Category: Idea Book

Cards given to new residents in major cities informing them on what and where to get public services. Also just a friendly welcome to the city.

Everyone is responsible for someone else on the planet. Pairing the worst off with the best off to share resources. An economic pen pal.

A working tattoo that always tells you which direction it is.

Glasses that obscures the face when photos are being taken by reflecting light, responding with a flash, and constantly sending out invisible infrared and other spectrum lights that affect digital cameras.

Where every tree is a park.

Stickers of men, women, children, animals, for each death in war. A way to visualize the human cost of war on the streets of cities where there is no war.

Nike swooshes on black chalk lines on baseball and football players. “Your Ad Here” chalk to buy placement. Why hasn’t face paint become advertising billboards yet?

Track your kids wherever they go using Apple tag like technology. Kids can always find their friends whenever they get lost.

The pussy party. A new political party combines Republicans and Democrats.

Ad agency redoes the signage of street pan handlers. Some pan handling signs are ingenious and deserve a brand refresh.

A version of the American flag for color blind people but also symbolizing anti racist values.

New XGames sport.

Swimming rescue watch that inflates when needed to keep you afloat while also telling you the time.

Programming club that only programs in the programming language BASIC.

Meet Ups but for lunch dates. Because at least you can get a meal in.

Bacteria that eats the gum off the sidewalks. How many decades of gum are on NYC sidewalks? Eww.

Crutches and leg braces are in need of a fashion update. There is a huge market for all types of designed assistive devices.

A free beer when you win.

A clock where each hour is a color and minutes and seconds are gradients. Tune the time of day to the color you feel.

Human powered electric devices. Use human metabolism to power electronics. Just add food.

Where every chopstick has a spell. Harry Potter Stickers are on the menu.

Using the temperature of the earth to cool or heat. Heat pumps should be everywhere and we should be designing our buildings around the free energy of the earth.

Desalinate rising seas to make deserts into forests and use the evaporated brine for lithium and salts. The Sahara Desert was once a tropical rain forest.

Peel off a layer when dirty never take off the glove.

A specific knock patter to unlock your phone.

Training knives for children to acclimate them to knife safety and then future knife defense.

Photocopies of all the guns that are on the streets in a city for awareness. There are public databases that show how many weapons are registered in your city. It’s a lot.

An entire sheet of doll eyes that move when you move them. Creepy.

A service that hires attractive men to do boring things around the house. Maybe Abercrombie & Fitch already solved this.

Philanthropy needs a new brand that is more fashionable. Effective altruism is not that. Neither is this sketch but you get the idea.

A water brand made from lemon, baking soda, turmeric, grape seed, tart cherry, and every anti inflammation supplement used to reduce swelling for post activity, chronic inflation i.e. rheumatoid arthritis, gout, etc. The market is huge because everyone is broken.

An AI powered robot that sits. Just like a human. Doing the thing that humans do the most.

Blow a daisy and make a wish website. The webcam uses facial recognition to detect when and the intensity of the blow. Shooting stars every once in a while give you a bonus wish.

Growable electronics. Conductive plants that grow into electronics. If there ever is a breakthrough in biophotovoltaics we could have a literal power plant.

4×6 mailable books. Complete books that can be mailed weighing the same as a post card.

Fine italian ceramics in fine Swiss watches. Cleaning will always be a problem.

A service that lengthens urls to add in marketing messages to flood all the links on the internet with brand messaging.

Your-ad-here-or-other-branded-message.com

The anti Bitly.

Many companies democratize services that billionaires have long been only able to afford like private drivers. All billionaires have private security for lots of reasons.

Hire private security for nights out to make sure you and your friends make it home safe, none of your drinks are roofied, and you don’t have to give a second thought to your belonging.

Perhaps a high school version to deal with playground bullies.

Add a laugh track to anything. Mad men with a laugh track is hilarious. If your everyday life had a laugh track it would be way more entertaining. Spotify augmented reality laugh tracks for your commute. Make every commute a comedy and not the tragedy it is now.

Campaign for the awareness of the mass depression caused by Seattle.

Learning a language should be more fun and entertaining. Learn spanish from Antonio Banderas or Selma Hyak as they navigate entertaining real life scenes like hanging out alone at a bar or just looking dashing.

John Simon inspired grid of all 8 bit graphics in a 8×8, 2 color block. 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 permutations. This will generate every 8 bit game sprint ever created i.e. every Atari character ever, someday.

Nostalgia books of all your email conversations with someone, bound, delivered via old school mail.

A way to do temporary graffiti in pixel format irl.

Open cat doors on a particular cat’s meow.

An adjustable grated pool floor that can dynamically set the depth of a pool. Sensors can tell if someone has been underwater too long or are in trouble and lift them out of the pool by raising the pool floor.

Dream supplement that gives you nightmares.  There is something in shellfish that does this perhaps due to tyramine.

If we can vend ramen and headphones in vending machines why not birth control for men and for women.

Where does the soundtrack od the world come from? The birds singing in the morning and the wind blowing. Perhaps in the center of the planet is a tape cassette player that plays the planet’s playlist.  What if it was reggae? Probably be a much better planet.

What if Brooklyn buildings were painted in pastels. Instead of brownstones how about pink stone. Scandinavians are high on the happiness index and all their cities are colorful, maybe Brooklyn needs some brights although most everyone is pretty happy except for that one guy.

Companies have onboarding and employee resources. Where is that for life? A private company that is your HR department for life and gives you a laptop, phone, health insurance, and a complaint form.

Shoe shine booths for iPhone, iPad, Macbook era.

Very sad stuffed animals for emo children or middle aged adults.

Would someone rather be rich rather than be a discriminated race in a country? Which would you choose?

Baby dolls stuff in thrift store bins. Maybe too close to reality in many developing countries.

Stuffed animals in cages to campaign against animal abuse and trafficking.

A city wide game of tag where the current IT runs around the city trying to tag someone as IT. No clowns allowed.

Recently divorced singles dating app.

Can anyone tell the difference?

Fills in the environment at night so people can navigate using Google street view 3D models.

Combine Google Street View during the day and current camera view at night to stitch together a full daylight view of the street in front of you.

Which do we choose?

For kids, dogs, to get people to slow down as they drive on a street.

Foot pedal that lifts a toilet seat without having to touch it with your hand. Electric radar version as well which Toto already does.

Projections of living organisms make the wildest scenery.

Non profit school that saves tuition for a student so they are incentivized to graduate, when they get their savings. Tuition becomes a kind of pension provided by the University.

Could universities have student pension plans?

Alexa play… Alex turf off all the lights. Alexa timer in 1 minute, 5m,10m,100m… Alexa remind me to watch Mr. Robot and turn on the tv when it comes on.

Hack Alexa, Google, Siri via a broadcast commercial to turn on reminders to buy things.

A dress made from shrink wrap to get the snuggest fit without zippers or buttons. One time use.

A coffeecup with the sleeve built in instead of putting on a separate sleeve to minimize waste and prevent you from getting burns on your hand by minimizing surface area and maximizing air between your hand and the cup.

Kant for kids. Philosophy books condensed and simplified for children. Along with Clifford the big red dog children could be reading Aristotle the old gray Greek.

UV glass knobs that lights after each use to sanitize door knobs after each open or to disinfect the opener’s hand.

Batman for culture. The latest Marvel character who uses the super power of culture to defend justice in the universe.

Pirate radio stations that are broadcast on bluetooth multicast to nearby listeners.

See the electromagnetic fields around people. A high tech 2nd person mood ring.

Selectable fur screen that purrs when you pet it via a petting motion.

The scroll motion of modern phones mimics that of a petting motion, maybe that is why we love our phones so much.

Tech bro trying to commit suicide by running his Tesla in a closed garage but it’s not working. Must be a software bug and he’ll wait for the next update.

A table that is white board for eating and working, live/work tables.

Branding for lactose intolerance. These crazy cow stickers can be on everything that has lactose.

Tattoable IC circuits watches, email, flashlights using jellyfish phosphorescence, conductive ink, and bio logic gates.

A way to track everyone’s birthday and only their birthday. Why did Plaxo fail?

Extracting the water from the vapor in the atmosphere which is the third largest source of fresh water on the planet. Atmospheric water generators are about to go mainstream. A self contained water bottle that fills itself just by leaving it outside could change water scarcity. Work still needs to be done on solar panel efficiency and hydrophilic materials.

A coffee table with a screen that displays all the news.

Bite sized bible studies that are sent to you regularly in a post card format from Jesus.

A non audible resonant frequency makes tuning forks vibrate without wires. A wireless symphony can be created just using tuning forks and wireless signals.

Positioning being gay as an act of god and file as a religious institution to receive federal protection of being gay as a protected religious group. Drag queens can be the priests. This would be by far the most fun religion.

As soon as we bring back the normal public water fountains that seemed to have disappear everywhere.

Snow globes do not represent the current climate changed weather anymore.

Desert Globe when you need a break from the snow.

Foggy London Globe.

Do It Together versus Do It Yourself. DIY is lonely, why not do it together?

Carpools for pedestrians. Walk to and from work together in cities.

Batteries which can be composted. Not possible yet but someday.

Drone based rescue of people, animals, etc during emergencies. These drone can be patrolling mountains and natural parks 24/7 for emergencies with the ability to air lift people out of danger like flash floods and avalanches.

A fold out human size business card of a full size you. Introduce yourself, fully.

Bracelets that recognize honks and car frequencies to warn people that cars are coming by or dogs, other people, or anything that needs their attention. Also for the blind.

A 2 year military service for all citizens to be police to understand and respect policing. Most countries have mandatory military service. The US needs more help in police forces than the military. This would build empathy and cooperation with the police as everyone would have been a trained officer.

Plasma incinerators are a clean way to liquify all consumer waste without the output of toxic gases created by oxygen based combustion. The output is mostly a brick of black carbon with the rest being recyclable or scrubbable.

Foam protected pools so we can remove the “No Running” signs at pools because everyone knows kids just want to run when they see slippery water.

A pro choice campaign.

WW2 memorial where millions of parachuting plastic men are dropped from planes over cities each with a solider who died’s name on it. Collectible and memorable for citizens to reflect on the scale of the world war.

Flip flops with branding on the bottom that leave advertising in the sand and on wet streets.
Graffiti Flip Flops – Flip flops that leave art as you walk around in mud, rain, sand.