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



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