- don't forget about that mirror in the student center!, it's two

   mirrors at right angles, like staring at a corner of a room. The

   light reflects so that it shows you what you actually look like,

   instead of your mirror image.

 

 - remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote

   power/logic.

 

 - public (distributed?) database of email->private-key pairs, to

   enable automatic encryption.

 

 - every equivalent creature will see each others eyes as black -- it's

   universal. Even of the creatures see in radio waves, and their eyes

   are 2m long pieces of jagged metal, when those creatures look at

   each other, they will see black, the absence of light and color

   (since it's being absorbed by the sensor array).

 

 - intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields

   are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infared

   camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,

   you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is

   still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since

   the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of

   the food.  Wouldn't need a carasouel, and wouldn't need a timer,

   just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automotically

   defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much

   faster since it can aviod overheating; might have problems with

   heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too.

   

   Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would

   "sputter" and splash liquid much less. 

 

   Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods and

   learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been cooked

   before -- it can get faster the more its used.

 

 - brain-aware image compression algorithm

 

 - Credit card proxy - would be a company which works like paypal

   except for real world transactions

 

 - Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete

                   with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.

 

 - 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

                  bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.

 

 - light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically seperate

                   fluids with different index of refraction

 

 - 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.

 

 silver socks

 UROP: magnet gear/metal teeth tape

 device to distill urine through evaporation and easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert -- produce drinkable water.

 UROP: Make the LED in line with the flow for the microinjector, so that it may transmit maximum flow.

 Motor that changes distance of internal magnet from windings depending on desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency.

 web scraper which monitors various lottries, looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value...

 Memristiors -- make an evolutionary algorithm to make old stuff using all four basic circuit elements.

 Conductive concrete

 little bitty melting pot

 power strip/timer programmable combination

 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.

 hear a true pure tone by direct stimultion of the nerves of the ear

 mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp

 paper folding device -- make it convienent to fold lots of papers in various ways.

 concrete epoxy -- epoxy with sand/ some other solid material.

 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

 unlimited quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be released slowly by frustrated internal reflection?

 

 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

 work.

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 movie screening. Movies always are too long at first. one way to shorten them ``scientifically" is to record blink rate during the move and then remove / shorten the frames of the parts in which there are a lot of blinking

 (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

 had their eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their eyes off of? Just take those parts out!

 explosive thermite epoxy putty

 super reading program that teaches people the ideal mental mask to apply during reading so as to read very fast.

 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.

 Me: c.f. attention-tracking machines for user interface evaluation

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 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.

 Me:

 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.

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 Also, a computer which analyzes the word-cloud could learn a lot about what stuff is important to humans on average, and what stuff is important only to few. Maybe make extrapolations, help with its search

 through solution space.

 

 make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better sword.

 use the induction technology used to recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data -- without any metal at all!

 reading is a form of synsethesia

 Me: imagination is [targeted] self-stimulation of sensory inputs in the CNS?

 dreaming too?

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into actual DNA

 Me: a machine which can build a constructor of amino acids with R-chains that do not naturally occur.

 a machine which attempts to create constructors of various compounds via biological algorithms in micro-lab instances.

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro generator to make electricity

 Me: Combine with remote charging by induction

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 alcohol/fluid flow powered battery

 folding razor blade sword

 learn perfect pitch using another sense in combination (sight or touch)

 kaleidoscope projector

 razor blade de-sharpener (for guilt free disposal)

 bricks filled with luminescent plant material

 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?)

 Me: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures.

 conducting extracellular matrix

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 cross-modal memory hashing

 flossing thimble-gaurds

 integrate lattice learning with rules by generating hypothetical examples

 wooden refridgerator to give food a better taste

 

 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?

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule -- create precious metals or something else economically advantageous.

 innolculate food with tons of harmless bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of preservation

 pasteur - style holding jar with siphon as a way to store liquids ar room temperature indefinately w/o refridgeration.(7/26/2009)

 Throw rude people out of resturant as a matter of course -- make ambiance much better.

 make something that mixes soap with firehydrant water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it to clean windows of buildings.

 make an ocarina out of pure silver

 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?

 

 Me: like kinetic flashlights, shake to generate energy (magnet through a solenoid is how they do it, i think)

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 website to design your own soda, and label, and have it mailed to you / sell it from your own online store.

 Me: like CAD online only with flavor extracts, other ingredients.

 Have a set of modular machinery [BAKE, SMASH, PULVERIZE, ...] and ingredients. Requests?

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 solar panels that float on the ocean

 handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) -- great for daisy chaining prisoniers, binding them to environment, etc.

 vector based SOUND files. --- like the pictures but with SOUND.

 

 Me: Essentially a MIDI file?

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 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.

 Me: Build off of IPA?

 Need to encapsulate nonsense sounds produced by babies

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical scroll wheel

 logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things they are thinking about doing are not retarded

 Me: For a starting point, crawl public domain regulations sites looking for retardation.

 

 Oct 28, 2009

 

 http://www.regulations.gov/

 

 genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds?

 

 Me: Fruits whose skins store sunlight in luminscent flesh => useful?

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 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

 remember much from our childhoods. also, could this happen throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from his childhood?

 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

 too hot, and can be dropped into water. no holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to inductive charging and data transfer.

 Me: Start with "military" phones (like Mr. Hawley has) with field-effects interface additions and additional hardcore streamlining.

 

 Oct 27, 2009

 

 midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it too)

 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03 lecture

 lighter flint on spring --- make hot and it makes sparkles!

 put a plane on a treadmill, to help it do a vertical takeoff.

 Use a nondeterministic sentence parser to understand sentences with multiple meanings. Perhaps use statistical language as a filter against unintended (or rather, uninteresting) interpretations.

 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.

 Me: Standardized, modular nuclear plants?

 

 Oct 29, 2009

 

 Textbook whose content can be varied continuously---alter

 Me: well, actually varied over a countable "dense" set.

 

 Oct 29, 2009

 

 level of difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from knowledge base,

 Me: Or, initially, interpolated over all pre-existing books.

 

 Oct 29, 2009

 

 along with questions that are moreover altered to guide knowledge acquisition.

 Motivation: One book of knowledge. One.

 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

 curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a double-cone)

 

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 Me: Color-coded lid-cup pairs.

 

 Dec 3, 2009

 

 Me: Dry soap (like for pets) but for cars

 

 Dec 3, 2009

 

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