Wow, Neelima, you have so many beginnings of great product ideas here. I think that the question of amnesia is actually a fascinating one. As the population ages, we are seeing greater numbers of elderly people simply wander off, because they have forgotten who they are or where they live. There could for sure be a market for a device that could help locate grandpa after he disappears.
I am also very much in favor of pursuing the whole question of mental training as a way of reducing dementia. Recent research about brain plasticity suggests that we can train ourselves in profound ways, given adequate practice and particular types of stimulation. I'm sure this goes way beyond learning a musical instrument or a language. If you could look into research about this, I will bet that you will be able to come up with a product idea that embeds theories of learning and knowledge, to create fun exercises that keep our brains healthy, and free of neuroses like depression and OCD.
Of course, I am also very interested in ink blot and pattern recognition. Check this out:
"Doctor James Heilman from Saskatchewan, Canada, has posted the Rorschach Test plates to Wikipedia. This means that the Rorschach Test ink blot images, which one would not normally see outside of a clinical setting, are openly viewable, creating a sort of Rorschach cheat sheet on Wikipedia.
This angers psychologists, who insist that the validity of the Rorschach Test is compromised by the potential for a patient to "study" for it, though overall validity of the test itself is not entirely established in the first place. As these plates have been used for 88 years, a tremendous amount of patient-response data has built up, which means any new plates would be far less useful. Developed in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach, the Rorschach Test is a series of ten inkblot plates used to provide insight into the viewer's mind. Contrary to popular perception, the blots are not all black and white: some are pink, blue and red."
Wow, Neelima, you have so many beginnings of great product ideas here. I think that the question of amnesia is actually a fascinating one. As the population ages, we are seeing greater numbers of elderly people simply wander off, because they have forgotten who they are or where they live. There could for sure be a market for a device that could help locate grandpa after he disappears.
ReplyDeleteI am also very much in favor of pursuing the whole question of mental training as a way of reducing dementia. Recent research about brain plasticity suggests that we can train ourselves in profound ways, given adequate practice and particular types of stimulation. I'm sure this goes way beyond learning a musical instrument or a language. If you could look into research about this, I will bet that you will be able to come up with a product idea that embeds theories of learning and knowledge, to create fun exercises that keep our brains healthy, and free of neuroses like depression and OCD.
Of course, I am also very interested in ink blot and pattern recognition. Check this out:
"Doctor James Heilman from Saskatchewan, Canada, has posted the Rorschach Test plates to Wikipedia. This means that the Rorschach Test ink blot images, which one would not normally see outside of a clinical setting, are openly viewable, creating a sort of Rorschach cheat sheet on Wikipedia.
This angers psychologists, who insist that the validity of the Rorschach Test is compromised by the potential for a patient to "study" for it, though overall validity of the test itself is not entirely established in the first place. As these plates have been used for 88 years, a tremendous amount of patient-response data has built up, which means any new plates would be far less useful. Developed in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach, the Rorschach Test is a series of ten inkblot plates used to provide insight into the viewer's mind. Contrary to popular perception, the blots are not all black and white: some are pink, blue and red."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/technology/internet/29inkblot.html?_r=1