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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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5 #+keywords: aurellem ideas half-baked ramdom
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10 * Ideas
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11
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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 ~ 7 years. Some of them could be practical inventions and
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14 are "just" waiting the that 95% persperiation to bring them to
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15 furition, some are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple
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16 observations. There are arranged roughly in reverse chronological
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17 order, with the most recent ideas at the top of the list. The ones at
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18 the bottom of the list are heavily influenced by my time at MIT.
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20 If you find some of these interesting and would like to collaborate on
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21 them with me or discuss them in more detail, I'd love to hear from
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22 you. You can email me at ideas@aurellem.org.
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23
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24 - fixed cryopreservation :: why not use a fixitave to buy enough time
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25 to ramp up cryoprotectants to an acceptable level at room
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26 temperature? Then, the whole system can be rapidly cooled and
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27 vitrified. This method "severs the biological link" in that the
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28 fixitaves are highly toxic, but current vitrification procedures
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29 do this anyway since there can be a lot of freezing damage.
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30
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31 - bitcoin wallet :: Part of "server culture", this would be something
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32 like "coin.your-domain.com" which would serve as
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33 your personal trusted access to your own bitcoins
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34 from anywhere.
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35
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36 - libpay :: this would be a free library which would enable
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37 micro-donations to software projects and other projects,
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38 so that you could donate a panny to "emacs" and it would
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39 be automitacally split up to every person who has ever
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40 contributed to emacs in proportion to the amount of
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41 community esteem, code quantity, bugs fixed, whatever the
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42 community decides. This might make it posibe for
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43 programmers to live entirely off of free programming.
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44
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45 - Browser based graphics-card accelerated distributed computing API.
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46
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47 - pronouns :: use capital letters A-Z instead of pronouns. They solve
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48 pronoun referents and gender neutrality, are short to
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49 say, and you can encode useful information into the
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50 choice of letter. For example, instead of "Meetings
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51 shall be presided over by the president, unless she is
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52 absent." USE "Meetings shall be presided over by the
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53 president, unless P is absent." We already use this a
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54 little, since I and U are reserved for the subject and
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55 object respectively.
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56
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57 - phone DSP :: software app that inserts an audio DSP between the
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58 input to a phone and the output. The DSP is delicious
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59 and configurable, and can allow men to make their
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60 voices deeper, etc. The app would allow you to hear
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61 your own voice as others hear it. Most people hate how
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62 their own voice sounds. The app would also allow one to
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63 immediately change the paramaters of the DSP using good
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64 presets.
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65
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66 - predestined body learning :: a good example of pre destined learning
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67 might be the mirror neurons.
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68
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69 - resturant reciept :: use a carbon copy reciept instead of two stupid
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70 copies.
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72 - anti google glass :: glasses with mounted lasers and computer vision
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73 that targets the cameras in google glass and destroy them.
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75 - wearable towel :: towel with clasp, velcro, whatever, that allows
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76 one to wear the towel more securely than just
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77 wrapping it tightly and hoping for the best.
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79 - Easiest way to disguise onself as a woman is to wear a burka.
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81 - book-mode :: intelligent color highlighting for books and
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82 articles. It would disambiguate pronouns and involved
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83 references. For example, if "Rachael" as red, and "the
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84 blonde haired girl" refers to "Rachael", then "the
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85 blonde haired girl" would he colored red. Also, you
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86 could disambiguate multi part runon sentences by
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87 highlighting each subcomponent. Maybe would also have
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88 appliations to scientific reading.
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90 - Handheld light Rain measurement :: this would be a clear, teflon
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91 coated plasic disk with a camera underneath the disk. You would
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92 be able to hold the device out and it would measure the rate of
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93 accumulation of water droplets from fine mists and light rain by
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94 using computer vision to measure the diameters of the drops.
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96 - Big Brother Farming :: This would be a vision system that would
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97 individually monitor each plant and turn on water, etc to ensure
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98 maximum/uniform growth for each plant.
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100 - Discrete Faucet :: A faucet with discrete ticks instead of
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101 continous.
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102
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103 - Laser Circle :: take a glass microfiliment and shine a laser at one
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104 end at an oblique angle. It will make a perfect,
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105 large circle on the wall, converting a laser beam
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106 into a laser cone, perserving most of the energy of
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107 the laser.
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108
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109 - Invisible Glass :: Take a container of liquid and embed a
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110 glass sculpture made out of glass that has exactly the same index
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111 of refraction and color of the liquid. Then the sculpture will be
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112 totally invisible in the container, and will only be revealed
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113 when the liquid is drained. The container might be a fancy
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114 wine/spirit bottle or an hourglass.
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115
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116 - Caterpillar people :: A race of catepillar like creatures gains
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117 intelligence after eons of predation by birds, etc. These
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118 catepillar creatures still undergo metamorphosis into a large
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119 butterfly-like creature. The metamorphosis process turns the
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120 caterpillar's brain into mush and reforms it into a minimal,
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121 dumb, truly insect-like mind, completely destroying the person
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122 the catepillar was. The society develops all sorts of customs and
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123 religious interpretations of the metamorphosis. It is viewed as
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124 good and natural by some since it is part of their life cycle and
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125 necessary to propogate the species, as only the butterflies can
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126 mate. Some think that the butterflies are still the same person
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127 because they have the same soul, even they no longer posess the
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128 memories or personality of the original catepillar. Some see the
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129 butterfly form as the "true form" of the species, since the
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130 butterflies can fly, mate, and are beautiful. Many make a big
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131 deal out of the fact that 1-2% of the catepillar's mind is
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132 actually preserved in the butterfly. Some see it as a terrible
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133 tradgedy and argue that the catepillars should try to stop the
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134 metamorphosis by technology. Practically, some very important
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135 members of society undergo hormone therapy and/or surgery to
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136 prevent metamorphosis so that they can live longer as themselves.
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138 This is a continuation of Marvin Minsky's ideas about pain being
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139 something that preserves our bodies while destroying our minds,
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140 something that is a remnant from our too harsh animal days that
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141 hasn't caught up to the fact that we have very complex brains
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142 now. It's a worst-case scenario about a maladaptive genetic
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143 legacy. Also, it's inspired by "There She Is!!!", which makes a
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144 compelling point about homosexuality by introducing a second
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145 gender characteristic (bunny/cat, male/female), which makes
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146 homophobia look very silly. Here, our own biological legacy of
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147 pain and death is made to look like the tradegy it is through the
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148 lense of the the caterpillar people.
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150 - relationships as a business ::
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151 http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx
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152 is an excellent talk about the "culture of quitting," which is about
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153 better business by letting people go instead of keeping them around
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154 past their "apex". Focouses on information transfer. Cool idea of an
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155 alumni network, which for relationships would be a group of
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156 satisfied ex-lovers, who would recommend new people your way, and
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157 who might consider coming to you again, refreshed from their time
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158 away with new stories/experiences. I should look for examples of
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159 this and how they worked out.
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160
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161 - coffe with tea :: /rlm-tea/ contains 2% sugar, 10% cream, and 20%
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162 dylan coffee. /dylan coffee/ contains 5% sugar,
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163 20% cream, and 10% rlm-tea. Start your mornings
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164 with recursion!
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165
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166 - psychic crystal :: in a science fiction story, this would be an
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167 object that is very easy to move physically but is extremely
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168 difficult to move with telekinesis.
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169
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170 - http://betsofbitco.in/ :: what a great place for an AI/person to
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171 prove themselves as a good predictor. I wish this could be
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172 automated.
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174 - don't forget about that mirror in the student center!, it's two
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175 mirrors at right angles, like staring at a corner of a room. The
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176 light reflects so that it shows you what you actually look like,
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177 instead of your mirror image.
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179 - remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
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182 - public (distributed?) database of email->private-key pairs, to
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183 enable automatic encryption.
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185 - every equivalent creature will see each others' eyes as black --
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186 it's universal. Even if the creatures see in radio waves, and their
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187 eyes are 2m long pieces of jagged metal, when those creatures look
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188 at each other, they will see black, the absence of light and color
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189 (since it's being absorbed by the sensor array).
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190
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191 - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
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192 are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infared
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193 camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
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194 you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
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195 still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
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196 the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
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197 the food. Wouldn't need a carasouel, and wouldn't need a timer,
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198 just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automotically
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199 defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
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200 faster since it can aviod overheating; might have problems with
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201 heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
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203 + Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
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204 "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
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206 + Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods
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207 and learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been
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208 cooked before -- it can get faster the more its used.
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210 - brain-aware image compression algorithm
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212 - Credit card proxy - would be a company which works like paypal
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213 except for real world transactions
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214
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215 - Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
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216 with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
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217
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218 - super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and intead
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219 uses compresion to fit into a hole (the whole shank
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220 of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
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221 accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
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222 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
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223
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224 - light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically seperate
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225 fluids with different index of refraction
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226
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227 - chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
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228 release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
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229 certain direction.
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233 - UROP: magnet gear/metal teeth tape device to distill urine through
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234 evaporation and easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert --
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235 produce drinkable water.
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237 - UROP: Make the LED in line with the flow for the microinjector, so
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238 that it may transmit maximum flow. Motor that changes distance of
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239 internal magnet from windings depending on desired speed so as to
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240 obtain maximum power efficiency.
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242 - web scraper which monitors various lottries, looking for "special"
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243 gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x winnings on Wednesdays) and
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244 computes expected value...
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246 - Memristiors novel design :: make an evolutionary algorithm to make
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247 old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
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249 - Conductive concrete
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251 - little bitty melting pot
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253 - power strip/timer programmable combination
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255 - algorthms which learn what their inputs are and in what order, and
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256 can adapt to changing circumstances -- they remember previous
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257 arguments and adapt so as to respond to different connections.
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258
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259 - hear a true pure tone by direct stimultion of the nerves of the ear
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261 - mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp :: would be an object
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262 with two levers -- you pull on one lever and the other moves the
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263 same way, no matter what's in the way or what it is driving. This
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264 anlogy could be useful to teach op amps to people.
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266 - paper folding device :: make it convienent to fold lots of papers in
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267 various ways.
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269 - concrete epoxy :: epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
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271 - light capacator :: suspend some ball of material with a high index
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272 of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would
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273 the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up unlimited
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274 quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be
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275 released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
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277 - movie screening :: Movies always are too long at first. One way to
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278 shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the
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279 move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which
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280 there are a lot of blinking (average this over multiple people)
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281 better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I
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282 got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill
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283 whih is composed entirely of the parts in whihc opeople had their
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284 eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their
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285 eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
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286
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287 - capture reading of a scientific atricle via screen capture while
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288 people read it, then use it to make the article better. like the
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289 movie-pruning idea.
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290
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291 - super reading program that teaches people the ideal mental mask to
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292 apply during reading so as to read very fast.
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298 constructs questions about the content you seemed to gloss over
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299 while reading. could be easy if the pdf came with embedded
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300 questions. Dylan: automatically generate word-cloud about the parts
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301 you found most interesting; help others who read the same stuff by
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302 drawing attention to the interesting parts.
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308 with no metal links to send data -- without any metal at all!
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310 - reading is a form of synsethesia
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312 - A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into actual DNA
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322 touch)
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326 - razor blade de-sharpener (for guilt free disposal)
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328 - bricks filled with luminescent plant material
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330 - metal grids with seeds inside, which grow together and form a
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331 durable biological matrix. The metal substrate delivers
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332 water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?) Dylan: enrich plants
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333 with inorganic compounds; electrical interfaces in cellular plant
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334 matter => remote-controlled photosynthetic/bioluminescent
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335 structures.
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337 - conducting extracellular matrix
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341 - flossing thimble-gaurds (these actually exist)
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347 for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor planks" for
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348 your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of temperature on
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351 - radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule :: create precious
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352 metals or something else economically advantageous.
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354 - innolculate food with tons of harmless bacteria so that there's no
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355 room for bad bacteria as a method of preservation
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357 - pasteur - style holding jar with siphon as a way to store liquids ar
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358 room temperature indefinately w/o refridgeration.(7/26/2009)
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361 ambiance much better.
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363 - make something that mixes soap with firehydrant water (and reduces
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364 the pressure a bit) and use it to clean windows of buildings.
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366 - make an ocarina out of pure silver
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368 - fire pen :: pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing
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369 any ink. Is ther a way to make it runnable from the
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372 - website to design your own soda, and label, and have it mailed to
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373 you / sell it from your own online store.
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375 - solar panels that float on the ocean
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377 - handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) :: great for daisy chaining
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378 people, binding them to environment, etc.
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380 - vector based SOUND files :: like the pictures but with SOUND. codify
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381 sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe
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382 everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech
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383 to text or smtg. Could also store sound as an image of the
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384 wavefront encoded as a vector image.
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386 - Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical
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387 scroll wheel
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389 - logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things
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390 they are thinking about doing are not retarded
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392 - http://www.regulations.gov/
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394 - genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds?
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396 - memory slide :: IF memories are encoded using particular sensory
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397 impressions, what happens if the sensory organ
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398 itself changes? those memories would become
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399 unaccessable. maybe this is why we can't remember
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400 much from our childhoods. also, could this happen
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401 throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from
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402 his childhood?
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404 - make a completely indestructable phone :: no moving parts or display
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405 you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will
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406 just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal
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407 interface - never gets too hot, and can be dropped into water. no
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408 holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to
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409 inductive charging and data transfer.
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411 - midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it
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412 too)
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414 - 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03
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415 lecture
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417 - lighter flint on spring :: make hot, throw it at something, and it
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418 makes sparkles!
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420 - Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational campaign and
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421 public debate forum to enforce its transparent and open
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422 nature. France needn't be the world leader in nuclear
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423 energy. (Dylan)
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424
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425 - Engineer a material which has both ductility and high surface
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426 tension to make the "third" minimal-surface-energy solution to a
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427 bubble suspended between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are
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428 cylindrical catenary curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a
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429 double-cone)
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430
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431 - Textbook whose content can be varied continuously :: alter level of
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432 difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain
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433 other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from
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434 knowledge base, along with questions that are moreover altered to
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435 guide knowledge acquisition. Motivation: One book of
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436 knowledge. /One./
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439 ** From Jacob's idea list
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440
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441 - Roommate-cancelling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed
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442 noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this
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443 work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from
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444 tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by
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445 receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound
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446 waves. #signalprocessing ~jcole@mit.edu
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447
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448 - Browser based graphics-card accelerated distributed computing API.
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449
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450 - ClackerAlert -- tells if you slam the keys too hard using sound data
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451 (and speed/jerkiness data)!.Prevents RSI ~jcole@mit.e
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452
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453 - Panic Pin :: separate pin that you can tell someone if forced to
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454 identify your PIN (idea from idea about credit cards)
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