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:)

Google Proxima - the Latest

Here's an idea I submitted to Google (or tried anyway):

You have a doc with a list of addresses. Can you provide a tool - online - that can take the doc and take one address the the user provides and then list the addresses available in the doc in the ascending order of distance to the user's address? For example, I searched the web for recycling resources in TExas and came up with a list of addresses in DAllas. Now, I have to put each one into Mapquest to find out which one is the closest.

Fight Bad Breath

of your dance partner. If you've had this experience, you know it's can make an enjoyable experience very unpleasant. How about a gadget that has a nozzle that you mount like a mike, on your collar or button - quite discreet of course - that senses if you tense your abdomen or something and releases a spray of fragrance to combat a noisome stench? Come on Schaeferes Bild!!

The Future of Entertainment

You'll be able to experience thoughts, emotions and feelings of the characters. For example, it remains a mystery why Mrs. Robinson didn't want Ben to take Elaine out. But, in the future, you'll know - of course, it'll be fictitious, but something's better than nothing.