Author Topic: Thinking outside the box. (Read 4595 times)

karmazon · « **on:** August 10, 2007, 12:53:57 am »

I think this should be fun, especially if you're a smart and creative person.

I think internet and computers in general are like movies, they are low-involvement media(unless you do graphic design or programming, creating something), so to stimulate your gray cells, here's some challenges I came up. You're more than welcome to come up with your own. There's only one rule: think outside the box.

The best answers will get a picture of my sweaty bawls in the mailbox.

Challenge #1
You've got thousands of car registration plates. What can you do with them ?

Clawbug · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2007, 12:58:39 am »

With few thousands of car rregistration plates, I would most probably make myself somehting like a Car-plate mail, as a body armour. Just for killing boredom. People had ring mails back in middle age or so, nowaways I'd be glad to have car plate mail.

Dascoo · « **Reply #2 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:05:08 am »

Sell them to a person who collects license plates.

Krypt_ · « **Reply #3 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:08:59 am »

I would take every last plate and melt it down to liquid metal then reform it into various car parts as a means to recycle the old to make way for the new. Cost efficient as well as recycling. Both seem good things to be doing.

SirJamesaford · « **Reply #4 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:10:19 am »

Quote from: Dascoo on August 10, 2007, 01:05:08 am

Sell them to a person who collects license plates.

Youd get alot more out of em if you sold them on the street.

Wraithlike · « **Reply #5 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:14:56 am »

Make a box out of them for me to think outside of.

ThunderPantz · « **Reply #6 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:19:05 am »

Sharpen their edges and throw them at people.

Blue-ninja · « **Reply #7 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:25:52 am »

Just pick them up, and ram them between the ribs of some people I hate the most, steal their money, find their bank account in their wallet, and also take the money from their banks.

Iridescent · « **Reply #8 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:44:31 am »

Use a couple to paste on your car. Fool every speed camera!
Could use them around the house for anything. Build tables out of them and door stops.
Maybe even use a couple as flowerpots if need be.

ThunderPantz · « **Reply #9 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:53:09 am »

Make knives or mailboxes out of them.

Dascoo · « **Reply #10 on:** August 10, 2007, 01:54:27 am »

Place a license plate on my car, drive around and do crazy shit, cops get my license plate, but its really not my license plate

SirJamesaford · « **Reply #11 on:** August 10, 2007, 02:01:39 am »

Guys if you had that many of these freaking things you could make a small fortune selling them illegally....why would u do anything else?

karmazon · « **Reply #12 on:** August 10, 2007, 02:02:38 am »

I liked Dascoo's first idea the most, because everyone else was in the "box" of making something crazy and eccentric, while dascoo's idea of selling them was outside of everyone's thinking.

Challenge #2

Connect in any way you can (again, think creatively and outside the box) the battle of thermopylae("300") with the invention of ipod.

Dascoo · « **Reply #13 on:** August 10, 2007, 02:23:07 am »

If the battle of thermopylae never happened, probably the Ipod would never have been invented. It cost the lives of thousands of people, and the children of one of the fallen soldiers could have murdered the ancestor of Steve jobs

Shivorken · « **Reply #14 on:** August 10, 2007, 03:32:02 am »

Quote from: karmazon on August 10, 2007, 02:02:38 am

Challenge #2

Connect in any way you can (again, think creatively and outside the box) the battle of thermopylae("300") with the invention of ipod.

The battle of Thermopylae has awed countless millions but if you look at it in close detail, they were also accompanied by loads of Helot reserve army/slaves as well as the periocoi army. So in actually fact the battle of Thermopylae wasn't actually just '300' spartans but more like about 800-1000 people fighting the persian army. It also loses interest in some people after awhile as people get distracted by other things of the same calibre. The ipod was revolutionary in its concept and was increadibly well recieved by the people. But however, looking at it closely, it fks up quite often, battery is shithouse, no file video file support other than mp4 and it has shitty video playback with sound going out of sync all the time. People have lost interest in it (well some) and they have gone to other alternatives such as the Creative version of Ipod which has many more features, looks good and doesn't have any of the stuff that make Ipods so shit.

PANZERCATWAGON · « **Reply #15 on:** August 10, 2007, 07:03:25 am »

The answer is:

Fluffy · « **Reply #16 on:** August 10, 2007, 07:46:16 am »

I haven't seen the movie, but...

When a Spartan was whacking some Persians, he thought it would be nice to listen to some music at the same time. But then again music was rather dull at that time, and it would've been hard to carry an orchestra to the battle. And orchestras weren't really invented at that time.

About two thousand years later, a mad scientist invented a time machine, and the first thing he decided to do with it was to re-view that same battle. He went back in time, but materialized in the middle of the battle. He was decapitated immediatly and the Spartan materialized back to the future instead of the decapitated scientist, due to a Windows Vista bug.

He sold the idea to an American company and made millions. The end!

Rai-Dei · « **Reply #17 on:** August 10, 2007, 09:29:43 am »

They both spawned shitty followings.

Psycho · « **Reply #18 on:** August 10, 2007, 10:03:01 am »

Both apple and the 300 guys were inferior to other companies/armies but they managed to make a huge difference after all.

Iron Man · « **Reply #19 on:** August 10, 2007, 12:08:22 pm »

size doesnt matter..

(300 people held that many persions off, and that tiny shuffle can hold like 1000 songs, amazing!)

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Author Topic: Thinking outside the box. (Read 4595 times)