Pedaling Battery Charger
2009-12-15 20:23 - 0 CommentsVery often it happens that you are away from home and just when you have to make an important call, your cell phone is discharge. The pedaling battery charger is a sort of phone booth that allows you to recharge every type of phone. Inside you can find several attacks and certainly there will also be your among them. The pedaling battery charge looks like a bicycle: by speed and force with which you pedal you recharge more or less quickly your phone.
Subway Symphony
2009-12-16 17:34 - 0 CommentsThe Theory: This idea is to encourage the average person to incorporate social music/rhythm/sound into their daily commute, instead of having everyone isolated in a personal bubble, This would hopefully lead to more interpersonal interaction, not necessarily through speaking but through music. The Plan: On a subway car, incorporate different areas which form different sounds. (snare drum, piano cords, guitar sounds, etc..) These areas can be anything from a pole, to a small section on the floor, or even part of a seat. They would be touch sensitive, and light up when touched.
The Waker
2009-12-16 13:37 - 0 CommentsProblem: many people do not want to wake up at the morning
Resolution: the waker is a page that only works from 6:00 to7:00.if you enter at that time you get points, and when you have one hundred you earn something special. If you wake up from 6:00 to 6:15 you get 5 points, if you wake up from 6:15 to 6:30 you get 3 points and if you wake up from 6:30 to 7:00 you get1 point.every time you win you start again.
Submitted by Luis Manuel Elizondo
The bench race
2009-11-20 11:50 - 0 CommentsThere are four static bikes which when peddled will rotate each of the four rings with the benches on them. I want to address the issue of the bad connection between the gardens with the road passing through them, but also wanted to bring fun back into everyday life. there will be monitors at both points so that there is a visual connection between the two spaces.
Submitted by Simon Grover
Scratch Mat
2009-12-15 22:26 - 0 CommentsMost people enter a building without cleaning their shoes, often resulting in dirt all over the floor. Could this nuisance be removed by making the activity fun to do? We think so.
Submitted by Felix Möller and Daniel Westhof - Germany
Public Transport Radio
2009-12-16 12:02 - 0 CommentsBored with your music? Plug your headphones into the radio system and listen to other people's music. Or DJ your own tracks and get talking with other listeners. If someone tunes into to your show, your light flashes. The more people you have listening, the hotter your light's colour. If you like what you hear, why not say hello to your DJ, they're sitting on the same bus!
Submitted by Matthew Venn
Piggy bank
2009-12-15 21:29 - 0 CommentsThis piggy bank is like your dog or your cat, it is alive and it needs you to take care of it. When it is moved or randomly, when it senses that somebody is around, it gets sad and calls your attention because it needs to be fed. For doing that, its owner has to feed it with a small random amount of money that will be taken from the credit card. The idea is that the owner has to take care of it, but at the same time, it will save money for you and put it in a separate savings account. This way, at the end of the month you'll always have some money you saved because of taking care of it.
One-armed Vending Machine
2009-12-15 17:36 - 0 CommentsHow do we get more people to recycle drinks cans? We turn a normal vending machine into a gambling machine, where instead of coins we use old cans as credits to play. You crush you can, the wheels spin, and the lucky ones win a fresh can of cold soda.
Submitted by Vittorio Pavesi - Italy
Traffic tetris
2009-12-15 20:38 - 0 CommentsThere are motorists who try to be in the fast lane in spite of knowing that they would need to change lanes in a short distance
1) The stretch just before a junction is treated as a point for motorist to correct their lanes. This leads to confusion, traffic jams and accidents.
2) If which car is headed in what direction is known in advance then it would be easier to control traffic
3) Traffic Tetris makes this possible in a fun way.
To participate, every motorist needs to define his destination and the route he’d take. Vehicles heading in the same direction are given one color.
Energy generating bike
2009-12-15 16:31 - 0 CommentsUse an ergometric bike (fitness bike) to generate electric energy for a bus/train/ferry stop. All types of users and public can ride a bike while waiting for public transportation, where the mechanical energy provided by the user is transformed in electric energy and used in the illumination of the bus/train stop at night. The advertising display is also transformed in a video game screen. According to the distances covered by the users, the battery bar in the screen is filled until the “champion” completes the whole bar.
Outside living room
2009-12-15 20:20 - 0 CommentsDo you like watching TV?
Why do we have to find new ways to have fun if we can take old "ways" and change it? Nowadays watching a lot of TV is a habit of most of the population.
We want to bring people together again and get them outside to have fun by watching the "real world".
Putting large couches and empty TV boxes in puplic places encourages people to sit down and arouse interest in their surroundings again. Submitted by Simon Scherer.
You Can Have My Seat
2009-11-19 16:21 - 0 CommentsProblem:
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
Happy booth
2009-12-16 11:06 - 0 CommentsThe negative mood of the great majority of people that can result on further violence or isolation. To make people realize that they have enough reasons to be happy, they just need a detonator to speak out and share them.
These days all the people is seeking to be famous, to be broadcasted, express themselves; this “Happy Booth”, located in any public space, is a nice way to do this.
Pong Dryer
2009-12-15 21:04 - 0 CommentsIn public toilets, where hand dryers are available, most people use toilet paper to dry their hands because it is faster. We are wasting paper using it in the wrong way; this also means we are cutting trees because we can't wait one minute using the hand dryer. Other consequence is more expenses buying more quantities of toilet paper in every place where a public toilet is located.
Calories to Watts
2009-12-15 17:08 - 0 CommentsThe people exercise to burn calories and become more fit. Various exercise machines are used, such as bikes and elliptical equipment. Weights, wheels, springs, magnets etc. are used to create resistance. Burning calories is not always fun and it is energy wasted in vain. However, if we use electrical generator to create the resistance in the exercise equipment, than our exercise can be used to produce electrical energy. Imagine a gym full of rotational and elliptical equipment and the electricity that can be produced when the gym is full.
Tube Motocross Racing
2009-12-07 14:30 - 0 CommentsOffering your seat to elderly or disabled passengers has never been so fun. Just stand up, grab hold of your ‘handle bars’, twist the grips and race other considerate Tube passengers all the way to Ealing Broadway. Submitted by Chris Whitehead.
The final lap
2009-11-20 10:53 - 0 CommentsThe final lap is about a motivation for people to do exercise. It consists in placing flex panels along the racing track with several movement sensors, while activating them will project several images and the corresponding sound from speakers and canyons, so when the runner pass through will suddenly appear.
There are many options that will change weekly, for example: other race competitors running with you simulating a real race, or you could run with the Forrest Gump famous character. Submitted by Alejandra Gonzalez
Counter tap
2009-12-16 10:18 - 0 CommentsTo conscience is the most effective way to changing every day customs. Small and repetitive gestures of daily life are the ones that have more impact. So the key is to reeducate habits and change people´s behaviours.
The idea is to put a counter or scorer on the tap water , basin and shower, sink.. to show you the amount of water you use and if it possible to use less obtainig the same result. To put a comparative of the litres you have used with a shocking data of what could have been done with the wasted water.
HAPPY Used Batteries Container
2009-12-16 15:19 - 0 CommentsIn México and the world is quite difficult to find places to throw used batteries. Moreover is boring and tedious take it to this collection points. It will always be most easy to throw them with all the other garbage. But not always will be more fun that throw them into a container that can make you feel good, make you feel happy and achieve a smile in your face.
Binpoller
2009-11-23 16:08 - 0 CommentsA recycle bin turned into fun poll-machine. Two transparent cylinders with scales are showing the public opinion. People can "vote" with
their garbage, by throwing it into YES or NO can. You can change the questions over the time to keep the poll fresh and sharp, based on what is important at the moment in the given location.
Submitted by Oliver Maaker
