The Best of Halfbakery – October ideas
Happy October! This month finds us with a brand new list of four out-there halfbakery.com ideas to continue our “Best Of” series. As usual, our comments on each idea are in green. Have you found an idea at Halfbakery that hasn’t made it on our list yet? Let us know!
“Why not, instead of setting up a depression, creativity-draining cublice landscape, erect an office based on the lazy river rides found at most water parks? There would be no walls, just a wide space with a winding, slow-current river replacing most of the floor. Each employee would get a large innertube outfitted with a couple drawers, a raised writing surface, cup holders, office supplies, a cell-phone, etc. Then they could spend all day floating around, perhaps with their feet in the water as they go about their business. I envision much happier, productive employees (as long as the innertubes are made sturdy enough to support some serious work.”
I don’t know about you, but if going to the office every day meant getting to float around in a river all day, I think I’d look forward to the work day a little more! It’s definitely a half-baked idea, but still fun to envision. Check out all the comments with additions and improvements to the original concept!
“This is a credit card that changes as you spend and approach your limit. Its based off of the Homeland Security Model.
- Low – Green – Spent nothing or next to nothing.
- Guarded – Blue – You’re spending within your range.
- Elevated – You are spending dangerously close to your monthly budget and are in danger of overspending.
- High – Orange – You have spent past your budget and are very close to your limit.
- Severe – You have spent past your limit, the credit card companies are going to deactivate your card and repo all your possessions.This way you will know when you have spent too much and how soon you’ll be living on the street completely broke.”
Another great, while somewhat outrageous, idea. It would be great to immediately know the status of your credit card when you’re out and about, instead of having to try to remember or look it up. I also like the idea of the card changing to a certain color if it’s stolen.
“I feel bad enough when I get a coffee in a paper cup and not in my stainless travel mug that I have forgot to bring/wash. Adding insult to injury is the means to insulate the cup from your hand. This is either more paper in the form of a sleeve, a styrofaom cup in itself, a foam lined cup exterior, a foam sleeve, or an extra cup altogether. A small tough folded and quilted inflatable sleeve with an elastic joiner to accomodate all sizes could be blown up, used, deflated, and folded back into a credit card sized space in your wallet.”
The average American consumes around 3 to 4 cups of coffee a day. If those coffees are all purchased in paper cups with paper or plastic sleeves, that’s a lot of waste! A reusable cup sleeve is a great idea, especially if it’s inflatable so that it can fit many sizes and be easily stored. While I haven’t seen an inflatable sleeve yet, I am proud to say that I do use a reusable sleeve if I get my coffee in a paper cup – here’s where I got mine!
“For this Halloween, I have come up with screamin’ soda caps. I stumbled upon this when I was at a party last night and I opened a really fizzly bottle of Coke. Now, I thought to my self, “What can we do with this?”. So…… For Halloween, I propose specially made bottles and lids for soda bottles. Cleverly shaped, these bottled, instead of making a hissing noise, use the pressurized CO2 inside to make a screaming noise when first opened. NOW THAT’S THE SPIRIT!!!!”
Since Halloween is coming up, I figured it would be appropriate to add this idea to the list. If someone could figure out how to actually make the bottles scream when opened, I could think of a million ways it could be used as a great prank!
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