Ideas That Everybody Has Had

Posted on 11.30.06. Tagged with , , All

As my friend Chirag likes to remind me, ideas are a dime a dozen, actually getting off your butt and executing them (well) is what's important. Everyone has those "aha this would be great if it existed" moments. And I'm certain that most of those are things everyone thinks of. Tell me you haven't already thought of all this:

LED Scroll-board For Your Car: One of those LED boards like banks have, stuck to the back of your car with suction cups and a keyboard up front letting you tell the person behind you to fuck off or helping you get the digits of the girls you're checking out in your rear-view. (Close: License Plate Scrolling LED Frame)

Drumkit Steering Wheel: Everyone taps on their steering wheel while driving and singing. Why not have different parts of the steering wheel be a bass drum, timpani, snare drum and so on.

Removable wheels in shoes (shoe-skates): Yeah I know they exist now, but who didn't already have that idea like 10 years earlier?

And the one I'm not so sure anyone else has had (which might be a sign of me being the only crazy enough person to care). Hersheys chocolate syrup packets. Why? Well in elementary/middle/high school you could buy chocolate milk right? But it was a generic not-as-good-as-Hershey's kind of chocolate milk (I can taste the difference). Why not offer Hershey's chocolate syrup packets that I could combine with my less fatty milk (they also only offered chocolate as whole-milk) resulting in a healthier and better tasting chocolate milk?

Related Reading: 8 Stupid Frat Boy Ideas

What are some of your not so unique ideas?

3 Comments

c()ry
04:01 PM on 12.01.06

My most recent flash of an idea was inventing a fork with a sharp edge. Maybe call it a forknife. I was thinking about it one morning while trying to eat an egg over-easy with just a fork. It'd be nice to have a cleaner cut using just one utensil.

But if you can imagine sliding food into your mouth using a fork with a sharp edge, then you'll figure out why this invention probably won't make money.

Chris
05:38 PM on 12.01.06

For some time now I've wanted a pad-of-notepaper sized USB thingy that I could print to like a printer, but without wasting 6 zillion sheets of paper just to read comics, Wikipedia articles, software documentation, long emails, whatever. You know, print the 15-page whatever to the thingy, then take it outside to read in the unshine
kind of thing.

I actually started building one for myself, but it turns out that portable displays aren't nearly as simple as I would need them to be, or it costs $3k to get a dumbed-down kit. (I'm talking about you, EInk! Make something for the hobbyist, for pete's sake!)

Steve
09:22 PM on 12.03.06

A modem that would alert you of incoming calls and allow you to answer the phone for a few seconds without losing the connection. "Modem on hold" finally came out I think 4 or 5 years later.


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