Fly in the Urinal
September 26, 05 by BharaniToday’s MO class on “Innovation at Work” was rocking. Tina Dacin, the great professor from Queen’s conducted a small exercise in the class. She asked each study group to come up with a creative ways of improving the Neck-Tie. So all groups went crazy and came with all weird ideas. Some of the ideas can be found below:
1. Electronic Tie with inbuilt Bluetooth capability. This will facilitate Tie-to-Tie Communication!
2. Bio-Sensor Tie which will monitor the heart beat and automatically send signals to doctor wirelessly in case something goes wrong!
3. Making markings on the tie to facilitate adjustment of tie length
4. Bio-Tie and Easy-Tie with anti-stink features. Automatically fills aroma around you in case some girl comes near you!
5. MP3 capability in Tie with headphones and inbuilt microphone to help you in presentations!
6. Spare cloth in Tie to shine your shoes!
7. RFID-based tie. A sort of inbuilt smart-card. Identification facility will be inbuilt. So you just have to swipe your tie!
8. Cool-tie. Coolant around the neck of the Tie!
9. Lie-detector in the Tie!
10. Self-protection Tie for girls! Which will throw itchy powder if anyone troubles the girl!
11. New fabric in the Tie, which helps the Tie owner to adjust the length of the tie, after the tie has been knot!
12. Marketing-gimmick ties. Tie which can be twisted to any shape(according to the product eg. Coke bottle shape!)
13. Retractable tie, which can be shaped to bow-tie.
14. Holographic Imprint of tie on the shirts. No Tie. But Tie-manufacturer wouldn’t accept this solution naturally! so discarded.
15. Tie with hidden pocket to store your money…
and many more crazy ideas…It was a funny session. At the end of the session, she showed us a video on IDEO company and how it manages innovation in the company…Am really impressed with that company, rather that job!
Finally she showed us the following picture(without any words on it) and asked us to find what’s unique in the picture. Then she said the actual ‘funda’ behind this. Innovation at Schipol airport! Weird world….:)
