Bright Spark Mark

Timesheets are ok, but does anyone enjoy filling them in? No! And now it's time to make this process easy and fun at the same time. With the AnimatedTimesheet (c) you get a great looking timesheet with functions and puzzles that will make you smile. People are represented as people - think Habbo hotel. And tasks are shown as pets, dinosaurs which get older. Big tasks are presented as big fat pets, small tasks as smaller pets. They follow you around and jump up if they need immediate attention. This is just a concept but if you want to talk more about it then drop me a post.

Use a flask Store your water for coffee in a flask in the morning and use it for the rest of the day, you only need to boil the kettle once for the day. Just think of the time you save waiting for the kettle and the electricity on your bills will be reduced. Defrost and refrost When you defrost the fridge, keep the old ice that you chip out in a bowl, possibly in a freezer bag. Once the fridge has finished defrosting you can put the ice back into the fridge so that it cools quickly and can get down to temperature. Saving energy that is required and electricity, plus you get to use the fridge sooner. Wine bag to gift bag If you end up with lots of wine gift bags that you will propbably never use then cut them down to size to make small gift pages. Use a hole punch to create new holes for the strings. Cut out everything Cut out all sorts of things from magazines and papers and drop them into a box. These are great for kids to stick and glue. Create different sets of items

Why do kids want the latest doll or toy when they can have a paper version of them which they can stick, bend and put into their playhouses? The concept is easy enough, rather than throw all those magazines and boxes with children's favorite characters on we cut them out and store them as activity sets. Cut outs from cereal boxes, from birthday present boxes ... I think a handful of volunteers who get the magazines and cut them out and arrange them into activity sets such as a "Bob the Builder" set which can have extra cuttings such as trees and houses and bricks. Or "In the Night Garden" set which will have the favorite characters plus stars, trees and birds. Xmas 2012 Snippets Maybe we could get some Grannies and Grandads with some time on their hands to get together and cut and arrange and produce handcrafted sets for all children - poor or rich! If you would like the project files for this idea then please drop me a post.

One of the problems when I worked at PDG was the build up of a lot of emails in the Microsoft Exchange mailbox. There didn't seem to be a quick way to get all this information into a nice spreadsheet format for reviewing, processing and then sending to the client. We could also impress the client by sending a report from a backup of the emails when a database got corrupted. So I tasked myself with creating an application to take the raw text file output from microsoft mail by hightlighting the emails and doing a "Save As.." into a text file. Once the file has been produced it can be uploaded to the application which will process the file into a CSV that can be imported into a spreadsheet. Example Data This data was produced by selecting emails in MS Exchange and doing a "Save As.." into a text (.txt) file. From: info@helsburypark.co.uk Sent: 26 April 2011 18:30 To: info@helsburypark.co.uk Subject: Helsbury Park Enquiry Your Details... : * Name : mr.anonymous * T

This is a concept product idea for a military application; a security device or a fun toy. This can be adapted for all this things and possibly more. In essence it is a ball that has the ability to jump or hop towards something. The mechanism for movement would be pistons or a flexible membrane. Proximity Pet Toy Children could shout at it and it would move towards them, so they make the toy follow you. I'd imagined a load of these proximity pets with lots of kids calling them to get the most over to their corner - one with the most wins! With the addition of different sensors it could move towards a bright light or shy away from it. Or possibly detect heat differences or compass directions. Another option would be to follow a signal - so a child wears a device that emmits a signal that the proximity pet will go towards or jump away from. It should be lightweight and durable so it's tough enoug to get kicked by kids. Proximity Soldier Another application is for the military as