Thursday, December 4, 2008

Other million dollar ideas

Remote control fold out couch/bed. Glow-in-the-dark toothpaste. An igloo cooler fashioned into a backpack for mobile hot chocolate distribution in winter. Campus wide rickshaw service. Motion sensor headstones with pre-recording capabilities for memoirs and/or spooky noises.

Latest million dollar idea:

Free toilet paper for everyone. A good idea, yes. But possible? Also yes. The production cost of the toilet paper will be offset by the material printed on it. White toilet paper is boring. How great would it be to have a series of comics available for your perusal as opposed to having nothing to look at but the hook on the back of the stall door and the shoes of the person next to you? Then there would be ad space, specifically tailored to the restroom. Classier establishments could run ads for designer clothes of limo rental services, college campuses would have cheap pizza offers, and so on and so forth. The ads could be further refined to be gender specific, with single's ads placed respectively.

I got the idea doing a little freelance advertising on my own in my school's library. I'll spin out the paper for a few squares, then write the name of my web site (www.nastytie.com). It's best to do this over several meters as to maximize the number of patrons who will come into contact with the ads. Hopefully the increase of the number of hits I'll get will reflect the number of bathrooms I frequent, and if so will justify the public service toilet paper on a larger scale.