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Miscellaneous conversation:
- Google’s Innovate or Die competition – sounds like a lethal ideation party http://www.google.com/innovatecontest/
- Pimples http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/
- Rotating Cars and car garages http://www.car-o-sell.com/
- Park avenue biking on Saturday http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/nyregion/10closed.html?ref=nyregion
- Bike to work day http://www.bike2work-day.com/
- Smoking bans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_United_States
- Teletubbies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies
- Resume on sandwich board on park avenue www.nypost.com/seven/12112008/news/regionalnews/better_sign_of_times_143653.htm
- Tattoo Advertising http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/28/content_413228.htm
- TV on top of cabs http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/28/content_413228.htm
- Most cabbies don’t own medallion
- O&M bought buses for Mumbai so they could advertise
- Inspirational Tattoos
- Pencil nonprofit http://pencil.org/
- Baked Alaska http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_Alaska
- Miraflores http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraflores_(Panama)
- Chachacha dancing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha-cha-cha_(dance)
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
- 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
- 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”
- 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
- DC Public Bike system https://www.smartbikedc.com/program_information.asp
- Sports bottle
- GPS on bike
- Sports bottle with impenetrable metal
- Self cleaning bike system
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
$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
- 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
