May 2012
1 post
Karma points Video game
A game where you amass karma points to compete for enlightenment. -claudia
sourced
March 2012
2 posts
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...
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.
January 2012
2 posts
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.
December 2011
2 posts
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.
November 2011
2 posts
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...
October 2011
1 post
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 :)
May 2011
5 posts
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...
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...
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
April 2011
5 posts
Fish story
A story about a sea salmon and all hours travails.he’s almost eaten.he gets trapped and escapes, he has to swim upstream, he has trouble founding a mate.he wishes he were farm raised.and then tell the story hf the farm raised salmon and their degenerate activities a the try to find meaning at the farm.
Repair world
Open a market in a large building for all kind of repair services. Tailors show repair electronics repair computer repair upholstery etc.
Soft bathroom
A bathroom made from soft yet sanitary materials.
3d book
A book of 3d photos of women’s breasts that comes with glasses.
Savory desserts
A company that makes fancy savory versions of classic desserts like kit kat, twinkie, breadpudding, etc
March 2011
1 post
coffee table book
a book of photographs of gutter punks (crusty punks) with their parents.
November 2010
3 posts
Culinary app
An iphone ap which is a full compendium menu dictionary which will translate fancy restaurant menus into coomon english.
house lighting
in New orleans the houses are raised about 2 feet off of the ground. In the spirit of underlit sportscars
I humbly suggest putting neon lights under your shotgun home.
Planter pot
A planter pot which has an adjustable arm which sticks out from the side with a very bright led spotlight at the end so that u can light your plant dramatically and have great shadows on your wall.
September 2010
3 posts
noose costume prop
a noose you can wear around your neck that would retain its form even though it isn’t hanging from anything.
Bed
A bed with a water coil system inside which reacts to its thermostat to warm or cool the bed.
Sofog
A sofa with a fog machine built in so that when you sit down smoke rises up between the cushions.
August 2010
3 posts
representative of the sunk
when a person is sunk (overwhelmed, terrified, depressed) he often has trouble thinking and talking but sometimes he is in a situation where he must speak up (court dates, relationship talks, etc). there should be a special position (with a name) where a friend could step in and speak for the sunk person to help him figure it out and represent his interests. We should not be so (systematically)...
stroller Design
Design strollers that have a tonka or hotwheels feel for boys. .and a prin.cess chariot for girls?
Coucholine
A couch made from trampoline material so that the kids can jump on it.
June 2010
2 posts
Gum Idea
1.5 inch long watermellon gums for kids with green candy shell and red gum insides.
Tshirt
Lower your standards for me
May 2010
2 posts
T shirt
I love you but I wont lie for you
modern wall decorations
Cut circular holes in the drywall of your walls and insert different bowls in the holes. If you want a product maybe it would be a rubber bowl with ridges around the bowl lip that would fit into the drywall circle, or a circular rubber ring that would fit into the drywall hole and hold the bowl in place when you insert the bowl into the ring.
April 2010
5 posts
Art projects
Make adjustments in random peoples lives and document them, start with weird haircuts repaint peoples cars etc. Maybe find them through the newspaper.
Invention
An arm that will connect ur kindle or ipad to your stationary bicycle handlebars or other workout machine.
Bushwick Staycation Videos
The a new concept of staycation suggests that rather than going on vacation you just stay home but do the things that you would do on vacation (http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/travel/29947/staycations). So my idea is to make a ghetto staycation tour series of videos for Manhattanites. The videos would introduce our neighborhood establishments and the sites that you can visit by taking the J...
Swedish Packaging for Swedish Flatbread
Package knäckebröd in boxes made of knäckebröd.
desktop internet car radio
Everyone loves to listen to radio in the car and not too many people like to listen to internet radio (at least with the same gusto). So make a desktop app where you would have a little car radio with presets. You can preset them with any internet radio station. When there is a song that annoys you you can just switch to another of your presets.
Also you can have a drop down with different...
March 2010
3 posts
open source restaurant kitchen culinary school
In the beginning of the restaurant the cooks create the menu. Each menu cycle is one week. So they serve small dishes of the menu items and the customers suggest changes. The cooks remake the dishes following the changes. Also maybe the dishes are rated by the customers as they are tasted. Each dish evolves over the week to be the best that it can be. At the end of the week the final...
Personal trainer business
A personal trainer business for the elderly where the trainers are all over 60.
Venn diagram cake
Make two round cakes and put them together cutting off their intersection and then dress the top of the combined cake with a Venn diagram. What other beautiful things come from the intersection of cake and graphing/diagramming?
February 2010
4 posts
Cellphone idea
Why shouldn’t cellphones have retractable ear pieces so we can talk without putting the radiation in our ear?
paper towel rolls
make some paper towel rolls with other stuff. like rolls of real towels or spaghetti.
business plan
Locate the worst post offices in the area and park “stamp trucks” in front of them. “Stamp trucks” are basically mobile 3rd party mail stores.
chandelier
a lighting unit which would be little lights inside of a bunch of balloons. When it us turned on the little air pumps blow up the balloons and then the lights go on inside of the baloons. An alternative version would have the balloons inflate and deflate regularly like alveoli.
January 2010
4 posts
Overbearing stutterer
Table
make a butcher block the way that my neighbor did (gluing and clamping strips of plywood) but make one side smooth with cuts and the other side rough and jagged. The top will be the surface of the table while the jagged side will be the bottom. Cut circles up through the jagged side to be even with a big drill type thing (like what you use to cut a door handle) and attach the legs up into them.
Renewable energy source
Have something implanted into your body cavity to transform your body heat into electricity which can power your pacemaker or feed power to a socket on your skin.
Blog Books
Make a website which will allow users to order an ondemand printed book of any blog. Sometimes you find a blog that you want to read start to finish, but you don’t want to spend all that time online.