Game Dapps: The gaming industry is testing the "blockchain" waters by introducing tokenification into games. These games call themselves "blockchain games" but they barely use the blockchain. Meanwhile, a small group of games are being developed as game dapps that run directly on one of the DLT networks. I believe that game dapps will be one of the break out use cases for blockchain tech and that's where I'm putting my energy right now.
Cloudless "Smart Speaker": "Smart speaker" is the wrong name for this product, but it's what we call the products in this class right now. We no longer need to depend on the cloud to perform language processing. Moving the ability to process spoken language into a device opens up a lot of opportunities for a home network appliance. For example: instead of one "personality" like Alexa or Siri, a local device could be highly configurable and customizable.
Crowd Funded Investigative Reporting: In a nutshell: people want reliable news and the news is not well funded. A good system could allow reputation tracking for investigative reporters and a fundraising platform to support their future investigations. I would do this using some form of cryptocurrency but that's not required.
A New Car Radio (carputing): Most cars still use the 1 or 2 din form factor for the car's audio. If you shop for replacement units online, you'll see that they're all extremely similar. Compare those units with the experience someone expects from a Tesla. Somewhere in between exists a product that people driving older vehicles would greatly benefit from.
I have a few thousand more, but I like these a lot lately.
