Category Archives: Random

Wallet with legs

Posted on September 9, 2011 by gemmell

I was thinking how cool it would be to have a wallet that had legs that would home in on a signal from your watch. I was thinking about it in terms of being robbed (they threaten you, you throw … Continue reading →

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Fighting Fantasy Books as eBooks

Posted on May 9, 2011 by gemmell

I think the “Fighting Fantasy” books which I grew up with could make a pretty big come back in the eBook era – essentially they become a text based game. The issue become being able to run it on the … Continue reading →

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Reception Aquarium Business

Posted on April 27, 2011 by gemmell

Aquariums are great showpieces, but they’re tricky to look after. This is like the idea that there are companies which “hire out” office plants and do all the work of picking them up a few weeks later and changing them … Continue reading →

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Map of positive experience

Posted on November 4, 2010 by fletcher

An app/site which people log positive experiences on, saves location. There is a restricted language for entering experiences to enable only positive experiences.

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Autistic Augmented Reality

Posted on October 27, 2010 by gemmell

I wondered how easy it would be to recognise a persons face as “angry” and put a cloud over them in the augmented world. This could be fun, but at the same time would actually be really useful for people … Continue reading →

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Segway Wheelchair

Posted on September 28, 2010 by gemmell

Wheel chairs are such old technology. Depending on how disabled a person is, I reckon it would be possible to rig up a segway. Essentially it holds them in at the waist and they do their leaning forward/backward to get … Continue reading →

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StumbleUponLife

Posted on August 11, 2010 by gemmell

I came up with this idea for Petch: StumbleUponLife – a whole community of people are doing things and rating how cool it was. e.g. I had this recipie, rate 7/10 We played scrabble afterwards with my GF, 8/10 Then … Continue reading →

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Wii Fit Guitar Hero Dance Dance

Posted on August 11, 2010 by gemmell

This is a combination of all three – basically it uses the playstaion eye or kinetic and it has “body positions” for each note. So that you have one note where you’re hands are in the air, the next note … Continue reading →

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Body Beat Box

Posted on August 11, 2010 by gemmell

Use a camera or sensors so that you can dance to actually make money. You assign a snare to your left elbow, trumpet to your knee etc. Then you dance like crazy to see if you can make some good … Continue reading →

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Launcholine

Posted on July 6, 2010 by gemmell

Luke and I came up with this one – it’s a trampoline that has a bit of extra oompf. The springs are monitored, and when they stop expanding, it actually uses electricity to drive the recoil faster than it would … Continue reading →

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