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Bugginess is the Mother of Invention
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BeenBedBugged
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Posted 2 years ago
Sat Mar 31 2007 23:55:16
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We've had posts on the Yahoo Group and here on great ideas for bed bug related inventions, business models, etc. I think it would be fun to re-gather all of these thoughts now that NBOM has created this FANTASTIC forum.
So- Here are some of mine-
The BB Recovery Ranch- Where one can go to sooth their skin and be in a guaranteed BB-free environment to recover ones sense of self and proportion after battling with BBs. BB sniffing dogs would regularly case all of the rooms, and all belongings brought by guests would go through Vikane or heat treatment before being brought to the rooms. Guests would immediately be welcomed to a spa environment where they can disrobe, take a great shower and soak, and then receive soothing massages and spa treatments, followed by encasement in a perfectly clean and fluffy BB-free robe.
Once properly fluffed and buffed, guests could retire to their guaranteed BB-free rooms to sleep soundly on a perfectly clean bed. Dinner is then served either in the communal dining room or on the veranda of your lovely room. BBPTSD and Group Counseling available upon request.
This spa idea is related to the BIG VIKANE VICTORY ROUNDUP, which I'll describe in another post.
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Hey BBB, I thought that was my idea! ;-)
I say bring it on, and bring on the "rent a truck that's been internally heated at 140 F for 4 hours," the drive-in car Vikane gassings ("fill your car with stuff and vikane that too at no extra cost! Free saunas and pool to use while-U-wait! Dog washing on site!)" and the sub-sub-zero freezer storage. I know you can already rent a freezer, but no one is doing it with us in mind.
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BeenBedBugged
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Posted 2 years ago
Mon Apr 2 2007 2:56:56
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NBOM- Oh my goodness, I know you are right that WAS your idea! And it was so good I just up and stole it without even knowing it! All credit goes to you for the Spa idea!
I'll need to go back into the Yahoo group to dig up some of the other ideas for gadgets. I still think that little BB-eating robots would be ever-so-cool, and believe it's not inconceivable that with pheromone sensors this could be come a reality within the next ten years. If nothing else, some powerful traps could be developed using the aggregating pheromone.
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u2dan
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Posted 2 years ago
Mon Apr 2 2007 15:50:52
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I still want a safe pesticide pill. Ha doesnt that sound like an oxymoron! A pill we take before going to bed, and the pesticide goes through our blood. We would be more than happy to let them bite us, knowing theyll be dead in an hour! As long as i don't wake up with dead ones stuck to me! that would freak me out more.
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parakeets
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Posted 2 years ago
Mon Apr 2 2007 16:26:27
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I'd like
1) A bedbug astronaut suit made of Tyvek that I could wear in my apartment and to bed. Booties and gloves and face mask. So I'd never get bitten.2) An infrared camera that would take pictures of bedbugs crawling on my bed at night so I could see where they were coming from.
3) Something I could swallow that would make my blood distasteful to bedbugs, mabye even poison them after they bit me.
4) A big slab of warm, juicy, bloody meat that I could keep simmering in a crockpot my bedroom that they would be attracted to and bite. A secret cyanide recipe.
5) A "take out service" -- not for food, but a service where they would come, take everything out of your apartment, bake it, and bring it back.
6) A sauna that I could have in my apartment where I could heat everything I brought in to 140 degrees for an hour.
7) A mask I could wear that would disguise my breath so I wouldn't smell human.
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These two,
"5) A "take out service" -- not for food, but a service where they would come, take everything out of your apartment, bake it, and bring it back.
6) A sauna that I could have in my apartment where I could heat everything I brought in to 140 degrees for an hour."
Are absolutely wonderful ideas. Except the sauna has to go for four hours--in fact things have to be heated, apparently, at 140 F for four hours -- and this has to be the temperature at the core of the item, so it may take longer than 4 hours-- to kill bed bugs and eggs.
I like the take and bake idea. Take my stuff and gas would be fine too. Just take my stuff, please.
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Bugalina
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Posted 2 years ago
Mon Apr 2 2007 18:50:52
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I would like an aerosol spray that I could spray onto a spot on my skin and the color it turns would indicate "bug juice".
I would like a "bug zapper" that could be set up around my sleeping body and if a bed bug dared to approach it would be ZAPPED..
I would love that pill that Dan and Parakeets mentioned
I would love it if Mayor Bloomberg came onto the airwaves and admitted that a "katrina/bug" crisis was ruining the lives and homes of NY'ers.
I would love it if there were portable Vikane trucks that went around and provided an "oven gas" service.
I would love it if someone could please, please come up with a death/cure for bed bugs.
I will dance in the streets the day they do !
I will rejoice when I know that no one has to suffer from bed bug infestation.... -
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How about laundromat sani-carts (sanitized by steam at the push of a button)?
PK's take and bake idea is lovely. Can we please have that now, please. Nobugs, surely you know people who know people?
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willow-the-wisp
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Posted 2 years ago
Tue Apr 3 2007 13:39:49
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i just want a simple 99.4 F, Co2 trap that smells like us: it let's bb's check-in but they don't check out.
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S
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Tue Apr 3 2007 14:34:53
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I want a bedbug moving service. "We will move all your stuff out of your infested apartment, Vikane it inside our truck, and move it into your new apartment for you." I don't know why this business doesn't exist.
I too want a spray, like Bugalina described, except mine would tell us if a bite was a bite, AND when it happened. Maybe it would take the form of a thermometer, that you hold up to your bite. It reads "bite, 3.5 hours ago" or "bite, 10 minutes ago" or "not a bite." Oh GOD that would help me so much.
I want a PCO/Therapist company. They come to your house, spray chemicals, and then sit and listen empathetically as you tell them about your trauma. They give you a strong layer of residual chemical, and a bunch of coping strategies and emotional support. When it comes to chemicals, they act like they do this every day. When it comes to your fear and stress, they act like you are the only person in the world with bedbugs. :)
I want friggin chemicals that work! Chemicals that ATTRACT them, and chemicals that kill them within the MINUTE, not within 19 days or whatever.
Oh, okay - here's one I've been thinking of for a long time. I want ONE hotel chain, just one, to step up and be a leader. I want this chain to announce publicly, "We are bedbug-free." This company could only do this after implementing a chain-wide, strictly enforced, entomologist-approved bedbug prevention and treatment program. All their rooms are inspected, every day, as part of the cleaning process. All their staff are trained. They bring pest control in-house - maybe they buy Terminix or Orkin or another national PCO. And they start advertising as bedbug-free.
Because imagine how bad every single other hotel would look. Other chains would have to race to catch up. They'd have to answer questions from customers. They'd have to face scrutiny. Because suddenly, the issue would be on the radar of travelers. Oh, if just one hotel company would do this. I think that could be our tipping point.
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BeenBedBugged
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Posted 2 years ago
Wed Apr 4 2007 2:42:27
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Wow, what amazing creativity our circumstances have inspired. You are all my heros.
I just had a second to post before going to bed, and I've been trying to get ready to move, so I'm not on often, but I just wanted to say, keep those ideas coming!
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Bugalina
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Wed Apr 4 2007 8:10:32
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S....I LOVED your post...filled with brilliant ideas....and it made me laugh...I love the combo PCO/therapy idea.....and for one hotel chain to step up to the plate would be a dream come true..
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willow-the-wisp
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Sun Apr 8 2007 22:05:58
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Buginess is the Mother of Invention--God Bugalina, what an understatement:
Happy Eester to everyone. yes it's Easter and I'm thinking of ironing my rug. Seriously, has anybody EVER tried that? Please let me know. (It's a low pile rug it does tend to singe easily when a cigarette drops: perhaps I'd use a damp teashirt inbetween the rug and the iron. But then again the rug is also of ofthose flammable types.
Too bad ... I could just drop a match and then start walking to NY back where I came from...If I start waking now … I’ll be back in time to ring in 2008. (lol sort of)
Seems like "things" are abating here somewhat--albeit likely only temporarily. Thank God I have a hot tub and sleeping pills--on top of the little steamer. Sometimes after unplugging the steamer I let the left over steam i nthe pot out ever so gently and I ever so slightly inhale it as it helps to clear the congested lung syndrome.
That was worse when I dumped all that silicon crappola onto my rug about a month ago.
(AND IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS THE WISEST OR BEST THING FOR ME--NOR IS IT SOMETHING WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO--SO DON'T ANYONE TRY IT.) I've got the vacuum but there is so much powder, that; iron-icily (pun intended) I am using the steamer to help my lungs. I had no idea I'd be on an all day Easter egg hunt: And for now …I'm sure my lovely little population explosion is as scared of me as I am of them. -
nyjammin
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Fri May 25 2007 10:27:50
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My inventions should of went HERE. WTW: c'mon. by mistake?
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willow-the-wisp
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Fri May 25 2007 10:51:45
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I guess I was mistakenly thinking I could out smart you:
So how about a building with built in heaters inside the walls that would automatically turn on and heat up all walls to 120 degrees for bone dry plus a 20 whether there were bed bugs in the walls or not. This could go along with the quarterly "fire alarm inspections" my building now tells us we will be having. ugggh! And with "your new porcelain furniture ... and cinder-block walls" bed-bug-clean-up would be a virtual "snap." -
So here we have an apocryphal thread (look at the dates above, people).
I do not revive it in vain.
I want everyone to see that services now available from a number of companies (which take your stuff Vikane it and move it for you), and the idea of the bed bug sauna, now implemented in several places including RainCity's new The Lux housing development in Vancouver, may all have been invented in the bedbugged minds of people posting here and on other bed bug-related blogs and listservs.
Here, smart people were dreaming about bed bug solutions they would implement if they had the money and ability, before some in the business world caught up with them. Kind of fun to read.
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Oh, and let there be more helpful services and inventions. And soon.
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spideyjg
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Posted 5 months ago
Fri Jun 19 2009 0:39:39
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An infrared camera that would take pictures of bedbugs crawling on my bed at night so I could see where they were coming from.
A Flir might do it.
Jim
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lil_bit_obsessed
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Posted 5 months ago
Fri Jun 19 2009 1:49:21
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i totally forgot about this thread!!! so fun.
my partner and i were talking about bb inventions the other day - i like the idea of creating an outreach centre in each major city specifically for people who are dealing with bbs. it could be a location for compiling and handing out free information packages, for providing advice on treatment (say, a directory of pcos for example), and maybe even counselling services. also, companies could donate supplies, such as passive monitors, booklets, mattress covers, etc. and if it was a REALLY fabulous centre, it could even offer laundry services and have professional steamers that could be borrowed by those in need.
that's my wish list for new bb developments.
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Grindstone99
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Posted 5 months ago
Sat Jun 20 2009 11:55:55
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How about a BedBug lottery? Those with bedbugs can enter, and the winners get so much money, that they can just leave their house and all their belongings behind and start anew!
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cilecto
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Sat Jun 20 2009 12:48:03
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Speaking of invention, U of Florida has published an excellent guide to BBs, which includes good intros to BBs+summaries of various chemicals+a detailed write-up of how to Vikane a truck (do not try this at home, kids). The most interesting "invention", I thought, is the "low-cost-in-place-thermal" approach (IIRC, hinted at a few months back on the Bedbugger 'blog) using foam panels, duck tape, portable heaters and fans. It's all on NewYorkvsBedBugs. http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2009/06/18/uf-heat-research-and-a-1924-detour/
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JimmyChanga
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Sun Jun 21 2009 11:00:31
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A BB friendly intervention program. If you know someone who has bedbugs but won't admit it or do anything about it, call this company up and they will go to their house unannounced, stage an intervention, educate them, show them the signs of BBs in their actual house, and force them to eradicate the bugs!
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lil_bit_obsessed
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Posted 5 months ago
Sun Jun 21 2009 18:24:07
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jimmy,
that would be some pretty crazy reality tv!
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