So I was inspired by a new website I wrote about on this blog called RunPee. You can read that post here, but basically it provides key times in movies when you can run from your seat, use the bathroom and not miss a key scene in the movie.
Cool idea.
Did we survive without it before now? Of course. But that's not the point now is it? Cool ideas live despite their everyday necessity.
So, my inspiration is this . . . there must be lots of other ideas to take advantage of small problems in life. Ones that make you grumble.
Are you a grumbler?
Here's the problem. I drop stuff all the time. All the time. It's not that I have the shakes or am especially clutzy.
The real problem, though? Finding the stuff I drop. I swear that I have dropped a small item on the carpet only to find it by luck about 16 feet away. OK. Maybe not 16 feet. That was my frustrated alter ego responding.
So here's the idea. I will develop a website that shares the results of bounce tests. Every single small item commonly dropped on common surfaces from common heights. Then we'll move on to the uncommon stuff.
I wonder if the MythBusters guys are available? My 12 year old son's favorite show.
So, after all the testing (years and years, I'm sure), we'd create a user-friendly series of pull-down menus to help people estimate where their dropped item is currently residing.
The dropper, after painstakingly searching the assumed drop zone, will give up and come to the site. They will input their scenario (small 1" metal screw, dropped on concrete from 6 feet) and get an estimate of where they should be looking.
But . . . would you really do all of this for a screw? If it was the only one in the box . . . you betcha.
So, what would we call it? I got it. WhereThingsBounce.com And guess what? It's available . . . as of May 29 at 6:15 PM according to GoDaddy.
Go get it now before some enterprising internet entrepreneur scoops it up for sale to you later.
Well, what do you think? If you are worried about all the testing, go to a university and see if their science department wants to help. At least they can set up the experiments for you . . .
Interested? Go get the domain first, then leave a comment below. I'll be glad to tell you more about this idea!
We'll call it the Project Tigger. Shhhh.
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