Something like a Netflix for books and articles. I'd pay just to rent textbooks for general education classes. It would need to have a gigantic library though, big enough to guarantee that I would be able to find any book through there if it wasn't in a library. PDF versions of the books would be nice to, so I could access the book anywhere immediately. And it would need a good selection of scientific books. I have a…
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#172An online memorial for a dead relative.
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#173A combination proxy/script/something that'd pop up an interstitial task tracker/to-do list overview when I go to any of a list of "time-sink" sites. I can click "snooze" and go to the time sink, with the task tracker popping back up after 5,10,30 minutes, turn it off for a day or two, or click through to the detail/edit view for any task and get to work.
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#174the pre-1992 version of usenet
Voted up, because I am actually planning to pay for a giganews feed, now that Time Warner killed there usenet servers.
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#175Bachelor Chow (See: Futurama). It doesn't have to be particularly tasty, but a simple meal that has 1/3 of your daily nutrition (with 1/3 RDA of all your vitamins and minerals) would be great. Preferably without ridiculous quantities of preservatives and artificial flavours.
This is ideally a great product, if you can solve three practical problems. 1. Nutritional needs depend on age, time, body, activities, etc. 2. The desire for tasty food often greatly out-weights the desire for nutritional food. 3. Evolutionarily, we were designed to want more than what we need.
#2 might be a little trickier, although if it's sold how it's shown in the show (literally as human dog food in giant bags) you could easily include a dozen flavor packets. If the food on its own was fairly flavorless, preferably with a meat-like quality to mix well with different flavor packs.
#3 is probably the trickiest. The solution is probably just like any food, moderation. However, when people receive adequate nutrition this behavior does tend to decrease, but evolution is a harsh mistress and like most animals we've evolved to build up fat reserves to try and survive.
Honestly #1 and #2 can easily be solved by standard market practices in both dog food and human pre-made meals. #3 is the stickler and aside from moderation I don't know what could help, except maybe a big sticker saying 'THREE MEALS IS ALL YOU NEED' might subconsciously stop a few of the gullible people who respond easily to suggestion (read: the people who keep telemarketers rich).
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#176Bachelor Chow (See: Futurama). It doesn't have to be particularly tasty, but a simple meal that has 1/3 of your daily nutrition (with 1/3 RDA of all your vitamins and minerals) would be great. Preferably without ridiculous quantities of preservatives and artificial flavours.
If I remember correctly the Dilberito was designed along those lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito
Screw you 'Chef' Boyardee, hello Chef Catbert!
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Yeah, that's tough. It's even worse when you have a small baby and the grandparents are far away:-/ Here's an idea for someone: Virtual Grandpa - some sort of telepresence thing that's been made a bit robust so that a kid can drag it around and drop it without problems. Maybe like a robust cell phone with a decent size screen and camera? I actually wouldn't mind working on that too, but feel free to run with it. The…
Great idea. A Chumby with a built-in video camera + gtalk/video support might fit the bill.
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i've lived in two countries, actually, and visited many others. Madrid was the only place where i managed to find decent mexican food.
I had decent Mexican food in London. It wasn't spectacular, but I remember enjoying it.
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#180Think "Apple TV", but without having to worry about hacks, and with built in keyboard/mouse support.