Soundproof sleep chamber

Many people need to sleep in noisy places and sometimes ear plugs are not effective because they do not eliminate all the sounds.  Instead a clear plastic bubble could be created which would block sound (keeping background noise out and snoring noise in), hold in moisture, even purify the air  There are many benefits to the head isolation sleep system.  It even has a built in alarm clock, and a travel version can be created with a pillow built in.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Ice shoes

Walking on ice in the winter can be very dangerous, especially frozen lakes, streams and rivers.  The primary danger comes from breaking through and getting stuck in the water where you cannot get out.  In a river you could even get sucked down by the current under the ice and be trapped  Breaking through occurs when too much weight/force is focused in one place like when someone is standing or running on the ice.  A solution is to wear a type of shoes that spreads one's body weight evenly over a large area.  This would be useful to people who need to cross questionable ice areas, and emergeny responders who need to help people whp have already broken through.  This is taken from the idea of a water skater bug.

Friend Notes

I'm working with my friend Eric Allen on a facebook application that let's people take notes about their friends, whatever kind of notes they want!

I think it's really cool because it lets you now build your own content about your friends. They present themselves, and you record and interpret it through your own lens. For now, all notes are confidential to the user, so the friends and others can't see them, but we're thinking about creating some sort of sharing or collaboration capability in the future... thoughts?

Here's a link!
http://apps.facebook.com/friend_notes/

Book idea: how to get rich with any profession

Thinking that working in any field offers lots of opportunities for financial success.  Artists for example often are early residents in neighborhoods going up in value.  If they buy some of the places they live in they can capitalize on this.  Same thing goes for non profit social welfare workers if they invest in the positive results they are working towards.  Not sure if this would work all the time, but should be enough for a book at least.

Fun combo business #1 Paws and Laws

A law office and a dog sitting place in one.  Good because the lawyers need some distractions to boost up their hourly rates, and they're sitting around most of the time anyway.

Anti-brand Idea

So much energy is devoted to branding yet so many brands are annoying and have strong weaknesses. Brand Hitmen would be a services company that is hired by companies to target these weaknesses in their competitors. Any number of actions could be taken to erode the brand of the target company including publicly poking fun at its name, leading a negative PR campaign against the quality of the brand, turning the brand name into a synonym for poor quality/something gross/etc., doing things to make the brand cheap/trendy/etc., and so on. An example would be making negative connections between the similar sounds of IP phone company "Vonage", and the word "Bondage" such that every time consumers hear the company name Vonage they think of S&M sex, building (for most people) a negative connotation. Viral marketing tactics would be used for them most part. Everything would be legal, and the focus would be on de-branding rather than corporate defamation, like drawing attention to the fact that the company uses sweatshops for example. The focus instead would specifically be on using the target company's own marketing message against them.