jamie jo vittetoe's idea-storm

What we really need is an app that calculates calories based off a photo. You would take a photo of your meal with your phone, and the app would recognize the food and portions and calculate approximate nutritional values. 

Facebook needs a super simplified user interface option for older people. I'm talking 70+. If it was fool proof enough, it would be a great way for older generations to stay in touch with friends and family and strengthen the feeling of being connected and needed.  

The Biggest Loser needs to include a workout ticker at the bottom of their tv show. It could be a guide to a simple workout through out the show so people are burning calories while they watch, rather than being couch potatoes. It would have simple prompts like "alternate 30 seconds of push ups with 30 seconds of sit ups" and "jog in place through the next commercial break".

Instead of jacking up the price of tickets, airlines should start selling advertising on their flights. Sponsor logos on blankets, brochures in seat backs, and "This flight is brought to you by [sponsor name goes here]" included after the safety procedure spiel. 

There should be a company that remakes your favorite worn out clothing items. For example, you send in your favorite pair of jeans that now have holes in them, or your favorite t-shirt that is too faded, and they use it as a pattern to re-create the item. 

Marketers need to start replacing "Zero Saturated-Fat" and "1/2 the Calories of the Competitor" type call-outs on consumer goods with deeper statements. Things like "This Product was Created with Half the Energy of the Competitor's Product" and "Buy this Products and We will Give 10 Kids in Sudan a Shirt". 

Clothing stores really need modular dressing rooms. Then, during busy times, they can add rooms so customers don't have to wait so long in line to try on clothes. And during slow times, they can reduce the number of rooms and have larger rooms for more customer comfort.

You know that big mass of plastic and trash floating in the Pacific? You would think there would be some way to clear all that out of the ocean. Maybe some huge barges equipped with water vacuums and filters. It will take a lot of time and resources, but someone has got to do it. We owe it to our Earth.

We keep hearing from most charities/thrift stores/good will type places that they don't need any more donations of clothing. They have so much clothing that they don't know what to do with it. That is a lot of material just sitting there. Someone needs to find a good solution for all those unwanted clothes. Maybe they could be processed into insulation material, or paving material...

Why hasn't someone come up with a UI-like concept for terminology? Banks and health insurance make things so unnecessarily complicated just with the confusing terms they use. There has to be a more understandable solution.