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Stephen Adams
 USA
PDA / Phone / Wallet Hybrid Printer Friendly Version
There is a lot of talk lately of merging cell phones and PDAs (Palms, portable computers). This is sensible in that you can select an address from your PDA and just call it, rather than carry two devices around. But you're still carrying at least one extra device, that you can drop, break, lose, get wet, etc.
My idea is to merge cell phones and PDAs with something we carry with us anyway -- the wallet. If you open a trifold wallet, you can see that it is an ideal screen space for a PDA, and would be comfortable held to your ear.
It would need a mechanism, such as a zipper, to keep money from falling out during use. This could be coupled with a security feature, such as a password, if you wanted to get detailed. Of course, what would be needed would be a very thin screen to overlay on a standard folding wallet and not make it bulky.
As far as I know, this is a completely original, and exciting, idea.
Reward: A free one would be more than enough payment. :)
 

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stanyslaw
 USA
PO Box Electronic Notification Printer Friendly Version
The Post Office should develop a system that provides you with an email or text, alerting you that you have mail in your PO Box. This will save people from having to drive to the other side of town, only to find an empty PO Box.

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Allen D Leftwich
 USA
Collective Problem Solving Printer Friendly Version
I would like to introduce an idea that I have had for an application for the internet to be used for. There are several different terms for this idea from internet brain storming to collective creating to global reasoning. The general idea is to use the internet to bring up a host of ideas about any type of engineering problem that has confounded the experts and may need an outsiders perspective to solve the problem (thinking out of the box). The goal would be to introduce specific problems to the forum and then anyone with internet access could read the problem and put their input into fixing it or improving upon an existing design. Their are several distributed computing projects that involve human input to make them work. This would be another. It might take a company or corporation to organize the forum and give credit and royalties to those that come up with the best innovations. These companies would also need a staff of engineers to look through the ideas to make sure that they would work and be cost effective to implement, but it would be worth it.
We now use computers for parallel processing to solve problems but computers lack imagination to come up with ideas because they can only calculate not think in the abstract. I know that most people think that only the experts are expert enough to solve perplexing design problems but an idea can come from anyone. New discoveries can also be turned over to the public to find applications for them to improve our quality of life. The different areas that this type of thinktanking could help is electrical, mechanical, chemical, industrial, and civil engineering. This type of imagination power could be extremely powerful and virtually limitless. The internet is a tool that could make geniuses out of us all instead of just having a few around to improve the quality of life for us all. Solutions to problems would have to be sent by e-mail so that unscroupulous individuals or companies couldn't just take the info for their own use without including something for the innovator. I would like to accomplish this myself but know that it would take the resources of a big company to incorporate it.
Reward: Membership on the board of this proposed company.
 

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