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Hi! I'm writing a futuristic novel and need help with a name for a device. It's a smartphone that stores everything (insurance, driving license, bank account, birth certificate, etc.). Generally, it's one device for your whole life, including a scanner to open, for example, your own apartment door. You also use it as payment device like a credit card.
For now, I've named it "iLife" but the problem is that this is something that already exists (it's a multimedia package from Apple). I don't know if that's an issue or if I'll confuse readers with it so I'm looking for ideas for other names. Can you brainstorm a few for me? :) Thanks in advance!

Hello Elodie, possibly something with 'omni' in it, like omnipad,

Li-fone?

Hi, Andrew! Great ideas! I'll put them on my brainstorming list :)

How about

VitaStore

AllMind

Soul

Give it a rudimentary personality and thus it needs a name.
Edie (educational device IS TAKEN, btw)
Laddie (life aide )
Lily
George
Odie (omni device)

If everyone has one, then "key" as the key we now know would be extinct and the word could shift its meaning, as in "carriage" to "car"

DEMipod
DEM standing for Deus Ex Machina - "God from the machine"

This is an interesting one :)

:)

I have to imagine that Apple would frown on anything starting with 'i'. and everyone reading it will think Apple. Omni(blank) is cool but has been done before. try and think up something truly unique and bizarre even.

Just had another thought.

LifeLine

OmniSmart?

Or simply call it 'gadget' :)
People tend to simplify things when they get into their everyday life.

also a good one :)

Call it OmniLife and shorten it to "oms" when people mention it. But there is a Mexico-based marketing firm by that name.

Thinking keys here, as in the key to unlocking all your stuff ... Master (key) or Skeleton (key) ... could shorten them to mKey or sKey ... or uKey (universal key, although it looks like "ukey" is a slang word for "pukey" as well as a short word used to describe an obnoxious, tiny little guitar-like instrument that hipsters seem to love).

Too bad Ubik has already been used. ;P

Or paint it red and put a white cross on it ... Swiss Army style.

Or riffing off that, call it a Victor because you can't use the actual name of the company that makes Swiss Army knives (Victorinox) because of trademark issues.

OR ... official name: Pan-transactional Personal Accounts and Lifestyel Manager (PPALM), but commonly referred to as a Victor after Victorinox, the maker of Swiss Army knives.

I like the idea of it having a ridiculous corporate name, but then nobody uses that and just calls it something simple, like 'Ap', or 'Key', or 'Widget'.

There could also be something like eLife... "e" for electronic.

PS. I hope you let us know which one you decide on...

Hm, I like the idea of using something with ?Key, good thinking

Tyler wrote: "There could also be something like eLife... "e" for electronic.

PS. I hope you let us know which one you decide on..."

sure will ;)

How about something like Your Life but spelled all company-ish such as UrLyfe.

Some words just came to me: biodex, retinex, neotec.

thanks for your awesome ideas!

Hi,
How about your 'self' perhaps a contracted form of DigitalSelf - people tend to use shorter forms of words over time, so you could have some users referring to it as their Self, and all the great plays on words that go along with it - forgetting your Self, losing your Self, breaking, selling etc.

While in other sub-cultures the same device might be referred to as a Digit, which also has the same comedy possibilities - Inserting /extracting your Digit, giving someone your Digit etc

All the best
Peter

thanks!!!