Innovation Generator

The ultimate Monte-Carlo driven innovation idea generator for start-ups, entrepreneurs and all who are looking for the brand-new novel idea to implement! Just press a button and get your idea for a worldwide innovation.

Give it a try at https://imaginary.github.io/InnovationGenerator/

Technical description

A random title generator which displays three words in a row (an adjective, an explaining middle noun and a final end noun), pre-filled with ideas in the field of STEAM (sciences, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) communication. It can be setup in Full Screen Mode, and also works on mobile phones.

This generator was implemented for the project STEAM Hub (www.steam-hub.com) and is used at the STEAM Hub conference in connection with a “red button buzzer” that triggers the idea generator. It is used to assist the idea finding brainstorming process in a motivating humorous way.

Usage

Configuration

Configuration is done via URL parameters:

• words: Set the name of the words list. Default is default (a copy of steamhub for legacy reasons). Word lists will be retrieved from the wordlist directory. The extension .json is appended. E.g. the word list steamhub is requested from ./wordlist/steamhub.json.
• mode: Defined how keyboard buttons, mouse buttons and touch screen touch trigger the randomization process. Possible values are press_release (the default), press_press, release_release, press_a_release_b, press_a_press_b and release_a_release_b. In *_a_*b mode, consecutive keyboard events need to originate from different keys. This is sometimes useful to connect with external buttons that send key presses on both, button down and up.
• fullscreenButton: Hides the fullscreen button if set to false. (For backwards-compatibility, the previous fullscreen option name is still supported.)
• qrcode: The URL the code should point to. Set to empty to hide the QR code. Note that that special characters in the URL might need to be escaped.
• language: The language to start the generator in.
• languages: A comma separated list of languages to cycle through.
• fallbackLanguage: The language to fall back to if the selected word is not available in the current language.
• languageButton: If not set to false and there are multiple languages, display a button to cycle through the languages.
• theme: Name of the theme to use. Themes are loaded from the themes directory. The extension .css is appended. E.g. the theme default is requested from ./themes/default.css.
• html: Whether to interpret the words as HTML, not plain text (default is false). This is useful for themes that use HTML markup to style the words.

Adding words

Additional words can be added as JSON files to the wordlists folder. Localization is supported. See wordlists/test-i18n.json for an example.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache v2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for the license text.