity Pool now serves as the Wiki Inventions base camp: here's where everyone can continue to submit ideas and participate in discussions. The most intriguing ideas will then be promoted to Wiki Inventions, where they will be developed into full-fledged inventions that are in the public domain.

For more details on how Wiki Inventions works, please check out our site rules, and don't miss the legal section on patents and more. Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy the site!