Taking a step by dance shower

2009-12-16 13:47 - 0 Comments

I am too lazy to take a shower because it is too boring and I want something to make it more fun. I think showers are boring beacuse you are just standing there while all the water is falling on you.

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You Can Have My Seat

2009-11-19 16:21 - 0 Comments

Problem:
Almost everywhere around the world, people tend to compete to get a seat in public transports.
Fun Solution:
To provide a few of Screen MP3, Radio or Video players (with internet connection), hanging on buses’ or train walls, attached together with a headset on each player. It’s placed quite high, so people need to stand up to use the device. In that way, standing will look more pleasing than sitting.

Submitted by Natasha Angeline

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Funtastic bus stop

2009-12-15 22:09 - 0 Comments

Distorted mirrors have always been fun for everybody - so why not use them at the bus stops, where we spend countless hours every week, waiting for the bus.
Submitted by Zornitsa Nedelcheva

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Trash target

2009-12-15 21:36 - 0 Comments

The Trash target is to prevent people to throw away their trash on the streets. When people want to throw away their garbage they can aim and throw. Different melodies will play depending where the person hits. If a person hit the middle besides playing the winning melody the lights will blink.
Submitted by Carina Lindberg

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Sink Water Light

2009-12-16 19:28 - 0 Comments

Both of the idea authors admire taking a shower, not together though :) However, we have rarely thought of how much water we usually consume ineffectively by spending 30 min under the shower. After discussing this issue with other "shower-lovers" it became obvious that the primary reason for spending 30min in the shower is the lack of any time reminders around. To solve this problem and to make keeping time more fun to do, we decided to introduce a "traffic light" system for the sink or the shower, but call it "water light".

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Eldjursspår

2009-12-16 16:40 - 0 Comments

The electric light trail is an obsolete and boring place to excercise. To get motivated to go out running there we need to upgrade it to the electric light trail hunting game. On the trail different animal targets will appear and a perfect hit with your (harmless) laser gun will give you various points depending on species. Running the trail will be during night time using a headlamp and the animal targets will be lit. A miss will naturally "scare" the target away and it disappears rendering you unable to shoot it again.

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The Anywhere Organ

The Anywhere Organ

2009-12-09 10:03 - 0 Comments

I want to create a mobile, sectional pipe organ that can be installed and performed anywhere, turning the space itself into a unique, reactive instrument. A large portion of the project will be public installations, allowing people to see, play, and experience the instrument for themselves. The idea is to inform people about an awesome instrument that is little understood and seldom played with by creating a invasive and interactive version that can be played by anyone. I've designed a pipe organ in which each pipe is independent, connected along to a central air supply through a long hose.

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Reusable bags jukebox

2009-11-19 13:40 - 0 Comments

Problem tackled : reduce the number of single-use bags that are distributed or sold in supermarkets.
Solution:grant the right to people bringing along reusable bags to choose the music played in the supermarket. People are given tags (like barcodes) to stick on their bags. When entering the supermarket, they scan the tag and choose a song to play in the supermarket.
Submitted by Nils Oj

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Human Energy

2009-12-16 20:07 - 0 Comments

Transform mechanic energy of human body into electric energy and use that energy to:
1. Benefit on yourself (health/exercise, discounts in green stores..)
2. Benefit to your community (saves energy and use that money to improve the city into a sustainable one)
3. Benefit the planet (less pollution and sustainable cities)
Submitted by Porfirio Rivera

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The Battery Can

2009-12-16 13:58 - 0 Comments

The Problem: Our world is being contaminated by many things. One of them is batteries. Batteries contain heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, and nickel, which can contaminate the environment when batteries are improperly disposed. Batteries may produce potential problems or hazards like pollute the lakes and streams as the metals vaporize into the air when burned. Also expose the environment and water to lead and acid and more.Solution: I invented “The Battery Can”. This “Battery Can” can be used by adults, but it is much more fun for kids!!

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Billy Jean Staircase

2009-12-16 20:37 - 0 Comments

The problem is that people are always going up the escalator and not the stairs. How can we make them change? We can make the Billy Jean stair case. The Billy Jean stair case is a set of stairs that lights up around your foot when you step on it. The Billy Jean stair case should make people stop useing the escalator because it is fun to do.
Submitted by McLean Masuch.

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Speaking Bin

2009-11-30 12:11 - 0 Comments

You throw your garbage in a bin and you hear a voice coming from inside: -Thank you and have a nice day. or some sounds like pig is eating your garbage. But people would get more surprised if two bins can make a real conversation. Can you imagine two bins in a short distance. Suddenly a voice coming from inside: -This town is full of nice people only today this is the 50th man coming tome. And there is a voice from the other bin: -Don't be show off my friend only for last hour I collect more garbage than you.
Submitted by Vladimir Atanasov

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Gum collector

2009-12-14 10:39 - 0 Comments

Turning something icky into something pretty. The Gum Collector is a fun way to dispose of chewed gum without making a mess. It is a user friendly device that will keep out footphaths clean and no more sticky surprises under your seat. Gum Collectors could be placed in schools, at bus stops, on the street, train stations and pretty much anywhere. Submitted by Yvette Messina.

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Natural Streets

2009-12-16 14:27 - 0 Comments

Many people don’t like to ride in dangerous streets; I do think that nobody should take a risk of that. My solution is to make many streets FUN and at the same time to seem natural (green, brown and more). My opinion is that it should be colorful but at the same time natural.
Instead of making new streets with cement, with rocks! Because the rocks don’t contaminate and the cement hotter the day. The people will use more the fun streets than other ones that are worse. These fun streets I call “Natural Streets”.
Submitted by Andrea Aguilar.

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Trashbot

2009-12-16 10:37 - 0 Comments

Kids always love to play. But after aftwerwards, they usually prefer to play something else instead of cleanig up their toys. Why not transform the tidying up into a fun thing to do? As always, modern cybernetics is here to save the day: Human's best friends, the Robots, come to help by eating up everything that is fed to them. YUM!

Submitted by Sascha Nelle

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The Presence of Digital Money

2009-11-30 11:27 - 0 Comments

Credit cards make life so much more easier that you do not have to carry stacks of moneys any more. Every time when you buy something the only thing you use is just a piece of card. But sometimes it also makes consumption unreasonable. People lost the sense of physical money. I created some new concepts of credit cards to remind people that digital money also has the similar physical attribute as the old money. They are not just numbers. You can feel it so that you can try to control your consumption.

Submitted by Xu Xin

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Paasa - Game of War

2009-12-15 19:35 - 0 Comments

How many war's are currently being fought in the world? What is humaitarian law? How can I make a difference to victims of War?
The traditional game of Chaupar/ Paachisi has been recreated on silk and now can be played with a difference…….in accordance with the Geneva conventions. In the rules of the game, the fundamental principles of humaitarian law have been interwoven. Also positions on the board have been given names such as - Dunant Fort & ICRC camps.
In a world fragmented by conflicts, the game can:

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Future ex-smoker helping booth

2009-12-16 14:10 - 0 Comments

Smoking cost a lot both to individual and societies: healthcare, litter, fires, land used to grow tobacco instead of food, lost productivity, etc. In order to help people quit smoking, booths could be installed in cities where future ex-smokers could get help during craving periods. During that hard moment, their mind and body would be solicitated by fun things so that they could forget about the need of nicotine. Future ex-smokers would be given a card with a code so that no helping session would be the same for them.

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Speaking signal light for kids

2009-12-15 20:14 - 0 Comments

Every year many children get involved in car accidents by crossing red signal lights.
How can we change it by making it more fun for children to stop at a red light?
An installed box at the signal light talks to the children and plays a song until the light turns green. The box draws the children's attention. They can sing a song until the signal light changes and then safely cross the street.
Submitted by Maurice Zacher

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Pedestrian bridge

2009-12-16 14:31 - 0 Comments

The project arose from a problematic situation, pedestrians in the streets of Mexico: the unconsciousness of people to cross the street by any places instead of using the pedestrian bridges.

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