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rlm@38
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1 * Good Ideas
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rlm@33
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3 - don't forget about that mirror in the student center!, it's two
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4 mirrors at right angles, like staring at a corner of a room. The
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5 light reflects so that it shows you what you actually look like,
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6 instead of your mirror image.
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7
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8 - remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
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9 power/logic.
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10
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11 - public (distributed?) database of email->private-key pairs, to
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12 enable automatic encryption.
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13
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14 - every equivalent creature will see each others eyes as black -- it's
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15 universal. Even of the creatures see in radio waves, and their eyes
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16 are 2m long pieces of jagged metal, when those creatures look at
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17 each other, they will see black, the absence of light and color
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18 (since it's being absorbed by the sensor array).
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19
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20 - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
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21 are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infared
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22 camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
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23 you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
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24 still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
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25 the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
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26 the food. Wouldn't need a carasouel, and wouldn't need a timer,
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27 just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automotically
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28 defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
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29 faster since it can aviod overheating; might have problems with
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30 heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
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31
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32 Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
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33 "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
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34
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35 Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods and
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36 learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been cooked
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37 before -- it can get faster the more its used.
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38
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39 - brain-aware image compression algorithm
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40
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41 - Credit card proxy - would be a company which works like paypal
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42 except for real world transactions
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43
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rlm@33
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44 - Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
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45 with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
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46
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47 - super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and intead
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48 uses compresion to fit into a hole (the whole shank
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49 of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
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50 accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
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51 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
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52
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53 - light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically seperate
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54 fluids with different index of refraction
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55
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56 - chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
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57 release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
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58 certain direction.
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59
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60 - silver socks
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61
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62 - UROP: magnet gear/metal teeth tape device to distill urine through
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63 evaporation and easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert --
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64 produce drinkable water.
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65
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66 - UROP: Make the LED in line with the flow for the microinjector, so
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67 that it may transmit maximum flow. Motor that changes distance of
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68 internal magnet from windings depending on desired speed so as to
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69 obtain maximum power efficiency.
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70
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71 - web scraper which monitors various lottries, looking for "special"
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72 gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x winnings on Wednesdays) and
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73 computes expected value...
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74
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75 - Memristiors novel design :: make an evolutionary algorithm to make
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76 old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
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77
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78 - Conductive concrete
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79
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80 - little bitty melting pot
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81
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82 - power strip/timer programmable combination
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83
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84 - algorthms which learn what their inputs are and in what order, and
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85 can adapt to changing circumstances -- they remember previous
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86 arguments and adapt so as to respond to different connections.
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87
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88 - hear a true pure tone by direct stimultion of the nerves of the ear
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89 mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp
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90
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91 - paper folding device :: make it convienent to fold lots of papers in
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92 various ways.
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93
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94 - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
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95
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96 - suspend some ball of material with a high index of refraction and
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97 shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would the light stay trapped
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98 forever? Could you build up unlimited quantities of light inside the
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99 sphere (which could then be released slowly by frustrated internal
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100 reflection?
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101
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102 - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. one way to
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103 shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
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104 move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
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105 there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
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106 better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I
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107 got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill
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108 whih is composed entirely of the parts in whihc opeople had their
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109 eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their
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110 eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
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111
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112 - capture reading of a scientific atricle via screen capture while
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113 people read it, then use it to make the article better. like the
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114 movie-pruning idea.
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115
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116 - super reading program that teaches people the ideal mental mask to
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117 apply during reading so as to read very fast.
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118
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119 - explosive thermite epoxy putty (one part would contain the rust, one
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120 part the alumimum)
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121
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122 - use the above screen capture routine to make a quiz program tha
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123 constructs questions about the content you seemed to gloss over
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124 while reading. could be easy if the pdf came with embedded
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125 questions. Dylan: automatically generate word-cloud about the parts
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126 you found most interesting; help others who read the same stuff by
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127 drawing attention to the interesting parts.
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128
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129 - make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of martensite for
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130 the cutting part; it should be a better sword.
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131
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132 - use the induction technology used to recharge electric toothbrushes
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133 with no metal links to send data -- without any metal at all!
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134
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135 - reading is a form of synsethesia
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136
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137 - A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into actual DNA
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138
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139 - ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro generator to make
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140 electricity
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142 - alcohol/fluid flow powered battery
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143
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144 - folding razor blade sword
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145
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146 - learn perfect pitch using another sense in combination (sight or
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147 touch)
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148
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149 - kaleidoscope projector
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150
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151 - razor blade de-sharpener (for guilt free disposal)
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152
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153 - bricks filled with luminescent plant material
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154
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155 - metal grids with seeds inside, which grow together and form a
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156 durable biological matrix. The metal substrate delivers
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157 water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?) Dylan: enrich plants
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158 with inorganic compounds; electrical interfaces in cellular plant
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159 matter => remote-controlled photosynthetic/bioluminescent
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160 structures.
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161
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162 - conducting extracellular matrix
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163
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164 - cross-modal memory hashing
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165
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166 - flossing thimble-gaurds
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168 - integrate lattice learning with rules by generating hypothetical
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169 examples
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170
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171 - wooden refridgerator to give food a better taste Dylan: like barrels
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172 for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor planks" for
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173 your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of temperature on
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174 volatility?
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175
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176 - radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule :: create precious
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177 metals or something else economically advantageous.
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178
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179 - innolculate food with tons of harmless bacteria so that there's no
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180 room for bad bacteria as a method of preservation
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181
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182 - pasteur - style holding jar with siphon as a way to store liquids ar
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183 room temperature indefinately w/o refridgeration.(7/26/2009)
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184
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185 - Throw rude people out of resturant as a matter of course -- make
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186 ambiance much better.
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187
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188 - make something that mixes soap with firehydrant water (and reduces
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189 the pressure a bit) and use it to clean windows of buildings.
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190
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191 - make an ocarina out of pure silver
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192
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193 - fire pen :: pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing
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194 any ink. Is ther a way to make it runnable from the
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195 human's energy?
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196
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197 - website to design your own soda, and label, and have it mailed to
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198 you / sell it from your own online store.
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199
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200 - solar panels that float on the ocean
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201 - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
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202 prisoniers, binding them to environment, etc.
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203
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204 - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
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205 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
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206 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
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207 to text or smtg. This would store sound as an image of the
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208 wavefront encoded as a vector image.
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209
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210 - Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
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211 scroll wheel
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212
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213 - logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things
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214 they are thinking about doing are not retarded
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216 - http://www.regulations.gov/
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217
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218 - genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds?
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219
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220 - memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
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221 impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
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222 itself changes? those memories would become
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223 unaccessable. maybe this is why we can't remember
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224 much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
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225 throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from
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226 his childhood?
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227
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228 - make a completely indestructable phone :: no moving parts or display
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229 you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
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230 just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
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231 interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
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232 holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
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233 inductive charging and data transfer.
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234
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235 - midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it
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236 too)
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237
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238 - 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03
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239 lecture
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240
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241 - lighter flint on spring :: make hot and it makes sparkles!
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242
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243 - Use a nondeterministic sentence parser to understand sentences with
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244 multiple meanings. Perhaps use statistical language as a filter
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245 against unintended (or rather, uninteresting) interpretations.
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246
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247 - Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational campaign and
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248 public debate forum to enforce its transparent and open
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249 nature. France needn't be the world leader in nuclear
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250 energy. (Dylan)
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251
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252 - Engineer a material which has both ductility and high surface
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253 tension to make the "third" minimal-surface-energy solution to a
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254 bubble suspended between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
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255 cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a
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256 double-cone)
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257
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258 - Textbook whose content can be varied continuously :: alter level of
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259 difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain
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260 other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
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261 knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
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262 guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
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263 knowledge. /One./ |
