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10 Ideas Blog

The 10 Ideas Blog was inspired by the words of James Altucher in his National Best Seller, Choose YourselfEach week, we sit down and challenge our brain to come up with ten ideas for new inventions.  This is a great exercise for anyone to participate in, and sometimes we come up with really great concepts (and sometimes, they’re a little crazy!) Our father, Ben Greenfield wrote an article about why this is such a good idea, and you can read that article here.

Like many people right now, we’ve been thinking a lot about the vehicles that we use to get around and how we impact the planet.  We think that with some innovation, we can come up with better ways to travel, things that can help reduce the need to travel, and other ideas that will help reduce our impact on the environment.

Terran on Birthday Cake Innovation

I had a lot of ideas that weren’t related to cakes, but I couldn’t help but think about how it could be a lot easier to decorate cakes (something I really like to do) if I had a tool that helped stack layered cakes and automatically crumb coated them.

River on Birthday Cake Innovation

My ideas were meant to be funny.  Like the candles that can’t be blown out, and just keep relighting themselves, I thought it would be funny to have candles that start to smell after burning for a few seconds.  I also thought it would be great – as a person with a birthday in March – to have a leprechaun cake and you don’t know if you are cutting into it to find a “pile of gold” or a trick.

 

You can see some of our other ideas from the week here:

River Ideas Birthday Cake Innovation
Terran Ideas Birthday Cake Innovation

River’s List

  1. Smelly birthday cake candles
  2. Leprechaun Cake
  3. Shoes that hold survival gear
  4. Remote control pool ball
  5. Customizable fruit for your computer
  6. Keyboard made out of wood
  7. Piano that has a way to remember your songs
  8. A bookshelf that turns into a TV
  9. Nerf gun disguised as a stapler
  10. Ski goggles with a way to change colors of the lens

Terran’s List

  1. Mixer that scrapes side of the bowl
  2. Glasses for dogs
  3. Dog breath mint
  4. Self-tuning guitar
  5. Fruit bowls that are color coded for different fruits
  6. A hatchet that can work like an axe (extendable?)
  7. A ‘what goes well with this color’ app
  8. A cake stacker and crumb-coater for cake
  9. Mini trees (mini Maple, etc.)
  10. A toy that throws itself for dogs
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