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jcm0791

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I am currently enrolled in a small business course and we need to come up with 15 new product ideas based off of combining, modifying or rethinking existing ideas. I have a few (8) and I am empty ... I am hoping for some ideas that will jump start me or fit into the classification of 'Ideas that just might work ... until you actually think about them."

Any help (or entertaining hindrances) would be appreciated ... in a very non-monetary way.
 

SimuLord

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Rylot said:
The Inflatable Barbecue. Not sure if it actually exists or not.
"Johnson, this is NOT what I had in mind when you were supposed to design something full of melt-in-your-mouth goodness!"
 

Great North

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flea-delivery service. By that, I mean a service that delivers fleas to you.

(Department of Redundancy Department)
 

Biosophilogical

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Ooh! I always wanted one of these (heck, if I choose to do engineering I might create a design of it just for kicks). A flaming pen. Take of the lid and you can write away to your heart's content, but what's that, there appears to be a locked door that only a magnesium flame can cut through? Well just click the lid back on, face the non-writing end at the door and activate away. All of a sudden, a white-hot plume of flame erupts a few inches out of the pen, slicing through those pesky locks like a warm knife through butter. After all, if you didn't want a door opened, why not make a wall instead?

EDIT: Alternatively, if you get one of those pens with the ball in the maze, but replace the maze with lots of balls, you could make the balls incendiary grenades and use them to get a fire going when you get lost because you were too busy hand-writing your novel to notice that you'd left your house, flown to a foreign country and become lost in the wilderness.

EDIT2: For all those cafes at risk of being robbed, just buy a sword-coffee machine, and when someone tries to rob your place, just pull out a freakin' katana and chop off their gun hand (or head, depending upon the situation).

EDIT3: An arrow with a magnetically suspended vial of liquid nitrogen within a vacuum in the arrow head (obviously the vial and arrow head are fragile enough to shatter on impact). Then you can get guaranteed kill-shots, or, if they are inside a wooden fortress, weaken the structural integrity of the walls/gates by super-cooling them.

EDIT4: A water-purifier-pen. So when you get the fire going with your incendiary grenade pen, you can get safe drinking water.

A taser-sword-pen. Once you have water and a fire, you can go hunting for food, and if you end up biting off more than you can chew, you can use the taser in the concealed sword in the pen to stun it then kill it with the sword itself ... also, the electricity for the taser could be charged from writing, so that by the time you actually need to use your taser-sword-pen as a taser you have built up enough charge. Though in truth, it's more of a knife then a sword, but everyone knows that knives are useful too.

EDIT5 (yes, so many edits, I apologise): A walking stick axe. Instead of pulling a sword from your walking stick, it has a blade that falls out similar to a fan, then locks into place, making an axe head. Also, it can be used in conjunction with the other pens to cut wood for a proper fire, or as a back-up weapon for when a taser-sword-pen that is actually a dagger just isn't enough.
 

RatRace123

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Cyanide pills over the counter.
Tell me that wouldn't sell well (barring all the legal and ethical problems.)
 

Biosophilogical

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I'm sorry, six edits is too much. So I'm going to go with yo-yo daggers. You slice with them, throw them at someone, then, when you tug on the string the blade retracts, and the fly back into your hands (to prevent self-stabbing).

... I've noticed something, most of my suggestions have had violent potential. So as for something non-aggressive, glow-in-the-dark fairy floss. Or maybe sonar-goggles, that allow you to see through sonar. Like night-vision goggles, except more bat-ish.
 

LongAndShort

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Pet sex toys. I'm talking doggy strap-ons and the such. I'm planning on making them and selling them in sex shops as novelty items.

You may think 'what a sick fuck to think of such a thing!' but let's face it, that's just the sort of novelty item people would buy for shits and giggles.
 

Paulie92

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Biosophilogical said:
I'm sorry, six edits is too much. So I'm going to go with yo-yo daggers. You slice with them, throw them at someone, then, when you tug on the string the blade retracts, and the fly back into your hands (to prevent self-stabbing).

... I've noticed something, most of my suggestions have had violent potential. So as for something non-aggressive, glow-in-the-dark fairy floss. Or maybe sonar-goggles, that allow you to see through sonar. Like night-vision goggles, except more bat-ish.
Honestly dude, while all your ideas are excellent.... I'm going to have to stop you at GLOW-IN-THE-DARK FAIRY FLOSS

you are my new god
 

Timotei

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Rylot said:
The Inflatable Barbecue. Not sure if it actually exists or not.
Someone already beat you to the idea and made it then murdered the concept with 'overdone-ness'. [http://www.aboutcolonblank.com/2008/05/16/the-inflatable-floating-bbq-for-10-people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aboutcolonblank%2Ffeed+%28about%3Ablank%29]
 

dalek sec

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Singing/punching teleagram(sp) service. If you pay extra they hit the person with either brass knuckles or a baseball bat! :D
 

Reep

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You know when you neatly roll up your earphones and put them in your pocket, when you pull them out the tangle they're in is more complicated than astrophysics?

What about a fold able or retractable earphone set?
 

Rylot

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Timotei said:
Rylot said:
The Inflatable Barbecue. Not sure if it actually exists or not.
Someone already beat you to the idea and made it then murdered the concept with 'overdone-ness'. [http://www.aboutcolonblank.com/2008/05/16/the-inflatable-floating-bbq-for-10-people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aboutcolonblank%2Ffeed+%28about%3Ablank%29]
Thanks, I knew I'd heard of it from somewhere but google wasn't being helpful ;P.
 

jcm0791

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Thank you everyone ... that was exactly what I needed. I laughed; I cried ... I may have even wet myself a little. And, I now have some ideas that I can totally pirate which should cause my instructor to look at me very oddly indeed. Perfect!!