Category: Idea Book

Old school way to transmit information across digital.

Go bag for the date that needs to end. Black shorts, tshirt, flip flops, sunglasses, subway card in men and women’s varieties.

Young people can pen pal with old people who need something to do. Via mail, email, sms, or video calls.

Powered by outsourced operators that control drone teddy bear companions for kids. No need for AI when you can outsource.

Portable air conditioner no matter where you go. The cool the air in front of you but heating the air behind you.

A metaverse that is old school 8 bit graphics including worlds from your favorite Atari classics. The avatar builder would be pixel by pixel.

Campaign for normalizing immigrants.

Voice activated shadow puppet animals that dance around a lamp shade to accompany stories.

Stylish walkers with attachable accessories instead of tennis balls.

NSEW arrows drawn in the cloud to help navigate in a city when people look up.

Che is dead. Che did not die for your sins. The revolution is over.

You favorite neon on black. A new wave of Halloween costumes.

Bachelor parties meet bachelorette parties to group party via Romy.

Solar powered leaves in trees that light up at night to illuminate a park so parks are safe and usable 24/7.

Fingernail tech with sensors that track finger movements to create keyboard movements without the need of a keyboard.

A cell phone that is in a pencil that you put behind your ear to make calls.

Split California and New York and major cities into separate states to keep the senate fair by population and not my land mass.

Interpol for the internet that have access to all the services on the internet.

Use one number for each use. Never have your credit card number stolen.

Gated email network to prevent spam. Who ever thought letting anyone mail you anything they want at anytime was a good idea. Junk mail is a problem.

A guerrilla film group that breaks into people homes to force them to watch their film screening.

Drink soup with edible straws.

Emergency swimming rescue gear with mini fins, snorkel, floaty, emergency life floaty all around your waist.

Flushable clothing made from toilet seat cover material made for the runway and to flush.

Back in the 90s there were programs like EtherPeek and EtherPeg that let you see network traffic such as data and images that were flowing on your network. An IOS version of that.

Cute light from a horrific sight.

A visible heart beat of someone you love to see and hear what their current heart beat is, hopefully beating.

An online store where all products are under $1. Amazon has hundreds of products that are under $1.

A professor that can teach you every subject ever taught. Trained on every textbook and book every written.

No more cup rings on tables and no more coasters! All in one.

Digital Snow White mirror for kids. Who’s the fairest of them all. Maybe Snapchat already solved this.

App that gives the brain gamma waves to clear out brain plaque. 40hz has been researched to temporarily remove brain plaque that is one of the potential causes of dementia.

Bathtubs that are warm as you get it and stay warm like onsens. Recently discovered these exist!

A digital box with a camera and screen that remembers who touched it last. Just an art piece to see how an object changes hands over time.

An AR app for collecting customized and unique weapons across the city for virtual street battles. Pokemon Go if it were designed as a fps.

Wedding rings with simple rocks instead of diamonds. “Nice rock”.

The scent of the french alps by Calvin Klein.
Nothing by Calvin Klein or Nada pour Homme. Too bad Evian tastes so bad.

Put this into your window and turn New York into the sound of nature where ambulances become whales, yells become crickets, etc. Digital signal processors turn city sounds to calming sounds of nature.

The best time to educate is as children. What would overt propaganda for children look like.

Offline internet. Based on sneakernets like el Paquete Semanal in Cuba. First Class mailable 1TB hard drives that provide media, information, and services for those that don’t have access to bandwidth.

Genetically modified cotton plants that come in colors so no dying needed and no color bleeding when washed.

Visual wind chimes that sparkle in the wind.

Let’s you park anywhere and parking attendants can scan to charge you instead of paying a meter much like a toll. Never get a parking ticket again.

Sunglasses that absorb all the sunlight.

An edible bowl made from fried rice for bibimbap.

A way to give a high five over the internet.

A test to determine who is a human. Can human’s even pass this test? Blade Runner had a fancy test.

Female version of Hans and Frans.

Live video filter windows that convert gray life outside to sunshine and white clouds and blue skies.

Gum or card deck of lies.

Patreon for the Patriarchy. Or is that just capitalism.

Use a marketing research company to statistically poll the population on existential questions.

Open access virtual cafe aka lobby to zoom into and be greeted and wait for your meeting to start to socialize with strangers and just hang out in between calls.

There is no video call common space.

Discord + Clubhouse + Alexa for seniors.
Social network designed for seniors.

Bills, jury duty, parking tickets, etc sent as friendly greeting cards. Government Seasons Greetings!

Car horns are often just angry. How about a horn that has 3 settings. Along with Angry how about Polite Excuse me and just Sad Face.

Casinos that are operated by banks where you are gambling into your savings account. All your losses are put into savings that you can not access for a set amount of time. Wins are paid out from your savings or credit against your future losses.

Print size curated articles in themes monthly to readers.

A feminist take on WWDJ.

A web extension that clicks on specific causes websites en mass to provide funding from advertisers.

An art show of colors that are not found in nature or colors you have never seen.

A table that has speakers and an audio interface to play music for the serious audiophile.

A platform for citizens to perform public service. Perhaps public gig work for citizens paid for by the the government.

Using Peltier devices or other smaller methods to cool air versus compressed gas to make super slim in window air conditioners.

Street fighter, hide and seek, red light greenlight, soccer in nyc subways/taxis with the whole city playing. Mexican border crossing team. 911 add with women wearing high heels versus nikes running from the twin towers. Heavens gate shot of morgue with bodies wearing nikes – Just Do It.

Why are firefighters loved and police hated? Separate police forces into different branches like the military with different brands. Let them compete for which are the best.

Using machine vision automatically generate parking tickets. Massive revenue for the city massive sadness for everyone who drives.

Service where cute people go out with people to make them look cool. A PG rated escort service. Stolen from the classic 80s movie.

3D audio voicemail box where each message is in 3D space so you can organize your voicemails in space and find them easier than a linear list.

1 billions years of development. Designed by nature. Ad campaign for fruits and vegetables like Apple computers does for electronics. Come on TBWA/Chiat/Day, don’t forget about the beloved banana, nature’s Apple.

Up balloons but with a down ending. The only way that clown should die.

Text based daily Spanish lessons. Learn Spanish a txt at a time.

Sprinkles, nuts, croutons, paprika, etc in seasoning packets, instead of boring (but still delicious) ketchup/mustard, salt/pepper.

A mutual tax system for connections to prevent unwanted solicitation. By putting a tax via Bill Gates on messages the system prevents spam ensuring that you are writing is about the same as you receive.

A DTC birth control brand. With every purchase someone who can not afford birth control gets free birth control funded by those that can.

For riding the internet.
Also a Nerd Surf Trophy for winning at surfing the internet.

A phone service that takes your confessions, apologies and sends the message to the recipient when you die. Who needs a priest.

Sweet and savory via Jess.

Cleaning a smoothie cup after making a shake is a pain. Make the whole process non stick. Rinse and go.

The softest but safe helmets for your head using industrial strength Kevlar lined felt.

1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1m, 8h candles that mark time.

Children pick stories read to them by senior citizens via an audio / video call. Put seniors back to work, if they want of course. The en done enough.

Aerial warfare via hot air balloons.

Restaurant with only single servings of food.
Miniature Food Restaurant – Minis, “Minimize Me”.

Does Coke have something in it that makes Pepsi taste bad? Do good competitors deceive our taste buds against their enemies? Was Pepsi the drink of choice of 1984?

A daily personalized voice affirmations sent to you by the most upbeat cheerleaders, personal trainers for your emotional health.

Worldwide game of tag. To be seen at the next Olympics.

Anti Crowd Glasses. Augmented reality glasses that turn people into trees, wild animals, and birds so cities don’t seem so crowded.

So people can see who else has to stop at the intersection. Why are not all signs double sided?

What is Velcro made of? Does it last forever? Why not make it biodegradable.

Uber for government service jobs. The government lets anyone do jobs such as cleaning freeways via a bounty on an app. Task Rabbit government contracts.

Dresses, hats, accessories for the humans on bathroom or other public signs. Sticker packs to accessorize every bathroom door, don’t leave these people in boring coveralls and a like dresses forever.

Turn off all hearing to your ears. We have eye lids and can avoid sights we don’t want to see but we aren’t able to stop all sounds to our ears yet even with the best noise canceling technology. This will most likely have to be done at the nerve or brain level.

No taxation without representation. The ability for any tax payer to vote when they pay taxes. If you are not allowed to vote you should not have to pay taxes, isn’t that how America was founded?

World Wide World. Who needs the web when you have the world.

Like a baked potato with small dishes for all the accoutrements. Korean food architecture is a flexible way to eat whole foods just piece by piece.

A 10x human size fold out valentine heart. Send someone the size of your love.

Stop “Wars”, “Human Trafficking”, “Suffering”, “Oppression”, “Worrying”. Stickers to modify stop signs as statements for a community to protest.

A crystal ball with a holographic projection that shows the future. If Princess Leia were a fortune teller.

Solar powered desalinization ships that collect sea water and takes them to the poles to freeze desalinate. Using the natural thermodynamic energy of the poles to remove thermal energy from sea water. There is recent technology on how to efficiently separate brackish water from ice and fresh water when freeze desalinating.

The size of one oil tanker could supply Los Angeles with its drinking water for a week. 52 rotating ships could supply fresh cheap and clean water to large cities with limited energy resources.