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    Ramblings of a Mad Scientist: 100 Ideas for a Stranger Tomorrow
    Ramblings of a Mad Scientist: 100 Ideas for a Stranger Tomorrow
    Ramblings of a Mad Scientist: 100 Ideas for a Stranger Tomorrow
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    Ramblings of a Mad Scientist: 100 Ideas for a Stranger Tomorrow

    By Zimmer Barnes

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    Inventor notebooks, once considered hidden treasure troves of creativity, have fallen out of fashion. Zimmer Barnes’ “Ramblings of a Mad Scientist” marks their roaring comeback. This collection invigorates and inspires with one hundred original concepts, ideas, and inventions spanning many topics, including transportation, mobile devices, wearable electronics, games, emerging technologies, and more. All ideas contained within are free to use, shared with the public domain, as opposed to being patented. Barnes takes casual readers and aspiring inventors alike through his personal journey of discovery, while prompting th to tap into their own inner creativity and imagine a stranger tomorrow for all of us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZimmer Barnes
    Release dateJul 21, 2016
    ISBN9781370227372
    Ramblings of a Mad Scientist: 100 Ideas for a Stranger Tomorrow

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      Ramblings of a Mad Scientist - Zimmer Barnes

      INTRODUCTION

      The truth is that when I started writing down ideas, I had no intention of writing down 100 of them, let alone thousands. I had a few projects I wanted to complete, and I realized I'd totally forget about them trying to hold them all in my head and in everyday conversation. Over time, it became a habit of mine to write down each weird idea as it came to me. That slow shift meant I naturally came up with more and more ideas. Eventually, virtually any frustration with the real world would trigger some kind of solution for me to document.

      Today, I keep a running list of ideas. I go back and forth between writing on pen and paper, which tends to spark more creative thinking, and recording digitally for convenience. Every 100 ideas I put in a new document and name it after a new color. This list of 100 ideas comes from five such colors, Cinnabar, Vermillion, Saffron, Viridian and Cerulean. I've pulled twenty ideas from each color to provide an eclectic sample of the weird things I've written down over the years.

      This is a sample of 20% of 500 ideas, and I've written down hundreds more since I finished Cerulean. I write down 1 to 100+ new ideas every week, depending on how inspired I am. These ideas have sat on paper notebooks and doc files for long enough. Maybe you'll find one of them just right for you, and you'll be able to run off and do something incredible with it. I've got hundreds of ideas, so if one of these speaks to you, it's yours! I wish you the best.

      If you take nothing else away from reading this, please consider keeping a pen and notebook on you. Start recording your ideas, plans, and any projects you want to do. You'll feel better, you'll be able to focus, you'll dream more, and we will all be better for it.

      CODEX CINNABAR

      It took over two years to write down the first hundred; this period of time in my life was intense. I was on a superhero team, in a documentary, I was hit by a car, my mother went to prison, I moved back to Texas, I left a serious relationship, and I entered a new one.

      More than any other block of ideas, the first was the most personal, the most challenging, and took the longest to get on paper. I call it Codex Cinnabar. My record for shortest time to 100 ideas took just five days, but my first hundred took over 700. Enjoy!

      #0001: The Bomb Clock

      Problem: Most alarm clocks don't require actual cognition to turn off, and are too easy to deactivate without really having been woken up. Then again, I'm the person that can drink a cup of coffee and fall back asleep. I clearly need drastic measures.

      Solution: This alarm clock looks like an armed bomb right out of an action movie, and at a designated time, starts beeping with just seconds to disarm it. A series of flashing lights will need to be studied that indicate which of several colored wires need to be pulled from their sockets in the correct sequence. An alarm blares loudly if

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