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Ok a couple more ideas; sorry to post so many :-(

A turn signal that produces the turn signal ticking sound really loudly outside your car so the person in front of you is aware you want to turn.

Sell sterilized tape worms for weight loss. It seems like a great way to lose weight but I'd be freaked out by the though of them reproducing inside of me. If a tape worm harmlessly died after a few month I'd be up for it, especially if the alternative were surgery or diabetes.

A device that can detect the sound of glass breaking and notify the police. You could put them in neighborhoods everywhere.



> A turn signal that produces the turn signal ticking sound really loudly outside your car so the person in front of you is aware you want to turn.<

All I can imagine is the recording of a guy yelling, "Click! Click! Click!" amplified at a crossing. Ha!


> Sell sterilized tape worms for weight loss. It seems like a great way to lose weight but I'd be freaked out by the though of them reproducing inside of me. If a tape worm harmlessly died ...

The tapeworms might not cooperate:

http://gizmodo.com/5910770/brain-tapeworms-are-real-and-they...

http://www.inquisitr.com/240780/brain-tapeworms-are-a-terrif...

I personally don't want tapeworms in my brain -- there's already enough junk living up there.


Although there seems to be potential in using intestinal worms to fix auto-immune diseases of the bowel like Crohns Disease.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=helminthic-...


Number 3: A startup in the same co-working space as me is working on exactly that (amongst other things) – http://www.audioanalytic.com/


Are you in the St. Johns Innovation Centre?


No, ideaSpace, out in West Cambridge – http://www.ideaspace.cam.ac.uk/ – where I work on a product called Unifyo which helps businesses integrate separate information systems, cloud applications and e-mail in a lightweight way (https://unifyo.com). Always happy to chat, e-mail in profile.




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