I have an idea to save money to supermarkets and provide a better customer experience. If you have a supermarket chain or know someone who does contact me!
The nice thing about this idea is that it is a concept that can be implemented immediately with almost no costs without investing in new technologies or new resources. Just better utilizing existing space and personnel.
No mores tanding in lines!!!
When fishing, after the fish is hooked, starts a process of pulling it back to shore or boat.
In this process sometimes the fish manages to break free by chewing on the fishing line or frees itself in some way from the hook.
Also it can take a long time to fight with the fish that resent the attempts to pull it out and does its best to stay far and away.
The idea is to create a fishing line that has an internal metallic wire inside the nylon wire. On the fishing pole there will be a capacitor that when activated would transfer an electric shock to the fish through the wire and metal hook and render it inactive for enough time to reel it in.
Just work that dial from “tingle” all the way to “cooked”…
*Disclaimer – This is just a stupid idea no one should attempt to do it or anything like it unless they know exactly what they are doing! In many cases ideas that combine water and electricity are very dangerous!
I sat with a friend in the car and we came up with some ideas for augmented reality as it can be implemented with camera equipped hand held devices. This is what we came up with in about 20 minutes…
Two of the ideas are not mentioned here as we are testing their patentability for possible implementation.
1) Point the camera to a person and the device will measure/asses its clothes size. Pointing to a rack of clothes will mark with color the ones that are likely to be in a good size.
2) Point the camera to a person and the device will indicate if the clothes match and give a mark. The analysis can include colors, patterns, size etc. You can point to your own reflection in the mirror or to people you know.
3) Plant identification. Point to a plant and the device will identify the plant and give specific details such as nutritional / medicinal value, toxicity and care instructions.
4) Point to a flooded road and the device will help calculate the depth of the water at the lowest point according to the predicted convergence of the road lines (might need some assisting). If you choose your car type it can tell you if you should attempt to cross or not.
5) If you stand in line or drive in a lane, the application can analyze which lane is moving faster and suggest you move to that lane or queue.
6) Hold the device above your head and turn it slowly to scan the surrounding crowd and identifying people you know based on your contact images or searching for a specific person. The device can beep when it found a face that is close enough to a face you are looking for or a face you might know.
7) Point the device to people talking far away and the device will zoom the image and attempt to read the lips of the people and read out the identified text or save it to a file.
8) For the hearing impaired a device will show on a room picture the areas that noise is coming from. The device will track sounds as you move in the room and calculate their estimated location and plot this along with a sound type representation such as loudness (hiss or scream), rhythm (phone ring or something fell down) etc.
9) Use product catalogs to choose and place 3D furniture objects inside your room and walk around them to see exactly how they would look like from each angle and how much space it would take.
10) Look at a supermarket isle through the device to get visual arrows to locations of items you bought in the past.
11) Capture an item in 3D in a shop and see how it would look like with your home as background instead of its current background.
12) Point at a plate with food to automatically attempt to identify the main food components and asses nutritional values and calories. Might use a recipe database to get more info about preparation and other ingredients not seen.
13) Point at someone and choose a haircut to get step by step instruction on how and where to cut with constant feedback.
14) Show visually on room image the hotspot strength according to location as you walk through the room. Will eliminate the wandering around and random pointing to get better signal.
15) Automatically locate an object in view in online product catalogs (furniture, clothes etc..).
16) Take a picture when you leave your room or desk and point to it when you are back to see if anything was moved, taken or added.
There are theories that people think about things that they can represent with their vocabulary. The hypothesis is that we do not think about things we have no words for.
My idea is to influence behavior by introducing many more positive words than usually adopted by children in a regular family and school environment.
I hope that less words for violence and criminal acts and more for kindness and positive outlook on life will result in more positive thoughts more often and ultimately less violence and more benevolence.
Companies pay thousands of dollars per month to engage in Web 2.0 marketing to identify discussions and places where their brand comes into contact with their potential customers and other interesting parties. They can choose if to promote a certain discussion, to interfere or to ignore. They also do this with competitive brands.
There are companies that deal with constant searching of textual information according to various filters and notifying interested parties.
I propose to do the same with rich multimedia content – Images and sounds. Images can be logos, landmarks, pictures of people, product images etc.
Sounds can be language identification, sound signature of product (like windows login sound or Intel sound etc.) specific ring tones, specific words spoken etc.
The software and service proposed would have a special algorithm for identifying if a graphic or sound element is used in user generated multimedia content such as web images on sites and in on-line albums, YouTube or in news broadcasts, TV shows, movies etc.
The notifications will include an automated list of recent multimedia references to your brand or any other brand you specified…
Possibly this can also be used for other uses…
Lifelong learning means there is a need to test knowledge of people all the time to measure progress. The time it takes to develop tests, administer them and grade them takes a huge budget from the already tight education budget.
What if we could make a simple device that would use biometrics to authenticate a person and then flash images and concepts from the study materials in front of his or her eyes. A low cost EEG could measure the brain wave activity in response to each image and thus gauge the familiarity of this concepts to the student.
This is of course not accurate but could still give an indication of the level of familiarity of the person with the concepts. This can allow to test and grade people automatically, fast and with very low cost and eliminate cheating.
Could probably be used for knowledge testing rather than reasoning testing.
There must be a way to use the earth spin and electromagnetic field to generate more electricity than we could ever use. We might need to invest many trillions of dollars building a space structure or many interconnected smaller structures around the earth to create this giant dynamo but it might be worth it.
We just have to make sure it does not have side effects such as changing the earth rotation speed or even stopping it completely which can generate a new set of problems…
I am thinking of a simple and clear way to present complex story / plot lines. There are many aspects that needs to be taken into account such as time-line, geography, knowledge, motivation, decisions, actions, events experienced or aware of etc. As I get closer to a solution I might try to give some more specific examples.
This is useful for both keeping track of the plot when writing a novel as well as understanding and comparing other works.
The aim is to make a story map that can be grasped in a short time without going into too many details.
Some people that like to play soccer or basketball love the feeling of dribbling or kicking around a ball when they walk.
It is not always appropriate to carry a ball around with you especially if you are in the middle of a busy school or work day.
It would be fun if someone would produce a glove or shoe that can simulate the feel of dribbling or kicking a ball. A realistic simulation software chip and some low electricity electrodes might be enough to make a realistic enough experience.
Wearing this shoe for example you would press a button to start a 5 minute simulation. Then you would feel a tightening or a soft electric feedback from the top of the shoe as you move it forward as if you just kicked a ball and made it roll. The software in the shoe would calculate the time and location of the next time you should feel that ball. As you walk you will start to anticipate where the virtual ball is and enjoy the real-like experience.
The shoe can also measure a simulated kick of the virtual ball and even take into account direction and accuracy.
With basketball enthusiasts in mind a glove can simulate dribbling and even a ball throw. A throw can even indicate distance and correctness according to angle and strength.
I tried to think about ideas to measure social interaction between people and deduce things like Tele or Rapport and perceived social ranking.
One hypothesis is that people would look more often at people that they look up to in a social setting and even position themselves to keep these people in a comfortable line of sight.
This idea actually contains one or more camera mounted in a crowded room and software that would identify according to line of sight of people in the room who gazes at who. A counter could score each person according to the number of gazes he or she received and by whom and use it to learn about the social dynamics in the room and perceived social hierarchy of the participants.
Also the algorithm will take into account the way people position themselves and who they are facing. Even if they are talking to a specific person directly they might position themselves in a way that their line of sight will include other people of interest so they can gaze at them from time to time with comfort.
This algorithm can also be used for homeland security purposes to identify suspicious activity not by identifying the actual behavior but by identifying that something has a social effect of drawing attention from people around it.
Software in crowded places can analyze real-time security camera video footage and track faces and their implied line of sight. When suddenly in a short time people change their line of sight to the same area it might be important enough for an operator to be alarmed and make a decision about the severity of the situation.
Another idea assumes that people will modify what they think is a desirable distance between them and other people they move around according to the amount of Tele or “Vibes” they feel toward that person. Watching people in a networking or other mingling event and analyzing the distance people keep from each other as they move around might reveal interesting information about the social dynamics in the group.
Another idea that can be used to better understand the crowd in a presentation, is a laptop with a camera pointed at the crowd that will analyze constantly the body language such as level of movement, facial direction, sound levels from various microphones is exist etc. and gauge level of interest marking it with a color heat map on top of the crowd image. This will make the presenter aware of who is engaged and who is not.
Another idea is to locate in a room people that show eye contact from time to time and seem to mirror some aspects of their appearance for example hand positions, touching hair, leg position, leaning etc. This can help to show people that might have a stronger rapport with each other than with other people around them. They might be interested to get to know each other or already know each other but for some reason prefer to not openly show it.
A final idea for this batch is to analyze color matching and clothing style between people in a crowded place such as a conference or office party, assuming that people that spend much time together or have similar social ties in the group will conform to a certain agreed style or color palette, it may be interesting to try to point out people that stand out as out of synch with the group. It can also be interesting to analyze the level of color and style conformity to the perceived level in the social hierarchy.
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