Session 16: Sunday January 31st

Interesting Companies

• Like a zabasearch http://www.123people.com/ and  http://www.spock.com/
• Online media and social retailing http://www.thisnext.com
• Insure.com
• Tastebook make a cookbook easily http://www.tastebook.com/

Technology

• Google TV
• Black screen google http://www.ecosmartsearch.com
• Analyzes text in web page search http://www.cuil.com/
• iPap app that wakes you up arrival alert http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inap-arrival-alert/id290401644?mt=8
• Wolfram Alpha search engine
• Turtle Wings, an electronic recycling company

Luxury

• Moldable jewelry
• Fish pedicures http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,387302,00.html

Entertainment

• TV guide game 1980s

Medical

• Zicam no-drip liquid nasal gel swabs
• Selling unwanted and unneeded life/medical insurance

Kids

• Soap clay
• Customizing sneakers with removable stickers http://www.sneakart.com/

Nonprofits/Charity

• Smile Train
• http://www.charitynavigator.org/ .org
• measuring the soft impact of a charity
• Camp twitch and shout for kids with disabilities
• Concierge Specialities by Victoria www.conciergebyvictoria.com/ for charity

Sustainability

• A "sarbanes oxley" for eco/environment
• Europe mandatory carbon credit
• trees that feed on plastic

Services

• How to make Groupon work in a developing country like India
• Morgues on cruise ships

Quotables

• "Cruises are for the newly wed and the newly dead"

Ideas that need a "champreneur"

• Homework TV - a tv that reinforces the message that homework first
• Ejector bed
• Wardrobe slot machine
• Coat closet that is provided realtime inputs by weather
• Kids Konserve eco friendly lunch boxes
• Airline manicures and pedicures
• Recommendation and reminders for grocery shopping as you pass store
• Radio gets daily messages from websites to spread
• Massage warmer for pillow
• Hand warmers to keep food warm
• consumer contest "find the best apple pie"
• Library of best recipes user driven

Senior Citizen-related ideas that need a champreneur

• radio that exclusively broadcasts health news
• towel heaters
• senior scrabble
• omega licious chewies gummies for kids
• ivillage for seniors
• history lessons
• game of the month club
• real time food freshness update
• spoonshoot for dishwasher
• eco friendly lunches
• large print keyboard for seniors
• stay sharp games
• grandpa grandson toy in 1
• class of 1930 magazine like a facebook
• wwII camp with history lessons and equipment
• yelp for seniors
• swinging seniors cruiseline
• new user interface for seniors
• charity events for seniors without social security
• night classes
• wheelchair tours
• rent a daughter or rent a son service
• retirement contents
• sponsor a senior
• dating service with transport included
• advice hotline
• voice command - is this food ok?
• employ senior citizens for answering phones
• button operated grocery shopping
• bathroom and meds come to you
• arthritis water classes
• Medication reminder on the radio

Office-related ideas that need a champreneur

• Alerter when boss is nearby
• Waker upper when you doze
• office gps for coworkers' offices
• profiles of people as you walk by their office or home
• company dog to eat leftovers

 Ideas for twitter update products that need a champreneur

• ebay bids
• restaurant updates
• last minute tickets to games and shows
• lunch counter
• boss is in
• building specific weather updates

Voice recognition products that need a champreneur

• http://www.redstartupdate.com/
• commands based on gestures
• coloration of voice based on intonation
• easily accessible help
• single tasking instead of multi tasking
• skip keyboard altogether
• verbal employee reviews
• airlines tickets seats and services voice command

Kids products that need a champreneur

• Booth where kids can take pictures, chance to appear
• Let kids record their own version of jingle and post online for ads
• Short stores for kids by kids

Session 13: Sunday July 19th

Interesting Companies

• Adaptive Dance program for kids with Down's Syndrome http://www.mdsc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=312&Itemid=1
• Gun O'Clock must shoot target to stop alarm clock http://audiocubes.com/
• Only part of Safeway is British http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/ARGYLL-GROUP-PLC-Company-History.html
• Toilet in the middle of the street
• One way mirror toilets like at Peep http://www.nycsoho.info/nyc-soho/peep-soho-eatery-with-toilet-one-way-mirror-toilets-nyc-politics-stress-oddities-humor
• Unbreakable movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217869/
• Final Destination http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195714/

Food and Beverage

• Oreo Fudgees have instructions on cookie (Dip this way, not this way) http://www.nabiscoworld.com/oreo/
• Grow your own salad kit http://www.brooksidenursery.co.uk/instant-salad-garden-grow-your-own-kit-440-p.asp
• Allergen detector for food up for patent http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5969622.html
• Temperature sensor beer cans (insulated) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coors_Brewing_Company
• Hotels banning bottled water http://www.habitatbonaire.com/
• Need a Pandora of wine selection
• Green dot signals vegetarian food in India http://www.happycow.net/blog/?p=78
• Cool translating beer
• Organic gardens for restaurantss - pick your food, like pick your lobster
• Digitial sensor that tells you where a food is from
• EasyBloom plant sensor that tells you growing conditions http://easybloom.com/
• Eatzi's chef crafted meals http://www.eatzis.com/

Technology

• Orthotote straps to prevent shoulder pain http://www.orthotote.com/
• Made for iPhone refrigerator http://gizmodo.com/5043973/gorenje-fridge-is-officially-made-for-ipod-as-lickable-as-the-touch-itself
• TED Talks inspirational speeches http://www.ted.com/talks
  Do human-like robots deserve rights (Tickle Me Elmo) http://www.danielroth.net/archive/2009/01/torture-me-elmo-do-humanlike-machines-deserve-human-rights.html
• Tired of calling a foreign country for technical service http://www.computernyctutor.com/
• Marketplace for independent designers Etsy http://www.etsy.com/
• TSA checkpoint friendly laptop bag Incipio technologies http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=71434
• Functional laptop bags http://highergroundgear.com/
• NY Times archives since 1851 http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
• Cynthia the British robotic bartender http://robots.engadget.com/2005/11/30/the-motoman-robobar-is-back/
• Virtual parties http://ezinearticles.com/?Home-Based-Businesses-Can-Host-Virtual-Parties&id=363066
• Virtual party app where guests can plan to bring things and cover charge
• Amazon mTurk bad interface but has potential https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
• Refrigerator device that can tell you what dishes and how many you can make right away
• Vitaband for emergency ID and purchasing power for runners https://www.vitaband.net/ http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/ew/ewallet.php
• eBay businesss dying http://www.entrepreneur.com/ebusiness/sellingonline/article201928.html
• Insect resistant furniture http://www.resinoutdoorfurniture.net/?page_id
• E-Ink electronic paper displays - what the Kindle uses http://www.eink.com/

Sustainability

• Hyundai, Lose your job, Return your Car http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/06/hyundai-lose-your-job-ret_n_155492.html
• Spotscout - Finding a parking spot before you reach. the eBay for parking http://spotscout.com/
• Calfee Design Bamboo Bike http://www.calfeedesign.com/bamboo.htm
• Find free parking in Manhattan http://primospot.com/

• Bamboo socks and other clothes http://www.bambooclothes.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=S
• Freegans environmental minimalist - shopping in dumpsters http://freegan.info/?page_id=2
• Dumpster Diving http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_diving
• Solar powered, message sending trash bins in Philadelphia http://www.good.is/post/worlds-best-trash-cans-come-to-philly/

Pets

• Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing panda bears http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling-Ling_and_Hsing-Hsing
• Healthy, Vegetable Shaped Dog Treats http://www.pegetables.com/
• Doggie Products http://www.peticure.com/
• Pet sharing http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20024378/
• Self Cleaning Litter Tray http://www.littermaid.com/

Services

• Happy Worker Action Figures for Adults http://www.happyworker.com/custom-toys
• Speed date nanny http://www.mommymixer.com/ http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article2409791.ece
• House that tweets by Andy Stanford Clark http://earth2tech.com/2008/04/30/the-house-that-twitters-its-energy-use/

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