Idea: map of world over time: What did the people who lived here have for breakfast?

 

Another idea: map of world over time: How did the people who lived here live.

 

When writing philosophy, highlight all the abstract words.

 

How about an app that does not only tell you when friends are near but when potential friends are near. Actually this would not work much better than on-line relationship matches.

 

New Book Title: How to Stop Being a Bitch for Bitches

 

Idea: a non-Arabic habib.

 

Idea: a non-Hindu modesty dress. Perhaps a sexy modesty dress?

 

Idea for car dealerships: hire a bunch of tow-trucks to tow your competitor around town.

 

Idea: girl scout slut badges, or slut charm bracelets

 

Idea: a cellphone with a rotary dial.

 

Idea: wheelchair vacation tours for seniors. The seniors are wheeled about Europe in their wheelchairs. (One can imagine a movie based on this. I leave the details as an exercise for the reader.)

 

Bring back the bustle, or at least a costume that tuns into this, and other retro fashions

 

Idea: a trailer that plops on the ground, so old people not have to climb up into it.

 

Idea for a happier world: the six day week.

 

Idea: a sport where the rules are so complex no one understands them but a computer.

 

IDEA: the advice button/doll. A button or a pull-cord doll into which you can record a series of sentences that get played back randomly as you hit the button or pull the string. This would be useful for the words of advice that comes from Mamma.

 

Idea: the antibabelfish – a device that turns all English into soothing gobbledygook.

 

Idea: a charm bracelet for various adult vices. It could contain a cocaine spoon, a peyote button, a bong, a MILF

 

Idea: Hugeville: big robots the size of our parents will take care of us in a larger-than-life setting.

 

Idea: a cellphone with a rotary dial.

 

All Christian minister should have to state what other Christian denominations also assured its parishioners of going to heaven.

 

The manly parasol: a large baseball hat on a stick

 

In today's world a mountain should have a dedicated Twitter feed on top.

 

IDEA: a book reports on every book on Wikipedia

 

useful idea: a "tenting" mechanism for your trousers (to show how much you care)

 

A video of game of Karma, where the whole point is to achieve Moksha.

 

Put human beings in charge of running traffic lights. Think of them as artisan, handcrafted stop lights, or as Light Masters.

 

Great Idea for a capitalist website: Do You Like Me Now? As you buy that cool new (powerboat, car, dress, furniture, house) people can go online and apply to be your new friend. You will get together to enjoy your new material acquisition. Win-win!

 

IDEA: What if we divide books into being either for entertainment or for research. You can make money off the ones for entertainment. The others are in public domain.

 

IDEA: a program to highlight abstract words in a document, and suggest replacements. (words like "history" or even "food")

 

IDEA: a CD player that creates a MP3 file on the side.

 

Idea: Facelessbook™: where you relate to people through interesting inner life and you can never find out who they are! Facelessbook™ deliberately keeps your identity hidden so you can say anything you want to. The ephemeral thoughts you can just sometime catch as they go through your head. why did I think that? Post the things you did, you thought, you wrote, the dreams you place on hold. And you would have friends based only on a personal interest.

 

Idea: a jargon highlighter, a program which would highlight your words, or beep, whenever you used jargon words.

 

IDEA: non-fiction books sould come pre-highlighted

 

IDEA™: No one graduates college without having drug experiences. Such an experience demonstrates how much of our perception of the world is determined by us, and is part of the larger awareness of how much of our judgments of the world are built into us. We start life in youth as an external judgment machine.

 

IDEA™: a video "mute" on the TV Linda thinks it could be called a Blind button.

 

IDEA™: a lo-key news channel. A bunch of smart, calm people sitting about trading and thinking about the news stories that come across. While they are doing this they smoke and drink. But they are pulled off the air after they are drunk. "Bob lasted 52 minutes today, Good work Bob." "Ted had to leave after 7 minuted for inappropriate language, and Barb's blood pressure was too high after half-an-hour."

 

I have always wanted to see see Poulenc's Stabat Mater in live concert. Google comes up empty on this. So a Web-Site Idea would be for a site that gathers and presents all upcoming concerts and performances around the world of pieces of composed music, most of which is not played on any regular basis at all.

 

Idea: An Interesting Festival (Don't come unless you are interesting.)

 

Idea: A Festival of Conviviality

 

Idea: a man's suit made out of the orange plastic fabric that the road workers wear.

 

A middle-finger postage stamp

 

Idea: underwear with pockets (For old men who like to walk around in their underwear.)

 

There should be a television show that shows us ideal people: But not be the politically correct ideal people. Let artists and poets and thinkers create whatever they think may be an ideal person.

 

cars that change colors. Chameleon cars

 

Spiritual penance as physical exercise. You have sinned so you must do an extra workout this week.

 

Idea for a book: A list of people who almost but never made it, who died at the last minute before they achieved something.

 

Idea™: Cigarettes and cigars shaped like penises, with little paper balls.

 

Idea: a national Pretend I'm a Plant Day. People can look at you, touch you, and smell you.

 

Idea: A Shut-the-Fuck-Up Day, where you go about your business without talking at all.

 

Idea: a perpetual hour glass (like the perpetual waterfall devices)

 

Concept for a New Restaurant: if you are dining alone, you could get a gifted conversationalist to sit with you. (Poor people would have to bring their own.)

 

We should take the iPod to the ultimate level: We will the have not only ear buds, but also eye-buds, nose-buds, mouth buds (taste-buds) and touch buds. (You could program the feel of a gentle woman caressing you.) We won't have to talk to each other at all! Finally we'll be god!

 

I mention my latest Holiday Idea™ to Tom: to stick a colorful Christmas bow on your jacket. Tom suggests I just stick it on my forehead, or around the neck — as a bow tie!

 

Since people will often click around for the best weather report, a local news station could advertise that: We provide the least scary weather report. We will speak to you as an adult.

 

A cool-ish name: Proliffany

 

Idea for a hip Christmas tree: a totally black tree, with black lights.

 

Idea: a sweater with a glowing pulsing pattern, especially one that can focus over the heart. Control this and you can be like the chameleon, displaying your moods in changing colors.

 

A parenting class on how to avoid having your child become just like you.

 

Watching TV I gather my thoughts about the kind of cable channels that I would like in my personal universe:

• a poetry channel
• a philosophy channel
• museum art talks
• over 70: a channel devoted to intellectually interesting people over 70
• the intelligence channel
• college groups and clubs
• YouTube TV - the good stuff, in Hi-Def
• the Meta Channel - a channel that analyzes TV itself, and (I see problems here) commercials
• A World Series of insight? enlightenment? or profundity?
• A World Series of prayer?
• The Best 5 Minute Synopsis (of Wittgenstein, Hume, Einstein)?
• One-Minute Lectures
• A Great Lesson on [whatever]?
• The Nothing Scripted Channel
• Conversation with Strangers (People rate it, and defend their rating system.)
• (for the kids) Smarty Pants™

 

Idea: a toaster that will toast your picture on your toast.

 

Idea: a phone you can eat.

 

Domino pizza cars have a plastic sign magnetically stuck to the top of their cars. What about having one of those to advertise yourself, with says the word "philosophy"?

 

Another Event in the Olympics of Multitasking™: carry on two cell phone conversations simultaneous on two cell-phones, lucidly and gracefully.

 

Computer Idea: a file manager (like Windows Explorer) with tabs.

 

Computer Idea: a combination word processor, web browser, and reader — It simply turns a web page into a word document, and vice-versa.

 

Design idea: a big sweatshirt with hi! written on it.

 

Idea for a book: How to think with a computer.

 

Idea: a pin-on crest for your jackets.

 

idea: spiritual advice bloopers

 

Idea for a book: Things To Do While Waiting In Line

 

Idea: a misspelling program which takes fancy polysyllabic text and misspells it. (to be one with the people.)

 

HTML browsers should have a reading mode.

 

Idea: a cell-phone service would be to send you periodically a pre-recorded call that would guide you through a cell-phone conversation that would make you interesting to the people around you. "No honey, don't marry the Italian soccer star!" Other scenarios might include:

• you wife has been unfaithful
• you have been unjustifiably dumped
• you have won a humanitarian award
• you have come into a lot of unexpected money
• you have a heartwarming conversation with your prodigal son
• or you entertain people with something like Shelley Barman's acts

 

Idea: a camera that makes a fart sound when you snap a picture.

 

Idea: a little thing you have in your car so when you come out of a store a little device points to where your car is.

 

Contests of the Future™: The Like-off

 

Conversation Battles: contests between couple or small groups to see who can have the best conversation. Also Rules for Conversation Battles: a contest to see who can come up with the best way of judging who has the best conversation.

 

Idea for the future: glasses, using real-time computer graphics, that let you see everyone as young and hot.

 

Good Idea: a computer screen that also functions as a tanning lamp.

 

Someone should invent a virtual mirror: one that would reflect everything but replace yourself with a better looking self, one you would feel good about.

 

Idea: large magnetic cross-over plastic bandages for cars.

 

Mercury's wings bicycle helmet

 

New Ideas in Educational Reform™: you start off being taught by hot teachers. As you fall behind, and fail to turn in assignments, you go to the old and ugly ones.

 

Fake Book Covers™:

• A Really Good Book
• Book
• Ask Me About my Book

 

Idea for a Website: a website that shows how people will look as they age, based on their height, weight, and gender.

 

A real-estate shingle in my front yard with my own sayings. It could just say "Hi!"

 

How did the mathematical description of bodies with mass, come to be the paradigmatic description of the universe? Is it because that is something we can agree on?

 

New Holidays™: An Eff-Off Day (and the even more popular Eff-On Day)

 

Design idea: a 6' diameter 45 rpm record as a design on a wall

 

Idea: cars shaped like human heads as they drive around town.

 

idea: a dress made out of money.

 

Idea of a Conversational Interest Tree: Everyone has a controller linked to a computer or a computer controlled "conversation pet.". As someone is talking, people can make the pet thrive and jump about if they indicate they are interested.

 

If gasoline become ever more expensive we will all have to commute. But with whom? A web-based company could link up commuters not only on their destination but on their personal and intellectual interests as well.

 

Why not design the modern barrio: simple shelters with the bare amenities for a safe and simple life.

 

In The World of the Future: people will embed a mechanism whereby we can have fizzy urine, or to surprise and delight the ladies, carbonated sperm.

 

What about a car built like a motorcycle, flamboyant and colorful, pipes and chrome everywhere, with the engine and exhausts draped around the chassis?

 

What about opening a restaurant and you decorate it with pretty people just to sit there? Perhaps, for a fee, the customer could talk to them.

 

Idea: clothing that lets the wind blow on our bodies without showing the body to the world.

 

A man purse like a large scrotum. (It could even have a little hair on it.)

 

During the next lull in your conversation, ask: "Do I smell too good? Is that bothering anyone?"

 

Idea: a Gay Pride baseball cap

 

An art work of nature: a river going one-way and fifty yards up the road a river going in the opposite direction.

 

idea: a baseball cap with "LOVE" written on it in red letters

 

a deodorant that looks like an iPod

 

a cell-phone ring-tone that sounds like a fart.

 

Idea: a diet food pack of the greatest 1400 calories ever

 

Idea: deep-fried sushi

 

Idea: a door chime that plays MP3 files.

 

Since we have decaf coffee and non-alcoholic beer, perhaps the time is ripe for non-THC marijuana? For those times you want to enjoy the taste and the experience of a nice doob without all those wacky mind-alterations.

 

Idea for a conversational T-Shirt (in big print): I Talk Good

 

a practical joke airplane: a plane that takes off backwards

 

Idea: a three-dimensional mirror

 

Edgy street art idea: Paint numerous chalk outlines of a horrible accident involving a school-bus of young girls, or a large family in a mini-van. All the bodies are in different positions and done in different colored hot-pastel chalks.

 

Idea: A clip-on cellphone in the shape of a pencil behind ear.

 

Idea: Libraries should have neo-scriptoriums, places where people could be writing books and also talking about it to others

 

Idea: a large plastic oversized book to be used as a purse or a carrying container.

 

Idea: the "look at me" exhibit: people (models, gallery goers) stand or sit very still while other gallery goers can look at them close up and in detail as though they are works of art

 

Idea: explicit pornographic images carved in fine Carrera marble.

 

Idea: house curtains made out of slips

 

An idea for a hip district for people who email, IM, text and talk: Inside-Out: Everyone is in huge rooms where the walls are computer screens. As they email, IM etc. Their computer screens, phone texting screens and even their audio are projected onto the walls as a huge collage where everyone can see them.

 

People should wear little buttons to indicate their current level of boredom. a little fire might blaze up when they are enjoying the conversation, or die down when they are bored. (This could be controlled biometrically, or by hand.)

 

The Have a Nicest Day contest™ a contest in the office to see who has the nicest day. Afterward, the winner gets to hug the losers.

 

Idea: a coffee heat sink. A fork with a hundred long tines you put into a cup of coffee to cool it down enough so you can drink it

 

Idea: The Seventy Plus cable channel: showing nothing but people seventy years old and over, especially the wise, interesting and intellectually alive. This is not for the ones whose main appeal is that they don't look seventy

 

Idea: Inflatable/deflatable breast implants! Breast implants can be heavy and this can lead to back problems. Why not have a way to reduce them (or inflate them) as conditions dictate? "This crowd is too old; I think I'll deflate my breasts."

 

We bring children to be photographed with Santa. How about alternative picture opportunities for the tourists: picture yourself with a homeless person, a toothless person, a hooker or a Goth.

 

A movie idea: Put a small portable video recorder on a person and record eight actual hours in their day. Do this to ten people. Then refilm the actual events, minute by minute, in Hollywood quality movie.

 

Idea: a carrying case for books and computers and things in the shape of a big book

 

Idea for an Art Exhibit: Go Ahead and Touch Me: People of all kinds stand in a big room. People may come up and touch them, gently, anywhere. The people being touched look at the people touching them, but they do not say anything. A variant of the above: People may touch or they may volunteer to be the ones being touched.

 

Local news in too hysterical. What about having the morning news as three or four people sitting around a table, with coffee, tired, reading the AP bulletins to us. They are making intelligent, sometimes tentative, comments.

 

Idea: A movie that lasts say 8 hours, on "real time," about someones life for 8 hours, yet it's an exciting 8 hours.

 

Idea: self-tuning, self-synchronizing guitars, and pianos.

 

Idea: a chalk outline rug

 

Idea: audio ear-buds styled as earrings

 

the wonderbounce™: a bra that simulates the bounce of a young girl not wearing a bra.

 

Idea: To discourage common cheating in schools: someone should invent software that you can't copy or paste into, or even open pages not created in that particular software. You would however be able to copy and edit inside the document.

 

Idea: slowly blinking light bulbs for your home, which blinks stately every several minutes or so

 

IDEA: a new hallmark card: get real soon

 

the bongomobile: a car with a drum-pad built in all along the roofline for your fingers to tap a rhythm along with your favorite song. the drum could come out on the speakers, blended with the music

 

IDEA: a cable channel of Civilized People®: There could be alternative versions of this concept. Alternative mind-styles. Alternative models of being normal. You could simply show groups of like-minded friends who had been hanging out together over time, interviewing them, picking their brains. Let us see them us.

 

IDEA: to enhance the drive-around-town-with-the-windows-open-listening-to-music experience: put a fat (child-safe) bass string in the roof line, just above the driver's door. the driver can then strum along with the music as she or he drives. chords could be changed by using buttons on the back of the steering wheel. an automobass!

 

IDEA: ring tones for cars: a unique tone and volume for when you lock your car with the remote control

 

With extra bandwidth available in the future, we could make a movie (say of a train-ride) where the viewer can focus in more on the part of the film scene they want to look at! This could be done using a joystick or a device that tracks eye movement.

 

Art idea: People carrying various strange things down a street

 

designer fire detectors

 

I could place every book I buy inside a dark translucent plastic box with a snap hinge. on the spine and on the cover I would write down what I think this book will do for me. I call this boox.

 

The modern equivalent of the idealized oil portraits of the rich: What if they made a movie of themselves, or at least a movie-trailer?

 

IDEA: have someone create an idealized 3D portrait of you

 

IDEA: a conversational cafe (eat and meet) where you go to have discussions with random strangers. you could sign up on a computer who would tell you what other topics people want to discuss and, possibly, the age of the conversationalist

 

IDEA: Virtual Church - have a service, meet your fellow worshipers, whose stories, a little more real and interesting that people's real-life stories, are based on real people, people from all over the world. The software makes any song sound like a congregation in church that is singing along with you

 

IDEA: a plot machine computer game. you could play all sides, result could be a novel. takes place () the present () year _______. at certain places you could add a powerful quote. at the end, the novel is played back as a video, complete with dialog, or produced as a written book, which you could edit, or as a screen play

 

IDEA: someone should make well designed, professional looking faux book covers for your non-existent novel

 

another car design: a copper car! perhaps nicely riveted.

 

IDEA: a car whose surface is a mirror. a car that is all chrome

 

a new kind if dance club: everyone is wearing headphones, all broadcasting the same dance music. each person is free to control they're own volume, or even take the headphones off. with a suitable device, people could communicate intelligently with each other while dancing, avoiding the hopelessly loud shouting that goes on in the current venues

 

Cities look the same all over the world. This is in part because of their monochromatic fluorescent lights and tan furniture. If buildings used more colored lights and they would be more festive.

 

In my future you could wear a bright red button that would say something like "Talk To Me." It would then be permissible for strangers to speak to you. The button might have a transmitter that shows others what you want to talk about.

 

a book of deathbed readings

 

Instead of a get-well card, how about a get-over-it card, or a get-over-yourself card? for more extreme conditions we could use a here's-hoping-there's-an-afterlife card

 

a business opportunity for our time: fake senior ids (to get the senior discounts)

 

speed friendships (like speed dating)

 

novel bloopers

 

the Harley-Davidson walker

 

a tattoo made with pigments you can turn on and off

 

the New England rocking toilet

 

the Lazy-Boy reclining toilet

 

for the ladies, a combination phone, vibrator and stun gun

 

a dress made entirely out of dress labels.

 

Some people believe that most slang comes from young, inner city kids. Not always. Tonight [January 26, 2004] I invent the phrase: "That is so fuck!"

 

new school punctuation Old School punctuation, sometimes called "proper" or "correct" grammar, likes its punctuation nested. For example: "I ate my lunch (and it was delicious)" said John. New School grammar, or "hip" or "experimental" grammar, wants to write things like : "I ate my lunch (and it was delicious" said) John. We can expand communication by adopting an atonal grammar, a nu skhool grammar. These are not false notes but differently enabled notes for a new kind of communication. We might explore the possibilities of: Random ap'ostrophes. Punctuation in the !middle of a sen.tence Bob ,he said .I love your. ca'r. A period inside a long pronounce.itation. &em;em-dashes every.where&em;

 

couldn't someone make a cute Plimsoll line to stick on the side of the tub so you would know how high to fill it for a nice full submersible bath?

 

a service to provide food packages from countries you have visited. For example, Gwen and I visited Guadeloupe. We would like a package of common Guadeloupean food: sugar, paté, matches, etc.

 

Here's a good idea - the seven day weekend

 

With today's technology, why are cars still painted in monochromatic colors? what about cars: painted like an appaloosa, mottled with spots? or painted like a beagle, with a black top, a brown front, and a white underbelly? painted like a python fish, a Gila monster, a neon tetra, or an angel fish?

 

deodorant for dogs, put it on his balls and refresh his breath as well

 

Stupid Safety Tips™: label every rock in every park as something you might trip over.

 

a turn signal for cars that turns itself off automatically after say sixty seconds

 

Annoying Safety Tip©: All passwords must contain at least 2 Chinese characters

 

Annoying Safety Tip©: The world is a hard-hat area, with hard-gloves and hard underwear

 

Annoying Safety Tip©: really big lights on all stoplights.

 

artificial fire-flies for your house, flying in patterns, to light it - for ambiance

 

Annoying Safety Tip©: always drive with your horn on, so other drivers will always be aware that you are coming.

 

Fun idea: soda pop that opens violently no matter what you do.

 

programmable shoes that squeak, make farting noises, beings and other sounds while you are walking.

 

a pin-on heart for my sleeve

 

bad breath mints - that make your breath smell bad (useful for getting rid of a bad blind date)

 

a franchise of stores selling colored socks and colorful yet stylish men's clothing. it could be called The Gay Store, or, zu-zu suggests, HOMO.

 

a miniature Stonehenge for your yard

 

paraphrase software.