Brainstorm Session Look Back

Wearable Synchoniser

Last week, we had a first brainstorm session. Our group has 5 members and we came up with more than 20 ideas. These range from wearable devices to household applicants but there were 3 ideas was selected. These are Mario Kart augmented reality game, a wearable synchronizer, and dynamic QR enhanced clothing for social interactions. I am particularly interested in the wearable synchroniser. The idea behide that is to allow people know the other greeting reference and act conrespondingly. 

Pairing - Hell No

However, I see the security issue here. Consider all the existing communication technologies such as NFC, and Bluetooth. These are required the grant permission before pairing to transfer information. The wearable synchosier needs to send and receive signal all the time in order to cleverly identify other people greeting referecnce. So if the devices ask both users to grant permission to pair and then enter PIN, it becomes rather an unnecessary device. The users would possibly refer to ask directly the greeting reference from the other which take less than a minute and of course free.

Smart Watch Implementation

Ignoring the Bluetoth pairing and NFC problem, the idea can be implemented as an application onf smart watch platform rather than developing a new device which is costly and time consumming. Another benefit of using the existing platform is the project is not put at risk of the potential market as the smart watch market is already exist and taking quite a portion in the future. 

Clap to unfriend > < FriendBeams - using NFC to make friends

So we also came up with the idea "Clap to unfriend", the idea is to synchonise the real world activities with social network. This is quite cool when everyone now on Twitter or Facebook. This idea reminds me a small application that allow users to use NFC on their phone to make friend.

I think it is a great app. Rather logging on FaceBook, searching for the user, pressing friend request button, now users just need put their 2 phones near and then done. The process take less than a few second. This is quick, easy and no hassle.

Other Ideas

Andy, one of our group memeber, has a very clear description of all notable ideas HERE.