Million dollar idea?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Okay, I’m going to lay one of my “million dollar ideas” on you guys and see what you think. I’ve got a few of these products floating around in my head, but I’ll save the others for a rainy day. :wink:

The product is basically a mood ring that doesn’t respond to body temperature; instead, the wearer can change the color at will by pushing a button or rotating the “gem” to cycle through the colors. The idea of the product is to advertise your current mood.

On the packaging it would state what emotion or mood each color is supposed to represent, and if the trend caught on, people would be able to glance at your ring and know how you’re feeling. You could even use it to provide reactions to changes in your mood (i.e. someone says something upsetting to you and you let them know by changing your ring from “happy” to “angry”.)

Now I know what you’re thinking: what kind of sad excuse for human interaction would that be? Who would this product appeal to? Teenagers. The target demographic would be junior high to high school students. It would be a way for teens to get attention and express their mood in a “cool,” disconnected sort of way.

Rings are just the starting point, of course. The same technology could be applied to necklaces, bracelets, pendants, wristwatch faces, etc. I’ve yet to come up with a good name for the product that doesn’t tread too much on “mood ring” but still gets the idea across. I’m sure you’ll agree that my current working names such as “'Tude Ring” and “True Mood Ring” are abysmal at best.

Anyway, to illustrate the “million dollar” part of the idea:

($14.95 at Hot Topic) X (number of angsty teenagers with allowances) = $1,000,000 (at least)

:smiley:

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I can picture using these in singles bars as a way to broadcast your availability. Blue could mean “Single but darned picky.” Green, "Single but don’t expect much until we get to know one another better. " Orange, “Single, married, whatever! Just take me now!” Purple, “With booze, anything is possible.” And Red, “Don’t even bother asking! I’m just here as a favor to a friend.”

Well, something along that line. Anyway, interesting idea.

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This could be an alternative to the “hanky code”. You’ll have to look it up yourself.

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This invention might have some use. I have always thought that if only I could contort a part of my body that is visible to everyone say, I don’t know, my face that social interaction would go much smoother.

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Or you could do this:

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Depressing how one dumb idea can make so much money.

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First thing I thought when I read the OP was, “This is such a stupid idea… for a product.” But it’s a great idea to sell such a stupid product to teenagers, I really think middle schoolers would eat it up.

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…or better yet, make a truth ring. Have a microchip in a ring with some biofeedback algorithm linked to electrical resistance detectors in the ring and have a red, yellow, and green light that alternates and loosely tells if a person is telling the truth. Red- they’re lying. Yellow-inconclusive. Green- They’re telling the truth.

That’s novelty factor, Baby! Think of all the wives who would be buying them for their husbands on a lark!