A lot of these ideas I thought of a long time ago (i.e., 10-15 years ago), but I thought I’d post them because they are fun, and perhaps maybe someone will make them 🙂 But right now, the technology exists and is easier than ever to create the following items. I have more, but will just write down a few quick ideas for now. If you have your own ideas, feel free to post them!
Color Changing Car
Nowadays, you have an LCD screen for everything. Why not make your car ‘body’ one big LCD screen? It’s actually pretty easy, and relatively inexpensive. You can literally buy LCD screens that are foldable like newspapers (take a look in google for a company called ‘plastic logic’). I actually heard about this company 4-5 years ago (or maybe it was a parent company), and would have invested in it at the time because it will be big. But anyways. Simply coat your automobile in this or something similar, hook it up to a computer in your car, and voila! You can choose the color of your car with a press of a button. Want a red car? Press ‘red’, and your car is now ‘painted’ red. Want a blue car? Press ‘blue’ and it is now painted blue. You can even make your car show t.v. shows while you drive, so it is one big t.v. screen. Or, to make your car look kind of invisible, hook up one camera on one side, and a camera on the other, and ‘display’ the scenery on your car. It would look very eerie but cool.
For that same technology, I think you would end up with ‘changeable license plates’ (i.e., simply type in a new license plate number while driving a car and your license plate gets changed). So officials would need to find a new means of identifying cars.
Changeable License Plates
I wasn’t sure whether or not I should post this one, but realized it’s a logical progression from the one above anyways, so might as well post it so people are aware of what can be done (so they won’t be fooled easily). Someone could easily set up an LCD screen (i.e., ‘computer monitor’) as their ‘license’ plate, and from the front of their car, simply change the license plate, i.e., high speed car chases, etc. When this ‘digital newspaper’ (check out plasticlogic) becomes readily available, then it will just make it super easy for someone to ‘drape’ this electronic newspaper over their license plate and then have a ‘new’ vehicle.
Halogen Light to shine back at someone
Truckers have ‘rear’ headlights they can shine at people, so why not regular individuals? I find it extremely annoying when some drivers want to show off — so they get these ‘super’ bright lights (‘halogen’ lights) and shine them bright during the day as well as the night, such that you actually have to avert your eyes (or close them) while driving because it hurts your eyes that much. It would be kind of nice to shine a light back at them (or one with an expletive 😉 ok just kidding), that told them to turn off their lights… Actually, I’m not sure if it would be the best idea (you do want ‘safe’ driving and it wouldn’t necessarily be safe to shine a light back at them) — but it would be nice if there was some way to get them to turn off their high beam halogen lights. I’m open to suggestions if you want to post them in the comments section 🙂
Boom boxes on the OUTSIDES of cars
I thought it would be an interesting idea. Not necessarily noise friendly. But you have so many teenagers (and some adults J) that think it is cool to ‘blast’ their music while driving, when in reality – all they are doing is hurting their own ears. They don’t seem to ‘get’ the fact that although someone walking on the sidewalk can hear your car as you drive with the windows down from 20 feet away, or that they can see your car shaking while at a stoplight – that to the casual bystander the music really isn’t that loud. All the teenager/adult is doing is damaging their own ears, even though they are trying to get attention. So, why not put speakers on the ‘outside’ of the car? Although I think it would be popular (with teens/certain adults), I think it would quickly annoy the majority of people and as quickly as it was introduced, it would be banned with the same speed because of excessive noise. (The same way you can get a ticket for a car that has a noisy muffler). So it is a cool idea, but lets see who does it 🙂
Tags: automobiles, cars, color, computers, etc, ideas, inventions, lcd, new ideas
English