2 posts tagged “product ideas”
Where I work we have a coffee station with a sink. It's not uncommon to see people take their coffee mugs to the sink and squirt in some hand-soap from the dispenser to clean them out. So I think to myself, "What if dish-soap were sold in a dispenser that allowed you to easily get enough for just one dish?" You'd want to sell it diluted, because you only need a tiny amount of soap and you would want it to dissolve faster so you can use it as a rinse cleaner. This means the dish-soap companies get to make a little higher margin on the product, since because people will waste some soap (a coffee mug will require less than a casserole dish, but you have dispense enough for the casserole dish) and because they're now selling more water with it (I'm assuming here that water is cheaper than the soap chemicals, but I think I'm safe there). People would buy it in addition to their regular soap to use when they want to quickly clean out one dish to use, to add to a soaking pan, to keep in places like the coffee station at work, or any number of other places I haven't thought of yet.
I have a suspicion that this product already exists. If so I'd like to hear about it.
What I'm looking for is a device that plugs into the audio out port of your computer (and/or a usb port). It will transmit your music over a wireless connection to a matching device connected to your stereo in the next room. It will feed the sound to your stereo via it's auxiliary input. There will also be a remote control and software that allows the device attached to your computer to interface with iTunes, Windows Media Player, Rhapsody, Musicmatch, or any other music library on your computer that you set up and send information about that to the device on your stereo as well. The remote will talk to the device attached to the stereo, which will also have an LCD screen just large enough to show the currently playing song and allow you to browse your music collection at the same time. You will be able to use the remote to browse songs, artists, and playlists, and to build and save playlists, add or remove songs from your current playlist, and similar operations. The remote should be able to be programmed to also control the volume, radio tuner, tape deck, and cd changer on the stereo.
