changeset 33:834f7a82ce18

cleaning up ideas.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:10:00 +0000
parents b93ea76ae7fc
children 80f2525cf393
files org/ideas.org
diffstat 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) [+]
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     1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org	Sun Apr 21 03:06:06 2013 +0000
     1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org	Sun Apr 21 03:10:00 2013 +0000
     1.3 @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
     1.4 -- remote control wasp -- use computer to drive wings with remote
     1.5 +- don't forget about that mirror in the student center!, it's two
     1.6 +  mirrors at right angles, like staring at a corner of a room. The
     1.7 +  light reflects so that it shows you what you actually look like,
     1.8 +  instead of your mirror image.
     1.9 +
    1.10 +- remote control wasp :: use computer to drive wings with remote
    1.11    power/logic.
    1.12  
    1.13 -- public (distributed?) database of email->private-key pairs, to enable automatic
    1.14 -  encryption.
    1.15 +- public (distributed?) database of email->private-key pairs, to
    1.16 +  enable automatic encryption.
    1.17  
    1.18  - every equivalent creature will see each others eyes as black -- it's
    1.19    universal. Even of the creatures see in radio waves, and their eyes
    1.20 @@ -10,7 +15,7 @@
    1.21    each other, they will see black, the absence of light and color
    1.22    (since it's being absorbed by the sensor array).
    1.23  
    1.24 -- intelligent microwave -- it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
    1.25 +- intelligent microwave :: it learns where the hot nodes of its fields
    1.26    are, and uses them to evenly heat any food item. It has an infared
    1.27    camera or something to keep track of how hot the food is. That way,
    1.28    you don't get bowls where the edges are boiling, while the center is
    1.29 @@ -29,18 +34,27 @@
    1.30    learn the exact heating profiles for things that have been cooked
    1.31    before -- it can get faster the more its used.
    1.32  
    1.33 -  The Big Book of Ideas
    1.34 +- brain-aware image compression algorithm
    1.35  
    1.36 -Oct 29, 2009
    1.37 +- Credit card proxy - would be a company which works like paypal
    1.38 +  except for real world transactions
    1.39  
    1.40 -brain-aware image compression algorithm
    1.41 -Credit card proxy - would be a company which works like paypal except for real world transactions
    1.42 -Flesh pillow -- a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
    1.43 -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
    1.44 -bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
    1.45 -light filter (like light tweezers) to mechanically seperate fluids with different index of refraction
    1.46 -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.
    1.47 -don't forget about that mirror in the student center!
    1.48 +- Flesh pillow :: a pillow like the arm or torso of a human, complete
    1.49 +                  with simulated temperature, bones, and heartbeat.
    1.50 +
    1.51 +- super screw :: a screw which has only one or two threads and intead
    1.52 +                 uses compresion to fit into a hole (the whole shank
    1.53 +                 of the screw is split into multiple pieces to
    1.54 +                 accomplish this; the tip is a point, then the middle
    1.55 +                 bulges out and gets compressed when screwed in.
    1.56 +
    1.57 +- light filter :: (like light tweezers) to mechanically seperate
    1.58 +                  fluids with different index of refraction
    1.59 +
    1.60 +- chalk eraser project :: maybe make a directional eraser, for easy
    1.61 +     release of chalk dust, like fur, and how it likes to rest in a
    1.62 +     certain direction.
    1.63 +
    1.64  silver socks
    1.65  UROP: magnet gear/metal teeth tape
    1.66  device to distill urine through evaporation and easily dispose of urea crystals for use in desert -- produce drinkable water.