Movie trailers as prequels.

Alfred Hitchcock filmed a woman who was not Janet Leigh being stabbed in the shower for the trailer to 'Psycho.' Which brings me to my next idea: movie trailers that serve as prequels for the film. If it's the next Friday the 13th, for instance, the trailer is a woman being stalked and murdered who is *not* in the movie, but could say/lay down seeds for things that *do* happen in the movie. Or if it's a drama, it's just a small interaction between the main characters that sets them up without giving anything away.

TV Sitcom-ize yourself.

Type in your name and put in your face and you'll be on the cover of a DVD like 'A Matter of Life or Beth' with episode summaries and a cast of characters.

Internet staring contests.

Webcam registers your face and then, uh, you stare at somebody until somebody blinks. This is awesome.

3D

3D contact lenses!

An eco water park

Built into the side of a mountain.
Slides could just follow the angle of the mountain.
It would be fun.

a yard sale

where early birds are encouraged.

A 'similar words' reference book

that isn't a thesaurus. Like, if you searched 'love,' you wouldn't just get synonyms for love, you'd get words like 'hope' and 'justice' and shit. Or words that belong in a certain era are grouped together. Maybe 'visual thesaurus' does this. I don't know.

Digital Wingman

An iphone app that you can subtly activate with one touch while the phone's still inside your purse that makes your phone ring, thusly giving you the excuse to take the call and walk away.

Flickr links

I wish Flickr embedded a link into your picture when you upload to their site. I like to download pictures with a Creative Commons license to use in projects I am working on. Sometimes I forget to write down the source when downloading the pictures, especially if I'm grabbing a bunch at the same time. It would be easier to attribute the pictures to the source if the Flickr URL was included in the information when I right-click and select "Get Info."

Deodorant 3-Day Samples

Because once you buy it, you're stuck with it for months, and sometimes I feel like switching 'cause I'm looking for a better product, not just a better scent.

Probably also would get me out of the cycle of buying men's deodorant for myself, as I have been for the past 6 years. I just don't trust anything else!

Get people to watch reruns.

Simple idea. During reruns of The Colbert Report or The Daily Show, film an extra minute of footage or so. Or put web-video content or outtakes or something during reruns of 'Ellen' and 'Will & Grace.' Or air commentary tracks over the footage. Anything that gives you a reason to at least tune in.

A reverse sitemeter.

Sitemeter works by telling the people who run a website how long someone spends on their website. Google analytics and all that. The reverse sitemeter would work by telling you, the person viewing, how much time you spend at particular websites. Like last.fm tells you how many times you've listened to a song, this tells how many times you go to a website, how long you stay, etc.

A Photoshop

of a tree with 'CROATOA' carved into the bark in Comic Sans.

A gravy moat.

Ceramic dishes with a castle in the middle and a moat along the brim for your soup or gravy or sauces or what's your pleasure. And a working drawbridge. Or an entire dinner table with a castle in the middle and a gravy moat along the rim and you can put the dishes on the towers and ramparts. Along these lines, maybe Lego-branded eating utensils/plates, with different settings for your kids to eat off of.