Transit Ticket Vailidation Slot Machine
2009-12-15 22:44 - 0 KommentarerEncouragment of ride transit and discourage ticket evaders: TRANSIT TICKET VALIDATION SLOT MACHINE!
Step 1: Person swipes ticket/card to validate ticket.
Step 2: Slot machine/ticket validator spins around
Step 3: Combination is revealed
Step 4: Shout for joy! or excitement! as you have just won a free ride on the transit system
or
Step 4a: No price, but a good conscience for having purchased a ticket to support and improve future transit services.
Inskickat av Chris Hube
Human Energy Xmas Tree
2009-12-16 20:07 - 0 KommentarerThree exercise bikes are standing side by side on a square somewhere.
Each is connected to the lights in a big Xmas tree.
Only by cycling at a certain pace the lights will burn.
Human energy creates electricity.
Will the crowd combine forces to keep the Xmas atmosphere?
A fun and healthy experience during cold christmas shopping
Inskickat av Erik de Heij
Feed Phil
2009-12-16 13:39 - 0 KommentarerMeet Phil.
Phil needs to be fed, and chewing gum is his favourite food. It’s your job to feed him.
The gum (and other small trash items) go into Phil's head.
After 20 pieces of trash have passed the motion sensor, Phil's begins his performance:
he chews, he laughs, he thanks you for your gum, and he generally just has a joyous time thanks to your trash-feeding efforts.
Mint Me - Book Return
2009-11-02 16:57 - 0 KommentarerThe idea is simple: When you return a book to the library you get a sweet mint. It’s a fun pat on the back for reading a book and returning it. Children would be enthused by a little gesture like this and it would encourage them to read more. Adults would enjoy a smile and a chuckle. The actual machine would just be a dispenser attached to the book return slot. When a book is returned a button is triggered and lights up for 5 seconds - You can then press the button and it dispenses a sweet mint.
The Presence of Digital Money
2009-11-30 11:29 - 0 KommentarerCredit 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.
Inskickat av Xu Xin
Canabaplastic Crusher
2009-12-16 15:36 - 0 KommentarerFun way of crushing cans or plastic containers while exercising those biceps and triceps. You can do it solo or with a friend. Just insert the materials into the box, close the lid, turn the handles and watch them get crushed through the transparent Plexiglas. Once the materials have been fully crushed to your content, just release the latch for them to be dumped in the recycling bin. Can also be re-configured to use your legs for those cycling enthusiasts.
Inskickat av Arthur Yong Wei Ter
Smarty Dictionary
2009-12-15 16:12 - 0 KommentarerMany people read comics rather than reading dictionaries.. However, dictionary has more useful informations. So if we make the dictionary that is talking when we filp the page,or touching the book, than many people will rather read dictionary than comics.
Inskickat av Julie Lee
Diet elevator
2009-12-09 14:58 - 0 KommentarerI have identified a problem in buildings which have a reduced number of floors and an elevator. People choose to use the elevator instead of climbing the stairs, which can often be faster and better for physical fitness, but can also mean economy of electricity. In order to change this kind of behavior, we will implement the diet elevator.This elevator contains a weighting machine in the floor. Elevators anyhow have pressure sensor but this will be more precise and will give the exact weight of the person from the elevator, by using an electronic screen placed on the elevator’s wall.
Monster Bin
2009-12-08 17:15 - 0 KommentarerThe idea is pretty simple: Taking some bins and dressing them up in silly (green?) monster costumes and placing them around the city (parks?). When people get close to one, the monster's mouth opens to allow people to 'feed' it (throw garbage in). It works with a motion sensor that triggers an engine to open the monster's mouth. It could also play some sounds to get attention. You can even park your VW next to it and the monster will keep the villains away. Ninjas too. Inskickad av Levi.
Song Dryer
2009-10-27 16:01 - 0 KommentarerIn bathrooms, many people don't like using the hot hand dryers vs. the alternative paper towel. There has to be a way to make those more fun. Perhaps instead of just hearing air blow out of the thing, maybe music instead, and not just the same song over and over. Use different songs that many people will like. They might actually use the dryer longer so they can finish the song, thus drying their hands effectively.
Inskickat av Rachael Peck
Fun Fountain
2009-12-16 14:39 - 0 KommentarerOn average, one person uses 166 disposable plastic water bottles each year. The consumption of disposable plastic bottles places enormous strain on our environment and only 90% of these water bottles are recycled. Chemicals in disposable plastic bottles are also toxic to human health but many people are hesitant to use drinking fountains because they are uncertain of the water quality. However, in a number of countries across Europe and the US, there are more regulations governing the quality of tap water than bottled water.
LItE WaTEr
2009-12-15 21:00 - 0 KommentarerCan we get more people to replace bottled water for drinking fountains by making it fun to do?
BIG PROBLEM: Plastic bottles can take up to 1000 years to biodegradate and currently only 10% of almost 40'000'000 bottles consumed a day worlwide is properly recycled. Bottled water consumed in America in one year requires over 1'500'000 barrels of oil, enough to power up 250,000 homes in the same year.
Ready, Steady, Shower!
2009-12-16 09:57 - 0 KommentarerThe concept is a racing game to play in the shower, that induces people to speed up. The faster you take your shower, the more you win and more water you save.
This game shows a possible way of saving water when taking a shower, so that the time it takes is reduced in a fun way.
The main concept is that user takes the least time to take a shower doing the usual tasks as shampooing and washing, rushing them in the form of a race.
This game could be diffused online, in a social network, so that friends and neighbours could compete amongst them.
The Ground is Made of Lava!
2009-12-15 21:59 - 0 KommentarerThe problem i'm attempting to solve is to reawaken interest in public parks which, within cities, often go underused and under appreciated. In the most basic terms, this would be a series of footprints, applied in anything from chalk to plastic cutouts that hammer into the ground (similar to a tent stake) and 'start' at a point near a public park.
Simon Says A Free Ticket
2009-12-16 09:16 - 0 Kommentarer“Simon Says Maybe A Free Ticket” is a large LED screen that flirts with possible participants by randomly giving compliments and to passer-byes to get their attention and make them smile.
The screen is connected to 5 sets of rubber footprints. When there are 5 pair of feet standing on them, the game gets automatically activated.
The 5 people are required to work together to memorize and repeat a 3 minutes dance step routine.
Love Shirt
2009-12-09 14:40 - 0 KommentarerA simple gesture changes the regular T shirt into a warm object which provokes human contact, interaction and communication. Inskickad av Eli Jacobson.
The Red Light Player
2009-12-15 21:11 - 0 KommentarerWaiting for the red man to change on the traffic light, while necessary for maintaining your life, is a bummer. Our aim was making the wait pleasurable. We did it by posting a highly competent street musician in one side of a heavily traveled zebra crossing. Our guy plays when the light is red, and rests when it turns green. For our special operation we made double bass covers for famous songs containing words like "stop", "stand", etc.
Inskickat av Guy Dayan, Adam Ben Ezra
Antivacterial Gel
2009-12-15 17:07 - 0 KommentarerMexico has just pass through a scary disease and there has been some actions to prevent it with hand washing stations. We have tried to make more people wash their hands, with an attempt to make it more fun.
Inskickat av Melissa Arosemena, Angelica Florez, Jeremy Sergeant, Jorge Nuño.
The reciclyng ticket machine
2009-12-16 16:53 - 0 KommentarerA problem to be solved in Argentina and probably in other countries, is that people who finish a bus, train, a highway or metro trip throw away their tickets on the station or on the street. Most of the tickets are made in paper
Can we get more people to throw tickets into a special machine, rather than on the ground, by making it fun to do ??
I think we can. And we solve two problems at once.
We can install special machines inside the main stations ( see graph ) where people must
1 ) Insert their ticket in the right slot ( e.g. subway ticket in subway slot ).
Relax Driving Game
2009-12-16 20:50 - 0 KommentarerOn the cities huge traffic jam is very common, drivers have to wait long periods of time on their cars without being able to move, this causes a lot of stress that isn't healthy for the driver and the passengers. In fact is a period of time that they must wait, but what if we could change this situation, what if we could find a solution to this problem that affects people all over the world, people that have to face this problem on a daily basis.
What if they can move forward in spite of the cars, what if they can do it virtually, maybe playing a driving game!





