A clock that keeps track of the time to your next appointment… maybe a bit stressful!
Daylight projector lights
Under-car led light to improve visibility
soon a prototype
A green-house that allows to reproduce any possible climate condition (in terms of humidity, rain, temperature, light, ..). Once the user select a location on a map of the world, the green-house download the weather forecasts and start to reproduce the same climate of that place.
I got this idea thinking how to avoid the use of a viewfinder on my analog film camera. The idea is to project 4 points or 4 lines with some laser pointer that follow the lens aperture of the camera’s lens. Pushing a button, the photographer can project the 4 dots and see if the subject is correctly framed or not.
using a servo and a laser
Concept
A set of sensor to apply to your snowboard, bike, skateboard, ecc.. that recognize tricks, speed, location, ecc.. and upload them to internet. A website will keep track of the cool spot where people practices every sport. For each spot, a ranking will be available. The idea is that when you go to a spot, e.g. a sky-slope, you check if someone already recorded some scores on that location. If present, you can challenge that scores with more difficult tricks, faster speed, new locations, ecc…
Trick will be detected through accelerometer, gps, ecc.. Images and sound can be added to automatically to each trick. The sensor should be shock-proof, water-proof and should have different adapters in order to be mounted to bikes, snowboards, surf, skate, ecc..
Possible clients
gopro, redbull, nike
References
Skataviz, skateboard tricks visualizer
From the new audi e-bike press (Link):
Tony Hawk ride (link)
Nike +
Recon instruments
Adidas miCoach
Other gamification using sensors
Heiniken bottles
Link for prototyping
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1286494271 http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1231185714 http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1246274143 http://www.instructables.com/id/Accelerometer-Gyro-Tutorial/
A tank used by journalists to reach dangerous places in war zones. Instead of the cannon, a tele lens will be placed. Antennas and a satellite dish will guarantee live video broadcast. Different windows allow to record audio and video staying inside of the tank.
IDEA
A shop that sell 2 different products: containers and food. The main goal of the shop is to push people to reuse the plastic/glass container they already have at home without trashing/recycling them.
The sold food should be sold without box so that people can fill their personal containers. Since bringing empty containers to the shop is quite annoying, a service that buy, clean and sell containers will be provided. Instead of trashing empty containers, the buyer can bring them to the shop and get a discount on his fidelity card. The shop will clean the container and sell for a cheap price to others.
SKETCH
PRODUCT
A personalized qr-code keyring that allow the key to be recovered once lost. The qr-code will link to a website where the finder will see some information of the owner (name and email). The visualization of these information will trigger an instant message to the owner trough sms or email. The keyring will also have a custom address (a p.o. box or something similar) engraved on it to allow the keys to be sent back to the owner.
Similar ideas
A recent kickstarted campaign is selling rocket-tag, a very similar idea to Smart Keyring
A designer company called bruketa-zinic developed a QR-code stamp with the objective to turn a postal stamp into an interactive and informative tool, and not just proof of payment of shipping.
Tile sell a bluetooth 4.0 (low energy) tag that can be put on objects to track them. Battery last 1 year and allows phones to know the distance from the tracked object. Through the cloud it is possible to track the object even if they are not in the bluetooth range.
Hack a day describe a way to customize a qr code with your logo. It could be useful for the project.
To advertise the product a similar video should be made: product advertisement example
PROTOTYPE
todo
IMPLEMENTATION
Server side php page
This page will send an email to the owner of the keyring as soon as a browser visit it. It will add a timestamp and the user location based on its IP address. The database of locations used is freely downloadable from MaxMind website. Since the page is generic , the email address should be passed using GET (i.e. notify.php?mail=user%40domain.com). Note that %40 susbtitute the character ‘@’ in the url.
<?php //get visitor IP $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; //get visitor location $connessione = mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass") or die("Error connecting to DB: " . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("geoip", $connessione) or die("Error selecting DB"); $ip_array= explode(".", $ip); $location = " "; $ip_range = 0; $ip_range = 16777216*$ip_array[0] + 65536*$ip_array[1] + 256*$ip_array[2] + $ip_array[3] ; $query = mysql_query("SELECT country,region,city FROM blocks,locations WHERE ".$ip_range." BETWEEN startIpNum AND endIpNum and blocks.locID = locations.locId LIMIT 1",$connessione); if ($query==FALSE) die("Query error"); mysql_close($connessione); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)){ $location = $row[country].", " .$row[region].", ".$row[city]; } // The message $message = "Someone accessed the website referred by your keyringnPlace: $location (ip= $ip )nTime: ".date('Y-m-d'); // In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap() $message = wordwrap($message, 70); $to = $_GET["mail"]; $subject = 'You keyring have been found by someone!'; $headers = 'From: webmaster@domain.com' . "rn" . 'Reply-To: webmaster@domain.com' . "rn" . 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); ?>
The received mail will be like this:
Someone accessed the website referred by your keyring Place:IT, 09, Milan (ip= x.y.z.w ) Time: 2011-10-03
Sending service
- use reply-paid postcard
- one address, then keys are routed to the right address
TODO
- generate qr-code (librarieS? ext api?)
PRODUCT
A compact umbrella that is inflatable. The pump must be included in the system. The pump can be made using foam and a valve.
Similar ideas
This idea is already patented and sold. Also Halfbakery users got the idea.
SKETCH
I found that already some sketches exist around the web
PROTOTYPE
TODO
This tablecloth is divides in square. A foldable triangle is attached to the diagonal of each square. When the tablecloth is dirt, you just fold the triangle (you only need to fold triangles of dirty squares)
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