Category: Idea Book

Martini glass drinks featuring themes. The soon to be favorite drink of all ice fishers besides the Molson Ice.

Make your kisses addictive.

A milk mug made from chocolate chip cookies coated with chocolate to prevent sogginess.

A chicken refrigerator magnet. That’s all.

Brand every lick of a stamp. The snosberries taste like snosberries.

For tiny NYC apartments. Paper ornaments and flat string light accessory kits. This was my Christmas tree in NYC for years.

Ice cream tasting spoon made from waffle cone. No more plastic spoons. Waffle with each bite. 100% consumable, 100% delicious.

A jar lid that tells you when the last time the jar was opened and when the contents of the jar will expire once opened.  That jar of whatever you have in the fridge, how old is it?  No clue.  No one has a clue, days, months, years?  We have self driving smart cars, we can at least not get sick from eating 10 year old mustard.

So you can see how badly you already burnt your toast.  This would replace the “peek” toasters which has to be one of the coolest inventions of the last century.

Instead of full home power backup how about per outlet battery backup for those days when a power outage can’t keep you from your coffee.

For the athlete in every dog.  Just Pet It.

A new brand of liquor blessed and ready to drown your sins away.

Everlasting refreshment. Still and sparkling water that is blessed to be holy.

WWJD: What Would Jesus Drink?

A framed disco ball scene with working disco ball as a wall lamp. Just fun wall candy for those disco nostalgic.

A walking dead lego set and other future dystopias all in ready to be made and destroyed Lego kits.

It’s never too early to too late to teach grown adults some ethics. Although recent research is showing that children before the age of around 7 are probably by default at least rational egoists or at worse comparative jerks and that empathy is a culturally learned behavior. Start them asap!

The Tesla of tricycles. Auto return home feature.

Rainy Seattle Globe. To look at once you escape Seattle to the sun, it can remind you of what is happening to everyone still there.

A toilet with a garbage disposal built in. Never a need for a plunger again.

Snow globes with tragic events and natural disasters.

Service for kids that allows other kids to trick or treat for them. Adults do this already it’s called Seamless. Let the children have their cake too or at least sugar free, single serving snacks.

A large crouton cut out to form a salad bowl for Cesar salad like a bread bowl for soup.

There are a lot of propane tanks out there on grills, camping sites, RVs, street fairs, etc.  When will we be able to swap all of these tanks out with battery power?  The company that can make it so you never have to go to some random gas station to refill you propane tank in the middle of nowhere will make $.

Are you curious?  via Dave.

Build a new house as fast as filling up a floaty.  Have you seen the complexity of the modern day bouncey castle?  Use the same technology to build very well made inflatable houses where the sofa, tables, bathroom, and everything that a home needs is inflated all at once.  Can even be used to just live on water, anywhere.

Feel the warmth of your own nuclear meltdown in the comfort of your own living room. Bonus if the candle wax is glow in the dark.

A chair designed to never be sat on but that has hooks and optimized for hanging clothes on it. We all have a chair whose only purpose is to throw clothes on. Why not make the perfect chair for it.

Nigerian email scams from the early 2000s were often very creative in their narratives. Use one of these to create a series of children’s books. Give proceeds to people who were scammed or to the creative Nigerian storytellers.

A book to normalize insomnia for kids. Even some kids have a hard time sleeping sometimes.

Flower shaped urinals where the user pees into the flower cup and has privacy from the petals. Why can’t urinals be beautiful.

Nike post workout leisure wear. An empty football field at night with stadium lights on, mist, mud everywhere, empty. Did it.

Rings that span two fingers with all the bridges of Paris.

Self driving car sized Roombas that clean the city streets automatically.

Bike messenger bags made from recycled mortician body bags that fold out into a ready to go body bag with a toe tag label. Made for the serious bike messenger with that death wish.

Bread forks for Cesar salads and bread spoons for soups. Eat with and then eat.

A supplement than gives you the same feeling you get when you have an epiphany. Feel like a genius all day.

A full bar with mini drinks, mini cups, and mini ice cubes instead of tea parties. For that snack sized mini happy hour.

Who wants 4 hours of energy. That’s a commitment. How about energy in 1 hour increments for those times when you only want 1-3 hours of energy so you can take that nap because that was enough for the day.

The fear of fluffy rabbits.

The fear of being outside with fluffy rabbits.

Part of the Disaster Candle series. Your favorite city burning to keep you warm and cozy.

A park with a large fan that can be turned on and off like court lights so that kids can fly kites anytime they want with or without natural wind.

O.E. “Original Evian” sparkling water. For the OG water gangsters.

“Yellow” noise machine to help the flow.

A large mobile of doll houses.

Freshen NYC everywhere you go in the subway, cabs, alleys. Drop a free NYC air freshener anywhere you need to breathe. But maybe these just all smell like NYC i.e. human urine.

Everyone’s a member they just don’t remember.

Trash cans that come in packs where each can be thrown away without having to reline the can with a new plastic bag.

A large mobile home park with real houses suspended on mobiles. A 50s version of the Jetsons. Although the Jetsons was made in the 60s.

See where the paper jams are.

For pets with injuries that need a little style over the sad plastic cone.

Beer in tetra packs or cardboard boxes. 40% less space than cans and 60% lighter. Also comes in pint, quart, half gallon, and gallon sizes.

Fashion that’s literally in season from grass, flowers, fruit, etc that decompose when not in fashion.

Picnic blankets and bedware designed for eating in bed. Why not picnic in bed on your next date?

Cuddle therapy. Stick together literally for as long as you both need it or someone comes to pull you apart.

A spider that doesn’t want to drink blood. An introduction to veganism for kids.

Headphones that silence all baby frequencies. Essential on planes, movies, and at home.

MTA branded shoes designed for riding the subway.

Urine and you’re in. Instead of face id or touch id…

Embed invisible QR codes on highly photographed buildings, places, objects.  These codes can either be blended into the scenery or done in infrared or other light or pattern source that humans can’t see but digital cameras can.

Every photo people take with their camera will then popup a URL to wherever you want to Rick Roll your audience to.  Hopefully to a good cause like funds to help preserve whatever they are taking photographs of.

Cause some dogs need orthopedics too.

Rash guards that have a little inflation that keep you buoyant if you take a dive and keep you from drowning.  You can adjust the buoyancy for your body.

These could also auto-inflate from a small co2 canister in the seam like a life vest for those times when you are a little nervous from the extra spin cycle.

There used to be a website called something like 52 Things that you would list, almost always way more than 52 things, you wanted to do in life.  Why didn’t they become a dating site where they would match all the people who had the same life goals so they could partner up.

Why is new clothing, sheets, everything not already washed and ready to wear, why is it even called ready to wear when you can’t actually wear it until you wash it.  Washed clothing, already bled, already shrunk, and chemical free to wear right out of the box.

An encryption algorithm that only uses emojis.  Why bother with 256 bits when you can send 256 smhs.

Sometimes existence needs a little grease.

We are creating piles of billions of tons of materials, information, energy, etc a year in landfills.  The future generations will mine these for resources much like we drill for oil from the dinosaurs.  In a million years humans or whatever comes next will be drilling for your old pizza boxes to power their pizza ovens.

The best day of the year.

Why settle for one god when you can find the right god for you.  Greek gods were all a little crazy though but doesn’t absolute power corrupt absolutely?

We all do it.  We should clean up after ourselves.

Bicycle bells for pedestrians in NYC when you need to politely say get out of my way please.

For swim training.  It gives you as much buoyancy as you need to stay afloat until you are able to tread water forever.  It can even give you negative buoyancy on demand like a water weighted vest for all those fit people.

A dead bolt that counts how many times it’s been locked or maybe how many times the door has been open.  Useful?  Not sure yet.

If Nike were to start a religion what would it’s slogan be?

A very french way to overthrow mice.

Is the idea that something is used as a means to some end i.e. it is an instrument for some other goal versus a means in itself or it’s a bunch of greek philosophers playing in a revival band.

Can we clean up the web?  Have you seen Tompkins Square Park?

Sometimes you have to go on the run.  Dogs do it.  Every bag is biodegradable and comes with a pad of toilet paper.  Only really for NYC because there are no public toilets and a lot of human byproducts on the sidewalk recently.

Dresses made of flexible displays that changes patterns allowing one dress to take on an infinite selection of patterns and designs.

Designed local garbage bags that promote trash pickup by the public for public spaces.

Block of ice with flickering fire in it. If this were somehow possible it would make an interesting cocktail.

The original design is a clear transparent video display with a video of flickering fire frozen in a block of ice.

Digital objects frozen in a block of ice. Swag for the movie A Day After Tomorrow or just fun cocktail ice.

Gloves for babies that touch everything in the subway via Mags.

A non liquid based sanitizer using UV lights like an air hand dryer.

Postcards that unlock a post card only social network. An analog social network via post cards.

A version of this could unlock a digital audio only chat room that can only be accessed by a physical postcard so only people who have the physical key can get access to the service.

People can update their operating system and announce their OS version. Never date anyone still on Version 1.0.

The indie Smurf Magazine for all things Smurf for people who Smurf.

An email browser. Email has more photos, documents, and text than the entire internet. We need a separate browser to access all this information locked in the inbox. Make it browsable, sortable, file systemable. Comes built in with permissions based on the to, cc, bcc lines. Add in a to:public to publish to the world.

A faucet that keeps the temperature of the water set.

Magnets that can be thrown on metal like the batman tracker. But also easily removed.

A kissing booth over Zoom at the county fair. Much safer, well if you sanitize the screen after each kiss. Did kissing booths actually exist? Wild.

Can’t tell which is which? Both?

A non screen chalkboard that is multitouch and draws chalk and keeps memory. The chalk equivalent of e-ink for classrooms.

Personality tests to fashion recommendations for people who don’t have the time or any fashion sense.

The default state is the toilet seat is up and you need to push it down. For a world where men are just unfortunately men.

An entire block of pasta that has all the types of pasta put together and can be shaved off depending on the styles of pasta you want.

Sends I’m thinking of you and reminders on when you should be an actual boyfriend versus what you are now.

A rebranding of pro choice. It’s not really about choice is it? Seems more about freedom, choice is a decision you make versus freedom which is a right.

Business cards for jewelers that origami fold into paper rings.

Supplements that give a sleeper the ability to lucid dream.