Central USB/memmory readers in-house

As more and more homes becomes equipped with media centers, external hard disks and such, the traditional home computer becomes a thing of the past. Synchronizing and transport of documents, files or programs on usb-keys or other memory sticks becomes widely used.
There for this small idea of having a central placed memory stick/usb wall plug - just like you might have a place for your keys when you come home, you might have a place for those portable data storage's.

Read a danish blogpost about why the car in your driveway was so old-fasioned. Why can't we update the onboard HD with movies for the kids, songs from your playlist. Sorry in danish

Browse through aicient books without damadgeing them

Livepaper in museums and librarys

Using Visiolinks Livepaper solution combined with modern touchscreen terminals. You can now let museum or library visitors browse highvalued books without ever touching them!!

Turn a book into a digital version by scaning each page of the book, and put additional functions to the book by using the Livepaper solution from Visiolink.

• In addition to the terminal, put the book on your website to let website visitors get an extra expirence.

• Send interesting sections of the book to your friends by email, or send them a link to the entire book.

• Add video or audio sequences to some of the pages, to make reading of the book an interactive expirienc

Based on an original Idea from the people behind Whitevoid

http://www.whitevoid.com/whitevoid/digital_book.html

Get your shopping done for you!

Over a year ago i read an article in the springwise.com newsletter, the story of a restaurant without a kitchen. The restaurant instead offered dishes available from the nearby fast-food restaurants. Going to this restaurant you had the opportunity to choose from a wide range, and going as a group not everybody has to settle fro pizza!!

In Aarhus a shoppingmal offers men the opportunity to get their Christmas shopping done for them, while they enjoy a cop of coffee reading the newspaper or just in general - Not shopping.

In a 2 min. talk with one of my colleagues we had talked up this idea.

Why not have a company / coffee shop offer this service, including all shops in downtown ??

Company's should of cause agree on being available through this coffee shop, where a multiple search tools should let the customers brows through all products from all shops - finding the best or just the right one each time.

The coffee shop would then go and get all the items from the different shops, for the customer to see, and possible choose. If chosen the items will be payed directly to the coffee shop, which in turn then pays each shop for the item.

A matter of trust between each shop and the coffee shop should of cause be established, because items will actually be taken out of their shops without paying ( some collateral should be given from the coffee shop to each shop)

Shopping bag for the fast and indecisive

This idea actually started out as an idea for the shops in airports (tax-free).
The reason is that every time i saw something about airport security on TV, I saw people having to leave behind newly bought shampoo's, deo's and parfumes, only because they didn't have it in a clear plastic bag for the security to check.

The initial idea was that each of the tax-free shops where to offer a bag with content of your own choice, for a specific price. The bag would be laminated shut before leaving the store, thus preserving security. A simple way for the stores to sell more, for the customers to get the things with them home, and for the airport to address the security issues.

I think by now some variation of this idea is implemented...

Some weeks later i had the idea as i often get them, while talking about something else...

For a long time, supermarkets have tried to create ready packed dishes for the stressed and single population in a non-fast food kind of way. They did this by packing the ingredients into trays along with the receipt. This is a good but unfortunately expensive way to ease the consumers daily life.

A lot of people go to supermarkets on the way home from work, without a groceries list, and without know what they are looking for.

I combined the airport bag idea and this ready packed dishes into 2 different versions on an idea, the second actually provided by my mother - thanks mom!

OK, the first idea was to have the supermarket create a number of bags, each with a dish printed on one side. The print should contain something like: name of dish, picture, approx. price, approx. time to make and the most important a list of groceries. The other side should have the receipt for the dish printed.

When entering the supermarket you could then choose a bag from a wall of bags. Choose the bag which best suits your likings for that day. Weather it be the dish it self, the time it takes to make it or the price you choose from, the bag then helps you quickly find the ingredients for that dish in the store.


Now the second idea, or development of the first one, is to all ready have the dishes prepacked into a plastic bag - located in a cooler. This way you wont have to shop around the shop for those things, but only the additional everyday goods you also might buy. What separates this idea from the pre-packed dishes we already know is that this one uses the ordinary shelf-products all ready in store and there for is much less expencive to implement and sell.