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Ideas for 50 Cents
Spotted on the streets of NYC is this gumball machine that's been converted into an idea dispenser. For just fifty cents you get an idea in a plastic container. No word on how good the ideas are or if anyone's found them valuable. The photographer sadly did not buy any of the ideas for sale.
Are ideas hard to come by? How much would you pay for a good idea?
Idea Machine
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12 years ago
My ideas are worth way more than that! I think the link is broken
Reply 12 years ago
The Idea Machine - Neetorama link? no, it works for us those of us not using Linux ( light dig ;-)
Reply 12 years ago
does now (actually I mainly use OSx now)
Reply 12 years ago
Should we now refer to you as OSxH4x0r now ? ;-)
Reply 12 years ago
If you try and say that too fast it sounds like an obscure dirty euphemism for an STD...
Warning: the sentence in small letters in this paragraph is potentially offensive so I suggest if you are easily offended that you refrain from reading it and to make that easier I have written a lot of text around it "oh, a sex sack sore" to hopefully mask it from people reading it accidentally and with a bit of luck they will read this disclaimer first and avert their eyes so as to avoid any potential offense so if you are easily offended don't read those tiny letters.
Let's not call Linux that...
Reply 12 years ago
Oh, and perhaps "If you didn't constantly tell people where you are, re "You'll find me in the club" maybe they wouldn't shoot you so much"
Reply 12 years ago
. ? .
Reply 12 years ago
The thread title is "Ideas for 50 Cents", I was suggesting that if he doesn't want to be shot a tenth time he should stop telling people where he is (eg. "in da club") all the time.
No, wait... hang on, 50 Cent. Never mind
Reply 12 years ago
Ok, it took me a bit to even understand your explanation, but I finally made the gangsta connection... ;-)
Reply 12 years ago
LOL
Reply 12 years ago
I wouldn't dream of calling him that.....btw: I am receiving STD payments (in the insurance business, STD = Short Term Disability ;-)
Reply 12 years ago
LMAO!
Reply 12 years ago
lol
12 years ago
The whole machine is a brilliant idea - like a self-serve fortune cookie machine. Will somebody please find that machine, buy an idea and let us know what it's like?
Reply 12 years ago
OH! Idea! Let's write down a ton of ideas from the forums and ibles, buy a gum dispenser for squid labs, and ship it to San Francisco!
Reply 12 years ago
That actually sounds brilliant!
Reply 12 years ago
I have an idea for a contest!
You can make absolutely anything you want, but it has to fit inside a box the size of a cigarette pack.
OR
You can make absolutely anything you want, but it has to fit inside one of those balls in toy-vending machines.
People could send (or bring) their finished projects to Eric et al, and they could put them all in a reclaimed vending machine they set up at a Maker faire or a Show and Tell, donating any proceeds to a charitable organisation.
Inspirational Link
Reply 12 years ago
I really like the second version of that idea :-)
Reply 12 years ago
Third and LED's will work in those candy balls just fine....
Reply 12 years ago
The first version, though, might be easier for Makers, since you'd need the ball for sizing, and it's easier to work with a cuboid template of a box than a nominal diameter.
They'd post to Instructables HQ easier as well.
Reply 12 years ago
Wonderful idea!
Reply 12 years ago
by the looks of where the machine is. you might want to pack heat where your going!
12 years ago
They're probably like, "Hey, if you drank coffee with a straw, maybe it would'nt stain your teeth!"
Reply 12 years ago
but you'd burn the heck out of the roof of your mouth LOL
Reply 12 years ago
I rest my case
Reply 12 years ago
If you rest your case on a higher step, it will be easier to pick up again.
;-)
12 years ago
. Wow! Flashback time. Shortly after I got out of HS, I worked at the factory where the two small machines (Super 60 model) are made.
Reply 12 years ago
Oh, I know that guy. Not just from the avatar, but from... somewhere else.
A comic? Something subversive, drug culture?
Did the cat try and crap in holy desert sand somewhere?
Or have I just had too much coffee again?
Reply 12 years ago
. That's Fat Freddy Freekowtski and Fat Freddy's Cat of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
Reply 12 years ago
funny, he looks very much like a Mad Magazine character also LOL
Reply 12 years ago
I knew I knew him!
If I'd done any acid I'd be having a flashback now.
Reply 12 years ago
Your old avatar. =/
12 years ago
Everyday, you hear about soaring idea prices! Last I heard it was $300 per barrel!
Why, I remember that back in my day the saying was: "A penny for your thoughts". Nowadays, it's "$1.36 plus tax, old man!"
Reply 12 years ago
First it was a penny for your thoughts, and then people started having to give their two cents.
Reply 12 years ago
Well then where does the other penny go, I wonder?
Reply 12 years ago
To their bank accounts.
Reply 12 years ago
ROFL!!!!
12 years ago
On an art show on PBS I saw a cigarette machine that sold original art. They were placed in cigarette sized boxes and sold for $5. Check them out at www.Artomat.org . Hmmmmm Wonder what else would fit in a cigarette pack????
12 years ago
That machine looks like its in a nice neighborhood with all that graffiti. The worst thing you could have is the machine comes up missing and someone stole your ideas!
12 years ago
lol good concept, i could write loads if someone payed me...
12 years ago
My ideas are so bad I need to pay people to hear them...
Reply 12 years ago
kind of like that one...
Reply 12 years ago
Im listening :)
Reply 12 years ago
LOL. Great idea.
12 years ago
I had a fleeting idea once.....then forgot it.
12 years ago
anybody have a spare gumball machine that i could do that to? "Idea #1: Buy more ideas."
12 years ago
Man, talk about inflation! I remember when it used to a be a penny (at most two) per thought/idea!
12 years ago
I wonder how good the ideas are for 50 cents. Lol.