I Made It!

So I wrote 365 posts and I have to admit I cheated a little.  I do have to admit it was harder than I thought it would be.  I got through the first couple of months just fine because I had a backlog of good ideas just sitting around.  The key to getting through it was pretty easy though.  Creativity comes when you focus, most people don't think they are creative because they don't ever give themselves a chance to be so.  I will continue to post, hopefully once a week, so keep your eyes pealed they will have to be better quality and probably a little longer from now on.

Exploading Foam for Car Accidents

I like the idea of expanding foam.  I've used it to seal cracks around our building at work.  I've often wondered if there were a way to incorporate expanding foam into cars for protection during accidents.  The foam could be in the front bumper and explode out when forces over a certain amount were experienced.  The foam would act as an air bag for the entire vehicle not just the driver.

Reality Check Cookies

They would be like fortune cookies but more "down to earth".  Here are some examples:
"You'll remain single until you choose to grow up and learn to commit"
"Your children are naughty because you were"
"Get use to it, your front yard will never look as nice as the nice retired gentleman's next door."

Kid Pants with Carbon Fiber Knees

Kids go through cloths fast.  If their not growing out of them they are wearing through them.  It would be nice if they made a pair of pants that came with Kevlar or carbon fiber reinforced knee pads.

Magnet Buttons on a Shirt

Getting ready for church on Sunday's is always a little frustrating for me.  It takes forever.  Shirts with buttons, ties with knots, shoes with laces the list goes on for ever.  I can get around the shoe thing with slip on's and they make a pretty nice pair now a days.  I love nice ties and would never dare place a zip up tie around my neck but they do make them and if I wanted I could simplify by getting one.  What I need is a dress shirt that has super easy buttons like magnetic buttons.  Just slip the shirt on and pop, pop, pop the magnets hook up without too much help.  Another way you could do it is with a zipper.  Just sew the front of the shirt to look like a regular dress shirt and have a hidden zipper behind it.

Padded Slip and Slide

I thought it would be fun to participate in slipping and sliding with my kids last summer.  I lined up for a good sprint, slowly increased my speed as my white chest streaked across our back yard and then threw myself, sprawling, into the air head first with arms outstretched in perfect parallel with the ground.  I came crashing down with a thud and smacked my face on the ground, every muscle in my body flexing with the blow.  "Wow," I wheezed as I staggered away from the scene of the accident, "I don't remember it hurting so much."  Now that I know better I think they should invent a slip and slide with padding on the bottom so you don't feel every little worm hill as you slide along your back yard.

Belt Driven Bike

I loved my bike as a kid.  I took it apart and put it back together all the time.  I frequently lost my chain and had to put it back on and get my hands all greasy and gross.  That was fine by me but my mom would freak out if I touched anything.  Why not replace the chain with a belt?  It would be less dirty, less expensive to replace and you wouldn't get you pants stuck in the gears anymore.

Better Workout: Swim in Gravy

I don't think it would be a good idea to swim in gravy.  I also think swimming is a pretty darn good exercise to begin with.  But what if you could make four times as effective by "thickening" the viscosity of the fluid you were in.  Make it thick and you have a little more to push against.  It's a better work out for your strength and endurance.

Fart Noise Canceling Device

Only slightly inappropriate is our topic today.  For the thousands who suffer from gas in public places this might be just the thing for you.  The device would have a microphone that you would tuck in your back pocket.  The microphone would listen for the sound of passing wind and then use the wave nature of sound to offset the sound being made.  You could even hook up a little air purifier that would cleanse the air of the stench every time a flatulation was registered.

Turbines Along the Freeway

Today's idea is to use the movement of thousands, nay, millions of cars on the road today to create electricity.  You could set small turbines along the freeway that would spin as the cars and trucks passed.  You would need to construct the turbines to not cause accidents or to make pulling off the road dangerous.

Really Giant QR Code Historical Sights

To those of you who stop at historical markers along your path I apologize.  I don't think I've ever stopped and read one myself because I'm too busy trying to get the heck to were we're going.  I do think it would be cool however if historical sights had big qr codes that you could scan with your phone as you drove by at 75 mph.  Then you could learn all about your trip without stopping.  Or better yet have your GPS recognize where the historical sight are and read them to you as you pass.

Leather Aprons in the Kitchen

I might get some flack for this but I think aprons are cool.  I like to wear them when I cook and I'm thinking seriously about getting one for the work I do in the garage.  I'm not talking about the frilly ones my mom used to wear in the 80's, I'm talking leather.  They already make leather aprons for welding and other metal working applications, I think it's time to bring the leather inside and use them in the kitchen.

The Ultimate Dad Suit

I have four children.  I love them dearly, they do not love my suits (or really any of my nice cloths).  As a parent I've had about everything rubbed on me by cute little pudgy dimple knuckled hands.  I need a dad suit.  The Ultimate Dad Suit would be made of 100% waterproof, windproof and breathable Kevlar.  It would be black and almost bullet proof.  Some cuteness spits up on your leg in church?  No problem just spray it off with a hose.

Automatic Windows

Most homes have programmable thermostats.  You can schedule your heat to work hard during the day and then lay off at night.  It would be great if you could integrate your inside thermostat with an outside thermostat and open close motors on your windows.  That way if the inside temperature were warm and needed to cool off the system would open a window instead of kicking on the A/C.  You could have security risks with open windows so you could set it up so only the back windows open or only second story windows open.  You would also be able to set the system to work when the outside temperature was between 65-75 degrees.  You wouldn't want your temperature to hit 72 in the winter time and then open all the windows in the house to get it back to 70.

Christmas Party Scheduler

I love the holidays, I love the parties.  One problem I run into is getting just the right night picked out for the company party.  I need a program that I could have everyone in the office put in their previous engagements and then it would pick the best night for everyone to have the Christmas party on.  You could set certain parameters like no week nights or skip certain days totally.  You should also be able to set priority to the individuals going.  So if the program had two nights it could choose from and one night one of the main managers couldn't make it and the other night a guy who had only worked there for two months couldn't make it the program would schedule the party so the new guy missed the party (or vice versa depending on how great or horrible your parties are).

Keep Track of your Business Miles Automatically

I drive a company car.  At the end of the year our controller comes and asks how many miles I have on my vehicle and how many were spent on personal miles and how many were business miles.  I then have to go dig through my glove compartment, my desk and use google maps to recreate the last year of driving.  I would be great if I could just sit down in the driver seat and have my car ask me before I start driving "Are these personal miles or business miles?" and keep track of both independently for the entire year.

Plane Ticket on Your Smart Phone

I had to fly for business recently and printed out my own boarding pass at the hotel the day before so I wouldn't have to waste any time at the ticket counter.  It made me wonder why I had to print a ticket at all, it should be easy enough to just have the bar code they scan off my paper on my smart phone.

Alarm for One

My wife and I go to bed at the same time and never, ever, ever get up at the same time.  She often complains that I hit the snooze button to many times.  The answer is to get an alarm clock that only I can hear.  I have two solutions.  The first is to have a small alarm clock built into your pillow.  Then the noise it makes will only wake you.  The second option is a sock that gently squeezes your foot with increasing pressure until you wake up.

Professional Christmas Present Giver

I pride myself on giving good presents.  I had a good friend in high school that taught me his ways.  It's a pretty simple formula: listen and take note.  I listen to those around me (my wife, my dad, my siblings) and when they say they want something, no matter what time of year it is, I write it down.   I also think a lot about what to get people.  Some say it's the thought that counts, which usually means they put little thought into a pre-packaged cop-out.  Why not put my present giving talent to use and do it for others?  I could set up a service that allows people to access a web site that would give people the opportunity to answer a bunch of questions about the person they needed to get a gift for.  The site would collect the answers and spit out a couple good suggestions.  You could have price filters and "already has it" boxes to help the search along.  The site could also have a store where you could purchase a unique gift.

Hand Held Trash Compactor

I'm on a clean up the yard kick since my back is still sore from the work done over the weekend.  One of the issues I faced as I tamed my wild backyard into shape was the constant getting in and out of my garbage can.  I know if I put a bunch of leaves in my can I can get in and stomp them down to about a quarter their original size.  I tried using a leaf vacuum but it took forever and couldn't really handle the sticks and branches I had trimmed.  What I need is a big, talking huge, compression bag I could rake everything into and then cinch up.  Then I would have the kids come out and jump on the compression bag, it would have to be made of canvass or something.  Then you could have compression straps that would press it down further and then an easy to use trash hole where you could dump the crushed matter out.

Leaf Robot

I love our home, we have a great backyard.  It's great that is until the fall rolls around and I have to trim, mow, whack, rake and throw away the biomass accumulated through the summer.  I feel (I don't know for sure) that most of my time is spent blowing and raking and then throwing away all the leaves that drop from the trees.  It would be nice to have a little iRobot go around my yard cleaning up the corners and under the bushes and other general places where it's hard to get a rake.  It could potentially be the same robot that weed whacks, mows and picks up the doggie doo.  Now there's a machine for you.

Inventory on Your Smart Phone

It's the time of year when my accounting lady hands me a big list of furniture, computer equipment and pallet jacks and makes me verify that the company still has those things on premise.  Some of it is super easy, we only have one fork lift and I know it's in the garage, check (off the list that is).  With other items, despite my notes from the previous year and tags that fell off, I struggle to tell which of the 75 miss matched chairs are the "4 Lane Soho Chairs".  I need a program that quickly generates QR codes on stickers (that don't come off) that I can use with my phone.  Then I could simply walk around the office with my phone, scan QR codes as I go and know exactly what matches up to our inventory list.

Thanksgiving on Sunday

This one comes to me from a fellow co-worker.  I really liked the way they handled Thanksgiving dinner in her family.  Instead of trying to deal with sharing and timing with everybodies in-laws they don't celebrate Thanksgiving until Sunday.  Then the whole family gets together and they have a huge turkey dinner when there are no other family obligations.

Shop Local Saturday

I'm stealing today's idea because I really like it.  I generally believe that it is in most every one's best interest for consumers to be able to purchase goods from the sources that can most cheaply provide them.  I've also found that some of the coolest and most unique stores (not to mention best service) I've ever shopped in have a single location and are owned by the person behind the cash register.  The great thing about shopping local is the way money travels.  Imagine you spend exactly one dollar on a mug from a local company.  That dollar you spent then goes to cover the cost of the mug, payroll for the owner selling you the mug, rent and utilities for the store owner, insurances, etc.  Because the store owner is local he will pay his employee and that dollar will recirculate locally.  Any profit the owner gets during the year he will most likely spend locally and so it goes.  What a great way to spur the economy in your own back yard.

Check Out on you Smart Phone

Today being black Friday and all the hubbub that goes with it my mind turns to the only year I ever tried to participate in the retail madness.  We went to a store at like 7:30 (which was late, I know) shopped for a bit and then realized the people we kept bumping into way in the back of the store were in line to check out way at the front of the store.  I've been thinking about that and wondering if there were a better way to process people out of the store.  They have self checkouts at a lot of higher end grocery stores and hardware stores but I have yet to see one at a department store.  You could also use your smart phone to check out.

Imagine you're standing in a ridiculously long line and you look up and see a poster in the store that says, "Download our app and check out right now."  You download their app (basically a bar code scanner) and it scans the stuff you have and then sends the info to a special check out line for app users only.  Then you would set your stuff down on a scale.  The scale would read if you had too many items or what not and you could have one cashier patrol multiple machines to help people through quicker.  Because is it really a deal if you have to stand in line for four hours to get it?

Happy Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Breakfast

Yes, I love the deliciousness of mashed potatos and gravy, I can't wait to make sandwiches out of turkey and drool all over myself waiting for the pie but if I had to really be true with myself I would rather have Thanksgiving Breakfast than Thanksgiving Dinner.  You could sleep in and then get up and have turkey and cheese omelette's with sausage, bacon, hash browns and toast.  You'd have a wide variety of beverages to choose from as well like any kind of juice, hot chocolate, milk, etc.  And for breakfast desert: cinnamon rolls.

Football Game Trips Disguised as Pamper Your Woman Trips

It would be awesome if there was a travel site that would set up trips that a woman would love in cites with football games that men would love.  For example the national championship for college football game is in New Orleans, you could have some spa offer fantastic ladies night packages and you could send you beloved to be pampered while you try to find something to keep yourself occupied (the game).  I would gladly spend most of a couples vacation holding my wife's purse if it meant I could go to a game like that and not feel guilty.

A Web Site to Sell All the Good Ideas

I need to put a web site together where you can purchase all the good ideas.

Age Ratings for Tourist Traps

It would be nice if there were a web site that rated different tourist attractions based off age appropriateness.  For example Disney Land would probably have an age appropriateness from 0-110 while the hike to Angel's Landing in Zion's National Park would be 12 and up.

A Good Idea a Day Generator

I need a program that will generate good ideas for me.  It would be easy to create I could simply create a list of 2000 different nouns and then have a random word generator put two or three words together with a verb at the end.  Here are some from a very short list: "Play pen clock dance" and "Boat alligator gar order".  The first could be a clock that measures the amount of time a child sleeps based off how much the crib moves or dances.  The second could be a company that creates custom boat shells to look like different animals you could order.

Air Compression in Fishing

I love to fish with my kids but my options are limited to ponds and lakes where a child could get far enough into the water to actually fish.  I also recently built an air compression cannon to launch...uh...things...and decided it would be nice if a kid's fishing rod had a means of throwing a lure really far.  You could have a little pump on the end that the kid could pump up and then pop the lure in the end of a tube and bang.  It would make fishing a little more fun on those days when nothings biting and way more fun on the days when your arm gets tired from dragging so much fish through the water.

Kill the Technology Switch

I need a switch in the house that will instantly kill the TV, computers, ipad and phones all at once (it's called the main breaker, I know).  Seriously I would like to have hours of the day where none of those things are operable and the heat and lights still stayed on.  Then I could be away from home and force the kids outside by killing all the "fun" options inside.

Toe Heater at your Desk

I hate dress socks.  My problem is my feet get cold in the winter time, all the time.  I sometimes wear my supper thick snow socks on less formal days but for the most part I'm stuck with thin dressy black socks and un-insulated dress shoes.  It would be great if there were a little heater just like the one in my car that would blow hot air (not like those electric ones that always trip the breaker) and I could keep my toes warm on those snowy days.

Robo Plow

With as much as I hate shoveling snow and as many posts I've done with robo this or that I'm surprised I haven't hit on this yet.  It would be great if there was a robot on wheels (preferably the robot that mows my lawn during the summer) that would shovel the front walk when it snowed.  It would be especially helpful in retail business situations where a good week snow storms could cost a lot and you have to have your parking lot clear by a certain hour.

Funny Track Shoes

I was joking with my wife the other day about a trip to the forest next summer and said we should get some Sasquatch costumes and wander around in the woods for fun.  That made me think it might actually be fun. I'm not sure I would want to go full body suit (for fear of hunters) but what if I could get my hands on some Bigfoot track shoes and go for a walk off the beaten path.  There could also be T-rex, huge bear and tiger print shoes you could wear around to just to scare people.

Competing Bids on Body Work (for the rental car I dinged)

I recently went on a trip where I backed the rental car into a pole.  The bumper had some paint on it but the car was totally driveable.  They charged me $240 to fix the bumper and even after I called to complain about the price they were only able to lower the cost to $135.  All they had to do was buff off some paint.  It would be nice to have a second opinion body shop close to the airport that could rush in and give a bid on the damage you've done.  Now we are held hostage by whatever the rental car company sets the price at.  Who knows maybe they could fill in work by repairing planes when they hit birds.  Or even better, do custom paint jobs on the planes and rental cars.

Interactive Childrens Television

My kids watch all kinds of different TV shows where the characters ask the kids questions.  Dora the Explorer is a good example.  They need to make episodes specifically for the iPad where the kids actually have to press the screen in order for the program to progress.  That way Dora doesn't just ask the audience to participate she will expect it.

Restaurant in the Movie Theater

How often have you gone for ice cream or after a movie?  How often have you gone for dinner before a movie?  I think it would be nice to have a really good restaurant in a movie theater.  You could go early and instead of spending your money at someone elses restaurant the movie theater could milk you for more.  And when the movie is over you could go for dessert.

Blue Turf at Our Office Building

We've done this two years in a row.  It's been a blast, great way to show support to our team and a good way to get a little buzz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84JFDfuwhfQ

The stuff we use is the same stuff they use to paint football fields.

Dragon Scales For Kids

My four year old boy seems to get himself into a lot of scrapes.  The traditional knee/elbow pads seem only to cover a portion of his body.  What he needs is a coat with carbon fiber scales on it.  Basically kid body armor it would protect from scraped elbows, arms, back and front (yes all of those he's scraped recently).  The coat could be light weight and flexible using overlapping scales and it would offer military grade protection for kids.  It would be handy for new bike riders, new motorcycle riders, new skiers, etc.

Product Spotlight: Ratcheting Crescent Wrentch

I can't tell you how many times (mostly under the sink) that I've wished that my adjustable crescent wrench would ratchet.  And behold.  This is the R2 Rapid Rentch.  It adjusts from 0 to 7/8" and will ratchet either way.  I know what I want for Christmas.

DIY Stitches

I went to the urgent care place just recently to get stitches in my finger.  It didn't take long at all and I kicked myself for going because when I was done I felt like I could have just done it myself with butterfly bandages.  What I really needed was a "Do-It-At-Home Stitches Kit".  It would come with sterilized needles and surgeons thread and stick to bite down on.  The same company could also sell the "Do-It-At Home Tattoo Removal Kit" and the "Infected Fingernail Removal Kit".

The Dad Suit

I have four kids and each one has ruined one of my church suits in turn.  At just a few months they spit up on you or blow out of a diaper.  As they get older they end up eating cheesy crackers during the sermon and grab me with those cute little orange died dimple hands.  What I've needed was a suit I could hose down.  I needed a suit made of tarp material, 100% water and stain proof.  I wonder if carbon fiber would work?

TV's with Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

With all the new TV's out there you can easily access apps, stream video and get on the internet.  We've been hooking our computer up to the TV for about two or three years now to watch netflix and hulu.  I only have two issues with the computer hook up.  The first is the resolution doesn't match that of broadcast television or our DVD player.  The second is there is no remote for the computer.  We could simply add a wireless keyboard and mouse to the computer to fix the problem.  In the future when you buy an internet capable TV you'll need a wireless mouse and keyboard.

33 Inch Inseam Pants

Today's good idea is a rant.  Why is it that there are only 2 inch jumps on inseam lengths?  I struggle between the highwaters of 32" inseam and dragging-under-my-heal 34".  The answer is simple and no it's not to hem my pants, the answer is for someone out there to start making pants with a 33" inseam.  Or another option would be pants with a velcro line along the seam so you could fold your pants up into the leg and stick it there if you needed to remove an inch of length.

Baby Sitter at the Movies

Most gyms have a little day care where a mom or dad can drop their kid off for an hour while they work out.  I've seen the same thing in a Fred Meyer.  They could put one in the movie theater.  Parents could bring their kids pay extra to have them watched and then go get ice cream all together when the movie was over.

Stream Instant Tours Via Pandora

I love to vacation.  One of the most amazing trips I've taken was to Italy.  I was surrounded by statues and building and fountains that were hundreds and thousands of years old.  It was totally awesome.  I was also surprised at how many of the places we visited offered tape recorded tours.  You would pay an extra five euro and you would stroll around listening to a professor of some sort telling you all about the museum's pieces.  It would be cool if you could create a free database of tours.  Something like a Livabox.org or Pandora for tours.  You could collect a large selection and not have to pay the extra five euros at each stop for a top rate experience.

No Video Games for a Month

This one is a little different than most my other good ideas.  This one relates to personal productivity.  If you watch a lot of TV you could replace the no video games with no TV for a month.  I'm going to try it out and see how much more I get done.  I expect I'll get my "Honey Do" list down 80% and actually get a book read with the rest of the month.

What could you give up for a month that would have a big impact on the time you spend on more productive projects?

Door to Door Back Yard Clean Up

It's the time of year when my back yard dies or sheds or needs to be trimmed or cut back.  On top of all the work I also have to battle the shorter days and no light after work when I get home.  So, with my precious Saturdays I'm required to get all my yard work done, do all my fall fishing and keep track of at least two college football teams.  I think a really good idea would be for a landscaping company to go door to door and offer to clean a back yard for cash.  I think it would probably work best on Saturday dinner time after everyone has spent the day breaking their back and are only half done or Friday so anyone with even a moments hesitation could think long and hard about what they could do with the extra eight hours of beautiful fall weather.

Happy Halloween: Superman Costume

This is my costume for Halloween this year.  It's got Velcro on the buttons so I can tear my shirt open all day long.

Screen Glasses For Your Computer

I spent quite a bit of time bent over a computer screen today and got a great big kink.  I have the monitor up high on my desk but ended up working at another desk and totally killed my neck in the process.  I think it would be cool to have monitor glasses that you could put on that would plug into your computer.  Then you wouldn't have to worry about all the desk space a monitor takes up and you wouldn't have to crane your neck if it weren't set up to your ergonomics.  They would have to be HD.

USB Key Slide Out on your Smart Phone

Most smart phones come with a USB female port.  It would be cool if they had a slide out male USB plug.

Wifi Robot Spider for Crawl Spaces and Acoustical Ceilings

At Radio Shack you can pick up little remote control hex bots.  Some look like little crabs or spiders.  I have recently needed one of those little babies with a video feed and a little claw to grab (and potentially drag) a wire or debris.  You could use it to inspect crawl spaces (for all you home inspectors out there) or to run flex tube or wire through gaps too small and too long for human hands.

Double Baby Back/Front Pack

This idea comes from my little sis who just had twins.  She said she needed a baby carrier like a baby backpack and a front carrier all in one.  You could have a front and back pouch like the front carrier.  It would be like the bags the paper boy carries only for babies.

Jack-O-Awesome

Today's good idea is the pumpkin I carved last night with the family.  Not to toot my own horn or anything but I do pretty well with my jack-o-lanterns.

Hot Chocolate Drinking Fountains

This one comes to us from my sweet daughter.  She said it would be nice if the drinking fountains at school would run with hot chocolate during the winter months.  It would be nice for parks where the drinking fountains are only running for six months out of the year anyway.

Sunny Day Lights

I love the summer because the sun comes up early and goes down late.  I love the other seasons too but I have a harder time getting up in the morning when it's pitch dark outside.  What I need are timed lights that gradually get brighter and brighter just like the sun coming up during the summer time.  So when my alarm goes off at 6:30 my room is bright.  I think (at least for me) it helps get someone out of bed.

Built in Butt Cushion in you Pants

I went to two football games and some church functions that were hard on my seat.  Basically I spent 10 hours on a metal seat this weekend.  I really could have used built in air cushioning in my pants.  You could hook up a CO2 cartridge to a bladder that would blow up with the push of a button.  It would make you butt look inflated but I think you could get away with it, especially in church.  Then when you were done with the cushion you could press a release valve and let your weight empty the bladder.

IRobot Sander

I love the iRobot collection.  If you haven't seen what they do you should take a look at: www.irobot.com. Anyway, I think one good idea would be to make an iRobot sander.  Then if you needed to refinish the deck you could just set it up before you leave for work or get ready to watch a football game and when your finished you've got a stainable surface.  This would be a good tool for hardwood flooring guys or people who refinish tables.

You Talk Too Much App

This is an app for people who tend to talk too much when they get nervous.  The app would rely on voice recognition and a timer.  An individual before going into a situation that might make them nervous would turn the app on, then the app would listen for the users voice as they spoke.  If the user talked too many seconds in a row the app would make the phone vibrate, thus reminding the user they need to shut their mouth.  You would have to train your phone to recognize your voice but I think they already have that technology in place.  I think it would be good for first dates, negotiation and meeting the parents.  The vibrate could also get increasingly violent if you continued to talk through the reminders.

Red Neck Vacations

We recently visited an alligator farm in Louisiana.  It was a blast, it also made me think that people might pay to run a place like that for a day or two.  So the idea of Red Neck Vacations were formed.  You could include the following activities: gator hunting, noodleing (catching cat fish with your bare hands), swamp logging, banjo playing, fried anything eating, running an alligator farm, bass fishing, fixing beat up cars, etc.

Question:
What would you want on your Red Neck Vacation?

Crayons and Activity Sheet on a Flight

I think the kids would appreciate it if the air lines took a page out of the restaurant industries book and offered crayons and an activity sheet on each flight.  It would also give the airlines an opportunity to advertise to the next generation in a really fun cartoony way.

Toaster Pot Pie

I like the toaster more than the microwave.  There are a lot of things I think that could be improved on in you could slim them down and heat them up horizontally in the toaster (not the toaster oven).  Pot pies are one of them, think of them as a pot pie pop tart.

Question:
Are there any foods you would like in toaster friendly form?

A Head Mount for your Smart Phone

I'm a little torn on this idea.  Basically it would be a head band that had a little arm where you could mount your smart phone to watch videos on.  The good is you could do menial chores and tasks all over the house and into the yard and keep the same show on the whole time.  The bad is I could see someone wearing one while they drive and then suing the company that makes them when they hit a pole.  I could watch a back yard makeover show while mowing the lawn.

iRobot for the Kitchen Counter Tops

iRobot is a company that builds robot vacuum cleaners and robot floor moppers, to name a few.  I would really like a robot that would clean the kitchen counters (and maybe the stove top) every night.

Web Access on the TV's at the Gym

I love to work out at the gym.  I love to ride the bike and be distracted watching re-runs of "Fresh Prince" and "Mythbusters".  The other day I got on a bike and started the movie "Wedding Singer".  I only had a half an hour before I needed to shower and get to work so I could only see the first little bit.  I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be great if I had my Netflix right here on this TV?"  If the TV's had web connections I could get on any exercise device with a TV attached and start watching right where I left off.  That way oin two days when I go back to the gym, I could just start watching the "Wedding Singer" again.

Anesthetized Flight

My wife hates to fly and I love her so I want the world to be a better place for her.  So I have an idea.  Knock everyone out before you take off.  Think about it for a second.  You get on a plane, sit down, place a mask over your face and fall peacefully asleep.  If everyone on the plane was asleep you could reduce the cost of the flight by not having flight attendants.  What you save on labor you spend on drugs to keep people in dream land.  I think a lot of people would embrace a three hour nap from Denver to LA.

Grass from your Favorite Stadium

Grass grows back really quickly when you cut a section out.  I was driving past a turf farm watching them cut up sections of grass when I had a thought.  Why can't baseball or football stadiums do the same thing.  They could take a section of the field that isn't part of the field of play and cut out grass sections (that would replace themselves) and sell the grass in little squares to fanatics?

Question:

What field square would you buy?

Sky Mall Shop in the Airport

Why doesn't Sky Mall have a shop in the Airport?  Lots of people look through those things and think, "I should own a replica of Voldemort's wand.  Wow and for only $49.99 I can."  You have lots of people who are on vacation or seeing loved ones and those kookie gifts and souvenirs are just what they are looking for.

Yoga Class that Teaches how to Sleep in Cramped Quarters

Can you tell I was on a plane recently?  It would be great if there was a yoga class that could teach you how to position your body so you could sleep comfortably on a really cramped plane.  The positions could be called "Between two fat warriors" and "Broken neck crane".  I was looking through the sky mall magazine and really considered buying one of those ridiculous inflatable tray table pillows even though I only fly once a year and in the middle of the day.

Play Place in the Airport

We traveled by plane with four kids under the age of 7 all the way across these great American States.  As my children crawled under the empty seats on a layover I had an epiphany.  They need play places in the airport.  They need a place parents can take their kids and sit and watch and rest.  Then the kids are all worn out before they get on their flight.  Really it's a courtesy for the other people on the plane to provide that option.  It would be especially good for air ports that serve as major hubs (Denver) or ones close to kid touristy spots (Orlando).

iRobot Shop Vac

They now have robot vacuums that go around your living room automatically and clean up.  I want one that has the power to sweep my garage and the profile to fit under my car.  Then at night the robot could sweep up the whole garage, even under the cars.  You would probably want to put the bot someplace visible so in the morning you could confirm it wasn't stuck under one of your tires.

Gator Farms in the West

We've been visiting family in Louisiana and I have to say I love the abundance of red neck fun out here.  One of the best experiences we've had is a tour of Kleibert's Alligator Farm.  The family who runs the farm has been featured on the show "Swamp People".  Well we had a blast and it made me think why we don't have gator farms in the west.  There would a couple of advantages.  First you would be the only gator farm for thousands of miles in all directions thus giving you a tourism monopoly on gator tours.  The second is the proximity to Japan and China.  Don't laugh I've very serious about this point.  They use many of the gator parts in Asia for medicine.  If you were to relocate to Arizona or California you would be that much closer thus reducing the cost of shipping.

Polarized Glass Roof

Polarized glass only allows a fraction of light through based off the direction of wave length of the light.  If you double up on panes and then slowly rotate one of the panes the amount of light coming through will be directly related to the angle of rotation of the second pane.  The long and short is make a window with polarized glass where one of the panes and rotate (perhaps round windows).  Then if you needed privacy or wanted to block the harsh summer sun you could rotate the panes.  I see the best viable option for it in sky lights where it's difficult to get blinds that work horizontally.

Remote Dock on TV

Today's idea is real simple.  A dock on your TV where you can recharge (and store) your remote.

Physical Chess

Get in shape both body and mind: Play Exercise Chess!  So here's how it would work.  The chess board would be set up the way it is normally.  Players would agree how long each side should have total to make their moves for the entire game (I like to play 5 min a side).  You begin like any normal chess game but once you loose a piece you have to do some exercise associated with loosing that piece.  A pawn for example would be worth 10 jumping jacks, a bishop would be 12 chair dips and for loosing a queen 20 push-ups.  Your time would count down not just while you thought and moved pieces but also while you were doing your "earned" exercise.  Your timer gets down to zero and you loose.

PE for Adults

I could see this working our really well for big corporations.  Basically they would hire a PE coach and employees would be allowed to take a one hour PE class from coach.  PE would cover all kinds of stuff like ultimate frisbee, running, softball, basket ball, weights, yoga, etc.  Health care would hopefully go down due to healthier employees and worker's comp claims would go up from all the sprained ankles and pulled muscles.

Question:

What would you add to the PE line up?

Dog Trainer Using the Web Cam

My dog is not suppose to go upstairs and only sneaks up there to do naughty things like drink out of the kids toilet and tear diapers apart.  I've tried to catch him but he knows his actions are naughty and never goes up when anyone is home.  I figured out a way to scare him into not going upstairs, I'll use my iChat and leave my lappy at the top of the stairs, then everyone has to leave and I'll call my lappy from another computer and "watch" for the little bugger when he makes his move.  What I need is one of those really annoying horns they use at basketball games that I can connect to my computer via USB and then activate it when I see him coming up the stairs.  Or better yet I need a computer program that uses the camera to recognize my dog and set the horn off if he gets close to the computer.

Guages for your Computer

Your car has gauges that tell you how much fuel you have, how fast your are going, oil temperature, etc.  Wouldn't it be cool if you could hook a dash full of gauges up to your computer.  Then you would know how much memory you were using, how much hard drive you had left, how fast your internet was running.  And it could look just like the gauges in your car.

Childhood Dream Vacation

As a child I often dreamed of being locked inside a grocery store overnight.  I knew exactly what food I would go for first (candy) and day dreamed about what heavenly delights I would stuff myself with through the night.  I also dreamt about being locked inside a toy store overnight.  Today's good idea is to make those childhood dreams come true.  You could start a company that specialized in getting people (who were willing to pay) locked into their childhood dream.  Some other locations I though of were the local college/professional stadium, the arcade, a department store, a potato chip factory, a furniture store.

Question:
Where do you want to be locked in overnight?

Built in Dock for iPad on TV

There should be a dock built into TV's where you can plug your iPad in and use the TV to stream video.  The problem is all the other companies that have tablets would get upset the the TV only worked with an iPad.  The solution is for companies to team up and offer the TV and the tablet together.  LG for example makes pretty good TV's and tablets.  Then LG has the advantage over Apple at that point because Apple doesn't make TV's, they would be forced to get compatible with a competing television.

Question:
Do you have some sort of tablet at home? If so what do you use and for what purpose?  Would you be more likely to but a TV if it came with a tablet?

Drive Tires vs. Break Tires

Friction is an enemy to MPG.  Friction is a friend to stopping.  Tires on the road are the friction that makes a car go and stop.  So how can you make tires that give you awesome efficiency while driving and stop you quickly when you need it?  Two sets of tires on the same car.  It would require a lot of engineering but the way I imagine it there would be a skinny motion wheel that would be on the ground at all times.  Skinny means less friction and greater MPG.  Then right next to it you would have the break wheel that would engage when the breaks or steering needed the added friction.  

Fleece Lined Dress Socks

Dress shoes are cold.  They look nice and are super thin and not very weather proof.  To make it worse you have to wear dress socks with dress shoes and they are super thin as well.  I need fleeced lined dress socks or really good looking winter socks that are black.  I have yet to come across a good option to look good and keep warm toes.

Trailer for Smart Car

The Smart Car gets 60 MPG and has room for 1.5 persons.  I suggest making a small drag-behind trailer that you could hook to the tail end to expand the cargo room of the car.  Even if you only needed it once a month it might be worth it to have a small trailer you could use to haul extra groceries or a chair or a giant teddy bear, etc.

Commuter Lane Tinting

I've suggested designs on tinting to a cars windows.  This is taking the same idea, using two different tint colors and applying it on the back window of the car.  The idea is the have a tint cut twice or three times darker than the rest of the car in the form of three shoulders and heads in the back seat.  That way when you look at the car from the back you would see the shadow of three people (thus allowing you to drive dishonestly in the commuter lane).  The same idea could be used for a cool marketing idea on city buses.

Audio Speed Adjustment in Car

I love to listen to audio books.  Sometimes I wish I could speed up the book to double time and listen to the boring parts twice as fast as the rest of the book.  It would be nice if my CD player had speed adjustment, even if it were just one or two options (twice as fast and 1/2 speed).

Auto-Drive

Google has had drivers behind the wheels of the cars they use to take the pictures that go on "street view" on their Google Maps.  The drivers don't drive though, they are just there to take over in an emergency if the auto driver wigs out at any point.  So cars that drive themselves exist.  Now with that advance lets say a car that drives itself isn't good enough.  I want a car I can shower in on my way to work.  That's right I want a self-driving shower car that allows me to roll out of bed late, hop in my car and look like a million bucks when I get to work.  You could have a small compartment for other bathroom necessities and the car would need very dark tinted windows.  Or I could just be happy I can read a book on family road trips from now on.

Lock Down on Your Computer

There are tricks to staying on task at work.  If I really need to focus I'll shut down my email and internet programs and just focus on my spreadsheet or word doc or whatever.  We had an internet lock down program on our computer at home that would allow us to "lock" the internet off for a specific time period.  This would help keep the kids from spending too much time on the web.  They should make the same thing for other programs.  E-mail is always a big one for me, I can be working hard on something, see an email come in and end up on a tangent.

Question:
Are there any programs you should lock at work or ones you wish you could put off limits for a time?

Run the Mail at Night

The USPS could save a lot of time and money if they ran their routes at night.  All businesses would be required to get outside, locking mailboxes.  The mail carriers would run into less traffic during the night hours and they wouldn't have any front desk people to stop and talk to, thus significantly speeding delivery up.  Then in the morning you could read your mail over breakfast.

Bullet Bike Paper Routes

This idea is more about efficiency than anything.  Most routes are run in the morning early in residential areas.  Take the classic over the shoulder, two pocket, paper carrying satchel and put it on a bullet bike and then drive through the neighbor hood.  You have two advantages 1) Bullet bikes accelerate quickly thus reducing the time between boxes and 2) bullet bikes are nimble so you can get close to the box without too much reaching.

Protect Your Driver Seat Like the MD Does

I have a tidy car, considering the normal state of chaos my desk and room are in.  I also have a job and hobbies that require I get dirty, dusty, muddy, wet, sweaty, etc. every once in a while.  I kick myself often enough that I don't have a towel to throw over my seat that I've come up with an alternative.  A paper roll under the seat that you could tear off like the tables at the doctors office.  Then when you caught in a jam you could just pull the paper out and block your seats from all the mud or whatever.  You could also do a retractable seat cover that would be water proof (read sweaty).  The problem with the retractable seat cover is what do you do with the stuff that has accumulated on top of the cover?

Marrige Certification

This idea comes to me from my good brother-in-law.  He suggested a certification that would allow those who date the individual with that certification to know they were getting the cream of the crop.  To get a Marriage Certification (MC) you would have to pass a psychological test, a basic IQ test and take elective courses that would be similar to "Man Camp" (posted 9-2-11).  My only problem with the test is I'm not sure if I could qualify for a MC.

iPad on the Fridge

They need to make a way you can stick your iPad to the fridge.  Then you could have a family calendar app (google calendar) that you could keep up there.  The everyone could enter stuff on their phones and then the fridge calendar would update.  You could have other fridge worthy apps like "how long has it been in the fridge" or "how many calories in..." app or "what goes well with what" app.

Age Suggestions on Clothing

I seem to post about clothing a lot.  I need to look professional at work and have come a long way from my first days in the career world.  Age suggestions on clothing would simply be a line on the tag that suggested what age group is most likely to wear that particular piece of clothing.  For example a pair of straight leg, light grey Calvin Klein's might have a suggested age group of 18-32.  An Tommy Bahama anything would probably say 40-60 on it.  Any pair of pants with pleats would say "40+ and anyone wanting to look like their hips has been replaced by a pumpkin".

Question:
What suggested age would you give a particular piece of clothing?

Silence Your Cell Phone on a Schedule

I struggle with my cell phone, either it's on full blast and the ringer scares the crap out of the people sitting around me in church or it's totally silenced and when an emergency comes up at work no one can get a hold of me because I forgot to turn it off silence mode after I scared the crap out of everyone in church on Sunday.  What I need is a phone schedule that integrates with my calendar.  I would then have the option of selecting what ring type I should have during that event.  I would schedule church for example and set the ring tone off.  Then if I schedule an important meeting during the week, I could do the same.  If I knew I was going to be someplace loud I could schedule max volume while I was there, etc.

Flying Bike?

Wings are great, they create lift.  Spoilers on cars are like upside down wings that keep the rear end of the car on the road at high speeds.  Well what if you could design a bike more like a wing and create lift while you ride it.  If you create lift it would potentially lighten the load being hauled and allow the rider to pedal harder longer.  Imagine riding a bike and having the same power you have in your muscles now but weighing 50 lbs lighter because of lift.

Nystatin Cleaning at the Gym

Nystatin is a drug that makes the cell walls of fungi fall apart (thus kill the cell).  It is used, as you would guess, combating fugal infections wherever they crop up on the human body.  I should remember my flip flops more often but for whatever reason I seem to be constantly walking around the gym barefoot.  I suggest they make a Nystatin floor wash.  Then the gym's slogan could be "Nobody ever gets athlete's foot here."

Pay Per Channel Online

I've touched on al la carte cable TV and have come to a better conclusion.  The answer is for each channel to offer subscription based online access.  I love Discovery and ESPN and would probably get USA just for Psych.  I would be able to go online set up a user name and password, pay $3.00 a month and then stream my favorite shows.

Empty Office Illusion

I seem to get a lot of work done when no one is around.  I think a lot of people feel that way with the socializing and questions and problems to group solve at work.  What I need is an insert in the window to my office that looks just like the inside of my office only empty with the lights turned out.  For the most part I can handle the interruptions and like to keep my door open so people feel welcome to come talk when they need it but the few times I've really needed privacy for focus time I've had to put up a stinky sign that says something like "Please do not disturb even if the building is burning, I'll figure it out eventually."  The funny thing about the sign is a lot of people would look at it and be like "Well that can't possibly be me, I'm sure he wants to talk to me." and in they'd come.  The other problem with the sign was people would see the sign, peek in the window and then do a little pointy finger dance to ask, "Did you forget to take the sign down or should I still not disturb you."  Yes, I could just get blinds but the problem is blinds present an unknown, am I in there or not?  With an empty office illusion everyone would know.

9/11 Remembered

I was in Italy when it happened.  I remember being on a bus at 3:00 in the afternoon when whispers about "The Towers" started circulating around.  It was horrible to see as every TV in Italy was tuned into the chaos of New York.  I felt so helpless so far away and so unable to do anything but pray.  So on this 10 year reunion I dedicate today's blog to those who lost their lives in the attack.  May God be with their families and may God be with those that helped in the rescue and clean up.

Shaved Ice from the Fridge

Most fridges come with cubed or crushed as an option on the ice dispenser.  After having my last Tropical Snow tigers blood/pink lemon aid/watermelon shaved ice of the season last night I think they should make "shaved" another button on your fridge.  Then you could save the $10's of dollars spent each summer on frosty treats.

Support in Men's Swimsuits

I don't want to get to personal here but it would be nice to get the support of a speedo in the package of a board short.  The present personal lining of most men's recreational (as opposed to professional) swim suits are made of a mesh of weak, way-too-see-through, weggie inducing nylon.

Use the Wii-Mote Tech in Fishing

I took the kids fishing recently and realized it was a good thing my wife wasn't there.  Think about it for a moment.  Take some dirty water add some sharp hooks and worms then tie the hooks to the end of an invisible line attached to a stick and then let your four year old swing it around.  Sounds like part of a haunted corn maze if you set it in the moon light.  I can see it now "The Swamp of Missing Eyes".  Anyway, as my three children cast backwards into the trees  (many of whom have done this for three of four years now) I had an idea.  What if you could harness the orientation device in a Wii controller to make sure you cast always went forwards?  You could set up a reel that would only release at a certain degree from horizontal and only if the reel were right side up.  You could also use an accelerometer to only release when the pole was flicked with enough speed, that way you wouldn't loose your line if you tipped your pole the wrong way walking from the car.

Sun Burn Stickers for Kids

We hit the pool one last time on Monday in celebration of the close of summer.  As I lathered up the kids with SPF I had a stroke of genius.  What if there was a color change waterproof sticker you could put on your kid before you put sun block on.  Then if at any time during the day the block wore off the sticker would change to a bright red, letting you know you needed to put more sun block on that kid.

A Window for Windowless Rooms

Windows are like gold in a building.  All the good office real estate is usually right by the windows.  That can be difficult when you need a lot of offices and there's only so many with windows.  So today's good business idea would be to have a large TV that emitted natural light that had a 24 hr loop of some wonderful vista.  One day you would walk into work and the view outside would be a green Scottish hill with sheep.  The next day you would walk into find an amazing vista overlooking the Grand Canyon.  You could probably come up with 100's of great views and coupled with the natural light the offices without windows would become the new coveted spots.

Free Market Day

I love Labor Day, don't get me wrong but I was a little upset to find the origins of Labor Day come from the labor unions.  The same unions that are helping to run the US auto industry into the ground and the ones that pay people (here in Idaho) to stand outside cathedrals, synagogues, temples, other sites of worship and businesses in town to picket because they didn't use union labor on their last remodel.  I therefore propose an opposing holiday to be held the first Friday in September called "Free Market Day".  It would be a day where we celebrate the free market and all it stands for.  We would have BBQ's and go swimming for the last time of the summer and we could have fireworks (see my post from July 4th on more holiday's with fireworks) and we could run anti-subsidy rallies.  Then those who celebrate Free Market Day could get a day head start to all the good camping spots and when the Labor Day guys show up on Friday night they'd have a good reason to switch.

Rank Your Stupid Comment

This would be a data base website where users would enter in their stupid comment with the situation surrounding that comment and then rank how bad the outcome was.  Then using statistical analysis you could rank the stupidest things ever said in a general situation and provide it to users for application in their personal lives.  For example after collecting data over a period of a year you find a lot of men used the line "What did you do all day?" after getting home from work as their pregnant wife rests on the couch and the house is a mess.  People could go to the site and click on Top 10 lists that had been collected.  The example above would go under "Top 10 Things Not to Say to a Pregnant Woman".

Sedation Dentistry? Old Hat. Try Sedation Exercise!

My bro-in-law and I were talking about this one today.  Sedation dentistry is where they use an anesthesiologist to knock you out while they pull your teeth.  Sedation exercise is where you are asleep while you are strapped into a machine that works your body out.  Just imagine getting an hour of exercise every morning while you sleep.

Man Camp

Man Camp would be a one week crash course in all the things it takes to be a good man.  There would be classes on basic and advance car repair, contracting for the home owner, self defense, grilling and proper weight lifting techniques.  Those would be the required coursed and then you could take elective classes like fire starting, fishing, hunting, camping basics, motorcycle riding (jet ski/snowmobile/4 wheeler), football rules and regulations (be the know-it-all at all the games), efficient lawn care, caber toss, etc.

Question:
What classes would you add to Man Camp?  I especially want to hear from you ladies, what makes a man a man in your eyes?

Ventilated Lockers and File Cabinet Drawers

After a long break I've started riding my bike to work again.  There is a gym close by where I can shower but when I get to work I have to hide my stinky cloths away in one of the utility rooms.  I thought the other day it would be nice to have a drawer that had a little fan to ventilate air from my file cabinet to the outside.  They could use the same technology to vent the lockers at the gym then the locker room wouldn't smell as bad.

A Better Looking Video Conferencing

I've used quite  a few different video conferencing programs for work and there's a problem with every one, they all make you look uglier than you are.  Bald spots get worse, bellies are bigger, moles seem to grow and multiply, extra appendages appear out of no where, posture is bad, the list goes on and on.  They need to develop a video conferencing program that makes you look better.  It could fill in bald spots, remove facial blemishes, slim down those love handles and even give your skin a tanned hue.  It would be a great project to partner on with a dating web site.

Shut the Door Alarm

As the kids run in and out of my back door with the A/C this summer I constantly find my self yelling "Shut the door!"  They should make an infrared scanner for the back door that measures the highest point of heat movement as one walks out the door.  Then if that highest point is lower than say 48 inches the alarm automatically says "Please, shut the door." until the door is closed.

Gym in the Mall

A few months back I posted about the worlds best mall and all the stuff it would have.

http://goodideaaday.blogspot.com/2011/06/mall-with-it-all.html

For some reason I or my faithful followers did not come up with a gym at the mall.  I know they exist out there but I think this is a really good idea and deserves to be discussed.  First off you give people one more reason to go to the mall and that's great for retailers in the mall.  It consolidates life, if you need to grab a new pair of running shoes for the gym you don't have to get in your car and drive between stops.  Also, it could be great for the holiday season and couples.  If one member of the couple wants to shop and the other is bored or doesn't want to go they could just hit the gym.

Just the Facilities Gym Membership

I work close to a gym and I live close to a gym and they are not the same.  I've had memberships at both never at the same time.  The one close to home I use for racquetball, lifting weights, swimming, etc.  The one by work I use to shower at when I bike to work.  I need one of the gyms around work to offer a "facilities only" pass where you could come in and shower (and nothing else) and only charge $10.00 a month.

Question:
Have you ever ridden you bike to work?  What issues did you face?

Prius in a Pickup

I think the evolution of cars to lower consuming models is awesome.  I love electricity and personally think with as many ways as their are to supply electricity it will be the majority source of energy in the future.  I do have one problem with all the new electric hybrids: they are all ugly.  If you want guys to start buying green machines make sure he can still pick up chicks in it.  The last thing a guy wants to do is the right thing if it makes him the laughing stock of his softball team.  As a father I have come to grips with this exact problem when we made the very smart decision to purchase a mini-van.  It's smart on paper but nothing makes a man feel more like a middle aged woman than when he's behind the wheel of a seven passenger Sienna.

Water Proof Fanny Pack for Animal Trainers

We went to the state fair the other night.  One thing I'm sure of, they poison the food because I've never gotten heart burn so fast in my life.  Anyway, they had a sea lion show and I got to thinking about the packs and buckets the trainers used to hold their fish.  They need to make a water proof fanny pack that you could put ice and fish into while training you sea lion.  In order to make the business viable you would probably need to market to whale and dolphin trainers, penguin trainers and perhaps the sushi industry (door to door sushi chef).

Funny Youth of America, Sell Your Facebook Posts

My little sisters-in-law have one hilarious friend.  The kid has some of the most creative Facebook posts I think I've ever seen.  So we were reading his posts and realized they were funny enough to sell.  So marketers and companies that need to generate lots of followers could hire really funny high schoolers to make posts on their pages.  The real marketers could then make posts about what the company was doing or big events or whatever but most would be hilarious observations from 17 year olds.

Drug Camp

This is a twist on a classic theme.  I know there exists many camps where teenagers can go to get off drugs.  Often the camp includes dragging the kids out into the middle of the desert and dropping them off with no food or water.  So my drug camp is a little different.  It wouldn't really matter where the camp was (the woods, the desert, the set of Water World) all the "counselors" would be messed homeless people who had used drugs for most of their lives.  By surrounding teenagers with what drug users become they would decide on their own not to use them anymore.  To really drive the point home, we would allow the homeless "counselors" to run the mess hall.  Most of the time the head chef would use the menu money on supplying his needs and the campers would have ketchup packets for lunch.

Trucker Camp

This one comes from my dad.  He suggested a camp where you learn to be a long haul trucker.  I would add being the captain of a tanker for a week and a train conductor for a week.

Question:
Is there any other profession you would like to spend a week at?

Empathy Camp

This is a good suggestion from my wife.  Empathy camp would be a camp where you could spend a week being the mother of four.  This would help people understand what it takes to get four kids to the grocery store, through a couple hours of church or keep a house clean.  After a week they would be perfect candidates for the insane ward of the local mental hospital or ready to face the world with way more empathy then they started the week with.  I think it would be good for marketers who wanted to "get inside" the mind of their consumers.

Which is Better? Eyeglasses

If you go to the eye doc at some point you'll do the classic "Which is better? Number one or number two?".  When you go out to pick out glasses you should be able to do the same thing.  They should make a software program that takes pictures of the eyeglass selections you make and then you could sit down with the assistant and she ask "Number one or number two?"  That way you would have photo's of your face with the glasses on them.  You could even send the pictures to your wife's smart phone or email and have her tell you which one she likes.

Grey Water from the Dishwater

Grey water is water that has been slightly used that can be repurposed to serve another need in the home.  I think if you filtered out the big stuff the water from your dish washer you could use it in your toilet or perhaps to water your garden (rinse cycles only) or in a utility sink etc.

Group Blocks on Twitter

My wife Tweets all the time.  Because she is getting more and more popular each day she often gets followed by strangers and sometimes those strangers are adult entertainers trying to hitch a ride on someone else's shooting star.  There should be a way to do a general block on twitter.  Like if you didn't want a bunch of Bieber crazy 14 yr olds following you because that's creepy, you could click a button and make your twitter account a little more exclusive.  You should be able to limit what you see and who can follow you based off a movie-like rating system.

Little Dry Suits for Kids

Online you will find a plethora of wet suits for kids but no dry suits.  A wet suit allows a bit of water in and  dry suits are air tight.  It could be short sleeve and knee length because really if you can keep the kids core body protected you can probably keep them from shivering.

Question:
Have you ever worn a dry suit?  How hard are they to put on?

Sunday Paper Advertising on the Web

One of the things I find just a little annoying about the web is I can't do a "quick look".  You would find the "quick look" in all the advertising that comes in a Sunday paper or a heading in the yellow pages.  In the case of the paper I can take a huge stack of advertisements flip through them toss the ones I don't care about and browse the ones I like.  With the yellow pages I can open a section flip through a couple of pages in a matter of seconds and know who takes AMEX, who's got 24 hr service, who specializes in my type of garage door opener, etc.  Online, even with a google search, you have to bounce in and out of the web sites to get the same information.  So there needs to be a special deals page that can be personalized to you.  I for example would have sporting good stores and any place that sold decent men's clothing.  I would jump on there and be able to scroll down the page in a matter of seconds and see if Cabela's or Macy's or Big 5 were having a sale that week.  If you wanted more detailed information you could simply click on a link that would take you to that stores advertisement for the sale.  If a company wasn't doing 20% all men's socks that week the site would say "no sales".

Shiver Strip for Kids

It seems like no matter how warm it is when we go swimming my skinny little kids start to shiver uncontrollably at some point during the outing.  You would think they would then want to get out of the pool but for some reason they still want to play in the water.  What I need is a shiver strip.  This would be a temperature strip that would change color based off the core body temperature of you child.  The shiver strip would be a sticker to stick to your kid on their chest or back.  If a kid's body temperature ever dropped below a certain point the shiver strip would turn bright red.

iTunes Sharing with Your Car

I can share my iTunes library with my home computer and people at work.  I easily load up my iPod.  I want my car to come with a hard drive to hold my music as well.  I have seen a lot of hacks for this kind of thing on the web but my (quick) research didn't bring up any car companies that are putting devices in the car itself to hold information.  Yeah they all come with aux inputs and yes you can easily plug your ipod into one.  But I always forget mine and still haven't moved all my old CD's over to my iTunes yet.  It would be great if I could pop a CD into the car and have it save the whole thing (or parts) to a hard drive for instant retrieval at a later date.

Using Electromagnetic Waves in the Wash

A few days ago I posted about using light waves to determine if clothing matched.  Today lets use the same technology to keep our whites white.  I once washed a brand new (nice) work shirt (on accident) with a blue sock.  The sock got blue on the shirt and I was unable to remedy the situation.  It would have been nice if my washing machine was equipped with a sensor that would alarm if it "noticed" a item of clothing with a significantly different wavelength of light.  It would work kind of like sonar bouncing light waves into the wash as it cycled and if it ever came across a blue sock among a sea of white it would either alarm or shut off the cycle or both.

Water Proof Pocket in your Swim Trunks

Today we are headed to the local water park.  They don't allow outside food or drink which means I'll need to carry my wallet so we can purchase overpriced pizza for lunch.  Problem is I have a leather wallet and I can't be splashing around with cash, frequent eater cards from the bagel shop and my library card in my pocket without expecting major water damage.  Not to mention my car key fob.  The answer is a water proof pocket in my swim trunks.  The answer today is a zip lock bag.

Mismatched Clothing Alarm

I seem to have a lot of ideas that have something to do with the inability of men to dress themselves.  Here's another.  Each color of the rainbow is an electromagnetic wave that it's own wavelength.  The alarm could be as simple as a camera that captures an image of what you are going to wear on a date that night and then, using the wavelength of each color determines if those colors clash.  Then you could send the picture to your computer and an accompanying program would give suggestions on what color to change by changing the color of your shirt or pants to one where the wavelengths don't clash.

Question:
What's the worst thing you or someone you love has ever worn in public?

Am I Crazy.com

This would be a great web site for individuals who frequently look back at the things they shared at a party and say, "Dang, I probably shouldn't have shared that."  You would simply type in something you were thinking about talking about and the social setting (party, work, at a family reunion) in which you would be doing the talking.  The web site would rate how crazy you are on a scale on 1-10 based off how inappropriate or weird that thing was and the social setting you were willing to spill the beans in.  For example you could type in that you were thinking about complaining about your neighbors dog to close family at dinner on Sunday.  You might get a 2.  Or you could type in how you want to share the details of a recent mole removal session at a speed dating event, that would probably score closer to 7 or 8.

Sound Proof Barrier in the Mini-Van

After traveling way too far in the last 5 days via mini-van I think the market for this particular product is huge.  It would simply be a sound proof, see-through barrier that would separate the driver and passenger from the chaos of the back seats.  I also suggest a simple padded, portable, institution like room as the back chamber of the mini-van.  Throw a couple fruit snack packages in there every few hours and you've got yourself a family road trip.

Volume: High Low and Broken

There should be a volume control on your button that makes the person on the other end sound like they are breaking up.  It would be easier than memorizing the half sentence, "I...an't he...u. You're...eakin...p".  I guess this would only be useful for jerks and people shooting TV shows (where this kind of thing happens all the time).  Another option would be to change service to AT&T.  Oh, burn!

Friend Helping Friend List

This is a good suggestion from my brother-in-law.  He is fantastic at fixing and maintaining computers but not so hot at fixing cars.  He suggested there be a feature on facebook or another site where you list your talents and skills to your friends and offer a barter of some sort.  For example he would say he's good with computers and then say two hours of fixing your computer is worth 3 hours of fixing his car or a new Wii game.  I'm fantastic with handy man stuff so I would list replacing an in sink erator with a large pizza and a dozen donuts or 1 hour of babysitting my kids.

Question:
What would you exchange?

Take the Train in your Car

We've done a lot of traveling this summer.  We do the best we can to kill the time with book's on tape, coloring books, etc. but as the driver I can't really play video games on my phone while I drive.  What if there was a train set up kind of like a ferry that you could park your car on for trips.  They could run these trains between decent size cities, where it's too short to fly the family economically.  Salt Lake City to Portland with a stop in Boise for example.  Then you could catch the train, pay a fee, play cards with the family the whole way there and then when you get to where you are going you have your car there.  I could see how this might be nice for tourists trying to get around LA on their way to San Diego.

Five Point Seat Belts and Reclining Seats for the Kids

Protection is priority number one when it comes to seat belts.  However, watching my young children fall asleep in the back with their necks crooked over and faces smooshed into the window I have to think there's a better way to do it.  What if you could have five point seat-belts (like the ones little babies and race car drivers wear) and then recline the seat?  The real question is would a five point seat belt offer the same protection if you kid is lying down.  Then the parent could have a button for each seat and when they notice one of the kids drifting off you could hit the button and recline their seat.

My Mini Fan

Today my good idea is one that is already on the market, sort to say.  My office is hot in the morning and perfect in the afternoon.  Because the office has been remodeled all the A/C is tied together so in order to change my office temp, I would have to change the entire buildings temp.  So I rigged up this little pretty with some old electrical/computer parts.  I took a 12V transformer and wired it up to a 12V computer fan from one of our old PC's.  Then I wired in a switch so I don't have to plug or unplug the fan in order to turn it off or on.  Not only does it cool me off but, as you can see in the picture, it draws air away from my computer keeping it cool as well.

Business Fanny Pack

Yeah, remember when the fanny pack was the thing.  Mine was white and neon green and I used it to hold my Game Boy.  So today is a little tongue in cheek but here we go anyway.  A fanny pack that can carry an iPad, a smart phone and pen and a pad of paper, some business cards and some gum.  It would be leather of course and we could market it as a purse that men can carry because it's not a purse.

Auto-Auto Reply

I've worked with five email programs in the last five years: Entourage, Outlook, Thuderbird, Gmail and Mail for Mac.  None of the five have an automatic "out of office" auto reply.  For some reason each program requires you make a special rule for your incoming mail and then type out a reply and then turn the rule on.  With as much travel that is done now it seems like there should just be a button you hit that turns it off or on.  Then if you wanted you could go into your settings and make special rules or change the text or whatever.

Business Casual Shirt and Pants

They do this with kids cloths all the time.  They sell pants and a matching shirt.  They need to do the same thing for men's cloths.  A lot of my counterparts have a hard time putting a decent shirt pant combo together (I work with one).  This way you could walk into the men's department at JC Pennies (because lets face it, these guys probably aren't shopping at Macy's), grab a combo off the rack, pay and head to the Game Stop to check out the new XBox games.  You could even do belts and socks to match.

Food Lockers

I've done pretty good with managing my weight as I get older.  At work I don't really have access to food other than lunch so it makes it pretty easy to control myself.  At home with the fridge and the pantry I struggle with grazing.  I have dinner and then every time I pass the pantry I grab a handful of nuts or a granola bar, etc.  What if you could put your food in lockers that would only open at set times during the day.  Or even just lock up between the hours of 1-5 pm.  You could set it to not allow access to food during the hardest parts of the day and help you eat regular balanced meals when you were suppose to.

Question:
Can you think of an emergency where the food locker would cause problems?

A Baby Monitor with Sound Cancellation

I've mentioned the physics behind noise cancellation before.  It's pretty simple, sound is energy in wave form and any wave that is met by a wave of equal but opposite magnitude will cancel out.  Luxury cars have this system to deaden the noise getting into the cabin.  The car "listens" for noise and then the speakers emit a sound of equal but opposite magnitude.  Why not incorporate this technology into the standard baby monitor?  Then when the older kids are going crazy or the dog barks or the doorbell rings you could rest easy knowing the sleeping baby's room was sound buffered.

Server Farm in Siberia

Server farms are hot.  Computer equipment in general is hot so you can imagine having hundreds of big daddy computers all running at the same time.  I've only been in one server farm before and it was way cool (both literally and figuratively).  It takes so much energy to keep a server farm cool so why not use mother nature to a server's advantage.  There are three options here to harness the power of nature's cool.  You could locate a server farm in a place like Siberia or Nunavut.  Then instead of having to cool the air into the server farm you simply blow the Arctic chill in.  The second option is to locate the server farm at high altitude.  I like this option because LA for example has a mountain range just north of the city that reaches heights of 11,000 ft.  At that altitude nightly temperatures reach into the 40's year round.  The third option, and probably the best, is to find a cheap place for electricity and then dig a hole in the ground.  You could build a server farm 10 ft underground and just use a heat exchange system to harness the constant 50 degree temperature at that depth.

3D Glasses for your Bike Ride

I love to ride my bike, it's great exercise.  The problem is the weather.  They make these little stands you can buy to turn your road bike into a stationary bike.  So when the snow hits you can set your bike up in the garage and ride away.  Boring right.  Well my brother-in-law has this pair of 3D glasses that you can hook up to any device with one of those red, yellow and white video outputs.  Surprisingly they were less than $50.00.  Now lets add a third piece of equipment the odometer/speedometer on the bike (any serious road biker will have one).  The business idea is this have a speedometer on your bike with a video output for 3D glasses.  You set you bike up on the bike treadmill and the speedometer sends your 3D glasses an interesting ride through the Grand Canyon or over the Golden Gate bridge.  It would be way cheaper than buying a stationary bike with the game built into it.

Turn Your Doorbell Off

My wife and I have recently had a line at the front door of door to door sales people.  A few have had the good luck of ringing the bell while our 11 month old was napping.  This makes us cranky.  While talking this idea over we really were blown away that they don't have these yet.  It would be simple to hook the doorbell up to a switch that you could turn on and off.  That way when the baby goes to sleep you just flip the switch and anyone who hits your door button gets...well nothing.

IRobot Weeder

They have robot vacuums and robot sweepers and robot moppers I want a robot weeder.  This marvel of engineering would mark each of your plants using GPS.  Then as the summer goes along it would roll through your flower beds and anywhere it located a plant that wasn't mapped on the GPS it would spray round up.

Air Conditioned Car Seats

While on long trips during the hot summer months I think it would be nice to have little vents in my seat that was hooked up to the A/C in the car.  That way your back and seat would stay nice and cool.

Air Conditioning for Your Bed

Today's product idea would be a specialized blanket for your bed.  It would have a special tube that would have a special head that would connect to one of your room vents.  Then as the A/C came on the air would flow through the tube to a ventilated sheet on the bed that would disperse the cool air.

Select a Call on Your Cell Phone

I think it would be super nice to be able to go through my phone book on my cell and select certain individuals to always have ring through or always go straight to voicemail.  For example if your wife were pregnant it would be nice, no matter what quite meeting you were in, to have her ring through in case of emergency while everyone else who tried to call wouldn't even get a vibrate.  Or while on vacation everyone from work couldn't get through while the kid who is watching your dog and garden at home would always ring through.

Shmore Scoops

I love to eat shmores.  I love them so much I built a patio in the back so we could have a fire pit just to roast marshmallows.  I have two dilemmas with shmores, the first is making sure the chocolate is pre-melted before I even put the mallow on my cracker.  I've seen quite a few work arounds on is one thus it's the lesser of the two. The second is worth a little more thought however.  You just place a perfectly browned marshmallow on your cracker and take a bite as the mallow then oozes out of the sides all over the place making your treat an emergency that needs to be eaten at once.  They make scoop shaped corn chips, I think the same technology should be applied to gram crackers.  That way you would have more of a dome shape shmore and contain more marshmallow in the treat.

Projected Missile Game on your Windshield

You know when you are driving and another driver does something really stupid and you wish at that moment your car was equipped with heat seeking missiles?  Well what if you could have the missiles without the jail time?  They (the auto industry) has at least a handful of projected images on the windshield in front of the driver.  I think it would be great to have a little missile projected on the windshield that would "blow up" the car in front of you.

I thought I would throw this in here as well, since it's kind of a good idea and I've heard it from quite a few different sources and it goes along with the missiles.  The idea is to have a red LED reader sign on the back of your car that you could send people messages on.  Like "You're tail gating me, please back off before I slam on my breaks" or "Way to merge there buddy" or "Thanks for letting me in".

Baby Monitor App

Thanks to my sister in law for today's app/business idea.  The app would basically just work like a video baby monitor.  You could use two phones if you wanted (one as the camera, one as the monitor) or you could set up a web cam as the camera and just monitor with your phone.  Then you could check on your baby as you worked in the back yard or moved to the garage or even check to see how things are going with the baby sitter before a movie started.

Beach Rental With Extras

Great business idea: a beach rental with it all.  First you start with a instruction book that comes with local area hikes, touristy things to do, sights to see, etc.  You would need to include how long to allocate for each activity and what to bring.  Then you add really cool things.  For example if you were in Hawaii your beach rental could come with surf boards, sea kiaks and two bikes.  If you beach house was on the Oregon coast you could include crab traps, some fishing gear and clam diggers.  A cabin up in the mountains could include sleds, snow shoes and perhaps some cross country skis.  All would come with directions for use and a liability waiver.

Pessimistic Weather .com

I've heard the great thing about being a pessimist is that either you are always right or when you are wrong you are pleasantly surprised.  Well how about pessimisticweather.com.  This would be a really depressing web site that would always have rainy, snowy, sleety weather for every zip code.  The idea is every time you looked out the window you would be pleasantly surprised.

Lost Flip Flop.com

I recently lost two flip flops.  The good thing is when I bought them I got two pair and they were slightly different.  Luck shines her light on me and I lost the right of one pair and the left of the other, so I still have a single pair of slightly mismatched flip flops.  So my idea today is to start lostflipflop.com where anyone can post a single flip flop for any one to take or donate in order to make a full pair.  Please include where you got it, the size and a photo.

3D Any Old Movie You Can Think Of

3D is pretty straight forward, your eyes need to see two slightly different pictures to perceive depth.  So it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to digitally separate an image out into two.  Then you could take a really cool older movie like "Goonies" or "Indian Jones" and go 3D.

Question:

What old movie would you 3D?

Play Place in Neighborhood Clubhouse

So maybe I just like play places, but seriously this would be awesome.  The kids could play YEAR ROUND.  It would be way cooler than parks and pools and cheaper too.

You want one, don't you?

Play Places in Hotels

When we stay at a hotel our kids always get bored.  The hotel play place would be just like the ones you find at fast food resturants. You could sit on a bench and read a book while your kids climb and slide and wear themselves out.  Plus a play place would be way less maintenence than a pool!

 Would you pick a hotel with a play place over a hotel with a pool?

Prescription Delivery

Sometimes it's hard to pick up prescriptions.  When you're really sick the last thing you want to do is go wait in line at the pharmacy (and infect all the people around you). So why couldn't they have prescription delivery?  I know they have presciption by mail places, but those only work if you have long term prescription.  Delivery would be for things like antibiotics. You'd pay a little surcharge and get your meds delivered right to your door within hours.

When you or you're kid is really sick, would you pay extra to avoid the pharmacy?

Scuba Training at the Aquarium

This idea is one that is kind of being done in Denver and Atlanta.

Denver has a wonderful aquarium thousands of miles away from the ocean.  What better place to get scuba certified?  The aquarium could make extra money by providing the classes after regular hours and those getting certified would get the best tanks west of the Mississippi to train in.  It's a great business idea.  In fact I bet there would be way more people wanting to get certified if the aquarium advertised it, "Swim with the Sharks!" or "Hand Feed the Fish".  The problem is now you have to be pre-scuba certified to participate.

Air Conditioned Pet Packer

A few years back I had the very interesting job of moving an employee across the US.  I had a horrendous time moving her furniture and car but the worst was getting her cat's on a plane.  It was too hot for the poor little things to ride cargo and they were too big to be sedated and carried on the plane as luggage.  We eventually did find an airline that could take them but it was a royal pain in the butt.  So why not make an air conditioned pet packer.  This business idea would take a bit of engineering and probably be kind of heavy but worth it to a sliver of the market that wanted to travel with pets.  Your local kennel could rent them out for special occasions.

Auto Shine Shoe Shiner

They should make a device that automatically shines your shoes for you.  Then a hardworking business man could come home from work take his stinky shoes off and slide them into the Auto-Shine 356, push a button for the color of shoe and then sit back and watch engineering do it's thing.  Then your shoes would always look nice.

The Food Alarm

We need one of these really bad.  Today's business idea would take quite a bit of development but would be very worth it in the end.  The alarm would work as follows.  A infrared sensor would track you children as they entered the kitchen area.  All the shelves you keep food on would have a weight sensor.  If a child took something from those shelves, thus lowering the weight of that shelf, and then left the kitchen area, tracked by the infrared, the alarm would go off.  This would alert parents that a small infrared heat source had lowered the weight of a food shelf and then left the kitchen area too quickly to have eaten that object.  This would be great since my 3 year old snuck chocolate chips upstairs yesterday in his sticky little hand.

The Whiner Alarm

We are constantly telling our children to put away their whiny voice.  What would be nice is some aversion training.  You could have an alarm in the house that would listen via microphone to the pitch and volume of the children in the house.  When a certain child reached a pitch and frequency that was considered a whine the alarm would go off.

The Prediction Machine

I have often though about mathematical probability and the stock market.  Lots of it is just mumbo jumbo but I've recently come up with a fool proof plan to day trade.  And to prove to you I'm not kidding I am going to show you just how it works by choosing 3 well known stocks and giving exact closing prices at the end of trading on 7-8-11.

Here they are:
AAPL(apple) 359.71
 VZ (Verizon) 37.48
F (Ford) 13.88

Pretty amazing right?  Not if it's a bug in the blogger set up that allows you to set your post date and time in the past.  Which brings me to the real good idea a day.  Dummy Degrees.  This would be a web site where for a small fee you could special order an official looking degree from a fake university that had funny stuff on it.  For example "Bachelor of Farts" instead of "Arts".

Silent Velcro 2: Magnet Straps on Shoes

My little sister suggested the crazy idea of making Velcro silent.  I think it had something to do with not waking anyone up at night or bothering anyone in a movie theater.  Then it hit me: MAGNETS!  They could be placed in the strap the same place the Velcro is.  Then not only do you get the silence of magnetic fields holding your shoes on but the mythical benefits of magnetic insoles.

Solar High Ways

Today's idea comes from a company in Idaho that does solar highways.  I think this is absolutely a fantastic idea.  Think about the amount of energy you could harness if all the roads in town could soak up photons all day long.  I especially love the LED light addition.  My only concern is how to make the glass over the top transparent and still have traction when it snows.

Here's the link:
http://www.wimp.com/solarhighways/

Collapsible Camp Chair with the Strap Built In

They make bags to put your collapsible chair into, they also make a strap that connects to any chair (chair not included).  As I packed my chairs around in their bags during the festivities of the 4th I realized they need to make a collapsible camp chair with the strap built right into the chair.  The strap could wrap around the chair so it doesn't unfold in transit but would rid the user of having to worry about a bag.

Happy 4th of July! More Holiday's with Fireworks and Parades

I love the 4th.  I love the food, the weather, the not having to get gifts for everybody and mostly the fireworks.  I think about the big parties that go on and all the money being spent on food and entertainment during the holiday and I think economic growth.  So why not use the economics of fireworks on other holidays?  I think a fireworks show for Thanksgiving would be a great idea.  First off you can do fireworks at like 7:00 pm and then everybody would want to go get coffee or hot chocolate or dinner afterwords.  It would be a great economic day for the restaurants and cafe's around where the show was.  Not to mention there's less competition for consumers.  If you were the only town in a 100 mile radius that was having a fireworks show and parade for Thanksgiving, I bet you would get a pretty good turn out.

Question:
Which holiday would you want fireworks on if you could add one?

Neighborhood Runner

With the ageing Baby Boomer population it seems there are more and more condo developments and planned neighborhoods that cater to their needs.  Today's business idea would probably work well in such a community.  The neighborhood runner would be an individual that would make a daily run to specific places every day like the grocery store, the dry cleaners, the pharmacy, Target, etc.  The members of the community could email or call in what they needed every day to the runner and then they could just make one big run to the grocery store.  The kid delivering the groceries would make a killing in tips and the residents wouldn't have to go out every time they needed milk.

Question:
As you age (and hopefully have more discretionary income) what chore will you pay someone else to do for you first?

Using Google Street View for House Painters

This business idea is for people who paint houses.  You would take a nice neighborhood in town and go through street view on Google maps.  You would get a picture of each house and then use photoshop to change the house color.  You could update colors on houses that look older or go bold with color on the ones that look more modern.  Landscapers could do the same thing with mediocre lawns.

Fridge in Couch

Today's business idea is a tribute to ingenuity and laziness.  Instead of having to go to the fridge for a drink during commercials your couch could have a small refrigerated compartment in the arm rest.  You would just open up the arm rest and grab a cool drink when you were thirsty.

Satellite TV for the Car

Now a days most mini-vans come with a DVD player in the back for the kids.  A lot of cars come with satellite radio.  Why not satellite TV?  Well here's what I found.  It's called the TracVision A7 from a company called Kvh.

Suggested retail price $3,995.  Depending on your children that might be a great deal for road trips.

Built-In Ramp for Truck

They make ramps to get your 4-wheeler in the back of your truck.  The thing is not every one with a truck has a 4-wheeler.  Everyone with a truck does however at some point in owning that truck have a need to roll something big and heavy into the bed.  Today's million dollar business idea is to create a ramp that folds or collapses into the tailgate or one you could pull out from under the truck.  I personally think the one under the truck would be a better idea.  You could make it longer and probably a little more heavy duty and if you lined it up right you could actually use it to make the undercarriage more aerodynamic thus increasing mpg.

Meditation in Place of Sleep

So there's a lot of mumbo jumbo around mediation and the way you do it and the way you think about it etc.  There are reports of monks in Tibet that can control their body temperatures using meditation along with the cadre of other physical controls that go along with meditation including heart rate and blood pressure.  I was once told, by a less then yogi level practitioner, that if you really trained you could meditate for a half hour and it would be like you had just taken a hour long nap.  Well dang I would totally jump on 4 hours of meditation vs. sleeping all night.  Think about all the crap on my "honey do" list I could get done (or how many blog post I could type up). What if there were a way you could replace sleep with a deeper form of rest through meditation training?  And (here comes the capitalism) what if you could take that training and teach it to busy executives and hurried moms and tired souls everywhere?  Even if you could just train people to meditate themselves to sleep faster you've got a great business idea.

Question: 

What would you do if you had 4 extra hours of quiet time in the day?