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Idea #12: Crowdsource band bookings

Why do I continue to give away ideas that will definitely be earthshatteringly successful, while I remain a modestly poor man? We should not pretend to understand such things. Let’s just get together with thousands of other people and order our favourite band to come and play in the nearest village hall, while the 20th century music industry charges furiously through the empty streets outside.

Idea #11: Augmented reality Facebook recognition

Sick of being surrounded by strangers with whom you are unable to play Mafia Wars? Rest easy, the problem is solved. Oh, and you no longer have any privacy either. Your personal sphere is a burst bubble on the breaking wave of augmented reality.

Idea #10: Advertise on money

To celebrate reaching Idea #10 – a global experiment! Ever feel frustrated at the amount of self-publicity the leaders of your nation get on bank notes. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it…

Idea #9.5: Remote graffiti

Get out the closet and let me see your hand. Not that one, the other one. Ha – what’s that?! A marker pen?? Look at the inside of this closet! I always knew you were a frustrated graffitist. Here, have a look at this idea. You can go out and play tag with all the other boys and girls, but you don’t even have to leave the house…

Idea #9: Pimp My Village

Pimping trash rides is one thing, but how about pimping poor people’s lives? Why not their whole village? And I’m not talking sex trafficking. For what I am talking, read on fellow pimp…

Project #1: Buy a Fab Lab

Last week I posted about Fab Labs and why they are such a great idea. To my ecstasy, it received four comments (inc. one from me) – the first post in the explosive short life of this blog of ideas to receive such a monumental response.
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Idea #8: Emotion-targeted marketing

Advertising these days leaving you cold with respect to the human condition? Feeling a little violated? Let the warmth flow back into your soul with this heartwarming tale of how marketing could be. Maybe making people feel happy could actually make, someone, somewhere, some money… One day…

Idea #7: Fab Labs

Want to be able to make almost anything in your garage? Instead of putting a new car in there, fill it with a Fab Lab. Ah – you don’t know what a Fab Lab is do you not? Let me tell you, it’s going to make all your dreams come true. Well, within reason…

Idea #6: Umbrella rental

Are you a weather-focused entrepreneur looking for an umbrella idea that’ll take the world by storm? Search no more, my friend, you have found your oasis of fresh idea waters in this desert that you have walked, companionless, for so long. Come, bathe in this idea with me…

Idea #5: Design your own bar

Mass customisation is everywhere. We can now design our own babies, design our own hats, and even design the Grandmas who knit them. I mean choose. Despite this, most of the real world remains stubbornly uncustomised. Let’s force the issue…