Thursday, March 21, 2013

Final stages

  My idea is an escalator that contains chairs with TV’s and access to social media sites on the screens. These escalators would be the flat escalators that would bring people up to the front of the amusement line so that you wouldn’t have to walk all the way to the front of the line. This way you are able to sit instead of having to wait standing up. This would make peoples experience even more enjoyable at the amusement parks.
Over the course of the semester my idea has not only changed but it has evolved into something totally different than my original idea. Originally I was just looking for a more comfortable way to bring people to the front of an amusement park ride. I was looking for something that would eliminate the stop, go, stop, go in amusement park lines. Through the different topics in lecture of was able to evolve my idea into something that I truly think we could see in the future.
Installing TVs and allowing the uses t have internet access were to ideas that came to me during class. While listening to lecture I just kept thinking how the topics we talked about could really enhance my idea. My idea seems do-able to considering that it is just like an airplane seat minus the airplane!
Allowing people to be entertained instead of being bored in an hour long waiting line seemed like an issue that could be easily solved! The new ideas just kept flowing. I really hadn't thought of allowing people to access twitter until we talked in lecture about how many people use twitter and that it can be a great source of promotion! I can honestly say that a number of reasons that my idea evolved to what it has become is because of the different lecture topics that really forced me to think outside of the box in order to incorporate the topics into my idea.
I don't believe it would be too difficult to make this idea a reality. First what I would do is contact an escalator company as well as a company that produces airplane seats. I would pitch my idea to them and come up with a prototype of my idea. After this, I would contact an amusement part and let them have a month trial of my product and see if they like it. I feel as though social media would be a big source of free advertisement for my product because people would tweet about "the ride before the ride". This would get the name out there and I feel that everything would fall into place! As far as price goes I believe amusement parks would be able to pay this off very fast because it would increase their profit!

Piles of information!

  A cure for becoming so tired so fast at amusement parks! I have come up with an idea that will help cure boredom and that tired feeling. My idea is an escalator that has chairs with TV's installed in them. This escalator will move you up to the front of the line, while providing you with exciting entertainment!
A lot goes into this invention as far as technology. This means that a large amount of information is stored on this technology, making databases very useful. Before databases we thought of using text files or even spreadsheets but our company has come to the decision that databases are the answer.
The type of database we use is a relational database model to store our data in an organized place as well as structured location. This allows large amounts of information to be stored as well as provides security. This type of database allows multiple users, which is exactly what we have on our invention.
Majority of the reason that we choose to use a database is because the fact that it allows a multi-user access control. Our invention is not just run by one person, there are many people to control it as well as many different people that use it. A database allows us to have a large amount of information while sorting through it fast, which is exactly what our invention needs.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

TheRideBeforeTheRide.com

  Hot bored and tired... A cure for becoming so tired so fast at amusement parks! I have come up with an idea that will help cure boredom and that tired feeling. My idea is an escalator that has chairs with TV's installed in them. This escalator will move you up to the front of the line, while providing you with entertainment!
Networking definitely plays a part in my entrepreneurial idea. Because the TV's that are installed have internet access with them this could cause issues. There will need to be control and restrictions placed on these websites so that we can be sure no inappropriate or illegal actions are taking place. We plan on purchasing a website to promote our new technology off of godaddy.com. We intend on calling our website theridebeforetheride.com. This website will explain the function of our product and make it available to all those who want to purchase this product. As I said before we will be placing restrictions on what websites can be accessed. Amusement parks are family oriented and therefore there is no reason for illegal or inappropriate actions or websites to be accessed. The internet will be used for strictly social media, and even that language will be observed to make sure that nothing bad is being said!