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2 power/logic.
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4 - public (distributed?) database of email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic
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5 encryption.
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7 - every equivalent creature will see each others eyes as black -- it's
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8 universal. Even of the creatures see in radio waves, and their eyes
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9 are 2m long pieces of jagged metal, when those creatures look at
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10 each other, they will see black, the absence of light and color
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11 (since it's being absorbed by the sensor array).
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12
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13 - intelligent microwave -- it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
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14 are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infared
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15 camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
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16 you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
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17 still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since
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18 the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of
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19 the food. Wouldn't need a carasouel, and wouldn't need a timer,
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20 just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automotically
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21 defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much
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22 faster since it can aviod overheating; might have problems with
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23 heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.
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24
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25 Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would
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26 "sputter" and splash liquid much less.
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28 Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods and
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29 learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been cooked
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30 before -- it can get faster the more its used.
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31
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32 The Big Book of Ideas
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34 Oct 29, 2009
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35
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36 brain-aware image compression algorithm
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37 Credit card proxy - would be a company which works like paypal except for real world transactions
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38 Flesh pillow -- a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
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39 super screw -- a screw which has only one or two threads and intead uses compresion to fit into a hole (the whole shank of the screw is split into multiple pieces to accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
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40 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
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41 light filter (like light tweezers) to mechanically seperate fluids with different index of refraction
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42 chalk eraser project -- maybe make a directional eraser, for easy release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a certain direction.
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43 don't forget about that mirror in the student center!
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44 silver socks
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45 UROP: magnet gear/metal teeth tape
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46 device to distill urine through evaporation and easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert -- produce drinkable water.
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47 UROP: Make the LED in line with the flow for the microinjector, so that it may transmit maximum flow.
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48 Motor that changes distance of internal magnet from windings depending on desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency.
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49 web scraper which monitors various lottries, looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value...
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50 Memristiors -- make an evolutionary algorithm to make old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.
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51 Conductive concrete
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52 little bitty melting pot
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53 power strip/timer programmable combination
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54 algorthms which learn what their inputs are and in what order, and can adapt to changing circumstances -- they remember previous arguments and adapt so as to respond to different connections.
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55 hear a true pure tone by direct stimultion of the nerves of the ear
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56 mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp
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57 paper folding device -- make it convienent to fold lots of papers in various ways.
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58 concrete epoxy -- epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.
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59 suspend some ball of material with a high index of refraction and shine light into it so it gets stuck -- would the light stay trapped forever? Could you build up
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60 unlimited quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?
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62 Me: As it is, light wouldn't be trapped forever, since some fraction would always escape through the walls via absorbtion. But, if you minimized that or slowed the light down, it could
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63 work.
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68 (average this over multiple people) better yet, put it online and do it across thousands of people. I got this from youtube in which there is an episode of kill bill whih is composed entirely of the parts in whihc opeople
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69 had their eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their eyes off of? Just take those parts out!
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70 explosive thermite epoxy putty
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71 super reading program that teaches people the ideal mental mask to apply during reading so as to read very fast.
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72 capture reading of a scientific atricle via screen capture while people read it, then use it to make the article better. like the movie-pruning idea.
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73 Me: c.f. attention-tracking machines for user interface evaluation
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75 Oct 27, 2009
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77 use the above screen capture routine to make a quiz program tha constructs questions about the content you seemed to gloss over while reading. could be easy if the pdf came with embedded questions.
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78 Me:
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79 automatically generate word-cloud about the parts you found most interesting; help others who read the same stuff by drawing attention to the interesting parts.
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81 Oct 27, 2009
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84 through solution space.
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85
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86 make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better sword.
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87 use the induction technology used to recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data -- without any metal at all!
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88 reading is a form of synsethesia
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89 Me: imagination is [targeted] self-stimulation of sensory inputs in the CNS?
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90 dreaming too?
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94 A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into actual DNA
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95 Me: a machine which can build a constructor of amino acids with R-chains that do not naturally occur.
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96 a machine which attempts to create constructors of various compounds via biological algorithms in micro-lab instances.
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98 Oct 27, 2009
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100 ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro generator to make electricity
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101 Me: Combine with remote charging by induction
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105 alcohol/fluid flow powered battery
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106 folding razor blade sword
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107 learn perfect pitch using another sense in combination (sight or touch)
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108 kaleidoscope projector
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109 razor blade de-sharpener (for guilt free disposal)
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110 bricks filled with luminescent plant material
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111 metal grids with seeds inside, which grow together and form a durable biological matrix. The metal substrate delivers water. (maybe use plastic instead of metal?)
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112 Me: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures.
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113 conducting extracellular matrix
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115 Oct 27, 2009
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117 cross-modal memory hashing
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118 flossing thimble-gaurds
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119 integrate lattice learning with rules by generating hypothetical examples
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120 wooden refridgerator to give food a better taste
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122 Me: like barrels for wine, or planks for salmon. Maybe just have "flavor planks" for your pre-existing fridge. Need to mitigate effect of temperature on volatility?
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124 Oct 27, 2009
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126 radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule -- create precious metals or something else economically advantageous.
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127 innolculate food with tons of harmless bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of preservation
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128 pasteur - style holding jar with siphon as a way to store liquids ar room temperature indefinately w/o refridgeration.(7/26/2009)
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129 Throw rude people out of resturant as a matter of course -- make ambiance much better.
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130 make something that mixes soap with firehydrant water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it to clean windows of buildings.
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131 make an ocarina out of pure silver
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132 fire pen -- pen which burns words on to the page, thus never needing any ink. Is ther a way to make it runnable from the human's energy?
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134 Me: like kinetic flashlights, shake to generate energy (magnet through a solenoid is how they do it, i think)
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136 Oct 27, 2009
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138 website to design your own soda, and label, and have it mailed to you / sell it from your own online store.
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139 Me: like CAD online only with flavor extracts, other ingredients.
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140 Have a set of modular machinery [BAKE, SMASH, PULVERIZE, ...] and ingredients. Requests?
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142 Oct 27, 2009
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144 solar panels that float on the ocean
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145 handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) -- great for daisy chaining prisoniers, binding them to environment, etc.
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146 vector based SOUND files. --- like the pictures but with SOUND.
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148 Me: Essentially a MIDI file?
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151
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152 even better than PREVIOUS -- codify sound in a language with enough symbols so that it can describe everything and encode it in that. would be like going from speech to text or smtg.
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153 Me: Build off of IPA?
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154 Need to encapsulate nonsense sounds produced by babies
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156 Oct 27, 2009
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158 Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical scroll wheel
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159 logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things they are thinking about doing are not retarded
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160 Me: For a starting point, crawl public domain regulations sites looking for retardation.
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162 Oct 28, 2009
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164 http://www.regulations.gov/
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166 genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds?
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168 Me: Fruits whose skins store sunlight in luminscent flesh => useful?
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170 Oct 27, 2009
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172 memory slide -- IF memories are encoded using particular sensory impressions, what happens if the sensory organ itself changes? those memories would become unaccessable. maybe this is why we can't
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173 remember much from our childhoods. also, could this happen throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from his childhood?
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174 make a completely indestructable phone -- no moving parts or display you should be able to slam it around all you want, and it will just work. brutally simple. aerogel around the battery, minimal interface - never gets
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175 too hot, and can be dropped into water. no holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to inductive charging and data transfer.
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176 Me: Start with "military" phones (like Mr. Hawley has) with field-effects interface additions and additional hardcore streamlining.
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180 midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it too)
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181 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03 lecture
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182 lighter flint on spring --- make hot and it makes sparkles!
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183 put a plane on a treadmill, to help it do a vertical takeoff.
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184 Use a nondeterministic sentence parser to understand sentences with multiple meanings. Perhaps use statistical language as a filter against unintended (or rather, uninteresting) interpretations.
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185 Rebranding New+Clear Energy with informational campaign and public debate forum to enforce its transparent and open nature. France needn't be the world leader in nuclear energy.
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186 Me: Standardized, modular nuclear plants?
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188 Oct 29, 2009
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190 Textbook whose content can be varied continuously---alter
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191 Me: well, actually varied over a countable "dense" set.
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193 Oct 29, 2009
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195 level of difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from knowledge base,
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196 Me: Or, initially, interpolated over all pre-existing books.
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199
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200 along with questions that are moreover altered to guide knowledge acquisition.
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201 Motivation: One book of knowledge. One.
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202 Engineer a material which has both ductility and high surface tension to make the "third" minimal-surface-energy solution to a bubble suspended between two equal-diameter rings. (Solutions are cylindrical catenary
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203 curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a double-cone)
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205 Tags:
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207 Me: Color-coded lid-cup pairs.
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209 Dec 3, 2009
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211 Me: Dry soap (like for pets) but for cars
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