Every mother thinks her child is beautiful. With coders it's even more so, since we are living in the IT ages where everything comes down to the web, apps, gadgets, operating systems and AI. Everything that's "cool" in today's society is programming related. But, damn!, programmers are the most annoying living things on planet Earth!,… Continue reading Code is poetry, not. Coding is nightmare!, and AI will put coders out of work.
Gravitricity
It's about making use of gravity. An Edinburgh - UK based company recently thought about using holes in the ground to store renewable energy by raising and lowering weights through them (see bottom page video, starting at 1:10). They patented the idea and a few others for processes that emerged as obvious to get the… Continue reading Gravitricity
Hybrid SIM slot
A hybrid SIM slot is one where the 2nd slot can be used either for a 2nd SIM card or for a memory card. I though of this idea in 2014, and suggested it in the comments section below a CNET video on YouTube... A while later I found out about Invent With Nokia, and… Continue reading Hybrid SIM slot
Crown Orbit Closure, an Easy Open Jar Lid
Been thinking about this type of lid myself in the beginning of 2018, and seen it existing one year later while visiting the UK and buying an Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce. Went to Google and found out that the system has been patented by Crown in 2011. What this lid does is that it allows… Continue reading Crown Orbit Closure, an Easy Open Jar Lid
Parked Car Finder App
Since I'm on apps: I bought my first car in 2012. That's when I thought about a Car Finder app. It made sense once I was behind the wheel. You could say necessity really is the mother of innovation, I guess, although it didn't occur because I actually forgot where I left the car. But… Continue reading Parked Car Finder App
Phone Security App: Fake Phone Shutdown
The first thing a phone thieve does is shut down the device. But a shutdown simulator on a non-removable battery stolen device would give the owner time to localize & recover it. This was a feature of a bigger app (*) I've thought about at a time when, to the best of my knowledge, all… Continue reading Phone Security App: Fake Phone Shutdown
Phone Security App: Privacy Intruder Photo
A friend posted a meme on Facebook saying "My security app takes photos of whoever tries a wrong unlock pattern. Now I have 50 photos of me being drunk." It reminded me of two apps I thought about myself years ago, including the one in the title. Now that I looked the up I found… Continue reading Phone Security App: Privacy Intruder Photo
Prenup Agreements Should Not Protect, but Give Rights
Sometimes both men and women marry seeking financial benefits, but the most frequent scenario is ladies getting millions in divorce settlements from their wealthy ex-husbands (and I will refer to that, for simplicity). The most famous examples come from the United States where, as Bill Burr put it in the video below, "there is an… Continue reading Prenup Agreements Should Not Protect, but Give Rights
Lenticular Billboard Advertising
I have recently bragged about MirraViz Multiview TV Display as being something I thought about myself in the 90's. Said that my parents never went out together, nor have they taken me or my sister to the movies or elsewhere. Our family's single past time was watching TV, and eating roasted sunflowers seeds. While being… Continue reading Lenticular Billboard Advertising
LED Screen T-shirt Creating Hole Through Wearer Illusion
I thought about that earlier tonight, while looking for an available domain name and trying out words combinations by the dozen: one of those combinations, I don't even remember which, made me think of a t-shirt with a flexible circular display at the front, and a camera at the back: it wouldn't be cheap, but… Continue reading LED Screen T-shirt Creating Hole Through Wearer Illusion
Self Inflating Keyring (Key Buoy)
Someone just posted a video on Facebook of a smartphone airbag preventing the phone from slamming against the floor when being dropped. The system works using sensors which detect the falling motion and deploy a set of springs found on the phone's four corners. I find it aesthetically unpleasing, and it does make the phone… Continue reading Self Inflating Keyring (Key Buoy)
Moving Data Centers Into the Earth’s Orbit
It has recently occured to me that data centers can be build within bottled water plants. Groundwater (and spring water) is cold enough, and can be used to cool down computers before being poured into the bottles. Then someone on Quora pointed me to the Microsoft Natick Project (see video below), where data centers are… Continue reading Moving Data Centers Into the Earth’s Orbit
Cooling Data Centers Within Bottled Water Plants
48 billion liters (12.8 Bn. gallons) of bottled water was sold in the US in 2016 (*), and 1,480 billions worldwide (391), half of which is groundwater, and the other half is spring water (**). Groundwater tempertures range from 7'C in the US North-Central areas, to 27'C (44 - 80'F) in Florida an Southern Texas… Continue reading Cooling Data Centers Within Bottled Water Plants
Air Curtain Range Hood
In 2013 I was living in a rented apartment, and decided to remove the kitchen door. The landlord agreed to the changes, so I went ahead and bought a 424 cfm / 720 cmh range hood (my first & last one, so far): but I kept worrying that food smell will still reach the bedroom.… Continue reading Air Curtain Range Hood
Real Time TV Commercial Breaks Skipper
It occured to me that TV commercial breaks can be skipped. Thought about that not only because commercials are a waste of time, but also because they are annoying: everything is the best money can buy, discover this, discover that, call now, buy two and get one free... Nothing is for free. Every cent above… Continue reading Real Time TV Commercial Breaks Skipper
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