The Superbrowser

The superbrowser is your online valet. It sees that the page you're looking at has columns of numbers (for example) and, where the headers of the columns are just text, it puts in clickable links that you can click on to sort the data by that column. Just one example of what a really good browser would do.

Google++

Can Google offer its users more? You bet:

1) Be more geek friendly - allow regexes in the search
2) In Google Finance, put in links that let you sort your portfolio by the change in each holding for the day.
3) Provide an audio search where a user can hum a few bars and google will locate the song.

Better GPS

How would you like it if your GPS handheld let you click on a road to let it know that that road is closed.

Also, would be nice if they could get in reasonably up-to-date crime statistics to give you an idea of the type of place you're going through.

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:)

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?

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:)