rlm@32: - remote control wasp -- use computer to drive wings with remote rlm@32: power/logic. rlm@32: rlm@32: - public (distributed?) database of email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic rlm@32: encryption. rlm@32: rlm@32: - every equivalent creature will see each others eyes as black -- it's rlm@32: universal. Even of the creatures see in radio waves, and their eyes rlm@32: are 2m long pieces of jagged metal, when those creatures look at rlm@32: each other, they will see black, the absence of light and color rlm@32: (since it's being absorbed by the sensor array). rlm@32: rlm@32: - intelligent microwave -- it learns where the hot nodes of its fields rlm@32: are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infared rlm@32: camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way, rlm@32: you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is rlm@32: still frozen. Requires a little bit of intelligence/vision, since rlm@32: the exact pattern of heating totally depends on the exact shape of rlm@32: the food. Wouldn't need a carasouel, and wouldn't need a timer, rlm@32: just a desired temperature. Could also detect ice, and automotically rlm@32: defrost the parts which are frozen. Might be able to work much rlm@32: faster since it can aviod overheating; might have problems with rlm@32: heating the insides of thick things, might need a weight sensor too. rlm@32: rlm@32: Would be much cleaner than other microwaves, since food would rlm@32: "sputter" and splash liquid much less. rlm@32: rlm@32: Throw in some SIFT+R processing to match previously cooked foods and rlm@32: learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been cooked rlm@32: before -- it can get faster the more its used. rlm@32: rlm@32: The Big Book of Ideas rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 29, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: brain-aware image compression algorithm rlm@32: Credit card proxy - would be a company which works like paypal except for real world transactions rlm@32: Flesh pillow -- a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat. rlm@32: 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 rlm@32: bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in. rlm@32: light filter (like light tweezers) to mechanically seperate fluids with different index of refraction rlm@32: 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. rlm@32: don't forget about that mirror in the student center! rlm@32: silver socks rlm@32: UROP: magnet gear/metal teeth tape rlm@32: device to distill urine through evaporation and easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert -- produce drinkable water. rlm@32: UROP: Make the LED in line with the flow for the microinjector, so that it may transmit maximum flow. rlm@32: Motor that changes distance of internal magnet from windings depending on desired speed so as to obtain maximum power efficiency. rlm@32: web scraper which monitors various lottries, looking for "special" gimmick changes in the rules (like 4x winnings on Wednesdays) and computes expected value... rlm@32: Memristiors -- make an evolutionary algorithm to make old stuff using all four basic circuit elements. rlm@32: Conductive concrete rlm@32: little bitty melting pot rlm@32: power strip/timer programmable combination rlm@32: 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. rlm@32: hear a true pure tone by direct stimultion of the nerves of the ear rlm@32: mechanical analogue to the electrical op-amp rlm@32: paper folding device -- make it convienent to fold lots of papers in various ways. rlm@32: concrete epoxy -- epoxy with sand/ some other solid material. rlm@32: 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 rlm@32: unlimited quantities of light inside the sphere (which could then be released slowly by frustrated internal reflection? rlm@32: rlm@32: 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 rlm@32: work. rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: 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 rlm@32: (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 rlm@32: had their eyes closed. slogan: want to make a movie people can't take their eyes off of? Just take those parts out! rlm@32: explosive thermite epoxy putty rlm@32: super reading program that teaches people the ideal mental mask to apply during reading so as to read very fast. rlm@32: 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. rlm@32: Me: c.f. attention-tracking machines for user interface evaluation rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: 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. rlm@32: Me: rlm@32: 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. rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: 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 rlm@32: through solution space. rlm@32: rlm@32: make a samurai sword, but use osmiridum instead of martensite for the cutting part; it should be a better sword. rlm@32: use the induction technology used to recharge electric toothbrushes with no metal links to send data -- without any metal at all! rlm@32: reading is a form of synsethesia rlm@32: Me: imagination is [targeted] self-stimulation of sensory inputs in the CNS? rlm@32: dreaming too? rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: A machine which translates the text eg, "ACTGAC" into actual DNA rlm@32: Me: a machine which can build a constructor of amino acids with R-chains that do not naturally occur. rlm@32: a machine which attempts to create constructors of various compounds via biological algorithms in micro-lab instances. rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: ferro-fluid magnetic field suspended micro generator to make electricity rlm@32: Me: Combine with remote charging by induction rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: alcohol/fluid flow powered battery rlm@32: folding razor blade sword rlm@32: learn perfect pitch using another sense in combination (sight or touch) rlm@32: kaleidoscope projector rlm@32: razor blade de-sharpener (for guilt free disposal) rlm@32: bricks filled with luminescent plant material rlm@32: 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?) rlm@32: Me: enrich plants with inorganic compounds; electrical interfaces in cellular plant matter => remote-controlled photosynthetic/bioluminescent structures. rlm@32: conducting extracellular matrix rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: cross-modal memory hashing rlm@32: flossing thimble-gaurds rlm@32: integrate lattice learning with rules by generating hypothetical examples rlm@32: wooden refridgerator to give food a better taste rlm@32: rlm@32: 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? rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: radioactive transmutation molecule by molecule -- create precious metals or something else economically advantageous. rlm@32: innolculate food with tons of harmless bacteria so that there's no room for bad bacteria as a method of preservation rlm@32: pasteur - style holding jar with siphon as a way to store liquids ar room temperature indefinately w/o refridgeration.(7/26/2009) rlm@32: Throw rude people out of resturant as a matter of course -- make ambiance much better. rlm@32: make something that mixes soap with firehydrant water (and reduces the pressure a bit) and use it to clean windows of buildings. rlm@32: make an ocarina out of pure silver rlm@32: 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? rlm@32: rlm@32: Me: like kinetic flashlights, shake to generate energy (magnet through a solenoid is how they do it, i think) rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: website to design your own soda, and label, and have it mailed to you / sell it from your own online store. rlm@32: Me: like CAD online only with flavor extracts, other ingredients. rlm@32: Have a set of modular machinery [BAKE, SMASH, PULVERIZE, ...] and ingredients. Requests? rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: solar panels that float on the ocean rlm@32: handcuffs with more than two cuffs (3?) -- great for daisy chaining prisoniers, binding them to environment, etc. rlm@32: vector based SOUND files. --- like the pictures but with SOUND. rlm@32: rlm@32: Me: Essentially a MIDI file? rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: 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. rlm@32: Me: Build off of IPA? rlm@32: Need to encapsulate nonsense sounds produced by babies rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: Mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel in addition to the vertical scroll wheel rlm@32: logic maintance system for big institutions to make sure the things they are thinking about doing are not retarded rlm@32: Me: For a starting point, crawl public domain regulations sites looking for retardation. rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 28, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: http://www.regulations.gov/ rlm@32: rlm@32: genetically engineered glowing fruit -- sell seeds? rlm@32: rlm@32: Me: Fruits whose skins store sunlight in luminscent flesh => useful? rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: 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 rlm@32: remember much from our childhoods. also, could this happen throught life as well? Could S remember stuff from his childhood? rlm@32: 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 rlm@32: too hot, and can be dropped into water. no holes -- uses field effects for everything from the buttons to inductive charging and data transfer. rlm@32: Me: Start with "military" phones (like Mr. Hawley has) with field-effects interface additions and additional hardcore streamlining. rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 27, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: midi to ocarina "tabs" program (online website? buy ocarinas from it too) rlm@32: 3d printing with sound pulses (or just patterns) -- like the 8.03 lecture rlm@32: lighter flint on spring --- make hot and it makes sparkles! rlm@32: put a plane on a treadmill, to help it do a vertical takeoff. rlm@32: Use a nondeterministic sentence parser to understand sentences with multiple meanings. Perhaps use statistical language as a filter against unintended (or rather, uninteresting) interpretations. rlm@32: 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. rlm@32: Me: Standardized, modular nuclear plants? rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 29, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: Textbook whose content can be varied continuously---alter rlm@32: Me: well, actually varied over a countable "dense" set. rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 29, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: level of difficulty, rigor, diction, emphasize crossover with certain other discipline, etc. Content generated dynamically from knowledge base, rlm@32: Me: Or, initially, interpolated over all pre-existing books. rlm@32: rlm@32: Oct 29, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: along with questions that are moreover altered to guide knowledge acquisition. rlm@32: Motivation: One book of knowledge. One. rlm@32: 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 rlm@32: curve, two separated half-bubbles, and a double-cone) rlm@32: rlm@32: Tags: rlm@32: rlm@32: Me: Color-coded lid-cup pairs. rlm@32: rlm@32: Dec 3, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: Me: Dry soap (like for pets) but for cars rlm@32: rlm@32: Dec 3, 2009 rlm@32: rlm@32: Next w ave rlm@32: rlm@32: