An Idea a Day

You wake up with your mouth feeling like a cat slept in it and smelling like Kobus Wiese's dirty sock found behind a dryer after three weeks. You reach over to your bedside table and pop in a capsule containing some sort of sweet minty liquid, you swish around your mouth and swallow. You lean across to your wife , the combination of your new minty smell and the long hard probe which the morning gifts, makes you irrisistable. Tommorrow she may need a pill similar in name but very different.

From Seth Godin

In South Africa, there is a company who has installed thousands of ATMs in petrol stations and convenience stores (cafes, seven elevens, spars). These are non branded (and not bank affiliated). I have met the CEO, a chap our age. He earns fees off every transaction. They are very popular, because people feel safe to draw money inside a shop. TAKE THIS PLAN TO ISRAEL.

Lose receipts all the time ? The receipt scanner is a tiny scanner that will scan them in and file them by date. Perhaps it will use OCR to recognise the shop you bought from.

Guys like talking crap. And they like talking stats Men like Milner will love this. A Crapometer, this is a device which measures the volume of the crap you spew into the bog. It is simple volume of an iregular shaped object is measured by the amount of liguid it displaces. When we take a shit water is displaced. Our curiosity and bragging rights are never quite satisfied unless we can attach a number to our shit. If we had a digital display on the back of the bog which gave us the volume of our crap and also stored a list of the 10 biggest craps on our high score list, it would be a lot of fun.!

You go to visit your freind he pressures you into having 8 beers, now you gotta get home. You need your car the next day what to do ? Call  "Designated Driver", they will drive you home and leave your car outside the house. They are fully insured. End of problem

Here is an idea which is in our domain and we could actually implement, pretty easily. The problem, we have millions of school events, homework assignments , birthday parties. These are difficult to keep track of. We get a lot of emails from the school, the class, the other parents. Yest me manage to forget events or miss some of these announcements.  Examples of what we have forgotten. Bring a shoebox to class on Thursday. Bring corn for the health breakfast. Lost the invitation of one child's birthday. Now lots of schools have websites, but they are not generally well used. The concept would be use something like a domain for the school, for the class, which would be easy to implement, effective and efficient. Each Kid would have an email address. Google Calender could keep track of events relevant to each class, the entire school and social events between kids. Teacher would publish homework requirements and messages daily. You get the general idea, needs more refinement and I m...