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Find inspiration from the Idea Generator - Time Waster
by Brad Linder Aug 15th 2007 at 7:00PM
Being an entrepreneur is hard work. Sure you made millions on your "scary aquatic toy". But how are you going to come up with your next bit of "expensive temporary furniture" to keep your empire going?No, we're not playing a game of Mad Libs. We've just been spending too much time with the Idea Generator. Need a bit of inspiration? Give the wheel of ideas a spin. This little web application has just the right combination of eye-catching but simple graphics and the lack of any practical use. In other words, we can't take our eyes off of it.
Here's how it works. Give the wheel a spin and it will choose from a relatively small list of words. The first two words or phrases generally describe the third. So you wind up with "oversized rubber exercise machine," or "jewel encrusted shrinking house." In other words, every idea is just crazy enough that you can be nearly certain there's a startup dedicated to each fictional product. Perhaps there's still time to register multi-lingualtemporarymovie.com
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Monoto said 9:27PM on 8-15-2007
The only thing that could make this better is if it were embeddable. My blog CRAVES automatic vibrating food and luxurious rural clothing!
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westudi said 9:27PM on 8-15-2007
Reminds me of South Park's rip on Family Guy with the idea manatees.
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Killroy 2.0 said 9:32PM on 8-15-2007
Magnetic levitating sex-toy?! BRILLIANT! TO THE PATENT OFFICE!
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Dweller said 7:41AM on 8-16-2007
I've got an idea of expensive nuclear hotel and I think why not? ROFL
Great time waster!
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Eugene said 9:08AM on 8-16-2007
wow - this thing is genius...
Transparent Vibrating Clothing - I'll be rich forever!
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Optimized said 9:04PM on 8-16-2007
This is cool! http://www.myeclinic.com http://www.myeclinic.com
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