Posts :: ideas (rss)

I often have thoughts about how things could be better, and enjoy writing them up. Sometimes I end up building a prototype or otherwise making them happen, but most of them don't get past the idea stage.

• Baby Monitor with Delay
  October 02, 2022
• Affordable Housing Investment Fund
  September 15, 2022
• Better Quiddler
  July 14, 2022
• Puddle Temperature Alarm
  June 07, 2022
• Ceiling Fan Air Filter
  May 11, 2022
• Solar Snow Redirector?
  February 1, 2022
• Infant Talk boxes?
  January 30, 2022
• Mildly Photochromic Lenses?
  January 28, 2022
• Subway Slides
  December 16, 2021
• Built-in Measuring Spoons
  December 02, 2021
• Bring Back Free-Flow Valves
  February 06, 2021
• Simultaneous Randomized Chess
  December 26, 2020
• Teach People to Recognize the Sound of Covid?
  November 06, 2020
• Local Solar Time
  October 23, 2020
• Pulse and Glide Cycling
  July 18, 2020
• Series Singing
  March 15, 2020
• Repossessing Degrees
  January 13, 2020
• Folding Couch Monitor
  December 30, 2019
• LW For External Comments?
  December 06, 2019
• Attach Receipts to Credit Card Transactions
  November 12, 2019
• Lite Blocking
  November 05, 2019
• Multi-belled Brass
  October 24, 2019
• Endogenous Epinephrine for Anaphylaxis?
  October 20, 2019
• Make more land
  October 16, 2019
• Thermal Mass Thermos
  September 30, 2019
• Subway Station Fan Cooling
  August 29, 2019
• Driveway Car Lifts?
  August 03, 2019
• Standardize Bottles
  July 14, 2019
• Instrumental Vocals
  June 19, 2019
• Automated Nomic
  January 02, 2019
• Dual Bagpipes
  September 07, 2018
• Parallel Status Hierarchies
  May 22, 2018
• Acoustic Leslie Instruments
  February 28, 2018
• More Expressive Footboard Thoughts
  February 25, 2018
• Chord Shape as Input
  February 23, 2018
• Lofted Grand Piano
  January 23, 2018
• Possible one-syllable words
  January 21, 2018
• Forked Brass
  November 18, 2017
• Regularly Scheduled
  August 12, 2017
• Hybrid Bank Account
  July 30, 2017
• Extremely High Cost Drugs
  July 29, 2017
• Window Vent
  July 16, 2017
• Text-to-Speech Speed
  June 04, 2017
• Pound Confusion
  May 13, 2017
• Replace Infrastructure Wholesale?
  May 06, 2017
• How to make housing cheaper
  April 16, 2017
• Loft Idea
  April 14, 2017
• Housing Without Street Parking
  February 28, 2017
• Things to consider doing
  September 29, 2016
• Remote Rounds
  June 11, 2016
• Make Truncation be Rounding
  May 22, 2016
• Velcro Blackout Curtains
  May 08, 2016
• Make Buses Dangerous
  February 26, 2016
• How to get a massive discount on college
  June 27, 2015
• Cocktail Amortization
  June 10, 2015
• Instantiating Arguments
  April 12, 2015
• Futarchy and Unfriendly AI
  April 03, 2015
• Decimal Inconsistency
  February 07, 2015
• Produce Lyme Vaccine?
  December 10, 2014
• Flux Timing
  November 06, 2014
• Pricing Benefiting Everyone
  October 28, 2014
• Trumpets Belong in C#
  October 24, 2014
• Glasses Angles
  October 20, 2014
• Balancing the Grid with Bitcoin
  September 29, 2014
• Sour Patch Apricots
  September 23, 2014
• Power Modern Grid Art
  September 18, 2014
• Policies
  September 08, 2014
• Sleeping in Darkness
  September 06, 2014
• Audio from Video
  August 04, 2014
• Detailed Practical Proposals
  June 06, 2014
• Trigger Warning DB
  May 31, 2014
• Eye Contact via Multiple Cameras
  May 16, 2014
• Malicious USB Sticks
  May 13, 2014
• Have Taken A Picture
  May 09, 2014
• Perpetuities via Frozen Embryos?
  April 29, 2014
• Playing to Lose
  February 27, 2014
• Fill In Fort Point Channel?
  February 22, 2014
• Wireless Alarms for Noisy Hospitals
  January 20, 2014
• Breast-style Bottle Nipples
  December 31, 2013
• Rebrand Betting as a Guarantee
  December 12, 2013
• Sleeping Plane
  December 09, 2013
• Wearable Infant Carseats
  December 01, 2013
• Equal Corners
  July 22, 2013
• Start a Railroad
  July 12, 2013
• Text-Only Fallback Browsing
  July 11, 2013
• Variable Pricing
  June 20, 2013
• Milk Mixing Machine
  May 10, 2013
• Legally Ambigous Bigamy
  April 22, 2013
• Malicious Adoption
  April 18, 2013
• Passover-Kosher Corn Tortillas
  April 03, 2013
• Happy Outlets
  March 01, 2013
• When People Don't Shovel
  February 15, 2013
• Happy Neuron Farm
  February 09, 2013
• Paying With Donations
  January 23, 2013
• Express Escalator
  January 09, 2013
• Where to put things in a kitchen
  December 26, 2012
• Teaching People to Drive Drunk Safely?
  December 07, 2012
• Dual Stop Bungee Jumping
  December 04, 2012
• Dual MicroUsb
  November 28, 2012
• Fantasy Geopolitics
  November 22, 2012
• Mezzo-Soprano Clef for Violas
  November 04, 2012
• Stirling Engine Pot Stirrer
  August 22, 2012
• Money And Politics
  August 14, 2012
• Time Inflation
  August 10, 2012
• Rinsing sugar off teeth
  May 03, 2012
• Proposing via an online ad
  May 01, 2012
• Alcohol Fumes Bar
  April 24, 2012
• Keyboard Sound For Gyms
  April 22, 2012
• X-Ray Opaque Anti-TSA Messages?
  April 13, 2012
• Loosely Franchised Events Webapp?
  April 04, 2012
• Touchscreen Touch Feedback
  March 16, 2012
• Wrap a harmonica in an accordion
  March 15, 2012
• Small bubble roofs on ordinary buildings?
  March 14, 2012
• Swype with Conditional Probabilties
  March 13, 2012
• Library plus Netflix?
  March 11, 2012
• Evaluating the Interview
  February 23, 2012
• Flavored Infant Formula
  February 21, 2012
• Caller control of phone ringer
  February 08, 2012
• Wrapping Bass
  February 02, 2012
• Audio Logging: Package as a device?
  January 02, 2012
• Beats-per-minute Meter
  December 16, 2011
• A Fully Rotating Neck
  December 14, 2011
• Tongue-o-Vision
  November 16, 2011
• An idea many people already had
  October 08, 2011
• Google Could Do Massive Pump and Dump
  September 16, 2011
• Coordinating Comments
  August 02, 2011
• Keyboard Keys Should Be Tiny Touchpads
  July 13, 2011
• A normal bra that becomes a sports bra when needed
  July 05, 2011
• A Plot To Get People Hooked On Calling
  May 19, 2011
• Significant Whitespace In Expressions
  January 08, 2011
• Better Fireplace; Better Bathroom Venting
  January 01, 2011
• Perhaps We Need A "Day of Proselytizing"
  December 16, 2010
• Top Loading Tumble Washer; Magnetic Headphone Connection
  December 11, 2010
• Perhaps Utilitarians Should *Make* Happier People
  November 09, 2010
• Wikipedia : TvTropes :: Encyclopaedia Galactica : Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
  October 28, 2010
• Do People Subconsciously Seek Nutrients?
  October 18, 2010
• Dispatch Buses by Voting
  August 19, 2010
• Autoimmune Diseases and Parasites
  August 16, 2010
• Feeding Plants Artificial Sweeteners
  July 27, 2010
• 'Like' and the suppression of negative messages
  July 08, 2010
• Quality of Life Measurement
  June 02, 2010
• Adaptive Windshield Tinting
  June 01, 2010
• Notifications that wait for conversational gaps
  May 30, 2010
• Fridges
  September 7, 2009
• Traffic without lights
  April 7, 2009
• Heat Sensitive Pots
  September 10, 2008
• Sanitized Tapeworms
  July 30, 2008
• Tallies
  December 15, 2007
• Bethlehem; A Modern Wagon
  May 13, 2007
• Impractical Instruments
  February 3, 2007
• Contra Formations
  October 30, 2006