1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org	Fri Oct 24 09:03:48 2014 -0700
     1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org	Sun Nov 30 12:40:33 2014 -0800
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     1.4  getting credit.
     1.5  #+end_quote
     1.6  
     1.7 +- microwave time :: the cooking time you enter on most microwaves is
     1.8 +     insane. It's expressed in what I call a "hybrid base", a
     1.9 +     combination of base 10 and base 60. You can get absurd things
    1.10 +     like 100 < 61, and 120 == 80! I wonder if these hybrid base
    1.11 +     systems could be very useful for some purposes!
    1.12 +
    1.13 +- three-eyes :: if you had three eyes, would you still draw cubes like
    1.14 +     we currently draw them? Or would all 2D-representations of 3D
    1.15 +     space always look hopelessly fake?
    1.16 +
    1.17 +- visual taste/smell assay :: get a grid of bacteria, each expressing
    1.18 +     a human taste/smell receptor linked to some sort of fluorscent
    1.19 +     activity or ion pump. Use a camera / electrical grid to transduce
    1.20 +     the smell / taste signal into bits!
    1.21 +
    1.22 +- carabiner mushroom lock :: you can take a trapazodial carabiner and
    1.23 +     make it so that a chain link is caught between the wide end of
    1.24 +     the carabiner and another chain attached to the carabiner. 
    1.25 +
    1.26 +- children's tool shop :: I think that kids should be provided with
    1.27 +     tool shops -- these would be nice sheds with a good collection of
    1.28 +     tools to do various things -- circuit components and soldering
    1.29 +     irons, wires, a small lathe, drill press, belt sander, a
    1.30 +     centrifuge, microscope, and telescope, etc. The idea is that the
    1.31 +     kid can now think, "I could use X to do this thing that I'm
    1.32 +     thinking about" -- the building becomes an extension of the kid's
    1.33 +     body & mind.
    1.34 +
    1.35 +- fluid display :: like the previous idea about matching refractances
    1.36 +                   between glass and liquid, except you make a lot of
    1.37 +                   switchable glass tubes in various patterns in the
    1.38 +                   glass, and actively pump colored liquid through the
    1.39 +                   tubes (the tubes have glass-like fluid in them by
    1.40 +                   default.) The result is that you can cause the
    1.41 +                   tubes to appear and dissappear, and vary their
    1.42 +                   colors as well!
    1.43 +
    1.44  - immunoincompatibility :: take the human genome, and refactor it so
    1.45       that it doesn't use a particular codon at all. Then remove the
    1.46       support from our ribosomes for that codon. What does this do for