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Cloud Backup…
I’m standing on the train platform where yet another cloud backup for your photos is being promoted. All great…but they just never seem to work as they claim. So I’ve tried google photos and iCloud backup for photos on my iPhone. It’s a nice thing to have extra space, to have the ability to back…
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My Order Code
With the prevelance of POS systems tied to the internet and available to anyone with a smartphone, why are we still ordering our meals like Neanderthals? There’s always been an issue of with near infinite options, one has to repeat a long list of preferences to match the long list of options. No mayo, GF…
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The Reverse Umbrella
On a trip to a very sunny and hot location, I cleared my sweaty face in order to see a person shading themselves from the sun with an umbrella. A regular umbrella. Shade helps. But as anyone who goes to Disney World in the heat of… well, anytime… would see is squirt bottles paired with…
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Advanced Straw Technology
This one is an idea from the past, but it still hasn’t come to life yet. I’m sure a start-up named Sip® is right around the corner and will bring this into reality. Maybe with adverts or something, but alas, here’s the raw idea. Ever been to a movie? Ever seen how large the soda…
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Driving Directions HOV
So I took a roadtrip with my daughter from SF to Disneyland. We went down the coast on US101. When I hit a break in the Oxnard area I plugged into Google Maps on my iPhone the destination and looked for its sage advice on the quickest route given traffic, etc. It told me my…
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Video Billboards in Concert
Don’t know if it’s in any advertiser’s future plans yet, but it was in the dream I just awoke from – someone spent a lot of money to make a city-wide spectacle using those video billboards. Don’t ask me which ad agency snuck into my cerebral cortex last night or what the pitch was, but…
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Speed(ing) Dating
I was sitting in downtown SF watching the comings and goings of a much younger crowd. I was near a gym and there was this constant stream of people in and out. And in front, I saw this weird dance taking place. People would stand at the curb with their phones out and cars would…
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Box Bladders
I welcome the gradual shift from styrofoam peanuts to little bags of air cushioning my various mail ordered products. And though a one-size fits all product allowing them to just toss in more or less of the bags, it still seems like an incomplete patentable journey. Thereby I came up with the idea for the…
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A Camera Reflection
As I think about the progression of things towards “free”, I keep running into instances where “if only they added another” becomes ever more likely/practical. I was trying to take a good photo of my baby girl as she sat in my lap today. I was using my iPhone and everyone knows how hard that…
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iApplause Meter
We’ve all seen applause meters on TV shows (an elsewhere) to measure response to something. This is following the imminently foolproof logic that applause level = popularity. Thus, in a world of distributed audiences.. How do we measure popularity? How about an app that uses the built-in accelerometer to measure applause. You have an iPhone,…