1) A decibel measuring app that tracks how much noise you’re exposed to. Like a fitness tracker, but a sanity tracker. Once you hit a threshold of unacceptable daily noise exposure, it notifies you, as a reminder to escape somewhere quiet.
2) An interactive map of city quiet zones. Using the noise tracker above, it maps the quietest and noisier areas in your city.
3) Nap Pods. I said it before, I’ll say it again, heavy business districts need nap pod stations, set up similar to massage parlor rooms. They could be operated 24 hours, doubling as a hotel overnight.
4) Sell noise canceling headphones to corporations so that they can lend/rent to employees.
5) Create an interactive game where people can hunt for secret zen monasteries. They’re always on the move in the city. And only the first person to find the hidden key gets exclusive access to them for a week. Each is beautifully decorated and stylishly minimalist. The hunt for zen!
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: 5 businesses ideas to help with common social issues in the office
1. Module in your email client that is set to automatically escalate to the appropriate level based on the person(s) you are communicating with when a response is not received by a certain time.
2. Auto-response generator for mitigating hostile interactions with coworkers -sends an emotionally neutral or neutralizing response in order to alleviate tension in a diplomatic manner which does not expose emotional weakness.
3. App that collects highlights from inter-office events, open trainings, seminars, and social occasions pulled from office messenger communications, emails, social media posts (in the case of parties), or even via a small robot that attends on your behalf so can stay in the loop, maintain good corporate citizenship, and not have to waste time being somewhere you don’t want to be without having to worry about people treating you like a black sheep. This also makes it easier to leverage people for things you need by invoking a sense of familiarity and comfort.
4. Company employee profiler that collects metadata so you can build stronger rapport and leverage other people as you see fit for your needs. Remember, where there are brownies there are plenty of hungry mouths waiting to engorge themselves.
5. “Mountain-climber” app that calculates and maps the easiest path to successfully reach out to and communicate with various people throughout the organization, particularly those in upper-leadership or foreign teams.
Disclaimer: Gentleman, I haven’t finished going through all of your previous posts so if you see any duplicate or very similar ideas just let me know.
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.
Project: 5 businesses ideas to improve your daily commute
1. Glasses or HUD that calculates and shows you the quickest path to follow to get to work in real time. Pedestrian traffic can be miserable during rush hours.
2. Personal space bubble -fold out capsule that creates space around you to help deal with crowded trains/buses, body odor, and that one guy that keep falling asleep on your shoulder in the morning.
3. Sleep straps – a harness with straps that latches onto the poles inside a bus or train to allow you to sleep standing up without falling.
4. Light-weight folding lap desk with built in coffee mug/cup depression so you can read, write, draw, or even have breakfast like a good corporate mongoloid and still enjoy your coffee without having to put it on the floor.
5. Device charger that uses your body heat and movement to produce and store electricity for charging your phone or tablet.
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.