Are there any young inventors out there?

11:59am Wednesday 23rd April 2008

"Invention challenge deadline" (Falmouth Packet, April 4), and having raised my support when this scheme was first reported in the Falmouth Packet I had hoped that rather than a one-off venture, this might have been an ongoing scheme, to attract Cornish inventors/inventions.

However, as this is not the case, I'm wondering if, in Falmouth, there are any young innovative entrepreneurs who would contemplate creating an entirely new, commercial, retail service for the benefit of the general public, akin to that of the now well established "photocopying" shops.

As an old age pensioner and completely computer illiterate, I can envisage two separate services: the first being a print-out service from any/all websites that increasingly are out there and only in this form to computer users.

The second scheme, a real ground-breaker, is a transfer service which I believe is now available/possible whereby material sold by individuals on audio tape and old gramophone records, etc, can be transferred to CDs: additionally, VHS tapes and old amateur cine film stock e.g. 8mm, super 8, 16mm, etc, can be converted to DVD: I suggest that whoever is the first in the country to get their foot into this High Street door/service, could well end up a multi-millionaire in a relatively short space of time.

Peter Mahoney Reawla Lane, Reawla Hayle