How do you generate ideas for new innovations? Here is a great technique: Extract some basic ideas of existing products and inventions, and then apply it to new areas.
If you look at the thermostat, for example, you might think "A device for controlling the indoor climate." This is certainly an idea that can be used to arrive at something new. You must look deeper, but if you want a more creative innovation. Continue with "This measure temperature, and then, using the information, the heater turns on or off to maintain a comfortable home."
Go deeper, we see that the measures used to control something. Let us work with the concept. With current technology, we can make things happen automatically, according to almost all of the things we can measure automatically. It is a powerful concept that can lead to innovation and fantastic news.
In an article on mind control, I suggest that because we can measure changes in brain activity when changing the nature of our mind, we can build a device that is used only with our minds. Even with technology thirty years ago, we could have the TV every time you turn increase a person's pulse rate. Then if you train to increase your pulse by thoughts of some, you can turn on the television with your mind.
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To have such an idea and new innovation, just look around and begin to implement the basic concepts of control measures. Television viewing, and thinking about things related to it measurable, time is one of the obvious. There is a "standby" to turn the TV off after a certain period of time, but what about a device that allows television for three hours in a given day? Children can watch whenever they want, but they will not be able to watch too.
A thermometer gives me an idea for a sign that the message will vary depending on the weather. A restaurant, for example, could have a sign saying "Come in the cold" when it is cold, or "Cool down with an iced drink," when it's hot, and so on. I'm sure there are other companies that the message will vary more or less effective depending on the weather.
When I saw the traffic, I noticed that the speed can be measured. There are already signs of the radar now, which tells you how fast you go. It may be a sign on the street saying "Calm down, we take your picture," or a radar gun can turn a false alarm every time someone walked ten miles per hour over the limit. The idea is that their speed is something that we hope will lead to slow them down.
Yesterday I saw a new invention for measuring the thickness you. So what to do with this information? Well, if you hold your stomach, you get crystal clear sound in your headphones. If you leave your belly hanging out, music is of poor quality and volume loss. Although I'm not sure how well this stomach exercise sell-motivator, he shows how to use the concept of a measure to control can lead to very different innovation. In fact, any application of the basic concepts to new areas may lead to new innovations.
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