Three Critters

Cabinet Guy

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Cabinet Guy is a small bot. He has two big eyes, one of which is a photocell. He also has a big, cheap speaker for a mouth. He’s kind of the digital equivalent of a Honker:



I feel like I only ever open the bathroom cabinet when I’m getting bandaids, medicine, or when I’m shaving (which I hate doing). So this little guy will tell me it’s okay whenever I open the cabinet.

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He’ll try and talk to me if I leave the cabinet open and then will be sad when I close the door. These sentiments could be expressed through recorded sound or just blips/bloops/whines. To make him even more interesting, he could have a til sensor and could be happy if I pick him up. Then, when I closed the cabinet, he’d say bye in a more excited fasion.

Jiminy Crickbot

I loved Pinocchio as a kid, and I thought it would be nice to have a little Jiminy Cricket to keep you from doing bad stuff.

So this little guy would essentially be a small stuffed cricket with a measuring tape mechanism inside. This tape could be pulled out and wrapped around something then locked back into Jiminy’s body. The lock could only be opened by breathing into Jiminy’s alcohol sensor face and confirming that you’re not drunk.

This could prevent the user from doing a variety of things – texting, eating dessert, using a gun, getting naked.


Kitchen Dragon

There are so many creative kitchen tools but no cool instant-read thermometers that do anything special or cute. And instant read thermometers are a must for a couple of things – deep frying, roasting meat, making candy, making ice cream – and are already a relatively pricey product (good ones are around $90) so it seems like a good market space for a neat device.

Personally, I love dragons. I think they’re one of the few fantasy/horror elements that isn’t completely overexposed these days. And they’re the perfect compliment for a temperature-based device, as they come in both fire and ice varieties. This device would show the temperature like a regular thermometer.

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This guy would have a multi-color LED that would change blue when it measured a temperature colder than room temperature was encountered and red when it measured a temperature that was hotter than room temperature. It could even offer up a cry when a certain temperature was reached, depending on the interface used for the digital thermometer face.