Friday, May 20, 2016
Lightweight summer coat that has lots of vents
Florida heat. Florida sun. Florida rain. It's awesome but definitely an impractical place for most clothing. I want a coat that hangs long (below butt) and has lots of underside venting- under armpits, flap on back of shoulders, loose sleeves at wrist that can be buttoned to the middle of arm. The challenge is that it needs to be lightweight enough to allow the flapping of the fabric to funnel air around your body to keep you cool, but still keep the afternoon rainshowers from drenching you. Or maybe have it just let you get wet and then dries in a flash. This is bigger than just a shirt that does these things so that you can wear it constantly to block the heat and improve airflow.
Friday, May 13, 2016
Mobile pod housing that transfers between former big box stores.
So every town has big box stores that are sitting empty because no one has a business that fits. My idea is two parts:
- Sell converted cargo containers into housing units, but have them remain able to be placed on trailers for easy moving. They would also have standardized connections for utilities.
- Modify empty big box stores to allow for cargo containers to be provided with utilities inside of a secure, climate controlled area.
So if you are a mobile professional that tends to move from city to city after a year or you do 3-6 month contract jobs in cities around the country, the thing that is missed is a sense of home. Hotels get old and the idea of paying for rent while you're away is wasteful, so why not bring your house with you?
You buy a container and have it finished according to a menu of selections, or have it customized. Then when you have a new contract you simply call the trucking company and it's placed on a trailer and shipped to your new location. No packing, except to secure loose items. Then when it gets to the former big box store it's unloaded and then stacked into pre-positioned layouts to ensure that you have access to utility connections as well as stairwells for entry and exit. The containers would be stacked up to 3 high depending on interior space of building. The interior could have a simple grid setup or perhaps there would be a layout of various paths or tennis courts depending on how the owner builds it out.
Bioluminescent bacteria controlled keyboard
Pressing the keys agitates bacteria causing them to light up and the light travels down a fiber optic cable to cause a photocell to activate. Could be expanded to include all sorts of control systems that can't use electricity but are outside and able to absorb sunlight. Or could be expanded to use light controlled transistors to run a code. Coded bacteria transmitting different colors of luciferin to create various gates.
edit: bacteria powered screen! http://homeofthefuture.gizmodo.com/this-illuminated-artwork-is-powered-by-plant-eating-bac-1577642231/+robertsorokanich
Friday, May 6, 2016
A search engine that only displays the original author's article and not all the other sites that have copied it.
Nothing worse than typing in a search term and you end up with hundreds of hits and yet when you start clicking on them they are all the same article just spammed across other sites. This way if you punch in a search term then when an article shows up it then has it's published date checked against other sites that have the exact same article. I'm sure this would probably put out of business most blogger sites that are nothing more than someone writing one sentence and then copy pasta someone else's work.
Monday, May 2, 2016
Induced current powered aircraft.
As electricity flows across the country on massive high tension, high voltage power lines there are electrical fields generated around the wires by impedance. My thought is to use aircraft shaped like the deathglider from Stargate with it's half moon curved wings that would allow them to be conductive collectors as they pass through the fields that would power an electric motor propulsion system.
Yes, it would use energy and no this is not some "free energy" system. Basically, I'm looking to make use of an already existing backbone of energy delivery. This system of course, is a bit dangerous as wind currents may push the aircraft into the towers.
Another way to do this would be an airship with a flatter set of lighter weight collectors that hang low enough that a side force would not push the craft or collector into the towers/lines. With a long thin body you could use a larger quantity of power with an equal amount of area exposed to side forces. This could also allow for slower speeds as aerodynamic lift wouldn't necessary.
Edit:
Ok so new addition. I've been looking into ground effect vehicles and ground effect dirigibles. With the larger length of a blimp you can use ground effect with properly designed wings that would allow you to remain in ground effect up to a few hundred feet high, which is within the standard height range (50-150ft) of an american electrical tower. Ground effect allows you to have a smaller than necessary lifting gas balloons but still get the lift necessary to travel great distances with larger weights.
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