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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
“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
- Add volunteer and NGO work
- Globalize work
- Training for new skills
- Advice and social network
- Advertising for parental products
- 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
- Catering to non-luxury brands
- On demand service
- Tailor in house in hotels
- Socks and underwear
- Share a cab dating service
- Matchmaking cabbies
- Passengers pedal too
- Date place
- 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
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
- Selling products and services
- Speed dating on video
- Microfinance loans
- Donation websites
- 3-minute inspiration of the day
- Someway to prove credibility
- Video adoption
- 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
- 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 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”
- 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
