Tuesday, June 25, 2013

- 10 ideas -

  1. Direct Creator-to-Consumer Platform an author or artist displays a preview of their work to get initial crowdsourced funding. The end product can be purchased for a set price anywhere and anytime. A mash of Kickstarter and iTunes.
  2. Online Bartering System users list items they have or services they're willing to provide. Then they list items or services they need. The system will automatically perform matches. Eliminates the need for any type of money.
  3. Save-to-Home Digital SLR a DSLR that automatically syncs to your home computer or a cloud photo storage
  4. Ergonomics Enforcing Workstation the workstation has a list of sensors to detect bad ergonomics (e.g. bad posture, one position too long) and alert the user to prevent injuries
  5. Open Debate for any debatable topic, users can submit and upvote evidence and persuasive arguments on either side. No downvoting is allowed to give minorities a voice.
  6. Career Shadower a global job shadowing platform where you can let someone shadow you at work. Job holders have to be confirmed before being admitted to the system and they approve screened job seekers. Essentially Take Your Kids to Work Day on steroids.
  7. Life Skills 101 introduce incredibly useful skills - money management, meditation/mindfulness, habit forming - from grade school
  8. Diet Analyzer mobile app using image recognition. Take a snapshot of everything you eat and automatically outputs the nutritional categories you're matching, exceeding or falling short of
  9. Work Exchange find someone with a similar skill set across the world and swap places for six months. Employers could count it as training for employees. Essentially, a student exchange program for the working world
  10. Automated Emotes insert an emote based your current expression (via front-facing camera) o(≧▽≦)o

If these ideas are very technology and mobile focused, it's because that's what I'm most familiar with. Besides, mobile is the largest, fastest growing mass medium ever. Over half the world has a mobile device, and the number of mobile devices in use exceed seven billion. Still, I imagine I could get more and better ideas if I had more experience living elsewhere and working in other fields. African farmer? Italian reporter? Server in Brazil?

4 comments:

Ergonomically Speaking said...

Item 4 absolutely. Even with all the ergonomic devices in the world available to us it can be hard to actually use them! Let's have our machines also make us use them! :)

echomyst said...

2 - there are forums, email lists, fb /craigslist groups, etc. dedicated to this

3 - we have an Eye-Fi memory card for our DSLR that does this. uploading pics to our computer and to an online storage unit as I'm typing this, actually.

8 - I think this exists already?

Flink101 said...

i think 7 is pretty interesting, but it'll be challenging to say the least. done correctly, it could help bridge that unemployment gap that's plaguing a lot of the world's graduates.

Flink101 said...

i think 7 is pretty interesting, but it'll be challenging to say the least. done correctly, it could help bridge that unemployment gap that's plaguing a lot of the world's graduates.