January 2009
5 posts
Idea: Personalized Artwork
Using an FMRI or something similar, monitor theresponse that a piece of visual or audio art gives for that specific person. Use a genetic algorithm or something similar to constantly modify the image to try to find the peak amount of “enjoyment”. The resulting picture will be a moving piece of art for that specific person.
Idea: Water pipe speaker
A solenoid could be used to change the amount of water flow through a pipe. By quickly opening and closing the valve, the momentum of the water pushing against the valve would move the pipe. Since water is incompressible, this could add up to a lot of fource/movement/nice speaker! By modulating the valve with an audio signal, you could play audio in your water pipes…making the noisy people...
Idea: Line current monitor for "The Claw" type...
The claw game…one time, I was lucky enough to be there at feeding time. The man put the animals in the beasts stomach and gave me a quarter. Being a nice guy, he positioned one of the animals right on top, right near the catch. The first quarter failed. The claw wasn’t strong enough to pick up the little thing. The second quarter failed…4 quarters later, he opened the beast up,...
Idea: 16bit Mechanical Stamp
My brother of another mother mzo had the idea of document marking, where you can link a document, by serial number, to a physical document. 16 bits gives the abilitly to mark serialize up to 65535 documents…probably more than any one person will need.
To do this, you could have an auto incrementing, mechanical, 16 bit ink stamp. Sounds fun to design…I’ll work on it tonight.
Idea: Live action minesweep!
Live action minesweep, where you touch the “game board”, that happens to have parallel, but oppositely charged wires running back and fourth under each square of the minesweep board. Continuity or capacitive detection would be used to detect which square is being touched. If the square is a mine, then ZAP…you’d get a shock…and something significant since the players...