Cool Ideas thread
polycounter lvl 17
Hi guys, I had this cool idea today and i thought it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. any cool idea goes, as long as it is cool and (according to you) possible within the next 10 years. Shouldn't be as vague as: "a jetpack would be cool", but a little more detailed.
Ok, so here is my idea:
What if you where able to make music by dancing/moving? I imagine this as some sort of game/software that translates your movements to sounds. So you wear a suit or are filmed or something, and the program translates different moves to different tunes. So if you move shocky/fast it will become fast-paced music. and if you move slowly and curvy you'll get lounge music.
what do you think? fun?
Ok, so here is my idea:
What if you where able to make music by dancing/moving? I imagine this as some sort of game/software that translates your movements to sounds. So you wear a suit or are filmed or something, and the program translates different moves to different tunes. So if you move shocky/fast it will become fast-paced music. and if you move slowly and curvy you'll get lounge music.
what do you think? fun?
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Maybe have a look over at createdigitalmusic.com, they report on this stuff quite often, maybe they'll have a tag for it.
Nevertheless, in ideas like this there'll always be lag, and if it has to analyse the speed and 'curvy-ness' of motion, things could get frustratingly unrepresentative awfully fast, since it obviously can't computer that realtime without jumping all over the place.
The difficult thing will be to make the user feel as if he's actually in control.
A friendly mini size tiger that doesn't kill you ever and isn't needy and very affordable.
Alex
I think I have seriously wondered why we don't have tiny elephants about once a month for the past 5 years or so.
Also a user-friendly standardized interface for custom-configuring laser tag equipment via wifi and/or bluetooth. You could use small memory cards (a mag-stripe would be enough) to hold the encoding information for the IR in the guns (to keep track of who fired, etc), and then the sensor vests would register the hits and send a wireless signal to the scorekeeping hub (which is also the mag-stripe encoder, so you swipe your gun's card and it counts you in as a player), which is connected wirelessly to your computer, which is where you set up the match rules, etc. I'm pretty sure that's almost how it works at LT arenas anyway, but the main difference is that these would be standardized consumer models, and they'd work with your home PC so you could set up your own multiplayer games with friends, AND use the same standard equipment in tournaments or larger formal matches. (And there would be tournaments all over the place, because people would be all about it if they could find enough space to play.)
The Flemish Giant. Not huge, but still pretty fucking big for a rabbit, wouldn't you agree?
lol, some of the things here aren't really ideas, but they sure made me giggle
Ideally, this would be applied to an on-line team-based multiplayer title. Individual players would command squadrons of troops as part of an overall army. (their team) I'm thinking 4 vs 4 for smaller skirmishes, and 16 vs 16 for big battles. Whichever player serves as the commander has to remain at base and supervise communication and resources. The overhead map that the commander can access will only have the fog of war cleared for areas that the mobile squadrons can see or have erected structures to monitor.
Tools will be provided for tapping into enemy communications and exploiting them. For instance, an enemy squad could succeed in cutting off an opposing squad's communications without alerting them, and then use their voice chat to send them erroneous information.
oh wait they can already do that:)
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-caseyjones
This little idea I come up with every time I get frustrated that the art I see in my head isn't what I put down on paper, or on the computer, etc.
Basically, it's some sort of machine that links to your mind and can read the images from your head, then trasnfer them into a physical and visual medium. Meaning, all you have to do is come up with some super-cool idea in your head, no matter how complicated and crazy it may be, and viola! The lazy-man artist tool 5000 creates it for you, with no worry that your skill level isn't high enough to do the image in your mind justice.
No, I have no idea how this could technically work... I'm an artist, not an engineer. I'm only here to make crazy ideas, not know how they could actually work.
A little elephant buddy would be awesome too. I'd call the species 'Pygmy Elephants' and name mine Bob.
There is already a species called Pygmy Elephants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_elephant
A little fairy that sits on my shoulder and does spell checking for me would be nice too. So that "voila!" wouldn't be spelled like an instrument... :shifty:
And pygmy elephants already exist?! Damn, so then can I not use the name Bob either?!? Why, cruel world...