10,000 Brilliant Ideas

A grocery service that  monitors  your pantry with an app that scans  bar codes  or let's you check off ingredients when you use them. Alerts you when things will expire or when you're going to run out. Could also be melded with a grocery service that prepares your basket for you with your staples before you come in. This breaks the "put the milk at the back of the store so you have to browse everything else first" model, but it could easily introduce a much more friendly "here's what you usually get and here's what we think you might like" concept. And of course you can have the pick up station at the back of the store too.

In the Philippines, rich people drive up to their gates and honk and wait for their househelp to come open it for them. Can these people be bothered to open their own gates? Of course not. Can they be bothered that they're bothering their neighbors? Not likely. Are they willing to wait long? Not at all. Are these people jerks? You said it, not me. What's a fantastic way to capitalize on this? Repurpose the wireless doorbell. All you need to do is increase the range of the doorbell signal to, let's say 500 meters if possible. Then change the look of the button to fit in a car ala garage door opener. Make the packaging say "Never wait for the gate and keep your neighbors from getting irate!" Make it look like this is what all rich people are using and also market it for neighbors who want to give a "secret" gift to their annoying honker neighbors without being confrontational. Obviously this could also easily be done with a phone app, but if people wer...

This surely must exist, but I've honestly never seen it. We've all put our phones on silent and then forgot about it. Or perhaps more poignantly, we've all tried to call someone who accidentally left their phone on silent. And sometimes that person is the couch hiding our phones in it's cushions. If there was a timer option, we could just wait a few hours until it switched back to loud mode and then call it again to find it.

Can you have a warehouse clear up north where shipping companies can pass by with frozen goods, leave them there with minimal storage cost, and then ship them to countries when needed?

24/7 dispatch in any storm (Is the water getting close? Give us a call!) preventative service (with guarantee!) must-go taxi service (never miss a flight!) Gear Tough dudes on call (with waders and boots) snorkeled and sealed SUVs and trucks (with winches and the like for clearing roads if needed) Truck-based pumps Gas-powered pumps Tarps and coverings Sandbags car props for getting a vehicle up high collapsible door tunnels (these might not yet exist...) Obviously this plan is very seasonal, but only the gear needs to be sitting around all year. The guys that are needed can just be regular joes with normal jobs that don't have other worries when the rain comes. Their regular jobs will be cancelled during that time anyway.

In the name of fitness and haste, in big office buildings have one or more elevators that only go to every 10th floor. This is  preferably the elevator right next to the staircase and maybe the staircase isn't so ghetto, but that's another issue. If you work on a 10th floor, lucky you. If you work on a mid-10th floor, say the 43rd, you can either ride up to the 50th and walk down 7 flights or ride up to the 40th and walk up 3 flights. Either way it's going to be good for your health. If you have bags to carry, just take the slowvator with the fat people.

Want to save a ton on air conditioning costs? Instead of cooling your bedroom, just cool your bed! This bed has sides on it (done in a stylish way) about a foot and a half high with air vents at the top. The bed is cooled like an open deep freeze and the sides keep the cold air in. The temperature controls are right there next to you while you sleep.  UPDATE: coolbed now comes with a mosquito net on top. You simply lift it, climb in and enjoy.