# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1417380033 28800
# Node ID 98ba603e251a7f6b54bfb9093685b1ccbf1adcf3
# Parent  8bf12217d0fa7482826070d9f737a1912a747f50
more ideas.

diff -r 8bf12217d0fa -r 98ba603e251a org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Fri Oct 24 09:03:48 2014 -0700
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Sun Nov 30 12:40:33 2014 -0800
@@ -31,6 +31,43 @@
 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+- microwave time :: the cooking time you enter on most microwaves is
+     insane. It's expressed in what I call a "hybrid base", a
+     combination of base 10 and base 60. You can get absurd things
+     like 100 < 61, and 120 == 80! I wonder if these hybrid base
+     systems could be very useful for some purposes!
+
+- three-eyes :: if you had three eyes, would you still draw cubes like
+     we currently draw them? Or would all 2D-representations of 3D
+     space always look hopelessly fake?
+
+- visual taste/smell assay :: get a grid of bacteria, each expressing
+     a human taste/smell receptor linked to some sort of fluorscent
+     activity or ion pump. Use a camera / electrical grid to transduce
+     the smell / taste signal into bits!
+
+- carabiner mushroom lock :: you can take a trapazodial carabiner and
+     make it so that a chain link is caught between the wide end of
+     the carabiner and another chain attached to the carabiner. 
+
+- children's tool shop :: I think that kids should be provided with
+     tool shops -- these would be nice sheds with a good collection of
+     tools to do various things -- circuit components and soldering
+     irons, wires, a small lathe, drill press, belt sander, a
+     centrifuge, microscope, and telescope, etc. The idea is that the
+     kid can now think, "I could use X to do this thing that I'm
+     thinking about" -- the building becomes an extension of the kid's
+     body & mind.
+
+- fluid display :: like the previous idea about matching refractances
+                   between glass and liquid, except you make a lot of
+                   switchable glass tubes in various patterns in the
+                   glass, and actively pump colored liquid through the
+                   tubes (the tubes have glass-like fluid in them by
+                   default.) The result is that you can cause the
+                   tubes to appear and dissappear, and vary their
+                   colors as well!
+
 - immunoincompatibility :: take the human genome, and refactor it so
      that it doesn't use a particular codon at all. Then remove the
      support from our ribosomes for that codon. What does this do for