Archive for the 'What If?' Category
3rd Place - From Wii Market Share to Every Living Room
0 Comments Published by Ontologi in Good Ideas, What If?.James Surowiecki’s column in the New Yorker on Nintendo’s new Wii gaming console:
It’s really well suited for just one thing: playing games. But this turns out to be an asset. The Wii’s simplicity means that Nintendo can make money selling consoles, while Sony is reportedly losing more than two hundred and forty dollars on each […]
Car companies sell cars and the parts to repair and maintain those cars. What if they built parts to replace components in competitors’ cars?
Could Ford take a 5 year old Nissan truck, rip out the motor and drive system and replace it all with brand new Ford equipment?
Or in other words, does a car […]
Blockbuster has over 8500 corporate and franchise stores in 28 countries. What if they ran fiber from one of those locations to every home and apartment building within a 1/4 of a mile?
Now, before you shoot me down as crazy, know that I agree with you; this is a little nuts. But bear […]
Americans are abandoning the moviegoing habit for good.
So says George Lucas to Variety. He thinks that to remain successful in the film business of the future, you need to create lots of quality content with smaller budgets for smaller audiences. The idea that you can spend a ton of money on production and […]
Just hang the Dirty Clothes in the Closet
0 Comments Published by Ontologi in One Good Question, What If?.What if your dresser washed your socks and your closet washed your suits?
Currently the clothing cycle goes from closet or dresser, to use, to the hamper, to the washer, to the dryer, to the folding table or ironing board, and back to the closet or dresser.
What if the process went like this: from the closet […]
I slowly wave my hand as my neighbor is about to change channels from the MLS soccer match on ESPN, “You don’t want to change the channel. You like soccer.”
He replies, “I don’t want to change the channel. I like soccer.”
There are some marketers and business people here in the US of A […]
The NewScientist Invention Blog noted a patent that used tiny glass microspheres embedded with paladium that would be used to hold hydrogen for energy storage instead of using a large highly compressed tank.
Placing the microspheres in a tank filled with hydrogen gas under pressure should cause the gas to seep through the pores to be […]
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