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5 Star Jail Hotel (good for procrastinators). Pay us and we will lock you up for as many days as you paid. You get one hour per day to hang out within our establishment. Breakfast, Lunch and Diner are eaten with other prisoners. The rest of time we will lock you up in your room (with internet connection). Phones lines are only open for x hours. Emails programs are blocked most of the time... You see where I am headin…
I'm tired of sex shops that ship their products using discrete packaging. I want a store that ships products in packaging purposely designed to be as embarrassing as is plausibly possible. Charge double what a normal sex store does, and even if you only get a few hundred orders a day via Google you still have a decent business.
> I'm tired of sex shops that ship their products using discrete packaging. I agree. Down with discrete; we need continuous packaging. http://everything2.com/title/discreet%2520vs.%2520discrete
Device where every time you mutter a complaint it records it and attempts to match it up and send it to the correct recipient. The complaints are anonymous, but tracks whether the complaint was responded to or not. If so, the complainer gets more karma and is prioritized higher. There could be the opposite marking of spam or unreasonable. The eventual goal is to identify complainer pundit wizards that will make the w…
Nuclear powered laptop never needs recharging
Kinetic Recharger for Laptops. A laptop with a shake-to-recharge system. You can make them fit in your CD Drive bays. Since you carry your laptop around a lot, it's constantly moving, the kinetic-drive keeps on charging the battery. Actually would be badass for cellphones (their ALWAYS being moved around).
Train chimps to break CAPTCHAs. My guess is that it's feasible. E.g, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgeLEWr614 It is, however, unethical, and isn't something that benefits society, despite the fact that a viable business model might exist in the short term. Note that this would give a whole new meaning to the phrase 'Captcha farm' :-)
Chimps are way too expensive
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Already exists. These are the norm in Europe, I have no idea why they're not popular in the US. We Europeans enjoy mocking antiquated American home appliances and can't believe you still use stovetop kettles and blenders from the 1950s. http://www.gelighting.com/apo/products/appliances/clothes_ca... It looks like a regular washing machine, you just put your clothes in the front, set the buttons, and 2 hours later the…
What kind of kettles and blenders do you guys use in Europe? I want in :(
I want to see a smart traffic control system. Currently I'm only aware of the traffic lights which can sense when the car stopped next to the line and switch the lights accordingly. I would like to see more. I would like the system to identify how dense the traffic is in all directions, including the right/left turn lines. It would then adjust the duration of the green light according to the number of cars travelling…
I want to see a smart traffic control system. Currently I'm only aware of the traffic lights which can sense when the car stopped next to the line and switch the lights accordingly. I would like to see more. I would like the system to identify how dense the traffic is in all directions, including the right/left turn lines. It would then adjust the duration of the green light according to the number of cars travelling…
It's called a roundabout. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout They help traffic flow lots in the UK and elsewhere around the world. Not a panacea though.
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