Ideastorm Sogeti Mobile Solutions Lab

A service, or application to help people to break the ice, share a laugh. And perhaps bed. All by using random phrases and answers generated by the service. Reading this post will take you minimum 45 seconds. Sorry ´bout that :)

Target:
Anyone who needs help to start a conversation in a positive way. I picture the 15-30 year old male trying to figure out how to approach that mighty fine female in a bar / restaurant / outdoor festival / concert / subway. Any public place will do.

Goal:
To disarm, share a laugh, find a similar interest and to, unknowingly get his / her number to follow up later.

Scenario:
Boy approach girl and tells her he just found out this "really silly" service through a friend, and asks if he can try it on her. Sends an sms from his own phone the retrieve the randomized pickup line, by a genre the girl have to choose herself (like: polite, slightliy dirty, raw)

The girl then is to respond through her phone, and to choose level on the randomized answer (slightly positive, feeling nothing, no way josé)

The phrases should contain some kind of interest that could be a hook to continue the conversation. The "girls" number should also be sent to the "boy" by connecting the two phrases (time, position, code etc) for a proper / sober follow up.

Pseudo solution:
- Pickup lines and responses stored categorized in a database
- Figure out how to send / retrieve the messages. Application distribution on various platforms vs global sms service on global operators... hm... maybe translator.google.com api´s can handle the language issue.
- Find out a name that really sticks (hey, have you by any chance been "icebreaked" yet?)

How useful would this be? Well, consider the main goal for any youngster on hormones and the number of teens globally, I´d say do it right and it will have a global spread. Any service is no better than its content though.