A small ferris wheel-like object with a slot in the top to place index cards and a slot in the bottom that dispenses index cards.
The wheel has 365 slots and rotates .986301... degrees once a day leaving only the top and bottom slots open (the other slots being hidden behind a cover). Idea goes in the top, six months later, idea comes back out the bottom. Cheney could have used one circa 2003.-- frosto, Jan 18 2008 Johannes Cabal, the House of Gears http://www.fantasy-...the-house-of-gears/...or, how Cabal waits for his host to change his mind [not_morrison_rm, Nov 17 2016] Let the idea that comes out the bottom affect the ideas you put in the top of another wheel and repeat this with a few hundred wheels until it comes back to the first one to get emergent subconsciousness (once you've let it run long enough, of course) and you get a prize it's a bun oh what the hell here you go +
I need some sleep-- daseva, Jan 18 2008 I'm guessing you thought of this last July. What's it for?-- angel, Jan 18 2008 Achieving Nirvana ? Albeit somewhat slowly .....-- 8th of 7, Jan 18 2008 I thought most politicians just kept recycling tired old ideas anyway?-- DrCurry, Jan 18 2008 I *really* like this. [Pushes pastry into narrow slot on top,]-- st3f, Nov 17 2016 Likewise. I would really like one of these-- hippo, Nov 17 2016 or someone else's idea pops out...-- po, Nov 17 2016 Six months. I won't be able to read what I have written.-- wjt, Nov 21 2016 random, halfbakery