Hide your Tablet/Smartphone in a notepad idea.

Bennyedgehog · 26 May 2013 at 19:23

I have submitted this idea on Quirky and need views/votes/comments!

Disguise a tablet or smartphone in a notepad or sketchpad. Hide your tablet in a nondescript notepad for whatever reason. Protects too.

Hide your device in an everyday notepad. Acts as a case which keeps your device safe and waterproof/resistant. Use it on its side so people don't know you're using it. Leave it in a bookshelf to keep it hidden. Could use a normal notepad and work with a manufacturer or make them from scratch.

If you like this idea or have feedback please help me on Quirky to try and get my idea submitted, thanks.

Skunkworks · 26 May 2013 at 20:15

I like to hide my iPod in a record player.

Skillmister · 26 May 2013 at 20:18

...why?

Raymond Lin · 26 May 2013 at 20:21

OP is about 4 years too late.

Www.dodocase.com

Or

Robbo · 26 May 2013 at 20:21

So you've sort of ripped off the BookBook idea?

Back to the drawing board methinks.

Bennyedgehog · 26 May 2013 at 22:58

Doh! So it's true what they say, if you think of an idea it's already on the internet.

muon · 26 May 2013 at 22:59

Bennyedgehog said:
Doh! So it's true what they say, if you think of an idea it's already on the internet.

Of course that's gonna be done. People have been hiding things in books probably for over a millennia.

edit:

Actually printing press is only a couple of hundred years old, so lets say a couple of hundred years.

Gogl · 26 May 2013 at 23:13

Ha! Perhaps I'd just make a crap burglar, but I'd take one look at the BookBook and think "This looks like Noah's logbook, must be worth something, I'm having that!" And still nick it.

Though if I were a more savvy burglar I think having the name on the spine might just be a giveaway.

Agent_Smith357 · 26 May 2013 at 23:20

Man owning expensive consumer electronics sure is a chore.

vodkacokebloke · 26 May 2013 at 23:28

quite often at christmas i buy a book or two from a charity shop - nice hardbacks, then hollow them out using a stanley knife (very easy to do) then fill the hole up with chocs etc. I just like killing Robbie Williams books and disguising them as presents tbh

Raymond Lin · 27 May 2013 at 00:27

tbh i prefer the Dodocase

craaaaaig · 27 May 2013 at 00:51

If you thought you were the first person to think of this.. you live a very sheltered life

Mickie · 27 May 2013 at 00:54

just remember, all the easy stuff in life has already been invented..

good luck next time

dowie · 27 May 2013 at 00:54

Raymond Lin said:
OP is about 4 years too late.

I'd say he's later than that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealing_objects_in_a_book

Raymond Lin · 27 May 2013 at 00:56

dowie said:
I'd say he's later than that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealing_objects_in_a_book

For a tablet

Not the general stuff in books idea.

dowie · 27 May 2013 at 15:09

LOL - that's like saying oh its not been invented for hiding a banana yet... Its the same idea and its been around for quite a while now

SexyGreyFox · 27 May 2013 at 15:22

Mickie said:
just remember, all the easy stuff in life has already been invented..

good luck next time

I can't count how many times I've thought of a household invention only to see it in a Bettaware catalogue.

Angilion · 27 May 2013 at 16:43

muon said:
Of course that's gonna be done. People have been hiding things in books probably for over a millennia.

edit:

Actually printing press is only a couple of hundred years old, so lets say a couple of hundred years.

The general idea could go back further, albeit not with books as such. People at least as far back as the Romans used folding notebooks - two pieces of rigid material (usually wood) hinged to form the same kind of size and shape as a book. The inner surfaces were slightly recessed and filled with a thin layer of wax, which could be written on (and also smoothed out, so it was an erasable reusable notebook). It would be possible to hide some things in one of those, so people probably did.

inogen · 27 May 2013 at 16:45

I often carry my iPad about in a jiffy bag.

Russinating · 27 May 2013 at 16:46

This is like when I had the idea for a crowdsourced app only to Google the idea and see that it both existed and had received $1.5mil funding a few months earlier.