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Idea: iPad As A Surface

In a lot of ways, the iPad is just a multitouch wrapper for everything you do. Potential use case: An interface for a more powerful machine. I would love the ability to edit text the way I described in TangibleText … Continue reading

10. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Idea: Salt Drones

Build UAVs able to carry payloads of salt. (Could probably repurpose a set of cropdusters.) Utilize Google Maps to establish waypoints. Lay salt down on roads, sidewalks if you can swing it via satellite imagery. Also. If there’s any difference … Continue reading

06. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Idea: Listening + Location

Use a morally neutral set of processes, packaged together, to target someone for anything from charity donations, to assassination, to advertising. Lock on. Find a name (pretty easy), find an address (also pretty easy), and establish this as a baseline. … Continue reading

02. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Idea: Utilizing Sense/Stage to Control Crowds

Utilizing it on an individual results in really tightly controlled activity (like the example below, where the music adapts to the dancer rather than the other way around). I’ve been thinking about utilizing the system with crowds. Why? You can … Continue reading

29. January 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Idea: Communities Health Network

This model of drone-based-health mapping lends itself to a pretty cool model that would slash costs, drastically, while generating economic rewards for many. (Following sparked from a conversation with gawp in the comments of the previous post.) Individual franchisees run … Continue reading

28. January 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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