My first patent was "Chair For Aiding The Conjuvinal Relationships For The Confirmed."
I think that's how you say it. But it's a chair for having sex on.
I'm Brent Farley and I am an inventor.
I look for the slightest problem that I can see and ask myself, could there really be
maybe a little bit better way to actually do that?
This concept here, I call it Mr. Mangey.
I call it the Shoulder Holder.
I call this Thunder Bubbles.
I call it the Hideaway Hairbrush.
I call it the Self-Hanging Hammer.
I call this the Shoulder Holder, too.
I call it the Leave-A-Trail System.
The Four-In-One Wrench.
Don't Break My Heart. It's a novelty gift.
The Napper. Shagwalls. Kick Rocket. The Flip Rocket. The Zig-Zag Windshield Wiper.
And this is what I call The Wing Walker.
I was around 12 years old and I really enjoyed sleigh riding, but I really never liked to
carry that sled back up the hill, and that's the very first time that I consciously remember
coming up with what I considered to be a valid concept: Sled Pants.
They strap on, you go up the hill, you go down, and you have nothing to carry back up.
And they're Sled Pants.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depends how you want to look at it, I get a lot of ideas.
And what I do is I'll make a note of it. I'll take and make up one drawing and I put it
in a folder. I staple it to the front. That indicates to me that this is something that
I actually hope to be able to pursue sometime in life, that I think it's a valid concept,
and this is what I call making "due note" of that idea. And this is a knapsack that
actually protects you from the rain.
What's funny is when you make something like this, I knew when I put it together, I knew
it was gonna work. Then I asked myself, What the hell is wrong with people? Why didn't
they make something like this?
These are Squirt Gun Shoes. I just call them that because you get your power from the feet.
And all you gotta do is walk. As long as you're walking from one foot to the other, this thing
will create power. It will create all the power you want, just simply by walking.
If you're driving down the road or walking, and you see me walking my little teeny dog
with this great big chain, I've really pretty much had my fun with you.
You pick up one of the pieces off the side and it attaches here. Then, you take this
and now as your plant grows, you have a place to put it.
Then when you get the club that you want, it just simply, it discharges out the side
of the bag. So you don't have to take it all the way out of the top. I made it where it
disperser out the side of the bag. Put it in there and it locks.
As you see this red tape, this is sewn. It has a sewn inside there like that. So now
whatever screws, bolts I put in there, they feed out to these pockets.
I've had a group of people look at my concepts and say, We're gonna take these three ideas,
we're going to pay for the patent mark, and when the patents are going to issue, when
we're sure they're going to issue, we are going to manufacture and we are going to market
these three concepts for you. And that includes my Inflatable Shower Curtain.
We got our notice that the patents, all three were going to issue, and then about 10 days
later I got a notice that they went bankrupt. And they gave me three patents in my name
and I could never sell them.
I got a nice spoon for people, there's a hammer, Thunder Bubbles again. What's this for?
Fingernail file patent. It's really kind of sad to have all these ideas and not make money.
It's like, it's just not right. [laughs] It's just not right.
I've learned from my experiences that I couldn't sell you cigarettes if you were a lifetime
smoker with a new set of lungs at half price. Marketing has always been my downfall. There's
something about me that I am not a business person.
I'd like to ask you please to envision 25 Mack Trucks pull up to a fire. They have 25
by 25 foot squares of fabric. There's a whole lot of places out there that make fire retardant
material. I have nothing to do with it. But I do like to think I'm smart enough to suggest
that if I have enough of this material on hand at a fire, I can come and build me a
protective wall, and/or I can lay these on the ground and cover up what is about to burn.
This is a penny. I'm going to lay it on my hand. Good old U.S. penny. Show you the effectiveness
of the blow torch. This penny is going to melt to liquid.
It's sad when you come and you shoot me here and you see what basically represents effort.
A lot a lot of effort. And then if you really look at it closely it's a, it's a lifetime
of failure. I've uh, I've gotten close, been on TV, been on the news, my local news, I've
been in the New York Times, Kathy Lee and Regis. A lot of news coverage, papers, and
I'm still sitting here. So really it's a, for me, it's a sad story.
Liquid. There it is.
I can't stop. I'm possessed by it. I know I got some good down home stuff. And it, uh,
it's really interfered with my life. Greatly. Greatly. And it's, again like I say, it's
a treasure hunt. One idea will give me the opportunity to live life and not work life.
And this is what I'm hoping to do.