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The Reverse Umbrella
On a trip to a very sunny and hot location, I cleared my sweaty face in order to see a person shading themselves from the sun with an umbrella. A regular umbrella. Shade helps. But as anyone who goes to Disney World in the heat of… well, anytime… would see is squirt bottles paired with…
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Advanced Straw Technology
This one is an idea from the past, but it still hasn’t come to life yet. I’m sure a start-up named Sip® is right around the corner and will bring this into reality. Maybe with adverts or something, but alas, here’s the raw idea. Ever been to a movie? Ever seen how large the soda…
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A Camera Reflection
As I think about the progression of things towards “free”, I keep running into instances where “if only they added another” becomes ever more likely/practical. I was trying to take a good photo of my baby girl as she sat in my lap today. I was using my iPhone and everyone knows how hard that…
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Living Plant
The world is growing with devices that sense and respond to data available on the interweb or the real world. And with the fact that we’re now closely connected to people we couldn’t be further apart from, we’ll need more and more ways to show how we’re feeling at any one point in time with…
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Next Step iPhone
I’ve been wondering for a while what the next next thing should be for the iPhone. If you think about where drops in hardware costs are going, you an start to see when certain capabilities start to virtually be free. That’s how we ended up with two cameras on each iPhone 4, as they are…
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Drinkjug.com
In my Global Strategy class, we were doing a business case on an Australian wine company. As I was sitting there trying not to yawn (I’m not a wine drinker), I came up with the thought “why doesn’t anyone sell Jug brand wine?” It wouldn’t have to be in an actual jug, though one of…
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iPhone, therefore iAm
I’m sitting there this morning realizing how ubiquitous my cell phone has become, and I realized that for all of the smarts it contains, it’s really not using much of it unless I ask it to. Why doesn’t it do more? Why isn’t it studying me and learning what I want it to do? For…
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Novelty Hearing Aids
We happened to be visiting “The Shack” today looking for a sort of novelty Xmas present and next door was a hearing aid store. Quickly an idea came to me – why not novelty hearing aids? On the one end of the spectrum you could have the “hearing voices” model which records random bits of…
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Taste the Inorganic
So, first there were brands sold based on those brands with store labels hidden where no one could see them. Then store labels became brands in themselves. Now is there anything considered “generic?” So in a world that’s branding everything, where your brand can reinforce or even reimagine what your product is, why not brand…
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GraviTees
Perhaps a little bit morbid, but why not a line of T-Shirts that point out that life isn’t always perfect and happy? Won’t some people want “heavy” t-shirts just to point out the irony of it all? Here’s a list of slogan ideas: