Session 8: Sunday December 14th

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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)

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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

• 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 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