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how about elance for students only. Like facebook used to do requiring a .edu email address
Just as a reminder, universities outside the US don't get .edu addresses (for example, mine is just a .bc.ca adddress.) This may or may not be your intended effect.
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You guys know that in Europe this is common? It's called a "bank transfer" and it is trivial to do, just need people's bank account and routing number and yes, people do hand it out. Many (most? all?) bank websites support it. We have newly-arrived Europeans working at our US office that cannot believe people still write cheques here. [Edit since there has been some curiosity: here is who underwrites the scheme in th…
I'm still frustrated by how far behind we (North Americans) are in terms of payments. What ever happened to using debit cards online? I find promise in email money transfers. But it's still a closed circle. Canadian banks only allow it among Canadian banks.
Here in Europe this is the most common way to exchange money. I perform at least 5/6 transfers every month as individual, and many more with my company.
A touchscreen computer designed specifically for the kitchen, meant to be mounted on the fridge or on the wall. Inventories food via bar-code scanner, and/or image recognition. Massive crowd-sourced recipe database that checks against fridge/pantry contents, and displays cooking instructions, or reads them aloud. Throw in some timers and a media player for good measure, sync via Wi-Fi, etc. It's what I'd be working o…
Provides coupons for purchased items. Or competitor brands.
Social ranking system for recipes. As well as flavor profile so that people who prefer similar recipes as you affect a recipes rank more then someone with opposing tastes.
Can send pre-order for packaging to local grocer or order hard to get items from the web.
Can be integrated with a personal chef service to allow them to know what you have on site.
I have a million more on this one. If anyone does this let me know. I would love to chat about my ideas no strings attached.
Add fins to catch the wind on the sides of airplane wheels so that the wheels automatically begin to spin on landing approaches. This should help by reducing the amount of rubber that is lost on landing and increase the useful lifespan of airplane tires.
Good idea, already been done. My "Idea Graveyard.rtf" has an old link for that, if you're curious you can hunt down what happened to the content: http://www.edwards.af.mil/archive/2002/2002-archive-new_inve... I think the 747 actually has motors that spin the wheels up. The lateral slide is actually not a big issue, the landing gear on most larger aircraft are steerable to allow for that ("crab landing" I think it's…
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Good idea, already been done. My "Idea Graveyard.rtf" has an old link for that, if you're curious you can hunt down what happened to the content: http://www.edwards.af.mil/archive/2002/2002-archive-new_inve... I think the 747 actually has motors that spin the wheels up. The lateral slide is actually not a big issue, the landing gear on most larger aircraft are steerable to allow for that ("crab landing" I think it's…
The link to your idea graveyard seems broken, but I would be very interested in seeing it.
http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/17808/Pre-Spin-Airplane-Whe...
... a "Jump to Conclusions" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different conclusions written on it that you could jump to .
That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.
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