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1 #+title: Big List O' Ideas
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2 #+author: Robert McIntyre
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3 #+email: rlm@mit.edu
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4 #+description: list of ideas from the last ~ 7 years
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10 * Ideas
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12 This is a list of all the ideas I've had that I felt like writing down
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13 for the past ~ 8 years. Some of them could be practical inventions and
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14 are "just" waiting the that 95% perspiration to bring them to
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15 fruition, some are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple
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16 observations. Some are really only for my own personal notes and are
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17 not meant to be comprehensible. They are arranged roughly in reverse
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18 chronological order, with the most recent ideas at the top of the
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19 list. The ones at the bottom of the list are heavily influenced by my
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20 time at MIT.
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22 If you find some of these interesting and would like to collaborate on
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23 them with me or discuss them in more detail, I'd love to hear from
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24 you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org.
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26 If you want to use one of these ideas as your own and run with it,
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27 please feel free. I'd love to hear about it if you do.
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28
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29 #+begin_quote
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30 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
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31 getting credit.
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32 #+end_quote
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33
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34 - chaos lock :: The "arrow of time" points in the direction of
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35 increasing entropy. The time evolution of chaotic
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36 systems depend exquisitely on their initial state. If
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37 you take a measurement of a chaotic system at any
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38 given point of time, you can evolve that system
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39 backwards or forwards based on your measurement. So
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40 let's say you start the chaotic system in a VERY low
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41 entropy state, then let it run for a while, then take
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42 a measurement with some uncertainty. Your
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43 measurement is pretty good, but obviously not
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44 PERFECT. If you evolve the chaotic system back in
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45 time, then you will see that you don't really reach
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46 a state with low entropy an hour before (the entropy
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47 is easy to measure with surrogates like alignment,
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48 etc). So use this technique to SEARCH for a more
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49 accurate measurement! This potentially can give you
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50 many more orders of magnitude than you could get alone
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51 just using an instrument. Sometimes it will give you
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52 bad results, the the odds of it doing that are
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53 infinitesimal, and you can just measure a couple of
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54 times.
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55
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56 - cryo-evolution :: perhaps there would be a way to rapidly evolve a
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57 symbiotic bacterial organism that could protect
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58 human tissues from freezing damage.
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59
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60 - suicide parasite :: sometimes, people kill themselves for no good
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61 reason. We often explain this with things like "hidden
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62 depression" or we say that they had something like chronic jaw or
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63 back pain. I think that smells of rationalization. I don't buy
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64 it. I propose that in many suicide cases there is a disease that
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65 causes the suicidal behavior. We already know that certain
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66 parasites have mind-bending properties in other animals, even
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67 mammals like mice. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a
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68 parasite that causes suicides in humans. Some problems:
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69 - What does the suicide parasite get out of it? :: This might be
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70 answered by the whole thing being a glitch caused by
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71 cross-species contamination. Toxoplasma works this way.
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72 - What predictions does a disease model make :: suicide should
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73 be more common among people who share a contagion
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74 vector. There should be suicides that don't make any
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75 sense : people who weren't really depressed, who had no
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76 reason to kill themselves. People who have killed themselves
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77 should have a higher incidence of some unknown parasite in
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78 their brains.
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79
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80 - domestic insects :: People should eat more bugs because they're much
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81 more efficient, so why not do some major domestication research
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82 to make very appealing bugs?
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83
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84 - birth-clones :: What if each person was intentionally split at birth
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85 into a normal embryo and a few "backup" cells which
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86 is then frozen. The backup cells are created just
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87 the same way as natural identical twins. The backups
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88 can be used to regenerate organs. etc. Also, it
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89 would be a good sci fi concept, because you could
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90 have a culture where people reward people who were
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91 especially awesome are "reborn" from their
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92 backups. Imagine having a young Bach every
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93 generation, etc.
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94
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95 - pronuncation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and
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96 it returns a simpe, English sentence describing exactly how to
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97 pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA.
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99 - cortex-search :: use the repertoire of actions learned to limit the
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100 search space of possible actions.
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101
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102 - learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person
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103 who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about
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104 teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a
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105 member of that society (after all, the difference between animals
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106 and humans is that humans are creatures of pure information while
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107 animals are burdened with base matter, "that's how you travel the
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108 stars, etc") Humans are born normally, grow up, and then
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109 eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping
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110 off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for
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111 a long time), etc.
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112
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113 - no-float-ice :: cup that has cross beams at the bottom where ice
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114 forms. Then when you drink liquid from the glass,
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115 the ice stays at the bottom and doesn't hit your
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116 lips. For bars and fancy things.
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117
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118 - bitcoins for immigrants :: A common case with Mexican immigrants
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119 (illegal or not) is that they want to send money they've earned
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120 in the US back to their families in Mexico. They currently do this
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121 through things like Money Gram or Western Union, and they get
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122 fleeced in the process with fees. Bitcoin could greatly reduce
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123 the cost of sending money from America to Mexico, but I don't
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124 believe that it's currently used for that among Mexican
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125 immigrants currently due to lack of knowledge. I bet you could
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126 set up physical locations like those obnoxious Western Union huts
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127 in places like Texas, Arizona, etc, and greatly undercut
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128 them. Or, perhaps some educational seminars about bitcoin might
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129 be in order. There's some money to be made there because there is
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130 great demand, and it's a good thing to boot!
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131
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132 - reverse eye-tracking :: A painting that is actually a digital screen
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133 with a camera. It records people's eye tracks permanently. It's
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134 "artistic" because paintings are normally these things that you
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135 look at without changing, but this one is changed the second you
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136 look at it, recording where /you/ looked forever for others to
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137 see. Make it be a painting of a woman and see the trolling as the
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138 breasts and groin area light up with interest from all the males
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139 passing by.
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140
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141 - smart toilets :: Instead of using indirect measures like infrared
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142 detectors of the presence of a person, use computer
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143 vision to directly measure whether the toilet needs
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144 to be flushed. I think a lot of things will end up
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145 going this way as we get better computer vision.
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146
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147 - validate chemopreservation :: chemopreservation is difficult to
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148 validate because it destroys the functionality of a brain, and
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149 brain simulation will take a long time to mature as a
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150 technology. However, one very powerful way to validate
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151 chemopreservation would be to have a person/animal learn
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152 something with high complexity such as a number or the solution
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153 to a maze, or a flashbulb memory. Then you preserve their brain
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154 chemically, slice it up, and read /that specific memory/ from the
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155 detailed brain scan. Much more difficult, but much more doable.
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156
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157 - candy screw :: edible candy screw with candy nuts that you can screw
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158 as well.
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159
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160 - better bibliography :: when writing a thesis or paper, have the
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161 bibliography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
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162 be a list of /summaries/ and /qualities/ that each paper has in
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163 the context of the paper being written. When examining a
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164 bibliography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
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165 bibliography are worth my time, and I also am probably also
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166 interested in exactly the things that are being discussed in the
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167 paper I'm reading. The bibliography is the perfect place to
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168 provide information about the referenced papers from the
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169 author's perspective. I will use this biographic form in my own
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170 thesis.
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171
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172 - digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
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173 inter-library loans for books, so why not do the same for access
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174 to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
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175 allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
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176 available through any participating university. This could be
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177 achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating
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178 universities. Each university would decide who at the university
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179 can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could
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180 be made easy using something like http://libx.org/.
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181
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182 - chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
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183 by computers, show two people playing chess in a
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184 void. They are floating in space, and there is a
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185 simple chess board between them. Then, as they play,
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186 the game tree's they are considering are drawn
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187 behind him. The root of the tree starts centered in
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188 their heads or whatever they use to think, and the
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189 tree grows out from behind, never crossing the
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190 dividing plane between the two players. Each
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191 player's tree is a different color. As they grow,
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192 there are animations for pruning, etc. Eventually,
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193 they look like the hemispheres of a brain, wings,
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194 etc. A human's tree might occasionally have a long
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195 chain, while the computer tree would be more
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196 uniform. You could compare deep blue and a modern
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197 laptop. Use actual data when fighting two computers!
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198
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199 - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
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200 data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
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201 server, a key for each time period, something like that.
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202
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203 - tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars
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204 as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they
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205 are much harder to counterfeit because there is less surface area
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206 to mass ratio. However, gold bars are still a great design
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207 because they can hold a lot of value in a small space. A gold bar
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208 could be given the same protections (and more) that gold coins
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209 have to offer by changing it into a "gold book", which would have
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210 hundreds of "pages" of gold bound together. This could be
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211 implemented with multiple steel rods going through the book which
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212 can be removed, or some more classier mechanism for holding the
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213 pages. The point is that the bar can be EASILY subdivided (and
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214 people would perform this test before buying), thus guaranteeing
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215 it's authenticity.
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216
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217 - aurellem shirt :: I should make an aurellem star symbol tee-shirt.
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218
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219 - touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and
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220 see if I could implement touch as a very low range
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221 form of vision.
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222
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223 - high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The
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224 goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational
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225 acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's
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226 /exactly/ 9.81 before they start the experiment. See how they
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227 doctor their results to get closer to the textbook value. It's
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228 neat because for any given school, /g/ is probably *not* exactly
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229 equal to 9.81, because that is just an average!
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230
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231 - opencourseware subtitles :: there are ladies who type up lectures
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232 while they are being given. These recordings should be kept and
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233 given to OCW for subtitles. If the timestamps of keys are
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234 recorded, then it is easy to make subtitles.
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235
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236 - screen locking timing :: you use your computer camera to see if you
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237 are sitting in front of the computer. If you are, then the screen
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238 will never lock. If you are, then the screen will lock with a
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239 30-40 second timeout. It's an extension of using inactivity to
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240 initiate the countdown, just with more information.
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241
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242 - mirror toilet :: a toilet with a square basin made or mirror instead
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243 or porcelain. That way, you can see how good of a
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244 wipe job you have done / watch how your excretion
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245 system works.
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246
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247 - test dummies :: why don't we clone anencephalic humans and use then to
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248 test /in vivo/ human organ systems and drugs? It
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249 would be ethical as long as there are women who are
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250 willing to host the clones, and it would be a
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251 tremendous resource for studying the human body. I
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252 see nothing wrong with it morally, since no one is
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253 suffering, and it stands to save many lives throughout
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254 more advanced technology.
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255
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256 - X-ray telepresence :: given that a doctor is operating on a patient
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257 via telepresence, one cool things you can do is shine X-rays into
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258 the patient to view the insides during real time. If the system
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259 was coupled with a Bayesian model of the layout of the structure,
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260 and the x-rays were only fired whenever the uncertainty of the
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261 model reached a certain threshold, then the radiation damage
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262 and surgery risk could be minimized.
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263
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264 - superfluid vascular system :: I wonder what would happen if you
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265 replaced the blood in a human with a superfluid. What would the
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266 physical dynamics be? Would the superfluid flow through the
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267 vasculature, or would it ignore it and travel through the cells,
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268 or something else entirely. Since superfluids need to be cold to
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269 retain their superfluidity, how would the dynamics change during
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270 perfusion of a superfluid, where the fluid gains and looses
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271 superfluidity as it goes deeper into the body and is cooled by
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272 superfluid from upstream. In summary there are two things to
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273 simulate 1.) replace all blood in human with superfluid
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274 instantly. 2.) perfuse superfluid into human.
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275
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276 - projective guessing :: I think that we read and see things by
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277 making a really good guess about what we're expecting to see,
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278 and then searching for our guess in what we see. If it really
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279 doesn't match, then we start to make more guesses / analyze the
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280 image from first principles, but most stuff is projective
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281 guessing.
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282
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283 - Intestinal flora maintenance :: why not inoculate babies at birth
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284 with "ideal" gut flora instead of whatever bullshit they
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285 naturally get, thus giving them optimal digestive/nutrient
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286 extraction capabilities. Might also be able to make their farts
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287 not stink for life, too.
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288
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289 - server culture : mirrors :: make a distributed system where people
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290 can mirror the websites of people they like -- essentially cover
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291 the server costs of favored websites. This could make popular
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292 websites run at no cost. The system would require that the
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293 mirrored content be the same as the official source. Sort of like
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294 bit-torrent for websites.
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295
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296 - map programming :: one problem with functional programming is that
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297 in order to remain functional, you have to pass up arguments up
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298 into each calling function to get the full range of behavior
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299 from the lower level functions. Normally people come to a
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300 compromise involving abstraction and sparing use of dynamic
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301 variables to configure runtime behavior. What would be the
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302 advantages of making a programming language where every function
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303 receives one argument, a map, which contains all the symbol
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304 bindings it would ever need? This map is passed on to all
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305 subordinate functions. This way, you could replace functions on
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306 the fly, and arrange for there to be sensible defaults,
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307 etc. Might cause more harm than good but is an interesting idea.
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308
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309 - rest nest :: a small EEG device you would attach to your head when
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310 you go to sleep at night. ML algorithms would determine
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311 your particular sleep cycles. This would mostly be an
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312 alarm clock that you could give a time range, say
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313 7:00AM - 7:15AM, and it would wake you up during an
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314 ideal time corresponding to then end of one of your 90
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315 min sleep cycles. You would feel much more rested upon
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316 waking up, and would wake up faster. There might be
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317 some other uses for the EEG data as well.
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318
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319 - image compression :: use a library like gimp or opencv to process an
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320 image to make it have less entropy, then store the reverse of
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321 those operations along with the compressed simpler image as a
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322 super-compressed image file (possibly accepting some
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323 losses). Trades file size for decompression time, and allows one
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324 to cheat by using information in gimp/opencv to compress the
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325 image.
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326
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327 - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixative to buy enough time
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328 to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
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329 temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
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330 vitrified. This method "severs the biological link" in that the
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331 fixatives are highly toxic, but current vitrification procedures
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332 do this anyway since there can be a lot of freezing damage.
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333
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334 - dilated security camera :: a security camera that would capture
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335 full video footage of everything at 60fps but then decide to keep
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336 only every 1 frame every 5 seconds unless there's something
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337 "interesting" happening.
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338
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339 - bitcoin wallet :: Part of "server culture", this would be something
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340 like "coin.your-domain.com" which would serve as
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341 your personal trusted access to your own bitcoins
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342 from anywhere.
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343
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344 - libpay :: this would be a free library which would enable
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345 micro-donations to software projects and other projects,
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346 so that you could donate a penny to "emacs" and it would
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347 be automatically split up to every person who has ever
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348 contributed to emacs in proportion to the amount of
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349 community esteem, code quantity, bugs fixed, whatever the
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350 community decides. This might make it possible for
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351 programmers to live entirely off of free programming.
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352
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353 - distributed graphics :: Browser based graphics-card accelerated
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354 distributed computing API.
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355
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356 - pronouns :: use capital letters A-Z instead of pronouns. They solve
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357 pronoun referents and gender neutrality, are short to
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358 say, and you can encode useful information into the
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359 choice of letter. For example, instead of "Meetings
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360 shall be presided over by the president, unless she is
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361 absent." USE "Meetings shall be presided over by the
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362 president, unless P is absent." We already use this a
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363 little, since I and U are reserved for the subject and
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364 object respectively.
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365
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366 - phone DSP :: software app that inserts an audio DSP between the
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367 input to a phone and the output. The DSP is delicious
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368 and configurable, and can allow men to make their
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369 voices deeper, etc. The app would allow you to hear
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370 your own voice as others hear it. Most people hate how
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371 their own voice sounds. The app would also allow one to
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372 immediately change the parameters of the DSP using good
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373 presets.
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374
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375 - predestined body learning :: a good example of predestined learning
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376 might be the mirror neurons.
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377
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378 - restaurant receipt :: use a carbon copy receipt instead of two stupid
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379 copies.
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380
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381 - anti google glass :: glasses with mounted lasers and computer vision
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382 that targets the cameras in google glass and destroy them.
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383
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384 - wearable towel :: towel with clasp, velcro, whatever, that allows
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385 one to wear the towel more securely than just
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386 wrapping it tightly and hoping for the best.
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387
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388 - crossdressing :: Easiest way to disguise oneself as a woman is to
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389 wear a burka.
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390
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391 - book-mode :: intelligent color highlighting for books and
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392 articles. It would disambiguate pronouns and involved
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393 references. For example, if "Rachael" as red, and "the
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394 blonde haired girl" refers to "Rachael", then "the
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395 blonde haired girl" would he colored red. Also, you
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396 could disambiguate multi part run-on sentences by
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397 highlighting each subcomponent. Maybe would also have
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398 applications to scientific reading.
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399
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400 - Handheld light Rain measurement :: this would be a clear, teflon
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401 coated plastic disk with a camera underneath the disk. You would
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402 be able to hold the device out and it would measure the rate of
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403 accumulation of water droplets from fine mists and light rain by
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404 using computer vision to measure the diameters of the drops.
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405
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406 - Big Brother Farming :: This would be a vision system that would
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407 individually monitor each plant and turn on water, etc to ensure
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408 maximum/uniform growth for each plant.
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409
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410 - Discrete Faucet :: A faucet with discrete ticks instead of
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411 continuous.
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412
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413 - Laser Circle :: take a glass microfiliment and shine a laser at one
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414 end at an oblique angle. It will make a perfect,
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415 large circle on the wall, converting a laser beam
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416 into a laser cone, preserving most of the energy of
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417 the laser.
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418
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419 - Invisible Glass :: Take a container of liquid and embed a
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420 glass sculpture made out of glass that has exactly the same index
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421 of refraction and color of the liquid. Then the sculpture will be
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422 totally invisible in the container, and will only be revealed
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423 when the liquid is drained. The container might be a fancy
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424 wine/spirit bottle or an hourglass.
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425
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426 - Caterpillar people :: A race of caterpillar like creatures gains
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427 intelligence after eons of predation by birds, etc. These
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428 caterpillar creatures still undergo metamorphosis into a large
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429 butterfly-like creature. The metamorphosis process turns the
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430 caterpillar's brain into mush and reforms it into a minimal,
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431 dumb, truly insect-like mind, completely destroying the person
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432 the caterpillar was. The society develops all sorts of customs and
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433 religious interpretations of the metamorphosis. It is viewed as
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434 good and natural by some since it is part of their life cycle and
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435 necessary to propagate the species, as only the butterflies can
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436 mate. Some think that the butterflies are still the same person
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437 because they have the same soul, even they no longer posses the
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438 memories or personality of the original caterpillar. Some see the
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439 butterfly form as the "true form" of the species, since the
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440 butterflies can fly, mate, and are beautiful. Many make a big
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441 deal out of the fact that 1-2% of the caterpillar's mind is
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442 actually preserved in the butterfly. Some see it as a terrible
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443 tragedy and argue that the caterpillars should try to stop the
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444 metamorphosis by technology. Practically, some very important
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445 members of society undergo hormone therapy and/or surgery to
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446 prevent metamorphosis so that they can live longer as themselves.
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447
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448 This is a continuation of Marvin Minsky's ideas about pain being
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449 something that preserves our bodies while destroying our minds,
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450 something that is a remnant from our too harsh animal days that
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451 hasn't caught up to the fact that we have very complex brains
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452 now. It's a worst-case scenario about a maladaptive genetic
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453 legacy. Also, it's inspired by "There She Is!!!", which makes a
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454 compelling point about homosexuality by introducing a second
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455 gender characteristic (bunny/cat, male/female), which makes
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456 homophobia look very silly. Here, our own biological legacy of
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457 pain and death is made to look like the tragedy it is through the
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458 lens of the the caterpillar people.
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459
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460 - relationships as a business :: [[http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx][Turnover-Crisis]] is an excellent talk
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461 about the "culture of quitting," which is about better business
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462 by letting people go instead of keeping them around past their
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463 "apex". Focuses on information transfer. Cool idea of an alumni
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464 network, which for relationships would be a group of satisfied
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465 ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and who might
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466 consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time away with
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467 new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of this and
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468 how they worked out.
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469
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470 - coffee with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
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471 dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
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472 20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
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473 with recursion!
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474
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475 - psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
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476 object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
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477 difficult to move with telekinesis.
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478
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479 - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
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480 prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
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481 automated.
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482
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483 - true reflection :: don't forget about that mirror in the student
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484 center!, it's two mirrors at right angles, like staring at a
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485 corner of a room. The light reflects so that it shows you what
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486 you actually look like, instead of your mirror image.
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487
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488 - remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
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rlm@32
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489 power/logic.
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490
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491 - encrypted email phone book :: public (distributed?) database of
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rlm@44
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492 email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic encryption.
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493
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494 - universal eye color :: every equivalent creature will see each
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rlm@44
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495 others' eyes as black -- it's universal. Even if the creatures
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496 see in radio waves, and their eyes are 2m long pieces of jagged
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rlm@44
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497 metal, when those creatures look at each other, they will see
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498 black, the absence of light and color (since it's being absorbed
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499 by the sensor array).
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500
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501 - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
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rlm@83
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502 are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infrared
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503 camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
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504 you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
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505 still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
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rlm@32
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506 the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
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rlm@47
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507 the food. Wouldn't need a carousel, and wouldn't need a timer,
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rlm@47
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508 just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automatically
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rlm@32
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509 defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
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510 faster since it can avoid overheating; might have problems with
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511 heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
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512
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rlm@39
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513 + Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
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rlm@39
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514 "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
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515
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rlm@39
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516 + Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods
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rlm@39
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517 and learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been
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rlm@54
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518 cooked before -- it can get faster the more it's used.
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519
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rlm@47
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520 - compression :: brain-aware image compression algorithm
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521
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rlm@44
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522 - Credit card proxy :: would be a company which works like paypal
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rlm@44
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523 except for real world transactions
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524
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rlm@33
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525 - Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
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rlm@33
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526 with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
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rlm@33
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527
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rlm@47
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528 - super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and instead
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rlm@47
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529 uses compression to fit into a hole (the whole shank
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rlm@33
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530 of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
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rlm@33
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531 accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
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rlm@33
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532 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
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533
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534 - light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically separate
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rlm@33
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535 fluids with different index of refraction
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536
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537 - chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
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rlm@33
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538 release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
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rlm@33
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539 certain direction.
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rlm@33
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540
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rlm@44
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541 - silver socks :: socks laced with silver for the antimicrobial
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rlm@44
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542 properties.
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rlm@32
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543
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rlm@53
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544 - UROP :: magnet gear/metal teeth tape
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rlm@53
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545
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rlm@82
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546 - Rod of Moses :: device to distill urine through evaporation and
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rlm@53
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547 easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert --
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rlm@53
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548 produce drinkable water.
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rlm@32
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549
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550 - UROP :: Make the LED in line with the flow for the micro injector, so
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rlm@44
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551 that it may transmit maximum flow. Motor that changes
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rlm@44
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552 distance of internal magnet from windings depending on
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rlm@44
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553 desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency.
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554
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rlm@47
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555 - lottery scraper :: web scraper which monitors various lotteries,
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rlm@44
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556 looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x
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rlm@44
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557 winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value...
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rlm@34
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558
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rlm@34
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559 - Memristiors novel design :: make an evolutionary algorithm to make
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rlm@34
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560 old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
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561
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rlm@44
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562 - Conductive concrete :: concrete that has embedded metal fibers so
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rlm@44
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563 that it can conduct electricity.
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rlm@34
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564
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rlm@44
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565 - little bitty melting pot :: might be useful for some types of
|
rlm@44
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566 manufacturing/3D printing -- how small can an induction melter be
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rlm@44
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567 made, for example.
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rlm@34
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568
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rlm@44
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569 - power strip/timer programmable combination :: meh
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570
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rlm@47
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571 - algorithms :: which learn what their inputs are and in what order,
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rlm@44
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572 and can adapt to changing circumstances -- they
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rlm@44
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573 remember previous arguments and adapt so as to respond
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rlm@44
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574 to different connections.
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rlm@34
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575
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rlm@47
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576 - true pure tones :: hear a true pure tone by direct stimulation of the
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rlm@44
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577 nerves of the ear
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rlm@43
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578
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rlm@43
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579 - mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp :: would be an object
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rlm@43
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580 with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
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rlm@43
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581 same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
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rlm@47
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582 analogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
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rlm@34
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583
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rlm@47
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584 - paper folding device :: make it convenient to fold lots of papers in
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rlm@34
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585 various ways.
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rlm@34
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586
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587 - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
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588
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rlm@47
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589 - light capacitor :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
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rlm@43
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590 of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
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rlm@43
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591 the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
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rlm@43
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592 quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
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rlm@43
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593 released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
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594
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rlm@40
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595 - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
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rlm@34
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596 shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
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rlm@34
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597 move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
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rlm@34
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598 there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
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rlm@34
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599 better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I
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rlm@34
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600 got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill
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rlm@47
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601 which is composed entirely of the parts in which people had their
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rlm@34
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602 eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their
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rlm@34
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603 eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
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604
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rlm@47
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605 - optimize an article :: capture reading of a scientific article via
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rlm@44
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606 screen capture while people read it, then use it to make the
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rlm@44
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607 article better. like the movie-pruning idea.
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rlm@35
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608
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rlm@44
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609 - super reading program :: teaches people the ideal mental mask to
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rlm@44
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610 apply during reading so as to read very fast.
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rlm@35
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611
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612 - explosive thermite epoxy putty :: one part would contain the rust,
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rlm@47
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613 one part the aluminum.
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rlm@34
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614
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rlm@44
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615 - reading comprehension :: use the above screen capture routine to
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rlm@44
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616 make a quiz program that constructs questions about the content
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rlm@44
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617 you seemed to gloss over while reading. could be easy if the pdf
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rlm@44
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618 came with embedded questions. Dylan: automatically generate
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rlm@44
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619 word-cloud about the parts you found most interesting; help
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rlm@44
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620 others who read the same stuff by drawing attention to the
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rlm@44
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621 interesting parts.
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rlm@34
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622
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rlm@44
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623 - hard sword :: make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of
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rlm@44
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624 martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better
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rlm@44
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625 sword.
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rlm@32
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626
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rlm@44
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627 - close range wireless :: use the induction technology used to
|
rlm@44
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628 recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data
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rlm@44
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629 without any metal at all!
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rlm@32
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630
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rlm@44
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631 - reading :: is a form of synsethesia
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632
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rlm@44
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633 - DNA printer :: A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into
|
rlm@44
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634 actual DNA
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rlm@32
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635
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rlm@44
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636 - black generator :: ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro
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rlm@44
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637 generator to make electricity
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rlm@32
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638
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rlm@44
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639 - alcohol battery :: alcohol/fluid flow powered battery
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rlm@32
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640
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rlm@44
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641 - folding razor blade sword ::
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rlm@32
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642
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rlm@44
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643 - perfect pitch :: learn perfect pitch using another sense in
|
rlm@44
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644 combination (sight or touch)
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rlm@32
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645
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rlm@44
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646 - kaleidoscope projector ::
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647
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rlm@44
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648 - razor blade de-sharpener :: for guilt free disposal
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649
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rlm@44
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650 - bricks :: filled with luminescent plant material
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rlm@32
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651
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rlm@47
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652 - bio metallic structure :: metal grids with seeds inside, which grow
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rlm@44
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653 together and form a durable biological matrix. The metal
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rlm@44
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654 substrate delivers water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?)
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rlm@44
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655 Dylan: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical
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rlm@44
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656 interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled
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657 photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures.
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658
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659 - conducting extracellular matrix :: to allow better control of
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660 organic systems and an enhanced nervous system.
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661
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662 - cross-modal memory hashing :: a way to retrieve memories more
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663 robustly.
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664
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665 - flossing thimble-guards :: (these actually exist)
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666
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667 - rules + lattice learning :: integrate lattice learning with rules by
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668 generating hypothetical examples
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669
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670 - wooden refrigerator :: to give food a better taste Dylan: like
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671 barrels for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor
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672 planks" for your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of
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673 temperature on volatility?
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674
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675 - radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule :: create precious
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676 metals or something else economically advantageous.
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677
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678 - crowd preservation :: inoculate food with tons of harmless
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679 bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of
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680 preservation
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681
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682 - old school preservation :: Pasteur - style holding jar with siphon
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683 as a way to store liquids at room temperature indefinitely w/o
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684 refrigeration.
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685
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686 - restaurant policy :: Throw rude people out of restaurant as a matter
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687 of course -- make ambiance much better.
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688
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689 - clean windows :: make something that mixes soap with fire hydrant
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690 water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it
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691 to clean windows of buildings.
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692
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693 - ocarina :: make an ocarina out of pure silver
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694
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695 - fire pen :: pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing
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696 any ink. Is there a way to make it runnable from the
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697 human's energy?
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698
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699 - website to design your own soda :: and label, and have it mailed to
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700 you / sell it from your own online store.
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701
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702 - solar panels :: that float on the ocean
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703
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704 - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
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705 people, binding them to environment, etc.
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706
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707 - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
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708 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
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709 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
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710 to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
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711 wavefront encoded as a vector image.
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712
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713 - Mouse :: with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
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714 scroll wheel
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715
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716 - logic maintenance system for big institutions :: to make sure the
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717 things they are thinking about doing are not retarded
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718
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719 - http://www.regulations.gov/ :: cool site
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720
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721 - genetically engineered glowing fruit :: sell seeds?
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722
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723 - memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
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724 impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
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725 itself changes? those memories would become
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726 inaccessible. maybe this is why we can't remember
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727 much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
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728 throughout life as well? Could S remember stuff from
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729 his childhood?
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730
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731 - make a completely indestructible phone :: no moving parts or display
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732 you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
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733 just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
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734 interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
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735 holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
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736 inductive charging and data transfer.
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737
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738 - midi to ocarina "tabs" program :: (online website? buy ocarinas from
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739 it too)
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740
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741 - 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) :: like the 8.03
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742 lecture
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743
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744 - lighter flint on spring :: make hot, throw it at something, and it
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745 makes sparkles!
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746
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747 - nuclear energy :: Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational
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748 campaign and public debate forum to enforce its
|
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749 transparent and open nature. France needn't be the
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750 world leader in nuclear energy. (Dylan)
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751
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752 - bubbles :: Engineer a material which has both ductility and high
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753 surface tension to make the "third"
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754 minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended
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755 between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
|
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756 cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles,
|
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757 and a double-cone)
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758
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759 - Textbook whose content can be varied continuously :: alter level of
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760 difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain
|
rlm@38
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761 other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
|
rlm@38
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762 knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
|
rlm@38
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763 guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
|
rlm@40
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764 knowledge. /One./
|
rlm@40
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765
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766 ** From Jacob's idea list
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767
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768 - Roommate-canceling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed
|
rlm@43
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769 noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this
|
rlm@40
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770 work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from
|
rlm@40
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771 tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by
|
rlm@40
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772 receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound
|
rlm@40
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773 waves. #signalprocessing ~jcole@mit.edu
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774
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775 - ClackerAlert -- tells if you slam the keys too hard using sound data
|
rlm@40
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776 (and speed/jerkiness data)!.Prevents RSI ~jcole@mit.e
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rlm@40
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777
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778 - Panic Pin :: separate pin that you can tell someone if forced to
|
rlm@41
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779 identify your PIN (idea from idea about credit cards)
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