I can smell where you are…

In the future there will be sensors that can smell who you are. Like finger prints and eye scans, each person gives off a smell signal. Although this smell signal can change in degrees the basic smell of a person remains. Right now only dogs have that ability to track by smell but soon small box devices with GPS and cell phones could be used to track people and there movements.

What if there were millions of smell detectors just like there are millions of cheap video cameras every. With video you can lose track of a person and usually people have to be watching all the cameras to follow someone. With smell trackers a computer detects the smell signal and informs authority. Also with video you have to be in front of the camera to be seen. With smell trackers the devise has a full circle range around it.

You can also hide these smell tracks, so people who are being tracked wouldn’t know where the devices are and could not avoid them. Places like the DMV could gather smell information on the actual person and put the smell signal to a real name. Give that smell signal and name a number and start tracking.

This form of tracking people is less intrusive than implanting a GPS locater under their skin. It’s a fun fun future!

video podcasts to sell a product

Here’s my newest idea, what about QVC or Home Shopping Network in a video podcast. This podcast could have a sales person talk about a product and show the product just like on TV on a cable channel like Home Shopping Network.

How about product video podcasts? Most if not all website that sell products have pictures. What about using video podcasts to sell a product?

On iTunes the podcasts are listed by show and the show have text descriptions. You could sell products in 5 minutes segments under a show title and show product. Along with the show you could add phone numbers and website address to buy the items.

Imagine going to your favorite online store. You see something you like for sale. It has the normal description and the normal picture to go with it but there is something else. What about a link to a video podcast of the product with a person talking and selling the item. What about a short video podcast with someone showing you how to use the product? Maybe how to hook up the product and/or how the product could be useful to you.

I feel this has to be the natural progression of this medium. Maybe even a blend of how things are sold online today with podcasts and video podcasts. Remember when the web started people would use it to send text. Then they started selling products using text. Then came pictures and selling with pictures. Now we have a trend with podcasts and video podcasts and people are making shows and adding commercials. Another thing is the bigger size trend. Like more email storage and faster broadband connections. Movies for years have been selling themselves online using video. I feel just about all product could use some video as a selling tool.

I may just be crazy!

Hanford's new blog

My good friend Hanford Lemoore has entered the world of blogs, please visit him at: http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/

Please also see his websites:

Tikiroom.com this site has a great board called Tiki Central!

And

Monolux.com here you can play some great free downloadable games by Hanford himself!

Thanks!

Texas Three Slot Machine

Texas Three Slot Machine

This great idea is based on slot machines. Fist if you been to a casino lately you will most defiantly have noticed the themed slot machines. These slots, like the star wars slot machine, are geared to attract new generations of gamblers. So my idea is somewhat in that vain.

My idea is the Texas Hold’em Slot machine. It will have a payout chart like most slots and you can play 1 to 4 quarters. There is also slot action with the screen rolling like the normal slot does and stopping to show results. But this slot has a little twist. The first twist is you play and pay in stages. You start with 2 free cards. When you see your cards you pay to see the flop. Then you pay to see the turn. Then you pay more to see the river. Lastly you win or lose according to the pay out chart. You also win at each stage.

Another version of this is to play three different hands at the same time. On this machine you can pay and play 1, 2 or 3 hands to start off. As the play moves on, you decide to keep paying each hand or stop paying. You may decide to play all three hands all the way to the river. The best winning hand pays money but because you were paying for two other hands the winnings are very little and must follow a chart to show payouts. You may decide to play only one of the three hands shown. In this case it is your hand from the beginning to the end against the other two shown hands. There are many different variations to this and different combinations of winning and losing. This is the basics of the idea. I may need to show examples for people to have a better idea of the way this all works.

Texas Hold’em is hot right now and a themed slot based on this could be very attractive to new players to slots machines.

I will post more on this idea…

How to Video Podcasts aka Vodcasts

How to Video Podcasts aka Vodcasts

I watch the Photoshop TV Vodcast every week and they show tip and tutorials for Photoshop CS2. I was thinking of some great ideas for theses types of shows.

The first Vodcast would be for the FLY pentop Computer. This great product is a computer you can write with. You have to see it to believe it. The show would be a week and show tips and trick for the FLY. Also an artist would use the pen and show some creative ideas off with it. The show could be 15 to 30 minutes long.

The second Vodcast is an on location photography how to show. This Vodcast would take the viewer out in the field to take a single picture. From start to finish the shot is produced. An example of a show would be as follows. Find a good location for a picture. Set up the shot. What types of cameras are good for this shot. Adjust the camera for the different pictures results. Take the pictures and show the pictures. Along the process give tips on how to make the most professional photo.

The third Vodcast idea is a how to draw show. Each week the artist will show you how to draw. It could be a character, a thing or a place. This would be a very simple show with the focus being on one or two tools.

Search for Donuts and Robots

If you search for Donuts or Robots on Google Base you will find a great free downloadable game!

http://base.google.com

Google Base Game

This has got to be my craziest idea yet… OK using Google Base and Gmail create on online game. I know this is crazy… First use Google Base to store all the web content. Second use Gmail as the interactive part of the game. With Google Base store the pictures and written content. This is where you find clues. Follow the clues and email an address a Gmail address with the answer to the clue in the Subject Field. In Gmail set up a huge group of auto-responders to email back more information to player. Basically, that’s it.

Pollution Filtering Skyscrapers

Specially built skyscrapers could be used to filter the air. Pollution from cars, trucks, big rigs, jet planes, boats and other vehicles that use fuel like gasoline and diesel can be filtered by the tall building around them. These skyscrapers along with providing office space and housing with the right construction can have special vents that let air through and in the process filter the pollution out. The larger cities where pollution is an extremely bad problem would benefit the most.

Extreme Photo Makeover

Extreme Photo Makeover

Well here is my great idea today. It's called Extreme Photo Makeover. This is a TV show or vodcast (vodcast is like a podcast vod = video on demand) in a half or full hour. Each week the crew will visit someone and give them an Extreme Photo Makeover. A photo from the person is used usually something really old, torn up, too small and/or faded colors. Then we make the photo over using Photoshop, some custom art and other photos from the web and the person’s collection. The show not only makes over the photo but is a step by step walk through on how cretin effects were done and different creative ideas were used to improve the home photos. There can also be a few tips on how to take better photos to start with. In the end with photo retouched, added art and other effects the photo is printed poster size and framed for the wall.

Reality tech show style with a tips and tutorial feel. The end result someone gets a great photo makeover and the viewer learns some creative tricks.

Great Ideas by Chad Spacey

The Dealer - Second Gig

The second gig: Deliver the message.

I have a message for a couple of bosses trying to muscle in on my territory. Each gang will be given a crime boss. Tell the boss in your own special way how displeased I am with their current activity. Depending on how well the boss get the message one gang will win the gig.

The losing gang will meet with me, the crime boss, where one of you will enjoy a fresh lead salad.

The Dealer - First Gig

The first gig: Save the hoe.

Each gang is sent up to an apartment where they will find a cracked up hoe has overdosed. They need to take the hoe to the hospital. Get the hoe fixed up and put back on their corner to work. The gang's hoe who brings in the most money before midnight wins the gig.

The losing gang will meet with me, the crime boss, where one of you will be taken to the pier to have a nice long conversation with the fishes.

The Dealer

The Dealer – Reality Show

20 contestants compete to become The Dealer.

The contestant who becomes The Dealer will receive a year's supply of their choice three different narcotics, four blocks of dealing territory, a duplex, five hoes and a pimped out stretched Hummer. All totaling, $500,000! The Dealer will also become part of my crime syndicate.

The 20 contestants will be divided up into 2 gangs. Each gang must come up with a name and color. Each gang must assign a leader for each gig.

New dating idea for the web

I was listening to a tech podcast and reading craigslist when I came up with my latest idea. Why not podcast and/or videocast people looking for a date. The podcast/videocast is much like a picture included in the craigslist post. The podcast/videocast can be anything the ad poster wants to include about themselves.

I would then create blog and include the podcasts and videocasts. Post this on Apple's iTunes in the podcast section and off we go. The show would update depending on the frequency of the applacants wanting to create a podcast/videocast.

Another nice feture is that later, when a person who has made a podcast or videocast, they can then link in their craigslist post to the podcast/videocast of themselves just like including a picture of them selves.

I was thinking of giving away to the first 25 people a free podcast/videocast and then after that and the blog is up and running charge people for this service.