Category: Idea Book

Blue checkbox for verified emails and phone numbers to stop spam. Why can we not see if emails and calls are from bots yet.

Gourmet table salt dried from human blood. For the goth, vampire crowd.

A man travels back in time to create a clone of himself which then grows up to travel back in time to create his clone. Which came first?

For silent conference calls and for the deaf.

Do what pirate radio did for the internet.

List of all crimes humans do to other humans. This list would probably be too long to ever finish. sigh humans.

Vegetable oil based waxed paper decomposes in 2-4 weeks. Can we make literally everything out of waxed paper?

Computers and cell phones that cost $1 for the developing world. 100x cheaper compute for universal compute.

Visual audio track print of a famous song. Using a moving sensor or play head you can play back the song. A public installation where someone can take their phone camera and run by quickly and hear what it says. Memorialize a sound, saying, or any audio visually.

3 long strips in plastic that allow you to plug a 3 plug outlet into any place on the power outlet instead of predefined spots. Can install along a baseboard of a wall to have a plug anywhere power outlet.

Photos of people yawing with a screaming soundtrack. Are yawns just muted screams that are too tired to come out?

A lamp that has a mic and speaker connected to the floor for room shaking bass. Light for your eyes and for your ears.

A bracelet that can inflate to create a life saving floaty when needed with a press of a button.

Mailable fold out postcard planter. Just add water. An easy way to send someone flowers that don’t die right away.

The philosophy that by being a slacker you transcend being a slacker.

A spectator sport with professional pillow fighters sponsored by all the pillow companies. Pillow talking isn’t as fun as pillow fighting.

Audience dials a number and interacts with installation’s number. Just some set nonsense.

During hurricane Sandy one of the most needed items was a power strip to charge multiple devices. A portable version that can be put in emergency kits.

Calculator tattooed on body run from body heat / electricity. Always ready for body calculations.

Ask someone to be a valentine via flipbook.

Smell good while getting healthy.

Never get lost when you exit a subway station. You know when your iPhone’s compass is off and sends you in the wrong direction. An analog compass built in the back of an MYA card with a local map.

A magnetically attached airpods that can be wired or wireless when needed with charging done via wire and useable without power. MagSafe connectors that can be pulled off when you need to go into wireless mode.

Using computer vision cameras to interact with an observer to bring new interactivity to classic fine art.

A flavoring that is filling but with zero calories.

Where you are determines your access using secured GPS. Could use these for secure transactions that can only occur at a physical locations also called banks but for everything else.

Use saltwater in cold regions to make snow without salt as a desalinization process.

AI image filter to put back clothing on naked photos and black bar identifying people.

A branding campaign against pro life.

A video catalog of all primary care health information and anything useful. Maybe this is just YouTube without the influencers.

2 pillows that have heartbeats and heat that transfer long distances between couples as they sleep.

Decorative pillows don’t make functional sense. One big pillow that comes off and on a bed that looks like a lot of decorative pillows.

A network connected huggable jacket with inflatable cells that let you feel a that hug.

Keychain button you press to anti static you so you don’t accidentally blow up a gas tank because you were wearing fuzzy slippers while pumping gas.

Clear coat of cities on truck tarps. As trucks collects dust the tarp fills in to reveal a cityscape from the dirt and grime of the truck delivering in the city. Cut the tarps after end of life to create bags.

Wash after you pee for men.

DNS for phones. Let phone numbers be tied to domain names so we never have to remember a phone number again.

A movement to donate one of your days off to someone else.

An art show based on the art of He-Man.

Seems like that should be a thing. A new meaning to the phrase “nose candy”.

A store that air brushes custom colors onto anything you bring in. Why settle for the default colors of things.

A bracelet that glows for light in the dark i.e. camping, instead of head lamps, works especially for kids.

Picaridin (20%) + Lemon Eucalyptus Oil (30%).

For those summer mosquito days outside when you need sunscreen AND bug spray in one.

Consensus based passwords. Who you know versus what you know or what you have. Let your friends vouch for your passwords.

Collect the whole set. WW2 Lego collection.

Sand bags in the shape of chickens that stack to stop the flow of water. Sandbags need a rebranding. How about the friendly chicken here to save the day.

See all the books you own on a digital bookshelf since who wants to carry around all those heavy books for your whole life.

iMac made out of clean white ceramic. Making the iMac classic again.

Ghost graffiti. Small portable projectors that randomly projection ghosts in abandoned buildings at random time for night time passersby who will swear they saw a ghost in that building.

Postal services that is only delivered once a day. Slow internet. Like how physical mail used to be with only the need to check email once a day and not every minute.

Money for computer science nerds. At least crypto should come out like this.

Micro loans via a peer to peer financing network. Many cultures have a system that does this based off of social trust.

Ambient background sounds of a bowling alley for nostalgia anytime you need to hear the sound of a strike.

Alexa teach me how to go on a first date.

Constellations form the gum on sidewalks in NYC named and own-able to fund the clean up of the sidewalk galaxy.

If Nietzsche or Sartre were tech bros what would they build?

A social network based on the same birthday. There are only 365 days a year so the network of people with the same birthday is growing every year. There are about 23k birthdays in NYC on any given day. An app that you download on your birthday to party with other fellow birthday friends and see where people are congregating.

Businesses can give discounts to birthday goers.

Also a dating app which would make your partner’s birthday much easier to remember.

A competitor to the popular Prince Street pizza in NYC. 1/2 slices aka “princess slices” across the street from the long lines.

Advertising is what has destroyed the internet and turned it into a literal discount shopping mall.

An alternate ad free internet onto of the current internet using a top level domain with it’s own search engine and services that are all ad free.

Boxers cut down to brief size. Short loose fitting underwear.

Expands in 2 dimensions to trolley variable sized things. Could not get this sketch right but you get it.

Forward or CC an email to automatically unsubscribe and block the sender. Why does this service not exist?

Just kidding. Love nuns. Or do we?

AI powered drones that spend all day planting trees and flowers everywhere. The modern day Johnny Appleseed.

Are you alive? A service that constantly pings you now and then to get a confirmation that you are alive to share with others.