Ideas Lab

So, on Friday the 22nd of March, myself and classmate Scott Butcher went to the Ideas Lab being held in C9. It was pretty interesting to attend to, honestly and I think I learned quite a bit from it about how to find answers for real-life problems in groups.

We were put into a group of 5 to work out how to find ways to help people who are struggling with dementia and their carers with looking after them. We came up with a pretty well-grounded idea of having surveillance on the dementia sufferers that only their carers can look in to to check if they are well without taking the trouble of going round to their house. 

There was also some other features of the package we proposed like a part-time carer to let the main carer put their feet up for a couple of days a week and cool off from looking after the person.

We felt the ideas we came up with were the most viable and most cost-effective of the three groups' ideas. One of the other groups had basically overheard most of what we said when we were working on the idea and copied it but failed to transfer some of the better features (or so we suspect) and the last group came up with some completely bat-shit insane ideas that used technology that was far too expensive for anyone to realistically afford or virtually non-existent in the current world (robot-helpers with good enough AI to help with things).

Much to our dismay, the group with the stupid overly-expensive and far-fetched ideas won this little Dragon's Den style competition. I don't think the judges even realized how much the technology they were proposing would cost.

Took away one of the runners-up goody bags while the winning group got the good goody bags. I guess it wasn't all for nothing since I got a lollipop!