Thursday, December 18, 2008

Session 8: Sunday December 14th



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Miscellaneous conversation:
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Tailoring products to different consumers:
Locker Laundry service http://www.laundrylocker.com/
  • Hair washer in a locker
  • Moving locker laundry that finds you
  • Vending machine lockers
  • High school lockers with laundry facilities
  • TV screen in locker while you wait
  • Locker lattes
  • Laundry chute in apt
  • Locker phone charge system
  • Shoe shiner lockers
  • Wash cat in locker
  • Leave ingredients in locker, come back and it’s a meal
  • Add dry cleaning and hemming services
Thinking Cap – Brain stimulator http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/04/51421
  • Advertising agencies “I want to think like an African-American consumer”
  • Creativity on demand
  • Make artists out of non-artists
  • Muse
  • Tongue un-tier
  • Solving crimes
  • Seeing into why kids are crying or think the way they do
Laser harp – digital music http://futuremusic.com/blog/?p=2446
  • Giraffe manor – hotel http://www.giraffemanor.com/docs1/gallery.htm
  • Underwater music
  • Musical fruit
  • Musical pineapple
  • Jellyfish manor underwater resort
  • Giraffe sports – polo, soccer, rodeo
  • Giraffe pranks “you’ve been punkd”
Obesity Controller
  • Door to prevent overweight people from coming in
  • Door to measure to body fat as you walk through
  • Door that gives pep talks as you walk through
  • Door that gives you a DNA test as you walk through
Montreal Public Bike System http://www.publicbikesystem.com/index.php?page_id=1&lang=en
Sound Enhanced Foods http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1004/1004645_fat_duck_dons_an_ipod.html
  • Sound effects in sports bottle
  • Sound effects in self-cleaning headphones
  • Deciding how salty you want your food or how tangy
  • For dieters, make fattening food taste icky through music
The aqueduct bike – Pedaling to Clean Water http://www.theaqueduct.blogspot.com/
  • Bottled H2O company can use it
  • Branded water from Bike
  • Traveling bar
  • Make different drinks like lemonade
  • Bike race and triathlons to make water
  • Use to follow runners in a marathon
  • Ding when water is ready
  • Automatic bike washer when you pedal
  • Competition in developing countries with water shortages
  • Laundry washed while biking
Nubrella Hands Free Umbrella http://www.nubrella.com/
  • Full body shield to protect against wood shavings for carpenters
  • Toolkit helmet
  • Protector when sawing
  • Color changing umbrella based on wardrobe
  • Hands free scissor to cut straight lines
  • Hands free saw and other machinery
  • Full body umbrella to stop puddles
  • Clear saw and machinery – cool factor and ease of design
Resume on T-shirt http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/10/job.seeker/index.html
  • Print tshirts for support staff before firing them if you are a celebrity
  • Stripper can print business card on underwear
  • Store owner can put sku list on tshirt
  • Phone that automatically identify’s caller and “do not disturbs” them, or puts a different voicemail per person
Retail DNA test https://www.23andme.com/howitworks/
  • Tester chapstick that tastes good and moisturizes
  • Determine genetic predisposition to like certain flavors – dating implications
  • Predict kissing compatibility based on genetics
  • Have packaging change dynamically based on your genetics
  • Cosmetics suggested or customized based on dna test
  • Genetic gift giving notifiers
  • Facebook/Match.com including genetic information to get support groups or dates
  • Identify possible allergies
Solid Shampoo http://reducing-waste.suite101.com/article.cfm/lush_shampoo_bars_end_bottle_waste
$50,000 kit to make anything Fab Lab http://fab.cba.mit.edu/
  • Different shapes – choose your own
  • Cartoon characters
  • TSA friendly
  • Toothpaste bar
  • Hair gel bar
  • Drink in a lollipop and feel quenched
  • Personalized pinball machine in bottle
  • Piggy bank for kids with pinball style coin action
  • Crystallized balls of conditioner
Made in Transit Packaging http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/agata-jaworska-made-in-transit-gropak/
  • Choose what to grow when you get it
  • Easy to identify packaging
  • Fresh-o-meter
  • Grow your own candy

Dynamic Tower in Dubai http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/
  • Different colored building
  • Customized colors
  • Room dwellers can choose color
  • Rotate vertically as well (I want a penthouse today)
  • Show movies on the outside of the building
  • Billboards
  • Remote control maneuvering

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Session 7: Sunday November 16th



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Miscellaneous Conversation:


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Making your hobby easier:

Spa/Salon-Going
Exercising/Gym
  • Meetup group for gym-going
  • Milk boiled with nuts
  • Nutralite
  • You Bars - Customizable Mail Order Protein Bars http://www.youbars.com/buildabar/?gclid=CLP8753a_ZYCFQZeswodHkJqYw
  • Massage and Exercise at the same time
  • Butler/Maid at the gym
  • Washing service at the gym
  • Combine Landromat and gym in one location – do one while you do the other
  • Flaw hiding gym clothes that look cute too
  • Electronic personal trainer that you can activate at home
  • Portable gym equipment to use wherever you are
Community Service
Traveling
  • Home swapping http://www.homeforexchange.com/
  • Match.com for traveling
  • Gap Adventures http://www.gapadventures.com/
  • http://allexperts.com/
  • http://www.tripadvisor.com/
  • Virtual reality machine for traveling
  • Google searching vacations
  • Vacation calendar for friends
  • Step on plane and get envelope of foreign cash
  • Clear card for American citizens to bypass lines http://www.flyclear.com/
  • Paying more for a baby free zone on the plane
  • Party plane
  • Party Train
  • Spa in plane
  • Cafe in plane
  • Sampling and marketing on plane – food
  • Country specific travel websites
  • Connect to locals on website
  • Mix and match cheap packages
  • Automatic way to upload photos when traveling
  • GPS that updates your facebook location status immediately
Cooking
  • Bachelors need help cooking
  • Food Network http://www.foodnetwork.com/
  • Video Recipes Blog http://www.ifood.tv/
  • Talking measuring cups http://www.annmorris.com/cooking.htm
  • Video interface to enter ingredients you have – and algorithm tells you what to make
  • Coffee machine interface with buttons to mix spices
  • Measure dispensing bottles
  • Showcasing recipes at local restaurants
  • Assorted Spices in sachets or baby booze bottles
  • Measuring dispensing servings automatically
  • Automatic appreciation for food cooked
  • Cookup Club – People pay you to eat your food
  • Charity based food events
  • Small iron chef type competitions
  • Aroma enhancers to make food appear better
  • Allow your own food to be branded at stores “Shiv’s Delight”
Movie Watching
  • Indepth movie details on CHACHA
  • Netflix with top 10 recommendations and random selection
  • Netflix code competition
  • Film meetup groups
  • Watchlist on facebook
  • Entire movie theater gets headphones dubbed in a certain language and noise cancelling
  • Film group that pools money for projector and movie related things
  • Movies come straight to your eyeglasses or contact lenses
  • Service to get theater movies before they reach DVD
  • Frequent flier program for movies (watch 50 and get a trip to Hollywood)
  • Instant script availability with netflix
  • Automatic download of movie music with remote control
Buying Cool Electronics
  • Geek Squad http://www.geeksquad.com/ subsidiary of Best Buy
  • Need to get old people online
  • When a tech geek says….he actually means….
  • “Big Black BUTTON on the right”
  • Used cars http://www.carmax.com/
  • “Not buying used, but buying green”
  • Donating computers for schools
  • Techhelp website: for rentals, reducing asymmetrical information, information, instant help etc
  • Customizable technology
Bar Hopping
  • Menupages for bars
  • Iphone breathalyzer
  • Iphone that wont give you your credit card number if you’ve gone over limit
  • Pre-ordering drinks before you even reach the bar, so its ready
  • Bar hopping car made with itinerary
  • Subscriptions to bars – ensuring no cover charge
  • Bartender rating system in a central database
  • Immediate access to calorie counter – on your iPhone if you scan drink
Wildlife Photography
  • Rental photography at camp sites
  • Rental photographer at camp sites
  • Rent a camp pack – includes tent and photo equipment
  • Annual photo trips to get endangered species photos
  • Volunteer work to get endangered species trips
  • Trip lottery
  • Special events trips to endangered locales
  • GPS tracker for rented equipment
  • Photo companies to donate to underprivileged children like Born into Brothels
  • Battery operated campfire
  • Ready to order campgrounds
  • Inflatable camp-to-go
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How to get the word out about Online Animated Mythology website and make it profitable?
  • Sponsoring “children’s day”
  • Give a teaser of the content on the website, but then charge for DVDs or downloadable content
  • Partner with schools
  • Children’s Doctor’s office waiting rooms – have streaming video
  • Make toys/action figures out of myth characters and sell at a premium
  • Run viral marketing contest to spread the word about the website
  • Run a contest to see who can guess the endings of the stories
  • Advertising revenue stream

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Session 6: Sunday October 5th



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Miscellaneous Conversation:
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Building on existing products and services:
Asus scented Laptops
http://eeepc.net/asus-to-make-scented-laptop/
  • Self-cleaning laptops
  • Portable liquid display
  • Screen saver on the outside of the laptop
  • Talking laptop
  • Laptops with unique textures – soft, smooth, nail file
  • Customizable scented laptops
  • Webpage would be embedded with data to feed what scent you smell
3-D Moving Egg Billboard
http://arabaquarius.blogspot.com/2008/07/hatching-billboards-mcds-giant-egg.html
  • Billboard indicating weather by “snowing” or “spot sunlight” at a ski lodge
  • Billboards with instructional information
  • Low billboards with heat lamps in cities so crowds will gather
  • 4-d billboards include time
  • Rotating billboards
Print Books on Demand; Design and distribute books on demand
http://www.lulu.com/
http://www.iuniverse.com/
  • like a store selling bad food
  • jeff bezos kindle http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA
  • nytimes enewspaper
  • publishing online component
  • fundamentalist distribution
  • gifting application
  • Religious milestone compilation
  • Print sermons, lectures
  • Annual prints for reference in libraries
  • Convert books to ebooks for future generations
  • Binder and religious books and organizers for discussion groups (bible study)
  • Weekly publications to connect readers far apart
  • Religious text printing with dedications and letters from parents to child
Drymax socks remove moisture from skin
http://www.drymaxsocks.com/
  • Suits to keep underarms dry
  • Handkerchief technology
  • Factory workers
  • Rain proof clothes
  • scuba divers never get wet
Human Watchdogs Theft Prevention Services
  • Vigilant teams during sport events
  • Pickpocket detectors
  • Drug testing
  • Age checking
bug labs Modules so you can build any product you want by yourself
http://www.buglabs.net/products
  • Rent a camera and events/sports matches/vacation automatic upload to a website so you don't have to carry your camera on vacation
  • trace people back to their city or location after a concert for realtime data - gps on ticket stub
  • buying songs at a concert instantly
  • lyrics of songs available during a concert
  • camera and touch screen ticketing
  • ratings during a concert songs to be published online or radio
  • IR cameras for true feedback
  • gps for security reasons
washable keyboard http://www.unotron.com/
  • nerd foam party
  • detachable cleanable car pieces
  • electronics wash center - for cell phones and cameras
  • clean vegetables station at the grocery stores
  • money cleaning machine to get rid of germs (literally money laundering)
  • count and clean money machine
  • special scented/conditioning electronics soaps
  • microwavable and freezable keyboards to warm them up and cool them down
  • washable reusable containers to buy produce/food at store (like reusable bags)
  • wash keyboard and other electronics in dishwasher
  • wash and paint keyboards
  • detachable keys to only wash certain keys
  • water washable watches
  • washable television
  • cash register that can be broken apart and washed
Gas rebate card for every fill up www.aaa.com/creditcard
  • pay as you go health insurance
  • ebay for doctors to find business. they can bid on you
  • frequent driver miles program
  • frequent doctor mileage program
  • games for kids in the waiting room - # healthy visits competition
  • for every 6 doctors visits, get one free
  • charity donations, for every doctors appointment, small portion donated to charity

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Session 5: Sunday September 16th




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Miscellaneous Conversation:

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Session 4: Sunday August 14th



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Miscellaneous Conversation:Square watermelons http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/15/square.watermelon/index.html
Hemp Energy Bars
To turn off an Iz, press the 9 oclock 3 times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IZ_(toy)
Brave New World, where babies are created for a purpose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
Gattaca http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Anthem, Ayn Rand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella)
Class vs Caste
Krishnamurthy Educational style?
VolunteerMatch.org
If whileiamsleeping.com has a joint venture with chacha it will be “I was sleeping with Chacha
There should be a website called findmystolencd’s.com
Grameen Bank http://www.grameen-info.org/
Axis Bank controversial http://www.axisbank.com/corporate/credit/microfinance/Micro-Finance.asp
Compartamos Bank in Mexico with high rates http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/business/worldbusiness/05micro.html?pagewanted=print
Existing power sent wirelessly over small distances http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-460602/The-end-plug-Scientists-invent-wireless-device-beams-electricity-home.html
NYC Cabbie Matchmaker http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002164720_cabbie30.html
Perrier carbonated from the ground http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrier

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Products/Service Using Trends and Toys:
Trust mechanism if handyman comes to fix something when you’re not at home
Instant nanny monitor
Toy with mom’s voice so if a child starts crying it will play mom’s voice
Choose colors on toy by the day
Umbrella sharing network
Social network fits in pocket
Facebook on a cube
Twisting computer mouse to access social network
Dance move learning and rating online
Friends automatically know your mood because of sensor you have – status is updated online in real time
Cube remote control
Call or email with push of a square
Streaming video on a Rubik’s cube
Dating website on a Rubik’s cube – twist until you find the characteristics you want
Rubik’s cube projector, just click
Umbrellas with “Share me” written on it – “On a rainy day I’m here for you”
Hire-a-mercenary
Rent-a-soldier
GPS system on social networking site
Campaign: Get Married Save the Planet
Simulate dating behaviors to filter the perfect match
Bonsai babies to grow/trade/practice/take care of – comes out when you’re ready
Rent a baby service
Rent a muffin service
Mechanism that charts your behavior with a child
Branding couches
Cheap transport in which you could choose style or color
Ikea traveling couch/rotation
Propeller flights with no engines
Edible plates
Label-anything technology
Marker to know how much you eat
Controller that prevents purchase of useless things
Controller that prevents sale of useless things
Bans on plastic objects
Bans on plastic baby toys
Ban babies who are not environmentally friendly
Only biodegradable items produced

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Discussing changing or adding to existing products/services:
Vending Machine for bicycle parts Aaron’s Bicycle Repair http://www.rideyourbike.com/vendingmachine.html
“Our vending machine sells items like inner tubes, flat repair items and energy bars & gel. It is the kind just like a snack machine with the coils that drop product to a trap door. vendingmachine@RideYourBike.com
  • Add bike diagnostics
  • Add GPS tools in vending machine
  • Real time trail news stream in video on vending machine
  • Not just on bike trails but add on smaller bike paths
  • Rent a segway service ($5,000) per segway
  • Segway zipcar service
  • Segway that works on stairs
  • Rent a multifunction phone at an airport
  • After-hours repair services for phones
  • First aid vending machine
  • Gmail vending machine
  • Kiosks on vending machines
Peer to peer lending Zopa https://us.zopa.com/az/about_faqb.aspx
“It's called social finance. It means we want to improve the tools of financial services--investments, and loans, and so forth--by allowing people to use them to help themselves, and other people, at the same time. The term is 5 years (60 months). Loans are pre-payable at any time without penalty. We chose the term for a Zopa Loan to help lower your monthly payment (not all personal loans have as long a term as ours). For the same amount borrowed, the payments on a 5-year loan will be substantially lower than those on, say, a 3-year loan. “
  • Kiva http://www.kiva.org/
  • Referral systems
  • Bidding systems
  • Ranking systems
  • Intelligent alerts
  • Mutual fund additions
  • Borrow service books
  • Corporate matching
  • An ebay for lending
Job site for working parents (moms) http://www.careermums.com.au/
  • Add volunteer and NGO work
  • Globalize work
  • Training for new skills
  • Advice and social network
  • Advertising for parental products
Travel Insurance for senior citizens
  • Fund for senior citizens to put all money (company keeps it after death) but provides travel during life
  • Senior citizen dating
  • Pool with other seniors for good rates
  • Online forum for travel and issues
  • Travel guidance
  • Home security systems for senior citizens who are traveling
  • Home swapping
  • Emotional insurance
Net-A-Porter at the Jumeirah Hotel/Soho House http://www.net-a-porter.com/
  • Catering to non-luxury brands
  • On demand service
  • Tailor in house in hotels
  • Socks and underwear
Pedal powered taxis with advertisements http://www.ecocabs.ie/
  • Share a cab dating service
  • Matchmaking cabbies
  • Passengers pedal too
  • Date place
Phone charger at festival http://www.o2wirelessfestival.co.uk/
  • Wind and dance powered phones
  • Artist’s singing recharges phones
  • Recharge while speaking
  • Wireless power at small distances
  • Wireless provider sends you batteries and collects uncharged ones
  • Solar powered phones
  • Shake N Charge phones
Plush Soft Stuffed Animal Toys to spell words for children WordWorld http://www.wordworld.com/
http://www.target.com/WordWorld-WordFriends-Magnetic-Plush-Lion/dp/B00113FEWO/qid=1218503746/ref=br_1_7/601-8565822-8744106?ie=UTF8&node=393740011&frombrowse=1&rh=&page=1
  • Animals talk when squeezed
  • Shoes or clothes that have words on them or say the word that they are
  • Foreign language soft stuffed toys
  • Videos embedded in soft stuffed toys
  • Letters with Velcro to make new words – palindromes or word scramble
  • Themed toys sold together – “Food” or “Birthday”
  • Ethnic toys sold together
  • Add smell and taste enhancements to make even more interactive
  • Webkinz/Neopets/Tamagotchi pets with a virtual world associated with word
  • Use for blind or deaf kids to help literacy
  • Enunciate words/Strange pronunciation
  • Foreign accents
  • Name of child and add a likeness to child
  • SAT and GRE animated words on adult objects like coffee mugs
  • Moldable claylike materials
Youtube meets venture capital Vator.tv
  • Selling products and services
  • Speed dating on video
  • Microfinance loans
  • Donation websites
  • 3-minute inspiration of the day
  • Someway to prove credibility
  • Video adoption
Career Sampling Service http://www.figuringout.co.uk/
  • Vocation Vacations
  • Integrate into elementary school/high school curriculum
  • Interview prepping
  • Aptitude tests
  • Interviewing with people at work
  • IQ tests for aptitudes at different levels
  • Intercompany services
  • Rotational programs
  • More affiliations
  • Longer college terms with more work experience
  • Cross global testing
Prepaid Gas Cards http://www.mygallons.com/
  • Assumes prices are going to go up
  • How does the company make money (need volatility to made money)
  • Add past contracts to retroactively buy gas
  • Match to someone on who would match to the other side of the contract
  • Prepaid food cards
  • Futures contract for engagement or wedding
  • Lock in a future outcome instead of a future price (graduate from school, etc)
Paparazzi for the common man –artistic candid photos http://methodizaz.com/
  • Paparazzi dating service – show candid snippets of your life to potential partners
  • Add video
  • GPS system attached
  • Add a celebrity portion to it
  • Life coaching – “Yes you did eat too much”
KidsRx children-only pharmacy http://www.kidsrx.com/
  • Willy Wonka pharmacy where kids can customize candies for medicines
  • Life plan where all prescriptions at a discount for kids under 5
  • Online sales
  • Tie up with candy company or food company to personalize medicines
  • Partnerships with hospitals and pediatricians

Monday, July 14, 2008

Session 3: Sunday July 13th



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Miscellaneous Conversation:

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Product Ideas Integrating Two Existing Products:
  • Circular PDR with a new clam shell design
  • Wheeled robot
  • Enter code to popup a container/medicine/candy jar
  • PDA inside of a woman's compact
  • Video game console inside a clamshell
  • Video game console in air when you open container
  • Open container with remote control
  • PDA with storage of pens/paper/keys/other in the back
  • Powdered evaporated milk in disposable baby bottles - just add water
    Baby bottle that cleans up messes, either with sponge or napkin at thebottom, stops the dribble
  • Valentines day mini beverage shot gifts for kids
  • Underwater drinks for scuba divers
  • Filter salt water for scuba divers in case thirsty
  • Just add water to grow stuffed animals as big as carnival stuffed animals
  • Decorative sand in baby bottles for display
  • Oversize stuffed animal floaties that change size to help you swim
  • Swimming classes for babies while they are nursing
  • Multi chambered baby bottle, so mom doesnt have to keep refilling. Maybe one with milk/one with juice/one with water. Like click penswith different inks. Cooler built in.
  • Stuffed animal with refillable container for milk/drink inside
  • Play doh sold in a container that doubles as a bell
  • Bell made of moldable clay
  • Musical clay set, using clay as instruments
  • Moldable speakers
  • Soundproof clay that you can put in your ears
  • Toy bell for kids with play doh handle
  • Survival kit with filter and de-salination gel
  • Smoothies where you can filter in and out the fruits you want
  • Bottle of water with hand sanitizer on the outside
  • Flip top soda bottle lids
  • Powdered beverage in the tube to add to filter bottle
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How can we improve the CPen?
Find other uses for it?"The handheld scanner that becomes your new reading pal!- one singlestroke and the full text pops up in your computer"http://www.cpen.com/
  • Keep track of venue information, where are artists performing/addresses
  • Store restaurant information from a flyer or menu
  • Scan ingredients and output a recipe
  • Part of a cellular product, scan number and it automatically calls
  • Capture audio/written song lyricsKeep track of sales information posted at stores
  • Foreign translations and pronounciations
  • Record good ideas when think of them
  • Include a keypad
  • Learning the scripts for a play/show/song
  • Show off factor
  • Scan phone numbers to attract guys/girls
  • Product shopping and comparative pricing immediately
  • Doubles as a thermometer
  • ID Homes (scan number and street name to get a map or directions)
  • Scan a map to store directions
  • Photograph IDS
  • can yoga poses with Cpen on a body and Cpen tells you if it is correct
  • Mirror included
  • Scan pictures
  • Ability to store toothpicks/paper/pencil/something
  • Typing capabilities
  • Internet accessibility
  • Doubles a flashlight, or provides light to scan when its dark
  • Doubles as a smoke detectorUSB attachment/thumb drive
  • Laser
  • Reminders (eg. Age, bdays)
  • Propeller to fly in the air if target found
  • Motion detector
  • Person detector
  • Integrate it to a jump rope
  • Learn to read and write in another language
  • Weaponry
  • Nintendo wii-esque movement corrector
  • Scan recipes and automatic sending to Freshdirect for ingredients
  • Scan and the Cpen reads to you
    Scan a good meal and Cpen will return similar recipes to you
  • Scan a bio in a program to create a character library
  • Saving research
  • Increased memory
  • Stealing financial information
  • Spokespersons and testimonials
  • Reading between the lines
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Changing everyday products we use:


Newspaper:
  • Day in pictures play on billboards or on red light signals
  • Headlines news based on each subway car (if you want sports you sit inthe 4th car, if you want front page you sit in car 2, if you wantcomics you sit in car 1)
  • Newspaper clippings or daily funnies delivered everyday on fruit
  • Interactive news where you can ask more question, learn specifics,define terms and history
  • Newspaper injection or brain upload that you can take a dosage during commute or breakfast
  • Subliminal messages in alarm clock that tell the news
Keys
  • eCards connected to credit cards
  • Personal guards so no key needed
  • Voice recognition system to open door
  • Eye/finger print/dance/smell system to open door
  • Uncopiable keys - kept changing shape
  • Keys with 2+ parts
  • Electronic code
  • Open door policy
  • Phone keychain - dial a number and door opens
  • Talking keys
  • Storage in a safe near home
  • Weapon keys
  • Key gadget cool factor
Alarm Clock
  • Snooze in earmuffs
  • Snooze function in pillow
  • Snooze combined with an ipod
  • Snooze with collar of pajamas
  • Timers
  • Recorded sounds
  • Detachable
  • Shakable


Toilet


  • Identifier that shows how many uses it has had since last cleaning
  • Evaporating instead of flushing mechanism
  • Clean-o-meter and other metrics on the door
  • Interactive health monitor that analyzes urine or does alcohol test
  • Wet floors automatically evaporated to ground
  • Stink eliminator that funnels smells into the ground
  • Bathroom that comes to you when called
  • Lists time of cleaning
  • Pill that allows you to schedule toilet breaks instead of having to go when you have to






Toilet paper
  • Towlette type paper
  • Fun facts and stories on toilet paper
  • Automatic wiping hand
  • Colorful or cartooons or printed for kids
  • Stacked TP
  • Drawable to keep you occupied while on toilet
  • Mounted
Eyeglasses
  • Floats in front of you when necessary
  • Like an automatic monocle
  • Video games in the eyeglasses
  • Moldable shape to stay in tune with fashion


Gmail
  • Delivered to your coffee mug
  • Audio email
  • Call and get email
  • Know exactly when receiver opens it and how many times they read it
  • Ability to capture the person's expression as they write the email


Bed
  • Bed that gives you vitamins
  • Temperature control
  • Changes your clothes for you
  • Compactable into twin size or grow into king size


Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Session 2: Sunday June 8th

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Follow up to last session:
Mamma Mia with recordable magazine insert
http://adage.com/madisonandvine/article?article_id=127708

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Miscellaneous Conversation:
What to do in NYC for senior citizens
  • Nightclubs dedicated just for seniors
  • Segway tours for seniors to prevent exhaustion
  • Special hours at museums for seniors
  • Botanical Gardens
Holly Pressman Financialiteracy.com/prosperity holly@financialiteracy.com
  • Patent
  • Financial planning modules for students and young adults
  • Need to incorporate in to high school curriculum
  • School district involvement
  • "Trust fund brats" – need to be educated
  • Holyfield and McMahon evicted from homes
Other

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Coolest products/business ideas we’ve seen/heard of
  • peer to peer lending for student loans
  • exercise/progress tracking at gym (automated with web-based extensions), scan your ID and get your log updated with exactly how much you work out
  • dorm-style living for young adults who just graduated college
  • tattoo advertising on college kids
  • zipcar
  • auto insurance by the mile
  • Brightcove’ – streaming video infrastructure for large content producers like ‘Discovery’
  • green tea ginger ale
  • a car that parks itself
  • super-sticky clay you can buy off of infomercials
  • outsourcing day to day tasks with a social twist (outsource work to people in developing countries and help them earn a livelihood)
  • community massage chair in office
  • disposable plates from leaves
  • personalized ‘insider’ tour guides
  • personalized reels for actors
  • exboyfriendjewelry.com
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What are you passionate about?
  • social entrepreneurship
  • travel
  • entertaining
  • watching and discussing indie movies at home with a group of friends
  • home improvement projects
  • spirituality
  • cooking unique dishes
  • martha stewart
  • adventure travel
  • marzipan ‘mozart’ chocolate for coffee
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What annoys us/needs improvement in our lives and possible solutions:
Hate throwing away extra food but too hard to find donation places
  • Make food into non-edible products
  • Squeezable products to recycle
  • Prevent perish-ability
  • Moldable material to hold extra food
  • “Black Hole” a possible name of an organization to donate to
  • Tax deductible donations to increase motivation to give away food
No Indian grocery store in the neighborhood
  • Community weekend shopping trips to stores in nearby areas
  • Online/Mail site delivery: DesiDirect
  • Open a chain of Indian stores in high Indian population areas
Hair removal/waxing
  • Lotion and sponge removal
  • stockings or socks that make it seem like there is no hair
  • Razor hair collection agencies
Finding a cab in the rain
  • Lukewarm milk makes you feel better
  • Plastic shield with a cab button and a nearby restaurant button
Traffic jam
  • Hot air balloon service
  • Flying personal helicopters
  • Flaggable fill-up taxis (fixed start and & destination, leaves when full)
  • Wind powered vehicles to ride on sidewalks
Unwanted menus slid under the door
  • Target marketing for menus so you can sign up for which ones you want
  • Scratch and sniff menus
  • Tasting menus
  • Win free trips to other countries
  • Donotmenu.gov
  • Menus depending on mood
  • Musical menus (cuisine location music)
  • Cooking classes and recipes offered with menus
  • Special slot in door for menus
  • Coupons and sweepstakes on menus
  • Social networking service for others in your building who like the same menus
  • Party with every order
  • Sticky menus that can stick on door
Not knowing where the closest cleanest restroom is
  • All bathrooms are clean with stone filtration system in the soil
  • Rose scented stones
  • David Sedaris bathroom bag
  • Bathroom that you can call to you
  • Joshua Tree visitors must take away your bathroom remnants
Other things that need improvement:
  • Moving dishes from the washer to the drier
  • Losing/misplacing stuff all the time
  • No funding for research
  • Visiting a city and not knowing the sights and spots that would be of local interest
  • Getting stuck in traffic
  • No way of finding organized career opportunities in India for Indians who grew up in india
  • People who no longer knock on doors for the bathroom
  • Scheduling meetings across multiple organizations based on ‘real’ free/busy information of participant
  • Taxi drivers complaining about accepting credit cards
  • Dust on dark furniture accumulating too fast
  • Air traffic congestion leading to flight delays
  • Moving car in NYC for street cleaning
  • No delivery of dunkin donuts coffee
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CHACHA
https://www.chacha.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)
On January 3, 2008 ChaCha launched a new textChaCha service that allows users to ask questions and receive answers via text message. Unlike similar mobile search services ChaCha doesn't require special character codes to get results. A plain sentence question will get an answer along with a link to the answer source.

callChaCha launched its beta version on April 1, 2008, while discontinuing its less effective guided web search. Users can call 1-800-2-CHACHA and ask a question after the prompt. The question will then be transcribed into an SMS query. The answer then will be received by the caller in a text message.

What is chacha's possible business model?
  • selling phone lists to vendors based on psychographic models created of the questions asked
  • eventual subscription service
  • ads at the end of text message – can tailor to individual
  • deals with the phone companies to ensure certain amount of sms traffic
How to improve CHACHA?
  • Add credibility. what is the current credibility of answers? None
  • add web and email and voice interface to ask questions
  • allow follow up questions
  • MMS support (pictures, sounds, etc)
  • add premium concierge service
  • add more languages
  • allow personalization – tastes, location, ethnicity
  • responses in a picture or song
  • wikipedia type platform where people can post ideas to questions like twitter
  • chacha tv
  • reality shows
  • interactive media
  • chacha sports, news, trivia, travel, entertainment
  • chacha the board game – like a scavenger hunt with questions and clues
  • send ingredients and chacha sends back a recipe
  • chacha as a clearinghouse for recipes
  • chacha for animals
  • email based
  • audio questions
  • video picture responses
  • voice responses to questions
  • flight information
  • love advice
  • instant messenger
  • works in places without data/cell reception
  • doctors diagnosis based on symptoms
  • dating service (blue tooth phenomenon called ‘toothing’ also in japan similar service)]
  • more than 160 characters
  • chacha and museums
  • chacha + google community
  • chacha education for kids
  • cheaters in schools
  • market research
  • international travel service
  • gps connection
  • translation services
  • transportation services and directions
  • who wants to be a millionaire CHACHA lifeline

Friday, June 13, 2008

Session 1: Sunday April 27th



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discussion:
Discussion: Verizon Vcast Song ID http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2007/05/22/071546.html
http://www.americhip.com/
How to improve the advertisement or the product/service?

  • Mute button
  • Ability to pick songs by genre or artist
  • Insert free song offer
  • Rent-a-song
  • Exchangability
  • Swapping songs
  • Apple/Ipod addition - for marketing or functionality
  • Improve the song
  • Remix the song
  • Use it to promote new music
  • Accessible to people without Verizon
  • Make it clear if the song would have to be purchased
  • Practicality? Is it more than just a cool idea?
  • Make CDs/DVDs delivered to your door
  • Add to text messaging capability
  • More than 1 song on the ad
  • Lyrics returned too
  • Splicing portions of songs
  • Ad turns into abstract art
  • Music video on a LCD screen
  • Instructional dance moves
  • Artists contact info/biographies
  • Call in to vote for song Vcast song
  • Comes with wine sample for mood
  • Chance to be on a reality TV show with the artist
  • Package dissolves in water and sucks C02 from the atomosphere
  • Voting for the songs thumbs up or thumbs down
  • Pop up version of the song
  • Ad Product/byproducts can be turned into alternate energies
  • Limiting music length in ad to 5 seconds
  • Works without cell reception
  • Auto sync with ipod and itunes
  • Use technology to sample music CD's or albums in stores
  • Use technology for excerpts from authors in their books
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other discussion topics:
  • Dhabas for the masses in NYC
  • Fear of failing in a startup company
  • No small venue in NYC for house/electronic music
  • Acera paper plates
  • http://www.verterra.com/ for bamboo dinnerware
  • Bangalore's restaurant that changes seasonally
  • Photoshoots
  • latinlaundry http://www.latinlaundry.com/
  • digital gravel http://www.digitalgravel.com/
  • Hookah bars
  • Logos for twilo
  • Other nightclubs on tshirts etc
  • Sustainable startup
  • Business models
  • Latest trends in advertising/marketing