Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Session 13: Sunday July 19th


Interesting Companies


Food and Beverage
Technology

Sustainability

Pets
Services
Ideas that need a "champreneur"

Casttoo Cast Designs http://casttoo.com/Casttoo.com/Casttoo_Home.html
  • Flexible screens on casts
  • Company logo and advertising on casts and clothes and skin through tattoos
  • Clear casts
  • Casts with X-Rays viewing to see healing
  • Cast that looks like your arm
  • Team colors casts
  • Emotion meter casts
  • Clip on casts
  • Phone numbers and instructions on casts
  • Water proof casts
  • Cranial shaping helmets on babies http://www.danmarproducts.com/index.cfm?pageSRC=cranialShapingHelmets
Repillable card slim case that fits in wallet can fill with pills http://repillable.com/
  • Mini Bible and food biscuit in wallet
  • Sheets of aspirin strips in wallet
  • Child sedators in wallet
  • Gym vitamin pack
  • Energy kit for students in schools
  • On the go first aid for kids
  • Mirror with pill case
  • Flash cards and pharma pills
  • Digital pill case for elderly
  • Wallet breath mints
  • Viagra and condom kit
  • Wallet breathalyzer
  • Reminder beeper on case
Electric corkscrew opener http://www.shopwiki.com/Peugeot+Elis+Rechargeable+Electric+Corkscrew+PW200169
  • Sold in casinos and restaurants in gambling towns
  • Available for sale in minibar
  • Vegas sampling
  • Digital feed sent to doctors
  • Wine samples
  • Surgical tool as well
  • Wireless alert button to alert waitress
  • Scanner that records wines opened
  • Rolls dice and shuffles cards and holds sunglasses and opens wines
Kiva micro loans from ordinary people http://www.kiva.org/
  • Gift cards given as stocking stuffers
  • Sky kid translations
  • Anonymous entrepreneur profiles
  • Email interviews
  • Fight or flight
  • Faces on money like pictures for donations
New Uses for Twitter that need a Champreneur
  • WSJ How to Twitter http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638550095558381.html
  • Promotion: 1 Beer for every Tweet
  • Outsource design of twitter wall
  • Announcements on stages of product to announce to your friends
  • Notification of pregnancy stages to interested parties
  • Product launch and distribution notifications
  • Instant company news about layoff numbers, daily stock prices, real time new hire info
  • Shipment detail
  • Social shipments - changes in friendship dynamics are instantly tweeted automatically
  • Tweet liner pick up line generator
  • Tweet liner "I like your shirt" anonymous messages to strangers
  • Temperature activated font or ink
  • Hotels can steal guests from each other, through tweeting counteroffers
  • Text with dog/company if needed/wanted
  • Dog sharing program updates
  • Tweet alert when litter box is full
  • Finding dance space and rehearsal areas
  • Instant concert notification
  • Sharing lessons learned working with disabled children
  • Sharing lessons learned for baby care
  • Baby updates on bottle feeds, diaper, feeding schedule
  • Update dog new tricks
  • Breathalyzer that tweets drunkeness levels
  • If beer = cold, tweet gets sent to you automatically
  • Immediate update on what you just drank
  • Connect with a photo/scanner on phone to upload detailed information
  • Hotel vacancy tweets
  • Connect to GPS for automatic update or coordinates
  • Tweet for room service in a hotel
  • Internal twitter for shift announcements
  • Bark to Tweet translations
  • GPS Twitter collar band for pets
  • Tweet with touch and graffiti
  • Robot you can control by tweet
  • Remote control by tweet
  • Search by voice
  • Broadcast exercise
  • Share location
  • Rate and meet people socially
  • Doctor and public diagnosis for things like rashes
  • Instant tweet of hw location if it changes
  • Ads connect you to other users for dates or nannies or housekeepers
  • Host a speed dating contest through twitter with bidding and location publishing
  • Kid focused twitter application
  • Employee notification system about layoffs and total employee count and ratings
  • Avatars for twitter/more animation
  • Notify dogs eating habits to vet
  • Robo twitter by the phone
  • Update what you ate
  • Hash tag your veggies

New Ideas for Mobile Apps that need a Champreneur
  • Mobile application popularity http://bx.businessweek.com/mobile-applications/
  • App that adjusts temperature of phone
  • Best of lists for appls (list of Ted Videos, Editor's Choice, etc)
  • Upload instant video app automatically
  • Animal talk via web so they can chat with their owner
  • Animal dating
  • Dance meetup - determine closest dance hall and certain types of music and opps
  • Sharing choreographed dances with underprivileged kids through upload on phone and view on web
  • Link to NYCares.org
  • Satellite connection to eavesdrop
  • Breathalyzer
  • Room service button that has all options listed
  • Application for climbers that continually informs you of details/status
  • Fusion of touch and grafitti
  • Resulting in mood ring color change
  • Shell changes color based on mood
  • Robot that you can control via app; remote control using app
  • Elmo live animation
  • Face recognition
  • Interaction with kids through app
  • Track historical exercise
  • Benchmark workouts
  • Recommend safe workout goals
  • Tabulate food calories
  • Food reminders
  • Mobile hardware connected to bike
  • Vitaband app - emergency purchases using phone
  • Heart rate monitor
  • Instant ER contact if health problem
  • Mirror
  • ID Card to get into bars
  • Contact contractors to physically pick up lost homework (finds nearest contractor)
  • Writes notarized letter to teacher with location of hw
  • Realtime satellite to take photo of the location
  • Key to open door
  • Finding flowers, dinner reservations, car reservation in a click
  • Customize action figure of yourself
  • Phone built onto an action figure
  • Create self video or movie or app
  • 2nd life for physical toy of yourself
  • Remote control as an app
  • Graffiti touch screen
  • Record daily pet consumption and nutrition
  • Control fridge settings
  • Record when each item was placed
  • Check to see what items neighbors have
  • Dieters check and balance with notification to buddies about chocolate in your fridge
  • Automatic stocking by scanner data sent to grocery store about what you need
  • Recipes based on present contents
  • Music from fridge phone