Shopping car self check-out scanners.

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Ever been to Sams Club when the lines are really, really long? They have employees scan your products, while you are in line, so as you step to the register all you have to do is pay.

Check this out. Why not throw a scanner on every shopping cart (scanners are cheap in 2011)? As the customer shops, he/she scans every product before it is placed into the shopping cart. Along with price, it would generate the total weight of your order, after each additional product is added.

Done shopping? Go to the checkout and your shopping cart scanner already has the total cost and weight generated. The clerk verifies the weight, by a floor scale (the shopping cart has already been tared out), and charges the customer for scanned total.

This would eliminate lines in stores. It would also eliminate the need for multiple employees, running multiple registers. This is basically just putting the 'self check-out' in each individuals shopping cart.

Simple. Quick. Genius.

The PIG has done it again.

cellPIG.com OINK!

PS...This could also be an app, which is an incentive to bring customers in. Think about it. An iPhone app that lets you skip lines in the store. Just scan the products with your phone.

Steep and Cheap App Adjustment

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Steep and Cheap's iPhone app should allow the user to pick when type of items which warrants a push notification. For example, I am interested in purchasing a sleeping bag this week ergo the Steep and Cheap App should notify me when a sleeping bag comes up for sale. This would increase a buyer's rate of interest therefor increasing purchasing.

Web Apps, Where's the Beef?

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I have recently converted to using solely web apps on both my MacBook Pro and my iPhone but I have two gripes:

1. The Mac OS does not allow placement of web apps on the dock.

• How hard would it be to add this feature to the OS? I mean Apple already uses this technology in the iPhone. Seems a bit fishy. Is this another attempt by Apple to stifle innovation for control? Maybe when the allure of the iPad wears off they'll add this feature to their other products.

2. Notifications are not integrated on the iPhone OS.

• For example, I no longer use iOS Mail instead I use the Gmail web app but the Gmail web app does not alert me when I have a new email. Without that feature it makes that web app kind of pointless. Example two, same thing goes for google voicemail web app. The only way I know that I receive a VM is when I get an email with the VM in it. Now, I don't need the web app at all.

Now, I don't know a lot about development but these two things seem to be overlooked in the Web 2.0 conversion. I bet a dev could write an app that allows for web apps to be integrated into a Mac's desktop Dock and write a preifirial app that notifies you when one of your web apps is updated on an iPhone. Where is that dev?

..to be continued. Stay tuned. ;)

Run iOS on PC/Mac

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Imagine a virtual machine that mimics the iPhone/iPod/iPad OS of Android so anyone could download apps and use them on a PC or Mac. This VM could be a more streamlined (less functional) operating system but allow the app market to be opened up to more devices. This would be the first step toward complete app world domination.

Doing this would attract users without an iPhone/iPod/iPad and they'd increase app usage and purchase from the App Store. For instance, say a person without an iPhone/iPod/iPad wants to play Words for Free with Friends, they can't do it! That is, unless of course, they can download a virtual machine that allows them to do so. I'm sure Apple's reasoning has something to do with forcing users to purchase these devices but I believe in the future they command a large portion of the market they will implement this widget.

Flashmob, Anyone?

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The idea is to create an app for a phone that allows someone to initiate a flashmob. The trick is to make it so that the flashmob actually happens. The flashmob won't be successful when you allow anyone to designate a place for a flashmob but if you limit the people allowed to create the mob it will work. A person registered with the app will be chosen at random. When this happens, they will be sent a notification and they have a certain time limit to choose a place to have a flashmob happen. Once the person chooses a place, the details will be sent to everyone registered on the app. If the person does not choose a place within the time limit, a new person is chosen.

Auto Trader App / Multiple Region Search on Craigslist

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Can someone make an iPhone app for Autotrader.com already!?

The web-based app works okay but it's clumsy and modifying a search is difficult. I'm sure in-app advertisements along with the preferred search results would quickly justify the cost of development.

Also, craigslist should give users the ability to perform multiple region searches. It's ludicrous to make a user go to a different site (owned by a different company) to find desired results from your own database! Take a lesson from the "new" twitter, they implemented search into twitter.com instead of forcing users to navigate to search.twitter.com. You won't listen though. I know you.

Does this make me look fat?

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The idea is that you can take a picture of a shirt, pair of pants, tie, dress, coat, jacket, socks, etc in a department store and immediately get suggestions on what you should buy to complete the outfit. Example: I take a picture of a striped shirt, hit the "Suggest" button and within a few seconds get a list of recommendations consisting of pants, shoes, belts and so on that match that particular shirt.

The app could also base its suggestions on the particular store you are in. This information could be gathered by geo-location or buy just having the user tell it where he or she is shopping. The suggestions could be calculated in one of two ways.

Method 1: A database could be built up using input from fashion experts that match pieces of clothing to one another in specific relationships. This is akin to Pandora's Genome Project.

Method 2: A very smart algorithm with very advanced image recognition component could analyze the piece of clothing and determine, without explicit relationships, what would match with it. In human terms, the algorithm could analyze a striped shirt and say "Solid pants and a solid tie go this shirt. Also, since the shirt is blue, with white stripes, the pants must be black and the tie must not be the same blue as the shirt".

I do note that there are currently apps like this in the iOS App Store. One's called Love It or Lose It and another is called Go Try It On. Both however are a bit of a different concept in that the user is posting a picture of him/herself online and letting other rate if they look good or not.