Session 3: Sunday July 13th

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Miscellaneous Conversation:

• Zizzle IZ - we called it the purple people eater (and wrote an ode to it) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IZ_(toy)
• Nik L Nips http://www.retrocandyonline.com/niklniwaxbo5.html
• Lock cup lockable coffee cup http://www.singleservecoffee.com/archives/005663.php
• Alarm clock you have to chase http://www.nandahome.com/
• Clocky is the alarm that jumps (by Nanda)
• Assassin games http://www.streetwars.net/: StreetWars is a 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament that has already taken place in New York City, Vancouver, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, Paris and is now coming back to New York City
• Web developer posting that results in a game after making phone call "I'm stuck in another dimension"
• Restaurant in Japan where the waiter looks at you and knows what to bring you to eat
• Digital Karaoke http://www.magickaraoke.com/
• Rootmaster Bustraunt http://www.root-master.co.uk/

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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