Project: 5 Tech Startups to help elderly parents or grandparents

1) A heart rate monitor that notifies you when there is an irregularity in their pulse.
2) Sell VR units to nursing homes, with content that brings them back to their younger years.
3) In home VR rentals that help the debilitated attend family events.
4) An accelerometer that measures shock. If the old person falls, you or their nursing staff is notified.
5) Google Glass that let’s you tap into their feed to see if their caretaker is taking care of them.
6) Using Google Glass, it automatically edits a film of their day, giving them a replay of what happened that day before bed. Helps with old people who have bad memories.

 

Project: 5 Ways to Find Your Passion

1) An amusement park for adults. But instead of rides, you try different activities from different fields. A section for blacksmithing, a section for programming, for sewing, etc. In Vegas you lose yourself, in Vladyland you find yourself.

2) An app that has you fill out a questionnaire about yourself. Your profession, your hobbies, your interests. It then gives you daily (or weekly) suggestions to try new things completely unrelated to your life. It gives you step by step recommendations on how to start, for a complete beginner.

3) A VR video game series where you can work as an apprentice in a completely new field. You learn directly from a digitized master in that field, actually practicing the rigorous skills and knowledge necessary to get by. Spend a day as a crab fisherman, or as an artist in a classroom with Bob Ross (using Google’s new VR drawing software). This will replace college one day.

4) Sometimes, finding your passion is doing a bunch of things that you don’t want to do. You become a freelancer for us, and we send you to do a new job each workday. You never repeat the same job. We pay you for the day. You get to try a bunch of new jobs. Employers rate your daily performance to see if you can keep working with us.

5) Passion Tamagachi. It’s an old school Tamagachi. You raise it. You level it up. It dies. And when it dies, it gives you a text that tells you what passion you should pursue. (This can be based on an algorithm looking at how you took care of it. Or can be completely effing random)

 

Seizure Tracker

For the unfortunate people that have seizures in their sleep, you insert it into your bed like a regular sleep tracker, and use it to monitor if you’re having one, with the option of notifying a loved one if you do.

 

10 Idea Podcast

Sit down with people from all walks, give them a constraint (ie – think of businesses revolving around the bathroom) , and have them come up with ten business for it.

 

A VR pop-up shop

A mini world’s fair for all things VR.

A pop up shop in the city showcasing the most amazing VR tech on, or about to hit the market.