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Product design. Cool widgets. For example, I would love to design a widget that can show me meaning of a word, in different languages, once placed over book, road-signs, billboards, LCDs and etc. Ultra-portable dictionary. So, it's going to be product design, just for fun. We're not talking about any moolah ;)
Two girls at the same time.
A jump to conclusions mat. There'd be this mat, with various conclusions on it, and you could jump to them.
Then I thought of having an opaque jar, labeled "Swearing Jar." When you put money in, it spits it out and says "fuck off," or some other randomly chosen insult.
An alternative to hierarchical file systems.
I've been thinking recently about that too. It's inefficient to use a traditional folder/file system, at least for your personal documents (for system and program files I think they're better off the original way.) What about folders that represent tags? I could tag a file (say a picture) with Danny (my name), Vacation, and 2007. The system creates 4 "folders" as we understand them, each one labeled with a tag, and t…
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I had the almost exact same idea, I also wanted to automatically convert any website into a torrent. It would be P2P browsing and the end of slashdotting small websites. Spikes in hits would not bring anyone down. But then I got a job at a biotech startup.
Another solution to this idea is FreeNet, but it doesn't seem to be catching on as well as the creators had wished: http://freenetproject.org/
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A jump to conclusions mat. There'd be this mat, with various conclusions on it, and you could jump to them.
The developers in my team room seem to swear a lot at what they're working on. I thought jokingly that we need a swear jar. Then I thought of having an opaque jar, labeled "Swearing Jar." When you put money in, it spits it out and says "fuck off," or some other randomly chosen insult.
I would start a derivatives trading firm specializing in securitizing consumer products. First: a gasoline-contract, so people could hedge their gas purchases for the expected life of any car they bought (and never care about gas again -- until it was time to buy a new car). Then, personal market-makers, which would, e.g., try to buy more of foods you liked when they were cheap, suggest alternative venues for enterta…
People walk in wearing t-shirts and flip-flops, I make them a sandwich, and they go away happy. Immediate gratification for both of us, plus I get to invent cool sandwiches. And fresh bread too!