Get an Alert When Your Child’s Head Is Underwater
Why?
Help you protect your kids from drowning.
How?
A swimming cap with sensors and communication unit. When the cap is underwater for a longer period (more than a few seconds), you get an alert on your device (smartphone, special receiver, etc.), so you can check on your child to make sure all is ok.
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Get Updates in Real Time on Your Car Being Serviced
Why?
You just handed your car to be serviced, and you are waiting in their lounge for them to finish their work and hand it back to you. You don’t really know what is happening and how long it will take.
How?
An app that both the mechanics and you use. The workers use it to signal what the plan of action is, where in the plan are they now (what specifically are they currently working on), and a schedule and finishing estimate for each step and the whole plan. You get to see (with alerts or by checking the app) where they are in the execution plan, and time estimations as to when they’ll finish.
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Hand Filtered and Edited Daily Alerts
Why?
Alerts are an excellent tool to keep yourself informed on your market, and there are a few good services already, some even free like Google alerts. They are, however, inaccurate at best, and time-consuming at worst.
How?
Have your automatic alerts be curated by a personal assistance service. You have a session with your account assistant where you explain exactly what you are looking for in those alerts, and what should bot reach you. From that point on all your alerts will be filtered and edited by your assistant(s). You will get a daily (or even hourly) digest of all the alerts you need. You can even ask for them to synopsize long articles to help you get to the meat of things.
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Know What Your Favorite Celebrity Is Reading
Why?
If you admire a public figure (artist, businessman, etc.), you might be interested in what he is reading.
How?
Every time your favorite celebrity reads a new book, interesting article, etc., you will get an alert. It’s a platform for public figures to have another way to connect with their fans and vice versa.
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Check and Alert Before Credit Card Charge
Why?
If you have automatic charges as a merchant (monthly fees you charge your customers), sometimes they are declined. Many of these could be circumvented.
How?
A mechanism that allows you to check a charge in advance without actually charging the card. If you get a reply that the charge will not go through, you can alert the customer before the actual charge is applied to his card. It’s better for the client and you.
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