Virtual Mannequin

No no, not for that!

There are already a few virtual mannequins out there to preview wedding dresses and other clothing items.

But what I suggest is some kind of clothing aggregation mannequin. The idea is the customer can choose clothes from other websites (that sells clothing/shoes/handbags/makeup/jewelry/perfume?) and place them on a virtual mannequin. When you find/build/create/design an outfit you like you (hopefully) buy it.

The problem this is solving is that you can see various clothes/accessories you might want to buy all together as one outfit (all from different shops!) without having to buy anything.

The clothing items could be sourced from any clothing web site (theoretically, integration required/ search?), all you need is an image than can be scaled and mapped to a 3D model of a person (or a dog/elephant/whatever).

The mannequin could be configurable to your (imaginary) dimensions/colours, and I guess you could even put an image of your face on there too (and maybe nice wig, or how about a tattoo?)

I guess you could even decorate/paint/customise the clothes while on the mannequin too. Maybe.
You could even save your "outfits" (in your virtual wardrobe?), share them with friends, suggest clothes for a friend (and take the p*ss), add to a wish list etc.

But how to make money from such a thing? Well I guess if you build a website and host this your effectively selling clothes/accessories from other websites, so you could go down the affiliate route.
Alternatively you could sell the technology to other websites, such as Ebay or shopping.com (but would they buy it?).
Or maybe you build a website and hope/pray that everyone love the idea of putting clothes on "virtual dolls" that you get enough traffic to get advertising revenue to cover the costs (hmmm, you could make more money the other way around, taking the clothes off?)

Sat Nav tour guides

AFAIK you can navigate to things like "points of interest" on current satellite navigation toys, which is nice, but how about a full on tour guide:

"on your left you will see the cafe where Last of the summer wine was filmed ...... turn right now .... and now you can see where Compo crashed his bicycle in episode 12.... turn left after 1 mile ...." and so on.

I guess the scenarios are:
- You want to go on a tour, or follow a plan route (say monte carlo F1 circuit)
- You going somewhere, but want interesting bits mentioned to you
- You want to drive to an exciting/fun road with no speed camera

Surely that kinda information can be put on a DVD or memory card and sold at £10 a pop?

Even better would be SatNav that updates its self via Wifi/bluetooth when you car is parked at home, then you could buy updates and guides online too. And if you have a "temporary" net connection you could also add extra search parameters to your navigation too, for example, "I want a fun road where the weather is sunny and there are no roadworks, no caravan sites and no motorbike events nearby".

Might be a nice way to introduce a new business model from a gadget that's currently a one off payment and then end of customer relationship until upgrade time (unless its a built in jobby then you can't upgrade the gadget, just the information).

Idea: Intelligent Microwave Oven

So how about this...

You buy food with a bar code on it, uniquely identifying it (almost anyway).

A microwave that can scan the bar code, pop the food in the microwave and know how to cook your food perfectly (gaps and all).

A internet connection than keeps the microwave informed of what bar code means what.

True enough, this isn't a big problem if you can read and know what rating your microwave is, but we're all lazy at heart (otherwise why have a microwave) so people might actually pay for it?

WDYT?