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"Freeola Dragon's Den - Strange Little Ideas"

We all have them. Those ideas that pop into our heads every so often. Ideas that we wouldn't think about doing anything with, but at the time they sound like the best ones in the world.

An example:
I heard an Ice Cream Van the other day, playing the usual tunes. I thought to myself, 'why can't they be polyphonic?' The range of tunes would then be much bigger.

Great idea, but not really practical or life changing, is it?

So, any strange little ideas from you lot?

Kung fu wineglasses. The dinner parties would be amazing!

Some decent e-book hardware.

It would be book-page size - or possibly two-page size, like an open book, light, portable, and much easier on the eye than a normal computer screen.

You could dowload e-books via a wireless connection to a pc, memory card slot, usb, or whatever, and read them like a normal book, without the hassle or uncomfortable reading of a pc.

The page-finding thing and skipping around to different parts of the book would be good, instead of lame.

It would do to the book market what MP3 downloads are doing to the music market - making things cheaper, more accessible and generally better.


It might use that roll-up-screen technology they've invented but can't do anything good with. But only if the display was very easy on the eye.



Did I take this thread too seriously?

Okay, I'd invent a donkey with wheels.

A new member list!

Ready made with 1000 members all in a 5 contract to continually post useful and interesting things.

Un-school. I like it.

Just thought of another one;

Electronic shopping list.

It's like a PDA only cheaper and especially for your supermarket shopping. It can be linked to the supermarket website to get stock records of what's in your chosen store and you can make a list before you go out to the shop.

It can also keep a note of your points balance from the store's points scheme and can have downloadable special offer coupons.

pb wrote:
> Smedlos wrote:
> 20 stone!?
>
> Nah more like 8 max :D
>
> Also thought about having one of them ticketing systems like in
> supermarkets where you get a ticket and wait for your number to
> be called........
>
> For the women?

:D

Reading that post again it does look like I'm refering to women not getting served :)

English isn't my strong point!

Although maybe they have a system like that in Amsterdam......

Smedlos wrote:
> 20 stone!?
>
> Nah more like 8 max :D
>
> Also thought about having one of them ticketing systems like in
> supermarkets where you get a ticket and wait for your number to
> be called........

For the women?

I wish someone would implement lanes in towns and shopping malls. One lane for the old slow people, another lane for the medium paced people, another for the mothers with prams so they can run each other over and use their prams as battering rams against each other and then a last lane for people like me who like to walk around quickly but can't because we're having to constantly traverse a bunch of slow moving people or dodging battering ram prams

20 stone!?

Nah more like 8 max :D

Also thought about having one of them ticketing systems like in supermarkets where you get a ticket and wait for your number to be called........

Like getting off with that 20 stone behemoth of a lady on Friday night

Darn beer goggles, the curse of every male drinker