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Custom video games (for non geeks). I doctored up a basic shooter game for my girlfriends birthday, replacing the backgrounds + all the characters with relevant images from her life. It makes a basic shooter game much more interesting when someone you know is attacking!
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Yes! Clearly: a harness with a slot for a Wii-mote. Implement for cats also, branded "MWii-ow."
On a related note: Porn games for the Wii.
It works on the Wii, btw (website in Opera).
Ad exploder. An add-in for FF and IE that lets you "explode" ads by clicking on them, complete with sound effects and animation (or not). After you explode the ad, you'll never see any more material in that spot again. I don't just want to not see ads, I want something with some visceral action, something to make the ads not want to come back! -- ie, something fun.
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A live public transport map for Helsinki, Finland: http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/ It's a trial, there are most (all?) trams and a few buses.
I thought that map is just interpolating from the schedules, not from GPS? Not that it makes much difference, the schedules in Finland being very accurate for buses afaik. In Tampere on major stops we have information about when the next bus is coming in, some based on GPS and some on schedules, this distinction is indicated on the board.
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If you trust your local transit authority's posted timetables, then you could gather GPS coordinates for bus stops and write an app that correlates the two with your current location and time.
That's the thing - unless you're in Japan, you can't rely on timetables. Otherwise this idea wouldn't make much sense (it would still be cool to amaze your friends with it while waiting for the bus though ;)).
Some kind of GPS-based app for a mobile device that works out how you get to and from work and tries and puts you in touch with others who work closeby and the hours that you do for the sake of carpooling. Using your phone to reduce carbon emissions.
Anyway, I know this may seem like common sense, but if someone was going to build an app like this, I would suggest that the best platform for it is the iphone simply because Apple actively market their technology as more "green" than other manufacturers.
A database of MAC addresses of stolen equipment. Participants install a client which listens for the MAC addresses of all computers in the local network, alerting the participant that the new possessor of a stolen MacBook Pro 15", 2006 edition, two deep scratches on the lid, seems to be nearby. Of course, you'd have to find a way of guarding against malicious entries.
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> SLIME* for Python, Perl or Ruby I'm not entirely sure, but I think you might just have to implement a Swank server, and SLIME* would work without problems. It could be that you're forced to use s-expressions, but I doubt it.
I haven't looked at the client portion of SLIME in a while, but wouldn't there be some changes needed to deal with languages where statements and expression are different from each other? Getting Perl code into an s-exp would be fairly difficult actually (as opposed to getting an s-exp from a Perl complex hash -- which would be really easily) - generally (with Perl5) the consensus is anything that can parse Perl, is…
Yeah, probably.
fwiw, perfectlygoodideas.com is available right now. perhaps someone could use the uclassify api to classify & cluster similar ideas & recommend partnerships. no idea how well it would work, but it might be worth a an hour or two on a weekend to find out. im just thinking out loud here :)
I really like that idea. domain name taken :) -- i presume you didn't want to do this since you didn't buy it yourself. If I get to it this weekend, I'll submit to HN when I have something ready. Thanks for mentioning uclassify -- I hadn't heard of it.