10,000 Brilliant Ideas

I want little porcelain figurines, or music boxes or what have you that you use to decorate your house. But instead of being made of porcelain they are made of some indestructible plastic or rubber. They still look nice (and grown-up), but they don't break with curiosity.

TV is overloaded with commercials all fighting for our attention. We're focused on restructuring the format, and possibly starting an entirely new direction in the way we view TV. The short commercials will grab the attention of the average viewer by simply the shock of something new. Pro: this would make air time 10 times cheaper. Con: If it caught on, the idea would most likely contribute to an increase of ADHD for the general public.

This is a bathtub that has the hot water circulate around a ceramic channel that's built into the tub (on the outside, but hidden) before spewing the water into the tub. That way your tub warms up as soon as you turn on the water.

Gift registering and buying should be fun right?  After all you are spending oodles.  So to make it a little more fun, the bride and groom fill out a couple of survey questions and when you come in to print off their list then you answer a few questions such as "what is your relationship to the bride/groom? or What do you like to give most clothes, kitchen, bedroom or bath?" then based on those questions the computer prints you a list of gifts you would likely choose.  So instead of 12 pages of everything that wanton couple happened to zap on their registering escapade, you have a half page of good suggestions that you might actually consider.

There is a culture surrounding the globe (my data pool consists of Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, and Moab, Utah) of young able-bodied, unmarried youth with ideas of changing the world in a hippie-like fashion. Basically these guys and girls got time on their hands which is why they are traveling the world, living in cheap hostels. IHCN takes this wealth of untapped man-hours and connects it with the many under-staffed charitable organizations that could use them. Basically, IHCN has a recognizable logo that these gruffians (my word, make sure I get credit when it hits dictionaries) recognize in the many different countries they visit. There is some sort of expectation, like donate a morning as you're passing through, and essentially everyone gets in on this way to change the world. Guys talk about it, girls talk about it, hostel owners talk about it and possibly offer discounts for people who participate in it. And as folks talk around the crappy table eating ramen they say things li...

A comforter or blanket for couples with different core temperatures. Half the blanket is thick and cozy for the one who enjoys being toasty, and half is thin for the one who hates being boiled.

These are like regular stickers kids already enjoy, but they use post-it glue instead of super glue or whatever they currently use so kids can stick them wherever and they don't stay forever.