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It probably isn't anything new...
Yes, that's right...
Sadly, most of your ideas, however simple, brilliant or world-adjusting, won't be new.
In 1959 Jacques Cousteau invented the Diving Saucer, a highly maneuverable
2 person underwater craft capable of reaching 1100 feet.
Sounds a lot like the one-man diving underwater plane from New Scientist
reported as the next great underwater research tool a few months ago!
Nothing new under the sun...
It was blinding in it's brilliance, simple, effective, powerful, light, and far better than the usual hydraulics or geared systems used for Linear Actuators. My provisional search came up clear, but then, tonight, two weeks down the line, after building the mock-up, talking to an expert in the field, and obtaining a provisional grant for funds to obtain a patent, I typed a slightly more general search, and read for a few hours, then, eventually, found that it was patented in 1989, on the Fourth of July.
I write this just after discovering that my latest pet idea, actually isn't anything new. It sucks. I put hours into it, in just a few weeks, including the day spent producing the prototype.
If an inventor you would be, get used to it.