- that a workman who left the soap mixing machine on too long was responsible for making Ivory Soap? He was so embarrassed by his mistake that he threw the mess in a stream. Imagine his dismay when the evidence of his error floated to the surface! Result: Ivory soap, the soap that floats.

– that the Band-Aid® Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson’s wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band-Aid bandage was born!

– that the inventor of the World Wide Web, British-born Tim Berners-Lee, never made money on his invention, which revolutionized the computer world? In 1989 he envisioned a way to link documents on the Internet using “hypertext” so “surfers” could jump from one document to another through highlighted words. Berners-Lee decided not to patent his technology since he feared that, if he did patent it, use of the Web would be too expensive and would therefore not become used worldwide. He therefore passed up a fortune so the world could learn and communicate.

– that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born . . . and some viewers haven’t moved since!

– that in 1879 Auguste Bartholdi received a design patent for the Statue of Liberty?

– that Galileo invented the thermometer in 1593?

– that the first ballpoint pen was invented by Hungarian journalist Lasalo Biro and his chemist brother, Georg, in 1938?

– that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.

– that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!

– that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes’ kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.

– that the telescope was accidentally discovered in 1698 when Dutch eye glass maker Hans Lippershey looked through two lenses - one held in front of the other - and realized that the image was magnified?

– that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: “The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing.”

– that the formulas for Cola-Cola and Silly Putty have never been patented? These trade secrets are shared only with selected trustworthy company employees, and while there have been many attempts to duplicate these products, so far, no one has been successful.

– that Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals because he hated wearing two pairs of glasses?

– that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to “the throne” was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there’s a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!

– that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had “52 fundamental errors” (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!

– that the first rickshaw was invented in 1869 by an American Baptist minister, the Rev. E. Jonathan Scobie, to transport his invalid wife around the streets of Yokohama?

– that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.

– that the trademarked name “Baby Ruth” was inspired by President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth, and not by Babe Ruth?

– that J.B. Dunlop, one inventor of the pneumatic tire, was a veterinary surgeon?

– that Thomas Edison’s patent application on his phonograph was approved by the Patent Office in just seven weeks? In contrast, if took Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser, 30 years to obtain his patent - finally awarded in 1988!

– that the first Apple computer was born in Steve Jobs’ parents’ garage? College students Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak worked furiously in that garage assembling computers for fellow students and were totally unprepared for their first commercial order for 50 computers. To raise the needed $1300 for parts, Jobs sold his old VW bus and Wozniak sold his Hewlett Packard calculator. The next year - 1977 - Apple sales hit $800,000 and went on to become a Fortune 500 company in a record five years!

– that “patent leather” got its name because the process of applying the polished black finish to leather was once patented?

Every product is different but there really are secrets to success. Begin with these basic steps, and you’ll avoid a lot of common mistakes!

1.) Stay away from invention marketing companies that advertise on radio and late night TV. They’re out to fatten their wallets and empty yours!!!
There is no one stop shopping as far as invention development is concerned. Some invention marketing companies claim to be able to present any kind of product to industry, but that would mean they would have to be very knowledgeable about every industry. Successful invention marketers work in selected industries and have specific contacts in those industries. They have spent years building relationships with those inside corporations in specific industries.

2.) Keep good records about your idea . . . some day they may be the back up you need to prove YOUR idea is YOURS!

If your idea of keeping notes about your invention means stuffing scraps of paper into a desk drawer, change your ways! Get a bound notebook and record in a professional manner everything you do with your invention. Record the name of every person you talk to, including the date and a brief recap of the conversation. Staple into the notebook receipts of materials youÕve purchased to build prototypes. Record ideas you have for other inventions so that you don’t forget them. Have a trusted friend witness your notebook periodically. Your notebook will become your invention diary that will be a very valuable tool as you develop your idea.

3.) Do your own patent search online or at a Patent Depository Library like the Patent Office. If you find that your invention is already patented, there’s no need to go to a patent attorney.

Just because you’ve never seen your product on the market doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist! It could be patented but not marketed. It could be on the market in another area of the country. It could be sold only through catalogs or specialty stores. Do a patent search — and an extensive market search — and really satisfy yourself that your product (or something better!) doesn’t already exist. Check specialty catalogs (there are thousands on the market) because many products are sold in catalogs and may never be sold in a retail store. Do an Internet search.

4.) Build a model. No need to get fancy at first. . . cardboard, white glue, balsa wood, off-the shelf parts. No matter how simple the idea, you have to prove it works.

It’s one thing to see something in your mind, but it’s quite another to hold it in your hands and work with it. There are very few products that can’t be improved. In fact, your idea is most likely an improvement on someone else’s product. So, build a model … then build another one. Work with it. Make it the best you can. Try to out invent yourself because once it’s on the market, you can be sure your competitors will try to improve on it!

5.) Have your invention evaluated by a non-biased professional (even if your Mom’s in the business, go to someone else!).

It may be nice to know that your friends and neighbors like your idea, but do they know anything about new product development? Do they know about manufacturing or how to price a product? Do they know about distribution channels? Do they know about designing a product with an eye to packaging and shipping? Do they think about product liability? Probably not. So don’t move forward based on comments from those who like you. You want to hear everything that’s wrong with your idea so you can make it better. Strengthen your ego and get a professional opinion.

6.) Read all you can about new product development. Go to your local book store or library . . . others have gone before you. Don’t reinvent the wheel.
Most novice inventors have no idea where to begin and no one to guide them. They’ve probably never known someone who developed a new product from scratch, so the road ahead seems overwhelming. Take heart! There are many folks — just like you — who have taken an idea and turned it into a product. There is a tremendous amount of information available, so don’t strike out blindly. Educate yourself about the basics. By reading and learning, you’ll be creating a road map for yourself that you can use as you move forward with your idea.

7.) Network with other inventors. Join a local inventors’ organization.
Who can I trust? What do I do next? How do I find the help I need? Among the best people to answer these questions are those who have successfully marketed new products. There are nearly 100 nonprofit inventor organizations around the country of U.S.A.. The members include inventors, lawyers, prototype makers and others who are in the field of new product development. You owe it to yourself to join a group so that when questions about a specific company or a specific problem come up, you’ll have someone you can trust to turn to for advice.

8.) If your patent search looked promising (see #3), make an appointment with a patent attorney, patent agent or professional patent searcher. Show him the results of your search and follow the advice.

Patent professionals are able to do a thorough search of the files or searching some international literature and patents. The patent search report that they give you should also have an opinion of patentability, which will tell you what they think your chances are of getting a patent. An attorney or agent’s charges for preparing and filing a patent application is several thousand dollars. There’s no sense paying all that money if a professional patent search will reveal that you have little chance of getting a patent.

9.) Do what you do well and hire pros to do the rest.
This seems like such obvious advice, but many people try to save money in areas they think don’t really matter. Some inventors can make excellent prototypes then they send them out to prospective licensees with handwritten, poor quality letters. Others can create wonderful brochures and letters and send them with terrible prototypes. You only have one chance to make a first impression, so don’t mess it up! Think about the things you do well and do them. Be honest about your weaknesses and get help.

10.) Don’t fall in love with your invention, but if you’re sure you’ve got a winner (see #5), hang in there! Even overnight successes take a while!
In invention, as in life, the key to success is most often perseverance. Inventors have to have thick skins and a lot of determination. For example, IBM experts told Chester Carlson that his invention wasn’t really needed because people had carbon paper. Carlson’s invention was the xerography process, and the company founded on his invention is Xerox.

7-UP (Charles Leiper Grigg)
56K modem (Dr. Brent Townshend)

Adolphs Meat Tenderizer (Adolph Rempp)
Adverteasing (Richard Levy)
Aerobies (Alan Adler)
airbag (Allen Breed)
air brake (George Westinghouse)
air conditioning (Willis Carrier)
airplane (Orville & Wilbur Wright)
air purifier (Frederick Cottrell)
alternating current (Nicola Tesla)
Apgar newborn scoring system (Virginia Apgar)
Apple computer (Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak)
aqualung (Jacques Cousteau)
atom masher (Ernest Lawrence and Robert Vandergraff)
ATM (Luther Simijian)
audio sound generators (William Hewlett)
automatic sliding doors (Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt)
Avery labels (Stan Avery)

baby bottle with hole in the middle (Nickie and William Campbell)
ball point pen (John Loud)
Barbie doll (Ruth Handler)
basketball game (James Naismith)
Beanie Babies (Ty Warner)
blender (Stephen Poplawski)
Blue jeans (Levi Strauss)
brown n serve dinner rolls (Joe Gregor)
brown paper bag (Margaret Knight)

calculator (William Seward Burroughs)
Candy Land game (Eleanor Abbott)
can opener (William W. Lyman)
car radio (Paul Galvin)
carpet sweeper (Melville Bissell)
Castro Convertible sofa beds (Bernard Castro)
CB Walkie-Talkie (Al Gross)
Celestial Seasonings herbal tea (Mo Siegel)
celluloid (John Hyatt)
cereal (George Kellogg)
Chiclets chewing gum (Thomas Adams )
Clearasil (Ivan Combe)
Clue board game (Anthony Pratt)
Coca-Cola (Dr. John S. Pemberton)
color film - Kodachrome (Leo Godowsky & Leopold Mannes)
condensed milk (Gail Borden)
cotton candy machine (Thomas Patton)
cotton gin (Eli Whitney)
Cracker Jack (F.W. Rueckheim)
Crayola crayons (Edwin Binney & Harold Smith)
crossword puzzle (Arthur Wynne)
Cuisanart (Carl G Sontheimer)
Curling Iron (Theora Stephens)
Cylinder Lock (Linus Yale)
Delta faucet (Alex Manoogian)

diesel engine (Rudolph Diesel)
digital fax (Robert Wernikoff)
digital compact disk (James Russell)
dishwasher (Josephine Garis Cochraine)
disposable diaper (Marion Donovan)
disposable paper cup (Hugh Moore)
Doctor Bag toy (Jack Pressman)
DoveBar ice cream (Leo Stefanos)
Dr. Scholls foot care products (Dr. William Scholl)
dynamite (Alfred Nobel)

earmuffs (Chester Greenwood)
eight-track tape player (Bernard Cousino)
electric blanket (S. I. Russell)
electronic calculators (An Wang)
electric shaver (Jacob Schick)
electro-magnetic motor (Nicola Tesla)
elevator (Elisha Otis)
engine-driven generator (Delco) - Charles Kettering
Erector Sets (A.C. Gilbert)
escalator (Jesse Reno)
Eskimo Pie (D.F. Duncan Sr.)
Etch-A-Sketch (Paul Chase)

fax (Elisha Gray)
Fig Newton (James Mitchell)
Flexible Flyer® Sled (Samuel Leeds Allen)
fly swatter (Frank H. Rose)
FM radio (Edwin Armstrong)
freestone peach (Luther Burbank)
Frisbee ( Fred Morrison)
frozen foods (Clarence Birdseye)
frozen pizza (Rose Totino)
Furby talking stuffed animal (Dave Hampton)
gas mask (Garrett Morgan)

Gatling gun (Richard Gatling)
Gatorade (Robert Cade, M.D.)
George Foreman grill (Michael Boehm)
G.I. Joe (Stanley Weston)
golf tee (Dr. William Lowell)
GORE-TEX® fabric (Wilbert L. and Genevieve Gore)
Graham Crackers (Sylvester Graham)
granola bars (Stanley Mason)
grocery cart (Sylvan Goldman)
gyroscopic compass (Elmer Ambrose Sperry)

Hacky Sack (John Stalberger & Mike Marshall)
Hawaiian Tropic suntan oils (Ron Rice)
helicopter (Igor Sikorsky)
home smoke detector (Randolph Smith and Kenneth House)
hot dog roller cooker (Calvin MacCracken)
Hot Wheels toy cars (Elliot Handler)
hovercraft (Charles Fletcher)
Hula Hoop (Richard Knerr and Arthur “Spud� Melin, founders of the Wham-O Company)

Idaho potato (Luther Burbank)
imaging sonar (Robert H. Rines)
implantable cardiac pacemaker (Wilson Greatbatch)
intermittent windshield wiper (Robert Kearns)

Jacuzzi whirlpool (Candido and Roy Jacuzzi)
Jantzen swimwear (John and Roy Zehntbauer)
Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart (Robert Jarvik)
Jell-O® (Peter Cooper)
jet ski (Clayton Jacobsen)
Jolt Cola (C.J. Rapp)

Kewpie Doll (Rose O’Neil)
Kirby Vacuum (Jim Kirby)
Kitty Litter (Edward Lowe)
Knox Gelatin (Rose Markward Knox)
KOOL-AID (Edwin Perkins)
Koosh Ball (Scott Stillinger)
laser (Gordon Gould)

La-Z-Boy recliner (Edwin Shoemaker)
Lear jet (Bill Lear)
Lego Toys (Ole Kirk Christiansen)
lie detector (John Larson)
Life Savers Candy (Clarence Crane)
light bulb (Thomas Edison)
Lincoln Logs (John Lloyd Wright)
Lionel Trains (Joshua Lionel Cowen & Â Harry Grant)
Liquid Paper (Bette Nesmith Graham)

Madame Alexander Dolls (Beatrice Alexander Behrman)
magnetic core memory (Jay Forrester)
manufacture of aluminum (Charles Hall)
Matchbox Cars (Jack Odell)
Maytag washers (Fred Maytag)
M-16 weapon (Eugene Stoner)
microphone & gramophone (Emile Berliner)
microwave cookware (Stanley Mason)
miniature golf (Garnet Carter)
Moen faucets (Al Moen)
monkey wrench (Charles Moncky)
Monopoly board game (Charles Barrow)
mood rings (Marvin Wernick)
Morse code (Samuel Morse)
MRI (Raymond Damadian)
Murphy bed (Willliam Murphy)

Nerf ball (Reynolds Guyer)
Nike shoe (Bill Bowerman)
nuclear reactor (Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard)

oasis floral foam (Vernon Smithers)
Odor-Eaters (Herbert Lapidus)
outboard motor (Ole Evinrude)

package saver for pizza (Carmela Vitale)
Paint Roller (Norman Breakey)
parking meter (Carlton Magee)
PC-DOS and MS-DOS computer operating systems (Tim Patterson)
peanut butter (George Washington Carver)
Pepperidge Farm bakery (Margaret Rudkin)
Pepsi-Cola (Caleb Bradham)
permanent hair wave machine (Marjorie Joyner)
Phillips head screw (Henry F. Phillips)
phonograph (Thomas Edison)
pinball - coin operated (Raymond Maloney)Â
plastic (Leo Baekeland)
Play-Doh (Joe McVicker)
pneumatic tire (J.B. Dunlop)
Polaroid camera (Edwin Land)
Polarizing sunglasses (Edwin Land)
Pong - 1st video game (Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari Co.)
Popsicles (Frank Epperson)
pop top can (Ermal Fraze)
pop-up tissue box (Andrew Olsen)
pop-up toaster (Charles Strite)
portable kidney dialysis machine (Dean Kamen)
postage stamping machine (Arthur Pitney)
potato chips (George Crum)
PowerBars snack food (Brian Maxwell)
power hand tools (Black & Decker)
power steering (Francis Davis)
print-to-speech reading machine (Ray Kurzweil)
punch card tabulating machine (Herman Hollerith)

Q-Tips® (Leo Gerstenzang)
quartz timers (George Pierce and Walter Cady)

radar imaging (Robert H. Rines)
radio (Guglielmo Marconi)
Radio Flyer wagon (Antonio Pasin)
radio tube (Dr. Lee deForest)
Raggedy Ann & Andy (John B. Gruelle)
railroad sound dampening apparatus (Mary Walton)
ready mix paint (Henry Sherwin)
reel to reel film (Hannibal Goodwin)
respirator (Dr. Forrest Bird)
revolver (Samuel Colt)
rickshaw (Rev. Jonathan Scobie)
rocketry (Robert Goddard)
Rollerblades (Scott & Brennan Olsen)
rollercoasters (John Miller)
roll film for cameras (George Eastman)
Rolodex (Alfred Neustadter)

Safety Bicycle (J.K. Starley)
safety pin (Walter Hunt)
safety razor (King Gillette)
Samsonite luggage (Jesse Shwayder)
Scrabble board game (Alfred Butts)
ship propeller (John Ericsson)
Silly Putty (Peter Hodgson)
silo (Fred Hatch)
Slam Dunk (Chuck Foley)
Slinky toy (Richard James)
snowblower (Arthur Sicard)
snowboard (Tim Sims)
snowmaking machine (Wayne Pierce)
Snugli baby carrier (Ann Moore)
soda straw (Otto Diefenbach)
solar powered airplane (Paul MacCready)
S.O.S. scouring pads (Edwin W. Cox)
space guidance systems (Charles Draper)
Speaking Doll (Thomas Edison)
spiral ham slicing machine (Harry Hoenselaar)
standardized cooking recipes (Fannie Farmer)
Stowaway Portable Keyboard (Bob Olodort)
strobe lights (Harold Edgerton)
submarine (Cornelius van Drebbel)
super computer (Seymour Cray)
SuperSoaker (Lonnie Johnson)

telecommunications for the deaf (Robert Weitbrecht)
telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)
television (Philo Farnsworth)
traffic light (Garrett Morgan)
Tabasco Sauce (Edmund McIhenny)
teddy bear (Morris Michtom, founder, Ideal Toy Co.)
Teva sandals (Mark Thatcher)
Tickle Me Elmo doll (Ron Druben)
Timex watches (Joakim Lehmkuhl)
Tinkertoys (Charles Pajeau)
Toll House cookie recipe (Ruth Wakefield)
Topsy Tail (Tomima Edmark)
touch screen (Dr. Sam Hurst)
tow truck (Ernest Holmes, Sr.)
trampoline (George Nissan)
Tupperware (Earl Tupper)
tuxedo (Pierre Lorillard)
TV on-screen programming (Michael Levine)
2000 Flushes toilet bowl cleaner (Al Eisen)
Twister (Chuck Foley)
typewriter (Christopher Sholes)

vacuum bottle (James Dewar)
vacuum cleaner (Ives McGaffney)
Velcro (George de Mestral)
Vicks VapoRub (Lunsford Richardson)
View-Master (William Gruber & Harold Graves)
vulcanized rubber (Charles Goodyear)

Walkman (Jerome Lemelson)
waterbed (Charlie Hall)
water skis (Ralph Samuelson)
water softener (Emmett Culligan)
Water Talkies (Richie Stachowski)
wheelchairs (Harry Jennings)
Whitman Sampler (Stephen Whitman)
Wizzzer toy top (Paul Brown)
World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee)

xerography (photocopying - Xerox) (Chester Carlson)

Zamboni ice resurfacer for ice skating rinks (Frank Zamboni)
zipper (Whitcomb Judson)

I always like to see things that are new, unique, and strange. I have not read them from any materials, but it seems there is a WINDOW in the middle of my forehead showing me things to come. When I was a kid I saw about spy cameras, energy saving devices, telephone’s re-dial feature, user-recognizable finger-prints on handheld guns, non-lethal weapons, and more. Now, I vision these things and it is possible someone out there is already inventing what’s been in my thoughts …

If you have your own thoughts, let us know, we’ll share them to others… right here.

cellphone will become the future personnal informer. it will integrate into one all the existing electronic telecommunication and computing features, i.e. calculator - standard, scientific, and, daily computational formulas; typewriter that outputs printout in form of label; sending SMS to any communicator; voice call to any even to short-wave band radios with user-definable frequencies;

radio listening for FM/AM;voice activated recording and recording of any incoming signals; video playing and recording; telecospic view that acts a real-time telescope or microscope; scan and recognizes barcodes and magnetic stripes like ATM cards or ID cards; make easy payments on-line to any interactive commercial stores; with GPS; with local and international map directions; with storage of local and international phone directory; will read/write Gigabytes of information via USB, memory cards; auto-interact in pre-programmed website location for uploading or downloading of files;

home multimedia to integrate two-way personalized broadcasting via tv or radio allowing ordinary persons to interact with media centers like tv or radio networks, emergency response teams like police, fire brigades, paramedical units. subscribers to be able to pre-select pay-per-view, read-per-view for reference materials, pay-per-inquire like national or international database of business, government or personal information / customer service;

security: national roads and selected localities will have installed surveillance cameras to record random events at strategic time and dates; parking lots, banks, commercial places,parks to have spy cameras;

database warehouse: a total warehouse of data of persons, processed and analytic response for reviews, research and inquiry; invasion of privacy or augmentation of security against crime, graft and corruption;

smart cars: recognize human beings crossing the streets, possible collision with other objects at a speed and distance which can be computed and minimize accidents; for carnappers or bad elements, a built-in spy cameras and throws the captured video into a website for each vehicle averting possible victim of kidnapping, etc; auto-detects real owners by eyeprint, fingerprint or voice;

non-lethal weapon: serial numbers embedded on bullets or weapons when dischrged leaves an ultra-violet mark for possible id; gunpowder will leave traceble mark in assasin’s physical body and clothing that will last for months;

anti-rape clothing that contains chemical that adheres to assailant for a year which can be detected by UV and sound detector;

energy-saving: a device that creates electricity without water, heat, oil, or wind;

cigarettes: they will soon become non-narcotic, instead of tobacco alternative leaves with medicinal value and there will be arieties of flavor;

smoke-belching: a device will automatically convert smoke into oxygen or trashed into a chemical-form that can be recycled;

a website that will transparently audit government reports, that will show accounting of completed projects so citizens from different areas can verify, comment and suggest;

a website that any person can verify the identification of individuals like address, education and job for security purposes;

smart card: cellphone memory cards will soon come handy with pre-loaded information encyclopaedia;

id cards: there will be readable and writable id cards which can be inserted on USB terminals publicly available for access, inquiry and information. fixed data which pertain to name, birthdate, local address and writable data which user can modify like new address, job, etc. when new data containing “data phone line” appears, the terminal auto-verifies from source if individual is indeed true;

a website: that will be a storehouse of captured images and video clips from cellphones that has been activated without security from the original user; it will be indexed by date, time, source (cellphone model, serial number), registered owner, and point of source of transmitting area where cellphone is communicating from.