Passenger-phone interactive screens for subway ads

Japan is the country of long train commutes. I commute 2 hours every day to my work. The trains have print ads hanging on the walls and TV screens above the sliding doors that display animated ads. I watch them all the time when I'm not sitting down. I thought it would be interesting to make them interactive with passenger phones. Allow phones within a certain radius to be used as remote controls to send instructions to the TV screen.

The commercial could ask questions relevant to the product advertised and then collect and display the answers given by the passengers who will press buttons on their phones or send text messages. It can turn into a fun game. For people on long commutes it can add some excitement to the train ride.

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whose fart was it?

for a laugh, when someone farts, oxygen masks get released. very appropriate for car, bus, train and elevator situations and for all public places. here's the funny little twist that turns the prank into an act of brilliance... everyone gets an oxygen mask except for the person who farted! (lol)

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Paralysis as a powerful training aid

We all know there is no such medicine you can take that will cause selective local paralysis for a limited time in your body. But if it could be invented, I think it could be a useful training aid. Neutralize for a week your left brain and train yourself to think with the right one. If you're an athlete, paralyze temporarily your right hand or leg and learn to shoot the ball or dribble with your left. Blind yourself for a week and increase your capacity to use your other senses, smell, hear, touch etc. The concept is to train by tricking your innate survival skills to come to the fore.

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Shoe-polish machines in the subway

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 29 March 2008 by member atamaga

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I thought of automatic shoe polish offered as a new service inside each train wagon on subways. Small machines installed underneath the surface where the feet rest. Just behind where you seat there is a coin receiver that takes the service charge. Once the coin is dropped the shoe polish machine comes out and polishes your shoes. On a rainy day to work, that would be a great service to offer while you sit!

talk without being heard?

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 19 March 2008 by member luppo

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imagine you are in a public place, the mobile phone rings and you answer the call right there but you don't want others to hear what you are saying and neither the people around you want to listen to your conversation anyway. what if mobile phones could do lip reading and transmit with your voice what you want to say to the other end?

it often happens in trains and buses in southern europe that people talk loud on their phones and the whole conversation is heard by everyone whereas with lip reading you could lip talk the words without being heard!