Thursday, November 29, 2007

A Gun Instead of a Mouse

Would be useful if the web pages you're looking at are totally mouseclick driven. With a gun that moves the pointer, your hand does a lot less work. This is a really worthwhile idea. Of course it would be even nice with snapping - to the nearest mouse-serving point. Those of you that have done IC design with Cadence know what I'm talking about:)

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Way for TSMC

This could be a trillion dollar idea - TSMC hires a software company to develop software that ordinary people can use to design circuits that they fabricate. Ain't that something?

Monday, November 5, 2007

Rollup Printer

Not really a printer, but it's a sheet of something that you pull out, and, as you pull it out, the gadget writes to the LCDS on it to create a printout - and the thing is springloaded, so if you let it go, it'll roll back. Nice - you stick your USB drive into the car and pull this sheet out and it has the first picture/PDF displayed. You release and pull again, you advance to the next slide, etc.

USB/Flash Based Viewmaster

Here's another cute billion dollar idea that the greens will really love. Know the viewmasters you can get at W-Mart for a few bucks that'll show a few slides? How about one that you can stick a USB drive into to look at pictures and PDFs? If you're like me, you hate printing stuff - the page of directions when you head out someplace, etc.

Even better, the viewmaster has some OCR - so if it senses text in what you're looking at, it can read it aloud - better than trying to look into it when you're doing 80 on the expressway:)