Idea Exploration Task

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Idea 2 was clearly voted the highest.

Idea 1 was just a warm up to get my thinking going. I wanted a way for grandparents to entice their grandchildren to  their house. Personally sometimes going to see my Grandparents was a bit of a chore. Their house was always so boring. In my experience old folk generally dont have much stimulation. Maybe everyone was much more frugal after living through the wars. The device is an electronic map which folds out like a real map. One of the halves is a big flashing alert light which is supposed to notify the grandparents when their grand children are near by. Once the map is opened fully a screen is evident which shows where the grand kids are and below it are pre set messages that the oldies can send to their grand children. The map device is meant to be stored next to the old fashion styled internet enabled phone.

The map device is pictured below.

For me task 2 was dealing with showing affection through a device. There were the obvious ideas of having teddy bears that become warm, hug back, release a scent etc. The same could be done with a pillow. However by far the most interesting idea was the sex toys. A fleshlight for men and vibrators for women. Accelerometers could be attached to each with some kind of wireless transmission device. When more movement is sensed the vibrations become more intense and the fleshlight would also get tighter. This is certainly a candidate for the initial concept presentation.

I would like to go forward with this idea but i really don't have the "balls" to present it. It would be one of thoes things that could be really good or just not work at all. If it did go down well it would just be the novelty of the idea which would pull it through and i that jut wouldn't be a satisfying mark.  I think ill keep this idea and might make one in the future if i grow the "balls" necessary.

This third concept was also pretty generic. The theory for the first idea is that if someone is doing something exciting then their heart rate increases. So if a heart rate monitor could also talk to an iphone it could detect when someone is doing something exciting and possibly check people in at an exciting location.

The second idea was to have an actions per minute meter. This is similar to what video games have. In computer games, an action is when a button is clicked. So the more actions per minute generally means the more intense the person is playing the game. In the real world actions could be measured through some sort of brain activity measuring device. The more brain activity, the more more exciting the activity. and this could also be put through the internet and shown to friends etc.


Im still working on the projector which was mentioned in my first post. I tend to think of ideas and build on them over time. It has taken some form I guess. The main idea I want to show with these sketches is the series of sensors. I was thinking if you put sensors in a row then horizontal movement could easily be detected. That final massive circle on the right is the image projector.