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Whats your NEXT invention?

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Re: Whats your NEXT invention?

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Post by zaidf »

rms wrote: post #20
zaidf wrote: post #19

Once I have some money in the bank, I want to escape to an island, assemble a small team of medical researchers and find a cure for a genetic condition I suffer from. Each time I get an episode of it I can't help but wonder why it is that much harder to find a cure for it than fixing a broken computer:) May be I can use this innocence and get somewhere. Medicine is the last thing of my natural interest but in this co…

With enough money in the bank, I'm sure you can make a serious impact on a specific area of medical technology. The hard part is finding qualified people that are brilliant enough to think outside of the box.

True. That is the prime reason my business partner brother is going to med school. His tech entrepreneurial background with a med school education should at least give us a good base to start from whenever we do this.

Re: Whats your NEXT invention?

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Post by juwo »

rms wrote: post #16
juwo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've all changed - haven't we? :)

I'm not sure what you mean. Certainly, if your invention is good enough, I'm sure you will be able to find some success, even if you don't change Deaf culture as a whole.

I think it is more suited to a research project in a University. There are still a few things to be figured out.

But to your point, I meant that cultures do change; willingly or unwillingly, when faced with disruptive and effective technology. The strange thing is; they sometimes willingly change for the worse.

Re: Whats your NEXT invention?

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Post by danw »

The mobile industry needs to be fixed. The sooner the better. I know the two major limitations are restrictive Operators and fragmented Handsets, I just cant yet find the correct solution. The best I can see is to fix it in the same way we made microsoft irrelevant. Ensure that phones have reliable fast low latency internet connections and consistent web browser support accross handsets. Its not ideal and it'll take another 5-10 years or so.

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Post by Leonidas »

My next invention would entail reducing medication errors. Current available applications are developed by hackers who make it too difficult for non-hacker healthcare professionals to understand how to use. In addition, the logical layout of lab values, prescriptions and so forth is not optimized for decreased error. To have hospitals pay 40-60 million a year to license an ineffective, flawed, application is ridiculous. I've been in one of the most advanced hospitals in the United States and my gawd, they still use a "DOS" system like interface ...wth...60 million a year for that?

Personally, my error medication invention will be a contribution I'd like to make to patients and to my profession. You don't get second chances when you deal with patients.. a first error can kill.

Re: Whats your NEXT invention?

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Post by mukund »

Why think of the next? we would put our entire energy into running this current one. There is no question of NEXT one unless we get this one up and running successfully.May be we may need to modify or add more things but if that is called NEXT thing then we will take it ;-)

Re: Whats your NEXT invention?

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Post by Hexayurt »

Affordable biometric digital ID systems to enable people in the developing world to get loans and other access to capital.

No patents.

I already more-or-less solved the first round of problems in doing affordable housing for the developing word:

http://Appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project - and placed all that work into the public domain. So now it's time to hunt bigger fish.

Reality is much, much clearer if you think about the needs of the very, very poor, and the interaction between the shocking arrival of the cellphone and solar panels or the national grid and the basal economic needs of a family.

Got the contract from the Federal Govt. to write the papers and prepare a demo of the technology coming next week I'm told, and it'll be going into the public domain shortly thereafter.

Re: Whats your NEXT invention?

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Post by smasse »

a program to chat with dolphins using underwater whistles and that many people can use at the same time (e.g., as a decentralized p2p IM conference session) so that large groups of people can try to figure out in real-time the meanings, if any, in a live whistle exchange. The working prototype has a user guide at http://leafyseadragon.blogspot.com/ - the p2p components are not completed - the prototype is a standalone application (i.e., laptop).
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