Grocery Store

I think someone should start a grocery chain for college towns and near young professionals where not only do they sell food, but each piece of produce/meat/etc. has instructions for how to clean, prepare, and store it, and suggestions of recipes to make using the product. I would go to this grocery store for the rest of my life if I could. I always need inspiration, and I definitely need help knowing how to clean mushrooms, or what I need to make mashed potatoes other than the potatoes themselves, or what goat cheese with honey can be used for.

I'd probably spend way too much money, but I would be a brand loyalist SO fast. I'd pay higher prices for this kind of guidance.

Comic books!

I always thought it would be interesting if, in a comic book, each of the characters were drawn by a different artist. So rather than it being this one, uniform look, it'd be a whole hodge-podge of different art styles in the same panel. Same could apply to different directors directing different actors in the same scene. More of a weird experiment than something good, I imagine.

Earring tracking device

Kind of like a lost child locator, except for ear bling--because nothing is worse than an elusive earring (so I've been told).

Baby Bananas

Like baby carrots, 'cause I really never want a whole banana, but once you peel it the rest gets all brown and ick. 

Clay.

With the below in mind, I saw something on the internet yesterday that led me to believe it was going to let me sculpt something in clay by using my mouse. It couldn't, but I wanted to.

New tools for CS5

A Crayola expansion pack for CS5 ('cause I'm sure it will come out before we know it) that has the classic 64 crayon colors, crayon texture tool (that you can also decide how hard to press down), and a tool to do that awesome leaf texture thing.

Also, a silly putty tool that makes a reverse stamp that you can stretch and modify. I realize you can do this already using a combination of existing tools, but I want the mouse to actually be a blob of silly putty. 

Un-Twitter.

It seems there isn't a way to send a text to delete the message you accidentally sent to Twitter.

3-D t shirts

When someone asks: "Hey, what's on your shirt?" you can hand them a pair of 3-D glasses, they look at your shirt, and say "Whooaah, cool."

Cosby sweater

t-shirts.

a short film

a ham's journey to see santa.

a craigslist notification system

where i enter my location and key words. then i get an email from craigslist whenever a posting is made with that key word.

a website

as a desktop background. this way i can watch that live feed of puppies without having that window open all day.

a site

where i can upload my photo. then i can put my photo next to different breeds of dogs. this way i will know which one i look best with.

a pandora

of books samples to see what im getting into before i invest in a reading the whole book. also when i thumbs up a sample it'll know my kinda books.

a pandora

for color palates.

a pandora

for food options.

a filter

a filter that dulls the piercing screams of teenage girls during movies whenever a hottie comes on screen. or perhaps a movie time specifically for teenage girls only. you know, like they do when it's a mom friendly movie but for teenage screamers.

An idea for surveys

No one likes taking marketing surveys. Everyone loves Family Feud. Why not have marketing surveys that include a few questions that will be used on Family Feud? I don’t even know if they even tape the show anymore, but they should. And they should bring Richard Dawson back to host since he was the only good one. Not only will marketers get the answers to their questions, but they will also learn the most common response to “Name a food you can’t resist.” Potato chips.

Paper Pamperer

Kind of unnecessary, but I hate how when you buy printer paper, you have to keep it in the cellophane/paper wrapping in order to keep it together, free of dust, safe from crumpling, etc. It always ends up getting all torn up and stuck between notebooks and folders and looking really stupid. I just want a nice sized box that I can open from the side that will allow me access to my printer paper without dealing with the packaging. Bonus points if the box is spring-loaded so you never have to grapple around on the bottom and bend the last few pages trying to get them out.

Back to school donations

There is always a need for school supplies for low-income families and so there's always drives. While Target and others often benefit from said drives by offering their stores as a dropoff site and putting together tidy packages of the basics for altruistic consumers to donate, why not also offer to collect used supplies as well? I knew a ton of kids, including myself, who unnecessarily bought new supplies pretty much every year, but we'd always end up throwing away old stuff that was still in good condition. Just a way for brands like Target to do a little more good without necessarily making money off us (though I'd think the feelings of goodwill towards the brands would end up translating into sales anyway.)

Thumb Drive Wallet slot

For wallets and/or purses, a slot perfectly sized to house my thumb drive so I don't have to dig around my purse for forever looking for the only items smaller than chapstick.

Wikipedia: The School

Material from all classes will be taken from Wikipedia. Just to see what happens.

Mac shutdown.

I have to wait for my laptop to completely shut down before I can shut it. I'd like it so that I can hit shutdown and close the laptop and it'll just do the work while it's closed.

A Pandora

for music videos.

Syncing capabilities for ipods

So when you go for a run with someone you can listen to the same tunes at the same time. Or you can sit in a silent room with someone and still be listening to the same thing. On your headphones of course.

An idea for last.fm

This idea doesn't come from me directly, but it was an interesting thought I heard from someone regarding last.fm. Last.fm tracks the songs and artists you listen to, but it doesn't have any statistics based on time listened.

Let's say you spend an hour at your desk listening to music. If that time was spent listening to punk music, you might go through more songs and artists in that time period than if you were listening to prog rock, based on the average song lengths in those genres. Over time, this would skew your stats, and while you might spend equal time listening to punk, your stats based on the number of songs will probably show you listen to punk a whole lot more.

Youtube shuffle.

Cuts to a new video after fifteen seconds. Listen, I could go all day.

Website shuffle.

Same idea as below, except it sends me to a random website and I can stay or I can leave or I can not pay attention. Whatevs, dog.

Tv shuffle.

You know how in car radios, there's that setting that allows you to hands-free surf radio channels? What's that called? Tuner? I don't know. Anyway. I want that for my TV. I can just put it on a channel, and every minute or two, it switches to a random channel, and it keeps doing that until I find something that seems interesting. I can luck into something I would never have clicked on otherwise. Anyway.

Model Rollercoaster Sets

Like model train sets, but with rollercoasters.

Smart Rings

Cell phones that measure the loudness of the area you're in, and then alter the ring volume accordingly, so it's just loud enough for you to hear.

Compliments of Jordan, PR extraordinaire

Borrow.

I don't need to buy a staple remover, I just need to use a staple remover. I wish there was a store where you could go in and borrow a stapler or a staple remover or a post-it-note or an envelope or a ruler for ten minutes instead of having to go all out and buying it and then it taking up space and you never using it again.

I want to turn my TV into a radio.

I like to go to sleep with my TV on to drown out my loneliness and despair. However, the flickering lights don't do me good. I want a 'sound-only' option. Yes, I want to turn my TV into a radio.

Measuring Tape Tape

Might take a little math, obviously, since it won't always start at zero, but I hate dealing with the measuring tape bending/retracting.

Another iPhone app

A digital compass, for those of us who are cardinally-challenged.

A collection of blogs.

Inspired by Ari's Brandcenter brief and Dave's comment. It would be nice if there was a group set up where we didn't actually have to post directly to this blog. For instance, everyone in here posts in their own blog, but they tag their post so that it would appear in this blog. So there's less management of blogs. To the Brandcenter thing, if the student/faculty/alums are a part of the group, the Brandcenter blog page would constantly update with the various people updating on their own blog. If that makes sense.

iPhone Application

It'd have a huge catalogue of recipes for appetizers, main course, side dishes, dessert, etc. so that you can get everything you need at the grocery store on the way home from work instead of having to go home, look up recipes, and leave again.

Bonus points if users can add their own recipes to the catalogue.

Exit polls

Watching election coverage right now and they are talking about information they have received from exit polls, mostly related to demographics and how they voted for president. I want to know more about these people. I want the exit polls to reveal what people ate for lunch, what they listen to most on their iPod, what the last movie they saw was, or if they are dog or cat people.

A Site

like Twitter, except instead of having status updates, people put what they ate/are eating/are going to eat for lunch.

Soundproof rooms for rent

Originally I was thinking this idea could be for people who need a place where they don't have to worry about being loud so they could practice an instrument, play music as loud as they want, yell, or do some woodworking or whatever. But if the rooms are all soundproof, I guess it also doubles as a quiet area so if you need a place to study to get away from a loud apartment building or campus building, that would work too. Rooms could be rented at an hourly rate and cost will depend on the size of the room.

Ticket window movie ratings

After you watch a movie at the movie theater, you should be able to give it a score and/or write a quick one-sentence review at a kiosk (!) in the movie theater. The scores and quick reviews can be displayed along with the movie times on the board above the ticket window.

This would be helpful for the people who show up to the movie theater either with no idea what they want to see or if they are trying to decide between a few different movies and they haven't read the reviews online or in the paper.

For movie theaters, it could be a measurement aside from ticket sales to help determine how many screens and showtimes to devote to a movie. If there is a movie with a high rating but not many ticket sales, they might be more inclined to keep it but only for few showtimes.

For movie studios, it could help determine what type of films are popular in different cities or regions.

Study guides

For personality tests like the Myers-Briggs test. So you will know how to ace them and get the personality you desire.

A computer with blinders.

Even I think this is stupid but I keep thinking about it so it needs to come out. A laptop screen with, like, fold-outs that make for more screens. All my desktop icons can be in the right blinder, my AIM or iTunes in the left blinder, and that leaves the middle free for my multimedia. I could do a drawing, I guess. Panorama. I don't know. Shut up.

A Google thesaurus search.

So, like, when I look up 'green dookie,' Google will have an option where it looks up 'turd' and 'shit' and 'feces' as well as the designated moniker so that you're sure to find what you're looking for, despite how you word it.

yogurt flakes

just like mashed potato flakes but yogurt instead. 

No-Spill counter

A built-in patch for under your soap on your bathroom/kitchen counter that soaks up the water that spills when you reach for the soap and transfers the moisture back into the waste water.

Wireless picture transfer

Geez, it's annoying to have to plug in your camera every time you want to upload pictures. Why can't one do it via Bluetooth or something? If this already exists, at least I was able to vent about it. Aaaah, yesss...much better.