Ideas

Subscribe Inventions, methods, algorithms, solutions or answers.

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    (19,753)   Idea Shiritori:  A group activity for parties: an invention game around problems. (+) [en]
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    (19,688)   Partial Space Elevator:  Don't tether the Earth-facing end of space elevator: let it hang in the atmosphere, and arrive to it with less fuel. (+) [en]
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    (19,677)   Dimensions of Happiness:  Define abstract dimensions, that correlate best with people's happiness, and model people's movement in that space, to intentionally achieve social bliss. (+) [en, cn, lt]
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    (19,665)   City Skates Standard:  Swappable Body Vehicles standard for car bodies swappable in minutes, for modern city life, and private car body ownership. (+) [en]
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    (19,527)   Information Rocket:  Think of the information content as an object in orbit, which is function of mutation rate ("entropy field"), and replication rates ("centrifugal force field"), and be inspired to create an information rocket. (+) [en]
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    (19,519)   Non exhausting labour:  The funny thing about workers is that they pay their own bills AND the bills of the employer (assuming a company is cash flow positive), whereas the employer only puts up an initial set of funding, which gets expired, and they rely on workers for income, so why do capital owners get paid again and again for the same funding but workers don't? (+) [en]
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    (19,427)   HiveCell:  Universal Beehive Cell-like Capsule-Hotel-like Car Connectable into Buildings and Spaces (+) [en, cn, lt, ja]
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    (19,424)   Order-to-Make E-commerce:  An online shop selling licenses to CAD drawings along with manufacturing services from local manufacturing shops. (+) [en]
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    (19,403)   Linear Fuel Lines Launch System:  Just like gravity assist, but "fuel-assist" - fuel positioned in the rocket path to be ingested and used. (+) [en]
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    (19,393)   URL powered computer:  Installing software is so 1990s-2000s. Let's configure and install software by giving URLs or taking them away. Everything is a URL (+) [en]
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    (19,364)   Structured Internet Client:  Like browser, but structured, based on high level protocols? (+) [en]
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    (19,345)   Technology Maps ™:  Apply the principles of generating driving directions from a road map to automate generation of technological procedures from a map-like knowledge base. (+) [en]
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    (19,321)   The Map of Mathematical Models:  A referencible repository of mathematical models. (+) [en, fr]
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    (19,313)   Dog Sniff Schools:  Billions of dogs - unused resource -- Massively teach dogs to sniff out diseases, and substances, and improve public health :) (+) [en]
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    (19,311)   Autodefibribed:  Automated defibrilator as an addon to bed. (+) [en]
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    (19,311)   Imaginary auction shop:  Why not a shop with imaginary products and services in it? And you bid the price that you want to pay for that product, you also commit to long term spending on the product, you actually stake money, so if the product is created, you are obligated to pay for it (+) [en]
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    (19,311)   Investomart:  A shop, that lets you overpay for goods you like, to invest the overpay into the companies that made them. (+) [en]
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    (19,309)   Write to Galaxies:  Treat galaxies like CD drives to send directional laser updates of our civilization, and survive in the minds of the distant future civilizations. (+) [en, lt]
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    (19,298)   Movable Frame Tetris:  Instead of moving the falling brick, move the entire tetris frame in the rain of tetris parts; make the frame walls semi-permeable sometimes, and emulate life form eating bricks, and medical interventions to alleviate clogging. (+) [en]
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    (19,269)   Multi-Business Startup:  A startup, where each funding round is like a logical different startup, but uses the key component created in the previous funding round, as an enabler for the next round, often jumping to another industry in each round. (+) [en]
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    (19,266)   Benefit inbox:  A website that lists benefits or advantages, that you can subscribe to with one click (+) [en]
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    (19,264)   Life-Saving Oximeter Handbands:  Just like smoke alarms, but for human bodies. (+) [en]
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    (19,250)   Diagnostic Mosquitoes as Body Boring Machines:  Evolve mosquitoes with long proboscises, then photolitographically print a microcircuit to interface with their brain, connect and train a neural net to control it. (+) [en]
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    (19,246)   Shapeflow:  Generalization of Tetris: A strategic game with a variety of morphing shapes flowing through topological holes (like digestive tract) with increasing variety and speed, and complementaries (like matching Tetris bricks) that interact to break down into smaller ones, and a global goal to sustain their flow from clogging the system. (+) [en]
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    (19,235)   Using the CPU efficiently:  This idea is ideas on how to use the CPU efficiently, to use CPU to solve problems and use the resource what it is capable of (+) [en]
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    (19,221)   Money valuation as a continuous wave function like the stock market:  Imagine being capable of affording something really expensive one minute but not the next? This is how dynamic production could be (+) [en]
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    (19,219)   Skill and Command allocation system:  A list of people, their skill profiles and then a button to allocate and offer of work to them, based on their skills. Another section of the app, which is a list of problems, and a report on the problem from many people's perspective's such as Google Doc. (+) [en]
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    (19,219)   Minimum flow rate minimum pay:  The problem with minimum pay is the Iron Law of Wages is that everything leads to 0 over time. Imagine a flexible pricing system where the pricing is set to set a minimum break even for the supplier (+) [en]
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    (19,214)   Principle of Balancing Transparency with Capability:  Parametrize the balance between privacy and transparency, with the level of capability. (+) [en]
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    (19,212)   Capped debt:  The problem with debt is if something fails, the debt provided an unlimited risk, we want failure to have a minimum cost. (+) [en]
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    (19,208)   Coffee shop queue:  A large room arranged with efficiently arranged chairs and tables, to be used as a queue, people are called out in turn (+) [en]
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    (19,197)   Guaranteed return:  From an investors perspective, if someone wants to do something and they think it shall create lots of money, I kind of want to give them money in return for a guaranteed return of whatever they earn. We need some form of economic obligation to return this return. The current mechanism is debt, but this doesn't really work in both parties' interests due to the punitive effects of debt (+) [en]
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    (19,196)   Virtual GoodReward thank tokens/shares:  Issue tokens to people when they do something good for you, can be redeemed for favours later (+) [en]
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    (19,195)   The irreversibility of commitment:  If you decide to do something, you need to exist with the fact you did it. You cannot get egg from a baked cake. In other words, when you get a job or start a business you are committed to it. I want to remove this feeling that I cannot relax due to commitments.. (+) [en]
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    (19,194)   A bug: youtube player MUTE/UNMUTE order automatically when an AD streams suddenly to avoid hearing it!:  A feature to turn on when you listen to a relaxing track that mutes adss (+) [en]
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    (19,191)   XMaze:  Computer game for students: theory on the walls, problem solutions unlock the doors. (+) [en, cn, ja]
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    (19,187)   Automated API traversal:  Armed with a thesaurus and an almanac of system functionality we can write robots that program themselves (+) [en]
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    (19,184)   Errors have resumable error codes:  I was told how to get the Nth product on Stackoverflow, he also told me how to get the product number from a product! Which you must understand how useful that is. Error messages can be completely retried and resumed with this information. I only need to log or print out a special error code and the user can retry from where they left off! (+) [en]
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    (19,183)   Wiki of App Models:  Wiki of apps in general (web or stand-alone), with both public and private models published. (+) [en]
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    (19,181)   Recursive coordination portfolio:  Portfolios are really effective at managing bets and risk. You own a little bit of everything to return as much as you can. What if we could manage our coordinations with others as a portfolio. People could decide to change their behaviour to benefit someone else. Such as writing documentation how some of their code works. Or adding an API (+) [en]
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    (19,177)   Money to scalability:  How much compute, storage and network does $5 get you, how about $15, or $100 or $1000 or $100,000 (+) [en]
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    (19,166)   Black Mirror:  Unlocking openness through a tiny mirror painted in black (+) [en]
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    (19,163)   Business welfare:  Most companies such as restaurants fail. I propose we cause businesses to be radically simpler by having common infrastructure for business operations so it's not all private. Everyone benefits when businesses provide services to people. (+) [en]
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    (19,160)   Object removal:  Can we remove subobjects an replace them with direct memory access mappings? (+) [en]
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    (19,159)   Web-based People's Self-Organization Tool:  A service or tool to form interest groups by voting on features of ideas as part of reading. (+) [en]
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    (19,159)   Internet Browser:  All ports, all protocols Internet browser. Open ports and support protocols to direct browsing of databases, and other internet resources, make web browsers support accessing them directly and nicely. (+) [en]
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    (19,159)   Invariant optimisation code movement:  Imagine I have a nested loop and I do lots of work in this nested loop. Wouldn't it be more efficient to do some of this work incrementally such as when objects are created? (+) [en]
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    (19,155)   Mod-Laws of Physics:  Try to change the laws of physics, and verify if we are at base reality or not. (+) [en]
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    (19,153)   N-Love Net:  An on-line "tinder-like" service to match larger groups for "love graphs". (+) [en]
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    (19,151)   Geographic wants and needs app:  Ping server with geographic location of wants, be matched to providers of wants, view wants of others on app. Like Foursquare for wants and needs (+) [en]
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    (19,148)   Needcoins:  Issue two currencies. The regular currency stays the same but issue a minimum standard or basic income of needcoins when you spend money in a shop the money for needs is taken from your need budget. Anything that you don't particularly need such as coffee or luxury garments is taken from your other account. (+) [en]
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    (19,134)   Use a marketplace where every item is a wrapped product and must contain every stakeholder's interest (+) [en]
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    (19,134)   Togetherism for Survival:  Togetherism, as an abstraction of Communism and Democracy (+) [en]
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    (19,133)   Gravity Battery via Generator Pulleys (+) [en]
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    (19,132)   Transitive Pull model - impedence of work and profit:  Every action of work should benefit the employer and by extension employees. How to algorithmically identify cost effective work tasks so everything a worker does pulls towards profit? I think this is an algorithmic problem. Effects of work can be represented as a graph of cause and effect. If you don't do administration or what causes your business to earn money, you go out of business. Work done is not priced unless you're a billable employee. Need some method valuing work and estimating compexity in terms of time used to calculate price (+) [en]
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    (19,130)   Can A* be used to generate algorithm sourcecode?:  I thought of an idea to use a* algorithm to "walk" toward a solution that solves a programming problem. Each neighbour can be a weighted list of programming tasks such as if statement, for each, assignment, recursive call. How do you map example data structures transformations to code that fulfils the changes to the data structure? You need a cost function that decreases when the output gets nearer to the solution. What does the cost function for code solving a problem look similar to? (+) [en]
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    (19,128)   Stack pattern match:  Imagine you have a reference implementation of a btree and a reference implementation of a locking manager and a security manager and you want to tie them together. You could add code calls from one to the other but what if there is a better way? The better way for extensibility is to match stack function calldepths to code snippets that run whenever the pattern is matched. For example when a btree is split you might want to acquire locks or release locks in a certain order. We can do pattern matching around the callsite of a btree split and return values and do the right locking and security behaviours without needing to change the API of either. Essentially you have parallel multiple return values. (+) [en]
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    (19,127)   Failure due to not enough critical mass:  For some thing to be successful, it needs critical mass. If a company doesn't get enough customers, it shall shut down. Same with websites and blogs, if they don't get visitors the creators or author loses interest or loses money for long enough they stop. (+) [en]
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    (19,127)   Commit to buy & crowdfunding:  Imagine you want something that doesn't exist. What do you do? It should be possible to commit to buy something at a price. Market research and product development is expensive, you need a guarantee you buy something at a price, buying signals are currently invisible. (+) [en]
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    (19,127)   Forever tape abstraction:  With computers we often have different places to place data that determines how fast or how large the data is. For example, we have the stack, main memory, virtual memory, page files, disk files, buffers, heap, S3, SANs, NFS. Can we create an abstraction that captures the differences of each of these kinds of storage and allows efficient management of each of them and switching between them so that there is an illusion that memory is infinite but efficient. For example, you might want to load chunks from S3 efficiently into main memory and cached on disk. (+) [en]
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    (19,123)   Schools, Universities and Colleges are business umbrella organisations:  The purpose of a school, college and university is to educate. But what if students want to provide services to the general public or other businesses? As parent category attests it's too difficult to start a business. There is so much administration to be done when all you want to do is a job. I propose schools, colleges and universities have umbrella organisations associated with them and provide an ERP and administration software for running of businesses. So the education organisation acts as a sort of bootstrap organisation for providing products and services. (+) [en]
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    (19,122)   Money packages:  Ask a computer what you can get by putting in a money amount in and it shall tell you a package of goods and services that when combined offer something useful to you in return for that money.. so if you put enough cash for a home renovation it shall show you ideas for a house renovation and be fully costed. If you have certain electronics it shall recommend what electronics to buy based on what you have such as accessories. (+) [en]
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    (19,122)   Dynamic bus routing:  For a bus service to be profitable it needs to have a certain number of customers or users of the bus. The bus also must service people where they need the bus. I propose an app where people can use the day before taking a bus journey and they can can say at what time they need to be somewhere before then a algorithm plots a bus route to pick up all those people. (+) [en]
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    (19,121)   THE BOOK OF MIRRORS:  this is a collection and discoveries over time to record the FINDING DUALS Quest... (+) [en]
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    (19,121)   From 1,1/4 to 2/15? 1.25 to 2.25 = a jump? A cycle?:  two different reality-reader-interface code, so what? (+) [en]
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    (19,121)   A Numeric Code to Refer to Goals and Ideas, etc.:  Design a code name system to refer to goals and ideas, easy to use in any language. (+) [en]
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    (19,114)   Everyone is their own currency:  You often see companies advertising cashback or money off products or you get a gift for purchasing or they donate money to charity. It is ultimately meaningless as it is simply money off the sticker price. We need a unit that is gained when you purchase some thing. When you buy some thing you cause lots of good things and work for people which is good. It gives people things to do and it coordinates society. You should always be capable of buying food and energy. Your currency of yourself should guarantee this for exchange. So I can go I to a shop and buy anything with chronological or Sam coins. Then the seller gains a marginal benefit based on my labour creative output in return for holding chronological or Sam coins. They have a claim on my output (+) [en]
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    (19,105)   Open Signed Talks:  Invitation to combine resources with Ideas for something better! (+) [en]
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    (19,104)   “Trade” Vs. “buy/sell”:  Differences and dualities (+) [en]
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    (19,102)   Temporal mirror:  Reversed time mirror as a memory monument. (+) [en, lt]
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    (19,098)   [PFE] "identifications" of Product moving dimensions:  The 5-IN 5-OUT steps of product dna and id (testing) (+) [en]
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    (19,090)   Work interface:  As a user of someone's work I don't need to care how it is implemented I just want some thing satisfied. Similar how computer programming interfaces work, I want to depend on someone else's implementation or work that they do and use it (+) [en]
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    (19,087)   Attention agents:  One company knows every product of every other company and uses algorithms and reasoning and quizzes to decide who is suitable for which product. (+) [en]
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    (19,084)   Search for Non-Ribonucleic Life (NRL):  Search for Non-Ribonucleic Life, as a complement to SETI. (+) [en]
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    (19,084)   FrienDA:  Friend-to-friend NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreements). (+) [en]
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    (19,080)   Good social credit system:  Define good behaviour, account for good behaviour, people set minimum good behaviour for entry to buildings and things (+) [en]
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    (19,040)   Speculation, Friction, and Fire:  A real-time storytelling game about using speculation and friction to question the design and use of AI (+) [en]
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    (19,016)   Dolphin Chatroom Libraries:  Create a low bandwidth distant communications channel for groups of dolphins with exchanged member, and crack dolphin language much faster! (+) [en, cn]
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    (19,016)   Seascrapers:  Horizontal Skyscrapers on Sea: Living on the seas isn't as hard as we think. Modify cruize ships a bit, to look architecturally creative like modern buildings, and ship them to mass-orders by future inhabitants on-line. (+) [en, ja]
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    (19,016)   Astelliard:  Billiard with asteroids: apply trajectory intelligence and domino effect to move large asteroids through a sequence of small ones. (+) [en]
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    (19,013)   Representation Format of Actualization States of Individuals (+) [en]
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    (19,013)   Open Distributed Scientific Annotations Cloud:  Each reader of scientific paper can publish their annotations to a distributed public annotations cloud, others can load as they read, and discuss. (+) [en]
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    (19,007)   Mine life for molecules to treat bacteria:  Let bacteria try to infect various plants and animals, see which adapt, and why (what proteins or molecules do they evolve), and apply it to developing new treatments. (+) [en]
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    (19,005)   Burners:  Process drama in the forest (+) [en]
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    (19,004)   Octahoop:  A transformative hairhoop as a toy that sparks creative energy (+) [en, lt, CN, RU, JA]
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    (18,992)   Bio-evolutionary Hypothesis for Absence of Green or Purple Stars:  Take the evolutionary approach, and explain it by narrow spectra of survival-critical (evolutionarilyy rewarding) plants spectra due to narrow-spectrum chlorophyll and retinal. (+) [en]
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    (18,992)   library twin project for the post-apocalyptic world:  we don't know what the future holds, but we see trends. and we can see probabilities for these trends. knowledge Foundation for people of the future is in danger, what do we keep what do we discard and what do we have? (+) [en, CN, RU, JA, LT]
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    (18,990)   multi-calendural:  a calendar is your way of telling people your rythm (+) [en, CN, RU, JA, LT]
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    (18,989)   Biopoints of Failure:  Just like JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) teams enumerated all possible signle-points-of-failure to compute spacecraft risk, enumerate all human organism (or bio-organism) points of failure, and strategize to reduce its failure risk. (+) [en]
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    (18,969)   Electrochemical Screen:  Use use electric and photonic patterning to emulate material surface properties. (+) [en, lt]
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    (18,969)   Civilization Engineering IQ Score:  Define a mapping between the available chemical elements and the technological capabilities with those elements to define a kind of "IQ" score for technological civilizations. (+) [en]
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    (18,967)   Abstratasking:  Just like multi-tasking, but in another dimension. (+) [en]
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    (18,966)   Is It Me Test:  A way to determine if a copy of a mind is test-indistinguishible from the actual mind copied. (+) [en]
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    (18,957)   Sunrise WakeUp Screen:  Simulate sunrise with computer screen. (+) [en]
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    (18,945)   Dog Glider:  Dog flies a glider, it launches by sliding down hill. (+) [en]
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    (18,938)   Dolphin voice commands controlled equipment:  Use the mature voice commands recognition technology in combination with robotics, to see what would dolphins create, if they had the ability to use hands and more. (+) [en]
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    (18,934)   Hands-Free Binoculars Mount to Back:  Mega-Eyeglass frame-like mount for binoculars extending to the back to the belt, or to a counterweight backpack to free hands, and control viewing direction with movement of body. (+) [en]
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    (18,900)   Paint on Elephants:  Paint elephants, and enjoy the curiosity about their behavior. (+) [en]
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    (18,888)   Protocol context manager:  In big microservice based systems or systems with lots of protocols, you often need to make a change that ripples out through the entire system. If you have X services you send a message between them you have X message schemas. Let's manage the schemas centrally (+) [en]
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    (18,886)   Accommodation app:  There is short term, long term accommodation..I want to change my place of residence on a whim without having to worry about contracts or moving lots of stuff (+) [en]