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Idea: A service which uses surveillance, state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI), and data from miscellaneous sources such as health trackers to monitor a loved one (usually an elderly parent) and provide you with enough data (via text) for you to know whether or not to worry about them. For example, if they send you a vague or ominous text message (such as "we need to talk"), the AI would figure out if the message is urgent (i.e. high priority), and color-code the message based on how urgent it is and/or delay notifying you that you received a non-urgent message if you're busy. It could also text you periodic health reports and/or risk reports (sorted from highest to lowest priority) and recommend actions to prevent emergencies from happening (for example, if it sees that your mom stumbled on a loose nail on a stair, it can understand that the loose nail is a hazard and recommend that you fix it before she trips and falls)

Thomas Stineman (Facebook: @thomas.z.stineman)
Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co Rusted Crow Canton Village Theater)
Tom Walma (Web: creativitywasted.com Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Felicity Blue (Twitter: @FelFelBlue)

Dino-Sores

Idea: A medication that doesn't cure cold sores, genital herpes sores, or other bodily sores, and instead changes the shape of the sores to look like your favorite dinosaur. Also: this would take away your ability to lie and falsely claim that a cold sore is a pimple; Pokemon-themed sores (you've gotta catch 'em all); the possibility of revenge from the tattoo industry; dino-sore medication side effects during pregnancy and an alternative origin story for Jurassic Park

Thomas Stineman (Facebook: @thomas.z.stineman)
Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co Rusted Crow Canton Village Theater)
Tom Walma (Web: creativitywasted.com Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Felicity Blue (Twitter: @FelFelBlue)

Skool

Idea: A K-12 school system based on the principles of cryptocurrency, such as blockchain and smart contracts, for the purposes of 1) reducing corruption (because things like test scores would be visible on the blockchain and things like grading systems and reward systems would be pre-defined and visible on smart contracts), 2) eliminating unnecessary middlemen (such as school administrators), 3) enabling innovative parent-student-community participation (such as voting on which classes and extra-curricular activities are available), 4) enabling innovative incentives for students to learn (such as skipping class if you did well on a test, teachers blocking access to kid's streaming video games at home until they do their homework), and 5) familiarizing students with the principles of cryptocurrency to help them prepare for the future economy. Also: blockchain and the danger of "big brother" and social currency scores; an example of a school unfairly changing the rules in the middle of a contest (which could have been prevented by "smart contracts")

Thomas Stineman (Facebook: @thomas.z.stineman)
Justin Siekierka (Comedy Shows: Liberty-Street-Brewing-Co Rusted Crow Canton Village Theater)
Tom Walma (Web: creativitywasted.com Twitter: @thomaswalma)