Wasabi Smoke Alarm

Sounds like a plan! But it's going to take 2 years to get this thing on the market???? Why???

Good idea as long as the concentrated horseradish spray is not dangerous for the lungs of children, babies, asthmatics ect. Be terrible to survive the fire only to be felled by wasabi inhalation.

2 years isn't that long to bring a product to the marketplace from the demo stage. I once wanted to market a safety control I designed for punch presses. It worked perfectly and all the failure modes resulted in non operation instead of erratic or dangerous operation. I went to my insurance company to see what it would take to get liability insurance for it. They told me I would have to submit a final design product just as it would be sold for them to send to their testing labs. Then they told me it would take 6 months to get the final results and it would cost me $6000.00 1985 dollars for the testing. Then if they didn't like something about it they would give me their report and I would have to engineer in the modifications to correct the perceived problem and re submit a new unit along with another $6000.00.

And that is just for the insurance underwriting phase. It doesn't include all the design work, tooling, construction and any other thing it would take to get the final product ready for testing. And then do at least part of that over again if the original unit didn't pass.

Then if I had actually gotten approval the premium would be so high that I, a one man company, would have to build and sell over 10,000 units in the first two years for the insurance cost per unit to be low enough to absorb in the price.

As for the wasabi idea, I once put the whole little pea sized ball of the stuff from my plate in my mouth at one time. That stuff would wake up the dead. I had trouble breathing for at least 15 minutes. They probably had to tone the odor down a bit to keep from frying nose hairs and eyeballs.

It does sound as if this idea beats what is presently available, that is a good thing.