Category: Ideas
Rising Sun Anger Release Bar.
Bar in China where customers can beat up the staff.
Post date: Wednesday, August 9th, 2006.
Emissions trading program.
Credit system being proposed where people and businesses pay for the carbon dioxide they produce.
Post date: Friday, July 21st, 2006.
Arizona Voter Reward Act.
Initiative in Arizona to increase voter turnout by entering each vote into a $1 million lottery drawing.
Post date: Monday, July 17th, 2006.
Egg-vertising.
CBS will advertise TV shows for its fall lineup on the shells of eggs.
Post date: Monday, July 17th, 2006.
Crowd power.
Engineers are developing technology that will capture the vibrations created by people walking and convert it into usable energy. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, June 27th, 2006.
Wings of Zadar cocktail.
Drink that is mixed in the air by a skydiving bartender. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 31st, 2006.
SLAM.
Post date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2006.
Kaori Tsushin.
Scent transmission to be added to the movie theatre experience.
Post date: Wednesday, April 12th, 2006.
Photon-harvesting.
Company has developed a method for harnessing electromagnetic energy present in the environment to produce energy for powering devices. (via)
Post date: Monday, April 10th, 2006.
Geocentrism.
Belief that the entire universe revolves around the Earth. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, March 29th, 2006.
Geoengineering.
Theory of shading the Earth with mirrors to counter the effects of global warming. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2006.
Where the bloody hell are you?
Australian ad campaign seeks to attract more tourists by swearing at them. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
Y chromosome profile.
DNA may be used in crime investigations to predict the last name of the suspect. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
Kilowatt Game Controller.
Exercise machine that sculpts your body while you play video games.
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Post date: Friday, February 10th, 2006.
Personal car communicator .
System that alerts drivers if there is someone hiding in the back seat of their car. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 9th, 2006.
Inventor’s market.
Patent auctioning may create a new market for ideas as investment class assets.
Post date: Friday, February 3rd, 2006.
Stay Alert.
U.S. Military has developed caffeine chewing gum. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2006.
Airport Pizza.
Alaskan pizza shop delivers orders to remote regions by plane. (via)
Post date: Saturday, January 7th, 2006.
I do. No, I do.
California couple auctioning parts of their wedding on eBay to help finance honeymoon.
Post date: Friday, January 6th, 2006.
Novel idea.
California college bookstores offering students textbook rental service. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 5th, 2006.
Leftovers to Lights.
California utility considering using food waste from restaurants to produce methane gas. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 29th, 2005.
Wake n’ Bacon alarm clock.
Alarm clock that goes off by cooking bacon. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
GWIE.
Swiss group believes that they can make Google eat itself. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 8th, 2005.
Undersea mining.
Mining companies consider prospecting for gold and silver on the ocean floor.
Post date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2005.
Asteroid pull.
Space tractor would move an asteroid from its orbit.
Post date: Thursday, November 10th, 2005.
Shirtless guy.
California man offering ad rental space on his chest and back.
Post date: Tuesday, November 8th, 2005.
Carbon sequestration technology.
Scientist invents fake trees to help rid the air of carbon dioxide. (via)
Post date: Thursday, November 3rd, 2005.
Biopresence.
Company that will intertwine your DNA with a tree.
Post date: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005.
Moving ads.
German electronics firm has created paper-sized TV screens that can be used to animate ads in newspapers and magazines. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 14th, 2005.
Dish Maker.
Machine molds cups, plates, and bowls out of a recyclable material that can be remolded again and again.
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
Keep the change.
Bank of America offering new debit card program that rounds up purchases to the next dollar and invests the difference in a bank-matching account. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
President of the Internet.
Anyone can run for President of the Internet. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2005.
How it should have ended.
Web site with animated alternate endings to movies. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Bootie beer.
Beverage with a risqué name looking to shake up the beer industry. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Buddy system.
RentmyDVR.com: Hire someone to digitally record your favorite TV show for you to download. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
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