Category: Idea Book

Full color UV blocking but without the tint. Block out harmful rays without blocking out your vision. These can be done digitally now.

“Get a Job” translates to my life is a struggle and I suffer everyday so asking me for something is not appreciating my suffering.

Translates insensitive language and insults into the psychoanalyzed real meaning of the speakers words.

An artificially sunlit 24/7 cafe in gray Seattle to combat seasonal depression. It would be the most popular cafe in all of Seattle filled with happy tanned caffeinated people, that just sounds like Costa Rica.

Change your bed sheets daily. Just pull off one layer to get fresh sheets instead of waiting for the moment you can’t remember when you last changed your sheets to change them.

Elephant toothpaste cement i.e. quickly expanding and fast solidifying cement wall system to prevent invasions by ground and crest protective barriers from fires, floods, or armies instantly.

Anti malaria, vitamins, etc. 1 billion people are without water. The ability to incentivize people to take necessary medication via supplemented water.

Users donate their public urls from their services like Dropbox, Google Drive, FB, etc for use on non profit projects like Wikipedia etc to have free fast delivery of content.

An encryption layer on top of public services could create a layer of privacy using these services without allowing the services access to the data.

Ultra light and compact walking cane for travel made from carbon fiber.

The modern door to door encyclopedia salesman in 3 acts.

Rent an entourage. Pay to be Mark Wahlberg for the day.

Opposite of gratitudes at company meetings. Tell people why they suck on corporate letterhead.

Track favors owed and given with friends. Save them up, trade them, and call them in.

Knit, stiff in front, dog leashes so dogs do not get their legs caught in them. Constantly getting your dog to step over the leash to untangle it from their legs seems like a solvable problem.

Concierge services for life. Hotels have it. Amex has it. Why not for normal life?

The never released game from Milton Bradley.

Foldable containers that everything is packaged in with self return shipping labels to send back to the manufacture to recycle when the product has reached end of life. The burden of disposal is currently on the consumer when consumers and many governments don’t have the ability to dispose of things efficiently.

IRL lenses for cameras to put in front of the camera when taking photos like a ufo on plastic. Stickers for your Instagram old school style. Sell in themed packs.

A full length 8k full body video chat. Prototypes of this have been tried but none are in every home yet.

Countdowns the seconds of life left so you don’t forget that every second counts or maybe the anxiety will kill you ahead of your time.

Dedicated cell conference numbers that route into a single speaker and mic box placed on the table. Plug and play conference calls. Conference calls are too complicated. Just have a phone number and go instead of using your iPhone because the conference dial in is too complicated.

A musical broadway play of an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

The same size apartment with outdoor space that an average citizen would have. Removal from society versus punishment. An adult time out. Modern day short term banishment.

Maybe this is just Los Angeles.

Direct to consumer from farmers to you. Farmers markets 24/7, globally. Take out the middle men and let farmers go DTC en masse.

Combat as sport, sport as combat. Nike makes some of the highest performing shoe technology. Shouldn’t the military be wearing them?

Cafe serving breast milk from around the world to kids to give them a variety of nutrients and flavors, even oat milk.

Cufflinks for shoes instead of shoelaces. Functional jewelry.

If it’s not a tool it’s not useful by definition. A new branding campaign for engineering as simply building fun tools.

Send DVD players and all used DVDs to the developing world instead of ignored dreams of bandwidth. There are billions of discarded DVDs everywhere with infinite licensed content.

A book to replace horrific sayings in english e.g. kill two birds with one stone, with updated friendlier versions like feeding two birds with one cookie. Instead of throwing away babies with the bathwater which seems horrific why not just water plants with the bathwater while holding your clean baby in your arms.

Seaweed wrapped egg sandwiches. Sushi for breakfast western style.

Get phone numbers and notes back via the mail. An easy and double opt in method to get someone’s contact information. Perfect for non creepy date proposals.

Flat packaged food. Easily shippable. Do for food what IKEA has done for furniture. Maybe this is just Costco + Instacart but where are the Swedish meatballs?

Curry flavored sugar. Doubt it if you will but this is delicious.

A mobile solution to the unhoused situation. Small electric vans with a bed, kitchen, and toilet with public RV parks with hook up services outside of town instead of Walmart parking lots. #vanlife.

PSAs that teach you small simple things. The more you know, or better yet the more you know how to do.

Each train is curated by a curator or gallery. Bring fine art out of the galleries and museums and into the public spaces used by most residents of a city and enjoyed by millions more a day.

Finger rings made from molded paper. Fine paper jewelry.

A new term where one economic class cleanses another economic class. This is happening every day but we are not acknowledging it with a term, the best we have is gentrification.

Screw in beach poles to create a hammock stands wherever you go. Hammock frames are too heavy and cumbersome. Use the same mechanism for sand screw beach umbrellas to put hammocks wherever you go.

Like player salary caps in sports allows fairness in competition. There should be a cap to ceo salaries or anyone’s salary to maintain fairness in competition and fun in the game.

If Best Made Co (RIP) made hand painted tooth brushes.

2 rings that are network connected. When you touch one the other ring glows and or buzzes to let the other person know you’re thinking of them. Embedded in all engagement rings. Wedding rings have this function removed.

Be able to find a lost skier using passive or active RFID tag scanners on all the lift poles and floating drones to make sure everyone is safe and quickly rescuable if in trouble and where to find your friends that left you on the double black diamond.

8K real time mirror that you can’t distinguish between a real mirror and a display. Allows you to try on virtual clothing without having to put in on as well as change the lighting and check your weight and tell you you’re looking good today.

A hanging, hammock safe for trees that creates a bench that can turn any tree into a park bench.

Name for a black hole star out there. Void* points to anything which maybe blackholes are natures version.

A “singles” deck of trading cards of singles. Contact info, stats, passed out at parties. Subscription. Dating services IRL and a new meaning to playing go fish.

Lessons and materials by the best teachers to be purchased by parents / students. Every kid can get a private education.

Mother’s day for the new millennium. Mothers don’t get the sexy they deserve. Like JT, time to bring sexy back.

Universal restaurant tabs. Never have to wait to pay again. Eat, drink, and run. Tab will keep a running tab wherever you go.

Micro drone that uses computer vision to detect and fly through mosquitos. Bring the swatter to the mosquito.

Tag you got it.

Christmas tree orphanage. Parking lot forest where people abandon christmas trees after the holidays. This is an actual thing. Where do you think all the Christmas trees go after Christmas? Into very sad and brown parking lot forests.

Molded from your face for optimized sleeping. A bespoke service to create the perfect light blocking eye mask for you.

Give your working hand some much needed love. We hand driving gloves why not cozy mice. Goodbye Kitty!

Let users in emergencies ask for what they need. During Hurricane Sandy the Red Cross received too many unneeded jackets and other items people didn’t need or want. Let the people who need help tell you what they need directly.

New Apple campaign.

A keyboard using 1 button that can do all the keys of a keyboard based on direction and clicks.

People yawning as classical music comes out of their mouths. Just a silly visual, not implying classical music is boring which it is not yawn.

A ticker tape readout of all the people who go missing in the US in real time. There are a lot, a lot, of people going missing right now. Where have they all gone?

Stop suitcases from rolling down hills. Press a button on the handle to roll and release to brake. This should be the standard on baby strollers as well.

An app that overheats the iphone cpu to make it hot to the touch to warm you when it’s cold. This happens randomly to iPhones sometimes. Why not make it a feature for those cold days and nights when you have nothing to keep you warm except your phone.

Tactical fashion for the urban solider. Life is a battle, dress for it.

Tech fiefdoms and their feudal lords run much of society. We should redraw the maps to show how society is really organized.

A keyboard that posts all text and photos on public social networks as black redacted text and black images for only users with the password to access. Public privacy, like the visible velvet rope to a private room in a club where you can hear the noise but don’t know what’s going on. Probably something boring you wouldn’t want to be a part of anyways or at least you tell yourself.

To support lactating mother awareness and support mother’s breastfeeding in public and normalize leaky breast. The wet nipples were unable to be drawn by any current public AI. Exactly.

A snow globe that is a working cloud chamber to watch particles decay without the need to shake plastic.

A members only club to access spotless toilets around the city. Swipe your card to wipe your bum.

Floating lighted balloons that float from the head of the bulb or just led floaties that lift from heat caused by the batteries.

Computer vision to convert hand made butterflies and bunnies to real projections of animals. Unlock all the puppets. Finally get that wolf right.

For winter refreshment. It turns out if you boils coconuts it caramelizes the sugars inside the coconut water to make a sweeter water. Warm and naturally delicious without the added sugar.

Restaurant with only microwavable food and a wall of microwaves for cooking. Quick meals ready to rotate.

Sex ed for all types of sex and not just condoms with bananas. Teach the birds and the bees AND the fruits.

Collect them all. With political stats on the back. Why settle for one when you can have them all. Literally play politics.

A Catholic confessional booth set in Times Square to take confessions and forgive sins. Likes longer than the Applebees around the corner.

Flip a page to a time and set it down to wake up. Reading yourself to sleep and to wake.

Technology using ice as disposable batteries. Use the energy stored in ice to power electronics, that is until they melt. We need 1000x Peltier device for this.

Walking through Washington Square park zoom in one by one to people and what they are listening to as the camera walks by. The soundtrack of you.

Glowing jello molds just in time for Christmas. Decorative deliciousness.

A pack of trays with minimal kitty litter that is meant to be thrown away after each use. Biodegradable and compostable of course. Meow.

Nancy Pelosi usb stick and usb powered speaker of the house. Acknowledge the history and personality of this historic figure.

A playing card deck of all known “races” of people so people can see how ridiculous it is and you can finally place the “race” card”.

Graffiti stickers that lets everyone know when anything or everything is out of order. NYC may just have to have “Working” stickers as more things are broken than not.

Orange juice that has zero sugar and sweetened with zero calorie alternatives. Can we remove the sugar in juice and replace it with zero calorie sweeteners or monk fruit sugar?

Only the wearer can see what is on the screen by alternating the screen wavelengths and sending encrypted images to the paired glasses. For those prying eyes and national secrets.

For group peeing needs. Peeers can pee anywhere on the floor into a grate of moving water. The Roman’s had these but also had a lot of horrible things so hmm.

1st person game controlling a real actor in a real convenience store. How many items can they steal? Also how many levels of indirection do we need to feel responsible for our actions? Who is to blame?

For desalinating water in emergencies or when only salt water is available.

Earrings and lip ring cell phones.

Gym lock that fits in your wallet. Made from indestructible steel or kevlar and as slim as a credit card so you don’t forget your gym lock like you do every time.

Instead of real fireworks a massive projection of fireworks in Times Square. Blowing up gunpowder in the sky can not be good for anyone or for dogs and birds. Let’s digitize this.

An idea that infects and replicates in hosts. Superset of memes. This is a real physical virus that infects the host with concepts.

Wearing the entire outfit put together on a mannequin. Stylists spend hours putting together the outfits on store mannequins. Why not take advantage of free styling by wearing the entire style.

Shake powered hand held plastic moving video that you can store in a box and mail to someone that comes alive on a simple shake to power the kinetic battery inside. Shake it like a Polaroid moving picture.

If viruses can make you sick can they be modified to make you super? smarter, stronger, etc. Are there already viruses that make us better that we don’t know about? Is laughter really literally infectious?

All members bring their frequency and walk around looking for people who are in harmony with them.

Tamagachis for the laptop. The more you’re offline the more they grow.

USPS e-commerce store for small cheap items with free shipping to customers. Only the USPS scale could make this economical. Large revenue stream for the dying post office. Let the USPS use your mailbox as a small scale Amazon.

Why do doctors still listen to your heart beat with their ears when we have computers that can show you what your heart and longs are doing.

A garden that rains 24/7. For those demo days and nights.