Project: 5 movie crossovers that would kick ass

1) Predator vs. Avatar. Predator sets his sights on a new target, the Navi. Plot twist, humans are the only species with experience in killing Predator, and save the Navi from annihilation.
2) Rambo: Smurf’s Blood.
3) Mr. Bean, Castaway. What happens when Mr. Bean gets stranded on an island, and how long before Tom Hanks’ character tries to kill him.
4) Not a movie, but the Deadliest Catch meets the Kardashians. Throw them on a ship in the Bering Strait, and they can’t come back until they catch their quota of crab. (That just took on a whole new meaning as I re-read it.)
5) Gremlins vs Toy Story.

 

Project: 5 Medical Advances that need to happen on your smartphone

1) Instant blood diagnostic tool. Get a reading like on a glucose reader, but it gives a breakdown of blood health and hormonal levels.
2) A smart shirt that analyzes sweat samples to detect diseases automatically, and notifies you via app.
3) A disposable pee stick attachment. For testing urine samples via phone.
4) A cough sampler that listens to your cough and diagnoses what you’re sick with.
5) Fingerprint scanner with a built in thermometer. Takes your temperature with the touch of a finger.

 

Project: Five new ways to make arcades awesome again

1) Use them as known recruiting places for e-sport teams.

2) I predict a revival of old school brick & mortar. Bring back an arcade, have a comic rack, serve a good burger and watch the nerds and hipsters flock. Combine old and modern gaming.

3) Use it as a space to show new VR equipment. People can test (or even buy) new VR sets directly at the arcade.

4) Use robot waiters to serve guests snacks at your arcade.

5) Create an 80’s themed arcade, but with super modern games. Including a MAME box running a simple UI for visitors to be able to play any arcade game ever. The staff all dress like 80’s characters. Marty McFly and the like. Call the arcade Ready Player One.

 

Project: Five unique podcast ideas

1) 80’s cast. Think Hackers meets an 80’s radio station. Please real 80’s ads as filler.

2) Deathcast. A podcast interviewing the dying on their last breaths. Asking what they think, feel, regret, and want to be remembered for. Made to hold or the dying, and remind the living of our looming mortality.

3) One Minute of Awesome. 1 minute podcast that teaches you something quick and super valuable. A podcast that won’t waste a minute of your time.

4) Up and Down – stories of people who experienced post traumatic growth, and people who suddenly fell from grace.

5) The Cyborg Politician. A political podcast that throws conventional Left vs Right politics and looks to start a new political system from scratch. One that cultivates the future.

 

Project: Five ways to replace the business card

1) Since many people just take a picture of the card now instead of saving it, make fancy brushed metal cards that you keep and re-use, handing to people to take the picture with.
2) Cards printed with appearing ink. Hand someone a business card and it slowly materialized your contact information.
3) A digital business card that updates as your personal information changes.
4) 3d printed figurines that represent the field you’re in. Each figurine is a business card.
5) Resume smart glasses. When worn, user sees an augmented reality that embeds your story into the world around them.

 

Project: Five business ideas to help you decide what to watch

1) A movie meta search. I type in which movie I want to watch, and it tells me what service offers it for free – Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc.
2) A serial killer watch list. Have killers (or any other celebrity) make their movie watch lists for you.
3) 30 day Challenge. Work through the alphabet, and watch the top rated (rotten tomato) movie for each letter.
4) Mad Libs revisited. Fill in the mad lib blanks, and based on your answer, it finds a movie with a similar plot. A farmerwalked into a blender.
5) A stream of consciousness app. You say a stream of words, until you randomly say the name of a movie title. Once the app hears an existing movie title in your random chatter, it adds it to your watch cue.

 

Idea: Muffin box

A sealed box containing a treat. The box only unlocks if your fitness tracker sees that you walked x amount of steps, or slept x amount of hours.

Sleep 8 hours, and wake up to a muffin treat. Build good habits through conditioning. Be your own Pavlovian dog.

 

Project: Five businesses or company policies to optimize employee performance

1) Office sleep pods. Nap time to improve employee performance.
2) A work tracker that tracks peek output times for the employee. This isn’t to track performance, but to help build a more optimal work schedule for them.
3) An internal recruiting software that let’s your list your skills and interests. Instead of a company based on departments, you get recruited to projects based on those skills. Once the project is complete, all teammates rate those skills. Turns the company into freelancers, and lets people participate in projects based on interest and skill-set.
4) CorpCoin – an internal company currency. Each employee can earn CorpCoins based on performance, for doing projects and extra work. You can trade those coins for days off, free lunches, paid courses and other benefits. Employees can also tip each other for helping out with projects.
5) An employee off site retreat that gets workers to think creatively, doing in person ideation and brainstorming sessions, mixed with massages and nature. Reboot both the body and the mind. No work talk allowed. Otherwise nazi robots come out of the wall and electrocute you with a cow prod.

 

Project: Five businesses you would come up with if you were a hamster. 

1) Produce energy for humans in exchange for extra food.
2) Follow stupid lab rats around a maze to take close-up notes of their behavior.
3) Hamster escape kits – containing suction cup paw-attachments, rope to rappel down, etc.
4) Cheek stretchers – to increase storage room.
5) Camouflaged storage units that look like floor shavings to hide food from other hamsters, and to trick the owner into putting more.