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Karma points Video game

A game where you amass karma points to compete for enlightenment. -claudia
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goals and calendar ap

how about an ap that you could have on your ipad or other tablet that would allow you to make goals and estimate how much time they will take and have them visualized as globs of material (like slime or putty). Also, each goal could be subdivided into its component tasks which with a change in view you could lump them all together as the grand task or subdivide it into smaller globs.

then you would have a calendar and you could squeeze off a chunks of a goal’s time globule and plop in into your calendar timeline.

That way you could grab off time chunks of each of your goals and responsibilities and put them into your calendar where you would spread them into the appropriate amount of time that you want to schedule. And the goal would have shrunk by the same amount of time.

phone self-control ap

an ap that can block you from making outgoing texts to a specific person until that person has texted you first.

or it could stop you from texting in the middle of the night.

social justice table

Design a round table with a slice (as in pizza) missing.

Conduct your business at this table while always being mindful of the people who don’t have a place at the table.

beer style and marketing

make a beer bottle that is like cup so the beer bottle doesn’t narrow into a neck. Make the cap just like a regular beer bottle cap but bigger, spanning the whole top. Make your branding in the glass, not on an added label. When poor people buy the beer they will use their empties as their glassware. This free advertising will imprints deeply into culture.

sewing machine app

an ap for the iphone and android where you sew patterns by pushing the phone along and it makes the sewing machine noise. the speed of the needle is determined by the slant of the phone (like the slant of the pedal). It can be a sewing game.

sponge sculpture

dip car washing sponges that are in blocks (like bricks) into different beautiful colors of housepaint and use them as building blocks to make sculptures. Or attach them to a jumpsuit to make a mardi gras costume. Or dip them in terra cotta paint and use them as fake light bricks.

android gun app

A little application for android or iphone which makes the phone into a gun and when you pull the trigger the phone gives a little recoil. it can have the use of being a prop for when you hear annoying news and you finger shoot yourself in the head in mock suicide despair.

restaurant design

make a restaurant where each table has a little flag which can be raised and lowered by the people at the table when they want service. The flag should be on a rope which extends in a loop between two pullys, one attached to the tabletop and one to the ceiling. Each table’s flag will be different. They can be country flags or something different. If a table’s flag is down, the table is not be disturbed.

idea by david ludman

novelty t-shirt

Make a t’shirt “I was never a Girl Scout!” Or make one “Girl Scout gone Bad!” Give girl scout a girl scout font and make bad either red hot and bold or make it a scary horror font :)

this not that books

there is a book in the format of eat this, not this. Use the format and make different versions:

Baby version looks like eat a banana, not a matchbox car, eat a cheerio not a domino.

or a saavy consumer version like: buy this not that: buy fancy shoes because they will last, dont buy fancy t-shirts because they aren’t really better. Buy fancy salt but not fancy butter. buy first class on the cruise but not on the airplane. get cable internet not cable tv and phone. (asia idea)

sleeping bag

How about a high quality camping sleeping bag (like Patagonia or whatever) in a gorgeous rich pink color (maybe with a deep yellow lining)? Why do we need to live with boring blues and greens? What is a camping diva to do?

your time app

aka the ‘what did I do with my day today?’ app

an iphone or android app which would pop up in your phone and ask you at regular or random intervals what you are doing. at first you would have to type in your answers but after a short time your answers would populate a drop down menu making the process relatively painless. You would always have the option to type in a new activity that you are doing and the list would be ordered from most common to least common activities. The app would allow you to output several graphical representations of how you use your time and you could share them on facebook. Also, you could share your profile with others and even make it public so that people could contact you based on how you spend your time.

Character

A guy who goes to the super market and rather than shopping for his groceries just poaches someone else’s full grocery cart, checks out and that is his selection.

T shirt

Life is too boring to be boring