Hey all. My group has to come up with 101 brilliant ideas for a toy for my multimedia design course at uni. This thread is mainly for us, but I guess any extra input will help Here are the ideas I have so far: 1. Moldabot! It's a piece of clay you can mold into a species of your choice. It comes with electronic movable parts that you mold around (Say theres a long thin wire that you mold an arm on, which you connect to the body) and then you can move your finished creation with a remote control! 2. Rainbow Gun. It's a gun that emits holographs of your choice, say a rabbit or a transformer. Perhaps they could look realistic like an apple that you put on a desk as a joke, and when some one tries to pick it up there hands would go through it. 3. A doll who's hair grows so you can cut it Hey it's an idea. 4. A series of small electronic puppies. They could become a new fad like furby but smaller and cuter. They could follow you around and you could carry them in your backpacks. I can see it catching on. 5. The Bitzie. It's a collectable little plastic alien thing (say the size of those big marbles) and each one has a different number of legs. The more legs it has the more powerful it is (you cant see it when you buy it) There could be heaps of games and battles and things you could do with them, sort of a mix between how kids battle with pokemon cards, and those knucklheads. 6. A pen that had a face on the top of it that moved according to the pen pressure. Say if you pressed hard the face would scrunch up or if you pressed lightly the pen would smile. Haha i dunno. I thought I had more but that's all so far. How many did we come up with in class? Perhaps it would be a good idea if we calculated the score each post. Thanks guys! Make sure you post your ideas! Even if its just one or two ideas thats okay I guess as long as you keep a tally of how many we're up to!
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hey fellow muppets. i have one idea that just came to mind so i thought i bettter keep the ball rolling and add it. more to come today. 7) Pimp-a-car. Remote control car with interchangeable parts. modified car aka fast and furious stuff. pimp your toy with interchangeable bodykits, neons, suspension, decals, wings, exhausts etc. then drive your creation.
Hiddenaudacity, those are some pretty cool ideas your group came up with. As for the other suggestions, you guys need to get out more as both of these already exist. The Pen The RC Car
So we came up with 20 in class, plus the 8 we have here (lets add the spelling pen) which makes 28. I'm looking at our brainstorm sheet (you guys should too) to see what else I can wring out of it. 29. Talking parrot that can fly? (repeats what you say, sometimes) 30. Totem soccor!! 31. Water grenade gun hehe 32. You get the ingredients and you can make your own slime that glows. Then you cook it and you can eat it 33. I dunno, a little car with a magnifying glass in the middle, so you can drive over things and see them bigger (outside or inside). Kinda like those boats with the glass bottoms. 34. A pogo stick that squirts goo out of the front of it. Kids can squirt each other =D or maybe you could just make it water rather than goo to reduce costs. Or maybe both. I'm not sure if parents would like goo though. 35. Cars that are just big enough for kids to drive in but when you crash they collapse somehow (so its like they smash and crumple) but then after you've finished you can easily pull them back out and fix them. Kinda like bumper cars or something. 36. A 3d puzzle kinda like a rubiks cube but you have to put in the pieces. the cubes turn orange when they're in the right place so its a kind of chance puzzle. 37. A kind of spy toy where you use a special pen to write a message and to read it you have to dunk it in water and read it through the water. 38. Here's an idea. You know how popcorn pops when you cook it? How about we make some kind of food thing like that but that makes a fun sound when it's cooking. 39. Gooantasy. A timed ball bomb. Like that game on neopets (hehe) you pass the ball around and it randomly explodes releasing slime over the unlucky sucker. 40. Kind of like lawn bowling but target ball has chocolate or candy inside. For it to open you have to hit it with another special ball from far away. 41. A pen that when the tip feels pressure (from writing) it makes a farting sound. D) Lend it to someone whos not sitting near you! I did my follow up research with my little brother and he said the mortor whirld/whilred? sounded fun. Here's a new one he said he wanted: 42. Puffby. (pronounced puff bee) A big puff ball (i'm guessing between basketball size and exercise ball size which would be cooler) which has boggle eyes and little feet that stick out. And maybe an antenna. It would be cute and I thought maybe we could fill it with bean bag stuff so you could throw it and bounce on it or just sit in(on?) it. For the interactive thing we could make little games such as match the colours to entice the children to want it. Animations could have them rolling around or somethign and it would be relatively easy to make a 3d model so cameron you can have more time for details and textures etc. It's doable. Okay you guys have to come up with like 20 each (matt 19) and we'll reach a hundred. just use the stuff cameron emailed us thats what i did and sort of mixed things together and stuff. the brainstormed page is really just a sheet of ideas. I think. Cheers. And outside HELP is welcome.
• 43. Remote control ninja. Punches, kicks and walks by remote. • 44. AirPool. Like an air hockey table but with pool balls. • 45. Dohball. designed to be moulded and thrown,kicked like a ball. • 46. Trampoline with a foam walls and pit attached for stunt jumping. • 47. Grapple hook – has magnetic end to attach to cars and can auto retract • 48. Climate control kiddie blanket- cools and heats • 49. Juggle goo- balls filled with goo that explodes if you mis catch • 50. a bike that squirts you with water when you cant balance- makes you learn how to ride fast • 51. cooking doll that explains how to prepare and cook recipies.
52. Pinyata Kirby! - its a pinyata series of toys. like the pinyata video game series except of your favourite characetr from a cartoon or game. Cos anything that spits out candy when u smack it with a rubber mallet is awesome regardless. 53. A series of feminie hot wheels. the chicks version has everything from fluffy cars you can cuddle (exterior fluffy the rest is plastic(wheels and underside etc)) Called... something....Soft wheels? not all soft cars possibly just pink and the such.
54. Quad-Skates, think of a better name later. Sorta like roller skates but with big pimin 22" rims -- or just monster truck wheels, like those on those big skate boards u can get. 55. The metal detector, its a metal dector on a remote control car, sorta largish and expensive but an idea none the less. 56. Your Hero. the action figure that makes barbie look gay. Buy parts for your action hero seperately, arms legs head hair eyes nose n boots! u make the super hero you want your way! by spending a but load of money on small things. 57. My little monsters. A series of toys that u collect that are small monsters. Made from clothing and buttons of the like but in cute little deformed forms. The cute gets cool. (lame one liners help with the advertising .) 58. Dragon ball z Goku action figure. Turns into super saiyan on demand!. Press a button and the see through plastic glass in his 'hair' that is filled with black goo with change to yellow! making him super saiyan 59. Cubby kit. The kit that u can use to make cubbys out of pillows and blankets. Tired of trying to find something to make a cubby and hold up your sheet for a roof, then the cubby kit is for u. Includes pole and easy to remove light tape to stop tearing of fabric
•60. Blower. Like a pass the egg game but with ping pong balls and giant hair dryer type blowers. •61. Nerf style gun that shoots chunks of expanding foam. •62. Swimming goggles/snorkel with in built radio or mp3 player. •63. Gangsta case. Guitar case comes with toy gun inside, gambling cards and chips, fake moustache, cuffs. Talking gun tells of mafia assisination and gang plans you can act out in the playground.
64. Etcher sketcher of the future! a small cheap very low resoloution tablet that plugs into your pc with an interactive cd-rom. Really easy to use, just putthe disc in and it autoruns a doodling program. U use the bright coloured tablet just like an etcher sketch on the computer 65. Iron on designer! use trace pads or make your own image with these magic pens on magic paper that allows you to iron your own designs onto your clothes!
66. Voice translator. with 5 different presets this megaphone like machine can make you sound like a ghost, optimus prime, your mum and pop eye (to be changed) with the flick of a switch 67. underwater megaphone! hear your friends voice clear as day underwater with this waterproof megaphone (only use in pool) 68. Electronic hide and seek game, you hold on to the reciever and the other person has to find you and your friends before time runs out. using a beeper machine that gets more rapid the closer you are.
69. The Laser dog. A dog that follows a laser around and goes wherever u bid him to. 70. A revoloutionary printer that prints those god forsaken little pictures you get in those crappy 8$ japanese photo booths at timezone. wittle camera with a wittle printer and u can have as many photos as u want. 71. Also a card version possibly of the previously mentioned to be released later that will make more money in conjunction
72. A remote control pacman. Like a train set but with ghosts and pacman at the front.then u can get to an area on the track and it switches around and pacman chases the ghosts