Show weather change over time of day (hourly)

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More detailed, not necessarily more space. Use colors to show varying weather (grayed out fog area for night time). Not just ‘accordioning’ down with the hourly details.

Viewed completely in one view and absorbed subconsciously. A lot more to a day’s weather than just a sun, clouds, or rain. Could be sunny in the am, rain in the early afternoon, and clear in the evening. This needs to be shown (example, iPhone going to hourly. This takes up too much space).

Show the amount of precipitation (weighted based on probability of precipitation 40% x 1 in = 0.40 inches of snow)

Show weather in color bands. Either vertically or horizontally. Kuler colors, maybe five colors

Sunny
Cloudy
Raining
Snowing
Mixed precip
(amount of precipitation weighted).

Windy
Hazardous

Temperature: Just show the highs and low.

Laptop Light

For all the computers without the backlit keyboard, provide a simple usb keyboard light that snaps to the computer. Maybe secured via a tape like sticker, making it flush with the surface of the keyboard and secure.

Festival isles

Red right return lights for returning down the isle. Green for going out. People want to know where they are, provide them simple cues to understand.

Integrate speakers (micro) and lights.

Liquid Armor

Shear-thickening fluids (obleck) sandwiched between kevlar. When struck by a bullet, the locking together of the molecules spreads the load across a wider area. Generally bullet proof vests are made of 30 layers of kevlar, testing with just 10.

Create your own snack food

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Create any mix that you want. Sell cereal in these shops too. Free cereal with purchase of $6 in snacks.

Avoid the need to ship in small quantities. Prepackage in resealable biodegradable containers.

Lots of snacks that we don’t have access to, new and unusual. Maybe better. Mary’s Thai snacks. All custom.

Organized and purchased online, just pick them up. All in resealable biodegradable containers.

Wasabi peas, sesame sticks, yogurt pretzels, no msg corn nuts.

Watch on silicon livestrong band

Simple watch on silicon livestrong band (Lance Armstrong band). Small and super compact, without a buckle (weakest point and bad for typing). Still provide a wide range of info.

Integrate it with the Travel Logic minus ion bracelet. LDC watches.

Silicon watch, but flatter. Food grade silicon mats (Modern Twist placemats)

Floor Mat

For entry system and security. Have it activate an outside light that stays on for 15 minutes. Better yet, use key fob to know who you are and turn lighting system and locks open before you get there.

Security and use.

Airport Pods

Rethinking airport transportation. Airport pods. Bring pods to the planes that take you to your destination. No more cleaning planes or rushing to board planes. No more walking miles to planes

Get on a pod at a central transportation hub. Pod travels to the plane. Loaded into plane with windows / view unobstructed. Plane flies to destination. Opposite.

Foot stretcher

Concave into lower point in center. Reverse the arch of the foot.

On a warm rock.

Use a small carved stone to do the stretch. Also just a concave stone for relaxation. Warm and cold.

HTML5 Video Players

Custom control over video player actions and controls. Instead of various flash installations all with their own defaults (start on open, buffering, play farther than buffer, etc.) enable the user to control all of this based on needs and just send the file as locally available as possible.

Inflatable tent

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Inflates w/ the speed of an airbag.
Insulation against the ground
Structure
Padding
Part of the pop up component

Should be self repairing.

Inflatable bottom tent.

  • Sleeping pad
  • Insulation
  • Rain Protection
  • Pop-up figure 8 design
  • Throw it with rainfly

Digipencils not digipens

When writing down electronically and recording the writing, it is best to use a pencil vs. a pen so it provides the opportunity to erase what is being shown. Standards to be established for uniform data entry, otherwise there is a lot more work to be done.

Raw Milk

Many people are lactose intolerant because they do not have enough of the lactate enzyme found in raw milk. Yes it pasteurized milk preserves longer, but is that what is best for the milk and us?

Wool w/ cotton inside

Micro blended clothing. Cotton for comfort and softness, wool to insulate from moisture. See wools use for absorbing oil. Coarse wool absorbs the oil the best and then can be squeezed out really easily.

Ski boot with built in heater and fan

Use the cold ambient temperature (thermal differential) to increase the output of the heater and the fan. Use the fan and heater to dry the boot at night, get it warmed up before the day, and keep it warm during the day. Built actually into the boot vs. external system.

Tecnica boots.

Brinicle

When there’s a big differential between the water temperature (around -1.9C) and the air temperature above the sea ice (below -20C). The warmer sea flows up to the air, freezing into new ice. According to the BBC, “the salt in this newly formed ice is concentrated and pushed into the brine channels. And because it is very cold and salty, it is denser than the water beneath.” This makes it fall down into the water, creating an ice plume that grows into the brinicle.

How much information is there in the world?

  • Looking at both digital memory and analog devices, the researchers calculate that humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. (Yes, that’s a number with 20 zeroes in it.)
    Put another way, if a single star is a bit of information, that’s a galaxy of information for every person in the world. That’s 315 times the number of grains of sand in the world. But it’s still less than one percent of the information that is stored in all the DNA molecules of a human being.
  • 2002 could be considered the beginning of the digital age, the first year worldwide digital storage capacity overtook total analog capacity. As of 2007, almost 94 percent of our memory is in digital form.
  • In 2007, humankind successfully sent 1.9 zettabytes of information through broadcast technology such as televisions and GPS. That’s equivalent to every person in the world reading 174 newspapers every day.
  • On two-way communications technology, such as cell phones, humankind shared 65 exabytes of information through telecommunications in 2007, the equivalent of every person in the world communicating the contents of six newspapers every day.
  • In 2007, all the general-purpose computers in the world computed 6.4 x 10^18 instructions per second, in the same general order of magnitude as the number of nerve impulses executed by a single human brain. Doing these instructions by hand would take 2,200 times the period since the Big Bang.
  • From 1986 to 2007, the period of time examined in the study, worldwide computing capacity grew 58 percent a year, ten times faster than the United States’ GDP.

Full article from Science Daily