Thermo-electric ideas (and other ideas: Liquid Pictures and Serial Art (Chronological order) Jigsaws) Plus: Note taking Ideas/Photosculpture idea/Conjurors Box idea

Thermo-Electric Glow Gloves –

You rub your hands together this heats them up generating electricity which makes them up light up, perhaps not a bright light but enough to see.

Thermo-Electric Chargeable Heaters-

Perhaps people could save on their heating bill by putting a thermoelectric powered heater next to a gas or electric powered heater; the heat of one would charge the other and then you wouldn’t have to pay as much money to unscrupulous energy companies.

All Weather Generator – You could make a generator that combines several forms of power generation, that in the summertime is powered by both solar panel and thermoelectric materials but on windy days is powered by a wind turbine and, from being shook about, by piezoelectric materials. Perhaps you could also fit a hydroelectric turbine on it for rainy days although I’m not sure what you would do on cold/non-windy days.

 

Body-heat powered electric blanket –

 

Perhaps this is getting into the realms of perpetual motion/science fiction but perhaps you could have a thermoelectric blanket that is powered by your body heat; your body heat heats it up and it heats your body up and so forth; a bit like heat recycling.

 

Thermoelectric teddybears/dolls/ toys-

 

Hug these bears or dolls tightly, get them warm and the warmth will generate electricity to make them light up/move/talk or whatever.

 

Thermoelectric Spinner Toy- A spinning top that sits on your hand and rotates, powered by your body heat.

 

Thermoelectric fan – This is bound to be an old idea but you could have a body heat powered electric fan.

 

Thermoelectric Lovelights – These are thermoelectric items of jewlery or things that you wear which light up when you are hugging and kissing.

 

Thermoelectric Telekinesis Trick Objects (for conjurors) –

 

You will look as if you have telekinesis when these mechanical objects move, powered by your body heat.

 

Thermoelectric Fire Barriers/anti-fire mechanisms – Why not have fire shields or machines to put out fires that are powered by the heat of a fire. Fighting fire with fire, sort of.

 

Generator Charity- This is a charity scheme where people generate energy to be donated or, perhaps they sell that energy and donate the money. For example, piezoelectric generators allow people to generate electricity through dancing. It’s just a thought although it may be a crazy thought.

 

Thermoelectric homing beacon- A person is wearing a body heat powered homing beacon that keeps sending out a signal for as long as they stay warm.

 

Thermoelectric machine cooling systems- Again, I’m not sure about this, but perhaps you could put thermoelectric cooling systems into machines so that, when they overheat, they can cool themselves down.

 

Thermoelectric fun thermometers- Perhaps you could have thermoelectric thermometers that do different things depending on how hot it is. The hotter it gets the more electricity they’d have and so high temperatures could produce more exciting effects (this would be better in the summer). Or how about a thermo-electric talking thermometer that, if you put it in the bath tub can say “Too Hot” or “Just right”.

Art Idea-

A liquid picture (this may be an old idea, no plagiarism intended)

Just for fun, why not create abstract expressionist pictures/sculptures inside transparent containers by filling the container with different coloured liquids that don’t mix; some which are transparent and some opaque as well as floating and non-floating objects (even moving floating objects that swim about in the pictures) . I’m sure that if you took an old, empty fish tank you could do something like this.

Puzzle idea: Serial Art/ Narrative Jigsaw – A serial art puzzle is a series of comic strip frames that are out of sequence and you have to put them in order, thus working out the story they are telling. The advantage of this is that you have two entertainment forms in one; the puzzle and the cartoon.

One reason why I have confidence in this idea is because it is a device that already exists in modernist literature and film-making. Some writers and film makers tell stories in a jumbled chronological order and let the reader/viewer work out the order of events but, as far as I know, there are no actual puzzles like this, chronological jigsaws. You could sell them like Jigsaw puzzles

in boxes perhaps, with squares to piece together and, upon each square, a different frame of the comic strip and then, when you’ve finished the puzzle you can read the story.

A few notemaking ideas some may work, some may not:

Perhaps: Strap on memo pad –

How about a memo/note pad that you can strap around your wrist/arm under your sleeve like a watch. You’ll only have to roll up your sleeve whenever you have an idea.

Or: Note Gloves/Note bags/Note Coats/Note Clothes/Note objects etcetera-

One time I was on the bus and I didn’t have a notepad to write down my ideas on and I thought how useful it would be to have objects that I could write on. I didn’t need a whole notepad, just enough space to jot down a couple of words, something with a surface you could write on. At first I though perhaps note gloves might allow me to write on my hands or, if I were a woman, maybe a note handbag or note shopping bag or a note shirt so that I could write on my shirt sleeves or a note coat so that I could write on my jacket. Eventually I decided what would be best is a little blank 3-D object like a cube or a sphere with a surface that you could write on, say for example you had such a cube or ball as a keyring, you could just write on it.

Penless Writing Paper/ or fingerlick writing pad- This may seem a bit old hat in the digital age but why not have a writing pad that doesn’t need a pen; that you can just write upon with the pressure of your finger? The ink or graphite would be in the paper. This would be perfect if you didn’t have a pen. Perhaps you could lick your finger and the saliva could react chemically with the paper.

Hot Pen with Thermo-reactive paper (apologies if this is an old idea)- The nib of a pen heats up and the paper is thermo-reactive so that you don't need any ink to write with.

Some ideas linked to 3-D printers:

Photosculptures –

In the age of the 3D printer and photomechanical objects perhaps it might be possible to create cameras that, instead of flat 2-D photographs, create models or sculptures. Just point the camera at someone, click and create a head and shoulder bust of them.

Sculpture Digital Pad (like a wizards wand almost) – If you can have 3D printers then why not hook them up to portable digital sketch pads and then, whenever you want an object, you just have to draw it. Architects could create scale models just by drawing them and inventors, just by drawing them, could create (simple) prototypes and, say you break a cup and want another cup, you could just draw a new cup and the 3-D printer would print it out.

Idea for a conjurors box with a moving back/front face –

The magician shows his audience the front of a box.
He turns the box round to show the side of the box, as he is showing the side of the box, the front face that he earlier showed the audience slides backwards to become the back face of the box.
Now he shows the audience the back face of the box. Looks (to them)like a perfectly solid box with no openings.
Why this works so well? Because a magician couldn’t possibly show an audience (seated in front of him) both the front and back of a box at the same time and thus wouldn’t be expected to.
With such a box a magician could easily slip objects into it and then, “amazingly”, materialize them from the top/bottom or sides of the box.
Another way of expressing the idea: A five sided cube of which one of the sides slides from the front to the back doubling as both front and back