These are some ideas I’ve had that are taking up space in my head – can someone please make them for me? Ta
- A little sensor that you can attach to your backpack a beeps when the sun gets too hot and there’s a danger of you getting sunburnt – or something like that
- A pen that draws in Ant pheromones so you can lead the Ants back out of your house once they’re in
- A recharge shop. A place where you can drop stuff off to be recharged for a small fee, or pay a larger amount to swap your dead battery for a full one if you’re in a rush
That’s all I can remember for now…I really need to start keeping a pad next to my bed so I can jot this stuff down!
There are places at service stations where you can pay to recharge your mobiles, but can you imagine the horrendous number of power adapters you’d need?
“I want you to recharge my laptop”
“What make is it?”
“It’s a Dell…about nine years old”
Aaargh!
I hadn’t seen the service station stuff, is it some kind of turbo charge thingy?
I think me main issue with the recharge shop is connections, you can create the right Voltage/Amperage ratio quite easily, it’s just getting it connected right :)
Food for thought though….
I agree with Simon. Half the models of phones have different adaptors comparted to each other, let alone the differences betwenn different companies. Nokia is the only company that springs to my mind that have a universal adaptor for their phones regardless of model.
And that’s just phones. Good ideas though, especially the sunburn one…
Well I’ve seen (and owned) a USB mobile phone charger that had about 10 different connections – but obviously not one that fitted by phone.
But I think phones are generally the exception here, most other devices have a pretty standard round adapter plug which you get with cheap-o adapters from Argos.
I dunno – it can’t _really_ be that hard can it? I mean what if you were able to bring your own charger? That would be a bit better…
If you could bring you’re own charger why not just plug it in at work?
I thought the idea was a “doh I’ve forgotten spare batteries/charger and need somewhere to relieve this misery”
On a slightly different theme, someone I know was complaining about trying to carry multiple cups of tea down stairs, so I’m making a prototype gimbal-mounted teatray, to see if you can keep it perfectly level…
Marc: yeah but not if you’re in town or something like that. Like I said it’s a shop – we’ll put it next to the other shops.
Simon: I’d be ready to invest in that :)
You might be pleased to know that a very crude, ugly prototype of the teatray is now entering the beta testing phase – that is, I know there’s a problem and think I know the solution…