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Science - Ideas

The following are some ideas that could be implemented by someone/some group (some of these could be rather difficult to do).

  • Wireless keyboard, monitor, mouse for PC or blackberry/mobile. So can transmit the screen/keyboard/mouse over a wireless link via a small usb plugon to the device and PC. Needs a password to access it. Not wifi because its not a network connection, its just monitor/mouse/keyboard transmitted. Could be done using a wifi link and the transmission a higher level up above that layer that holds the wifi, eg associate with it an IP and Port for VNC, or even a webpage with its IP address.
  • Chat room i mean an actual shop where you go and chat to other people it has lots of chat rooms in the shop. it would need to be moderated so if someone got angry the bouncer would ask them to leave.
  • It is possible to Storyboard a Backlog Item by Using PowerPoint. (Team Foundation Server in visual studio). A feature suggestion would be the ability to export a windows phone storyboard to xaml (silverlight for windows phone 7).
  • Ability to deploy visual studio 2010 windows phone 7 applications (including XNA games) to a windows phone 7 simulator executable that runs under microsoft windows. Presently it is possible to run a windows phone 7 simulator if you provide them with the source code and they're prepared to install a development environment, but not to simply deploy to a simple MS Windows Executable and perhaps also DLL(s).
  • Decode EEG waves (brainwaves detected by a special helmet you can put on) into thoughts, words, images, emotions/moods, music. See:
  • Transfer a copy of EEG waves between two people (one way or both ways), to see whether thoughts, memory, is transmitted. EEG Sensors (just a few, or even a 1000x1000 grid across the head), combined with EEG creator cells (like a grid of cells that create low voltage electromagnetic waves in the same patterns as detected in the other person). This could be done for two mice, wearing EEG helmets that transmit an EEG field grid between each other, then we can see if the two mice in two different mazes, where each mice is familiar with one maze only (mice A is familiar with maze A and mice B is familiar with maze B), when the mice are swapped to the unfamiliar mazes (mice A to maze B and mice B to maze A) and the EEG transmittor turned on, do the two mice receive the learnt maze solutions from the other mice through EEG transfer? Some sort of reward would be at the end of the maze eg cheese, there would be dead ends if it goes the wrong way. Could we create a "single combined brain" and bigger consciousness consisting of two people through EEG transmission technology? What about a single consciousness of 20 people, what more could that achieve with the combined expertise and experience. Would the resolution be necessary (eg 1000x1000 grid of sensors) or would a smaller number of sensors (eg 24) be sufficient to convey EEG information between people. Is the visual information (what we see) contained in the electrical properties of every cell in the brain, ie is all of the information (sounds, visuals, thoughts etc) coded into every cell, or is there some spacial coding across more than one cell? I suspect that the information exists in every cell near the outside of the brain though some cells may have spacial coding such as in the visual cortex. In which case resolution might not be necessary for transmitting of EEG between two people for creating a larger consciousness. If we can use someone else's brain to decode someone else's EEG this makes an easier solution to trying to decode the EEG using computers. I wonder whether the EEG sensed could be encoded into a changing visual image and imported to the receiver that way (through seeing it with their eyes).
  • Speech-to-vocals software for the PC / windows. Specify notes and words and it sings them. VocalWriter does this for the macintosh but the voice sounds a bit computer like. Natural Readers is a natural sounding text-to-voice but not text-to-vocals. Maybe if the two technologies were combined, we could have a realistic sounding vocal singing generation software for multiple male and female voices.
  • Cars that can drive by themselves, and/or can take over from a user in a potential accident, beeps if someone behind you approaching too fast. See Will your car drive itself soon
  • One card that can hold the contents of multiple cards eg medicare, video hire, bank, proof of age, drivers licence, libraries. This is like the "Australia Card" idea that didn't go ahead in the end. There would be privacy implemented eg medicare would not be able to access information on your card about video hire, only common information (eg name, phone, postal address) and medicare information (eg card number). See Australia Card
  • 3D Printers (printers that print out 3d objects). See Skunk Works' Polecat printable robotic plane and Bicycle made with computer printer Eventually there will also be 3d printers for food, imagine downloading and then printing out your dinner.
  • Humanoid robots (robots that look like humans). See Realistic Japanese Female Actroid Robot and Actroid Robot in Booth Babe Outfit (now called Repliee Q1) and Robot HRP-4C on the HRP-4C webpage there is a video of the robot walking like a human, and bowing and speaking.
  • Computers that can learn to have conversation as if they were a person. See Computer learns baby talk and IBM simulates cat's brain, humans are next and The conscious computer (Christof Koch).
    Some of the things to consider are as follows. We work in communication of concepts so lets call this a sentence. The question is the selection of a sentence for a verbal comment, from a history of sentences heard from various people. This history could be acquired through logging the contents of a chat room for example. The computer has certain keywords that it is biased toward more likely to send a response containing one or more of those keywords. For example if the computer is emulating a programmer, teacher, musician, etc they will have different keywords that therefore affect their personality. Keywords in the last sentence said by a person, possibly also the sentence before that, are searched in the history and the next sentence following that found in the history is used as a response by the computer. I tried to implement this (and some other features) in 2000. Unfortunately it didn't work. Perhaps it needed a greater history of sentences. But I suspect it also had bugs.
  • Human Genome Project (mapping the human genome, the alphabet of human genetics) and application of this for immortality (extending lifespan of humans). Approximately 24,000 genes. 92.3% of the genome has been completed, and the rest requires better sequencing technology than we have today to complete. See
  • Phone Chat Provider. You call up phone chat service and talk to one of many people that they have there that are employed simply to talk to (or with) you, about whatever you find interesting. It's possible to call a particular person (each one has a direct line) or to search for various criteria such as hobbies, interests, gender, etc on the internet which then gives the direct line for the people/persons you found. Presently there are phone talk lines where you talk with someone else on the phone talk network (customers talk with customers) and they have adult chat sites where you can talk with an employee of the site on a sexual level, but they don't yet have plutonic chat sites where you can talk with an employee of the site (not with another customer). These should presumably cost less than adult chat sites, because it should cost less to employ someone to provide plutonic chat services than to provide adult sexual chat services. But it should be popular.
  • IClone4-Ex Suggested improvements (3D Movie Creation Software): Add movement interactions between 2 characters eg kiss, ballroom dance (see 3d chat sites for examples). Add more sample objects eg telephone (and actions that characters can use on those objects eg 'talk' for phone will told the handset against your mouth but not move your mouth that's dependent on head animations), and sample rooms (eg bedroom, office, lounge room) you can start with. Could add the ability to "walk" your character around the room using the arrow keys (will be recorded into the timeline for actor animation) and stop/pause for a while if need be (eg pause the timeline recording, then can fast forward it a bit to let the actor stay in one spot for a while eg or could drag/drop on the action for "sit" eg). Have a look at 3d chat software eg imvu.com, moove.com (roomancer) for ideas on more actions (including interactions between two people) that could be incorporated into the repertoire for iclone4-ex. For example when there's a chair, it's often possible to right click on it and select sit, and the character will walk over to the chair and sit on it (this could be done via some kind of "live" recording mechanism that can be turned on/off).
  • Movie Downloading. The future is that movie downloading will be legal. There will be websites that host movies for downloading and it will be possible to browse based on genre. It is already possible to buy a media player that enables playing of movies on a usb stick, on the TV. Usb sticks can come in 8GB or even 256GB size, so plenty of movies will fit on it, in standard definition or even high definition for the larger usb sticks. Websites such as Graboid already offer cheap movie download. Unfortunately the videos that graboid downloads are not legal downloads, the site contains a notice that no videos are hosted on the graboid site, it is merely a database of usenet (netnews) movie downloads and information such as, for how many people the download worked, green yellow or red depending on whether the download works, and links to movie review websites such as imdb to see more information about the movie to decide whether or not to download it. Broadband is becoming faster, especially nowdays with ADSL2+ I can achieve 5.3Mb/s download speed and some other countries which have faster internet speeds can achieve much higher speeds eg my email penfriend in korea has 82.84Mb/s download and 51.67Mb/s upload speed in the office and 20.53Mb/s download 2.74Mb/s upload speed at home. More and more people are getting the internet and prices are coming down eg I pay $40/month for 30GB/month download quota. Times are changing and the copyright laws need to be changed to reflect this. People need to be allowed to download movies cheaply from the internet and put them onto usb stick for watching. For example ANU Film Group has an annual membership of $60 and screen approximately between 6 and 22 films per month as shown here. The film makers would evidently get some of this money, because it is a legal enterprise. In the future we will be able to download up to 22 films per month for $60/year, that's $5/month which is the price of graboids 10GB/month plan which is about 8 - 14 movies/month depending on size, so it's almost there, but it's downloads are not legal, so as you can see, it's not advisable to use graboid at present, but, the future will be that movie downloading will be legal, people will still go to the movies and borrow movies from the video store in person, but they will also download movies. I think it's the future, it's just a question of how long it takes for it to happen/ a legal movie download site to be set up that is fairly inexpensive (the problem at the moment is that it would not be cheap to purchase for download, that many movies each month, so noone seems to have done it as far as I know anyway). There are presently ebay purchases of secondhand DVDs which are cheaper, depending on the condition of the DVD. There is a website DramaCrazy which allows viewing of asian dramas. I'm not sure of the legality of this website. However certainly such websites will exist in future that are legal, but I think they will be downloads not watching online like dramacrazy, because people prefer to watch on their TV than on the computer monitor. Also there will be websites for dramas generally not just asian dramas, and comedys, science fiction, etc, for the various fans of these genres. eg scifi.com it points to syfy.com which links to the australian site scifitv.com.au but this is the scifi channel on foxtel & austar, which is I think satellite TV, I don't think satellite TV is the future, because people want movies on demand on their tv inexpensively, so downloads are the preferable choice for that. I used to be a member of graboid but I cancelled my membership when I discovered their downloads weren't legal.
  • Music Downloading. westsounds.com seems to be a legal music downloading site, if you look at the copyright clause on that page it says they pay for all materials downloaded from their site by users subject to Russian law "On Copyright and Related Rights" and that the materials are for personal use not broadcasting resale or distribution. westsounds.com offers tracks at 15c per track which is a good price, and so if an album had 4 tracks it would be 60c, discounts are offered depending on how much money is deposited into your westsounds account. The only downside with westsounds is that, downloading an album requires to download all the individual tracks, it's not possible to download a zipfile with the whole album on it for example. Also the track names don't have the track number in the filename, so it's necessary to rename then all one by one so as to know which track it is.

    MzHipHop offers free hiphop/ RnB/ Pop mp3 downloads. I'm not sure of the legality of that site. They say that the files are hosted by a 3rd party site and if the copyright owner wishes their songs to be taken down then contact them, though that link leads nowhere, there is a contact us link elsewhere on the site that looks valid.

    I think that 15c per track of westsounds is a reasonable price to pay, free is alright if a musician wants to promote themself for free by providing free songs.

    Jamendo offers free music downloads and listening, for personal use. As at june 2011 they have 308,770 free music tracks. Jango offers free music listening, you can specify an artist to listen to or a genre and it plays songs for you.

    Personally these days I prefer to listen to internet radio, it avoids the problems of legality of downloads and it's free, see shoutcast but I do think that the price of music will come down, and 15c (or maybe 11c if you put more money in your account) per track seems to be a good price to me, as long as the artists get at least half of this, I'm not sure how much they would get.

  • Hot swappable memory. Can press a button on it and memory will be rearranged so it no longer uses that particular module of memory. If it goes green, then, it can then be removed, without turning off the computer, with no loss of data to the computer (eg server). If it does not go green then, it may be necessary to shut down some programs on the server to free up more memory.
  • Designer Babies. I think it's a good idea, genetics of the future will be able to create a tall blond person that is good at basketball, or whatever you would like them to be like. The only problem is that if everyone wants the same kind of person, there could be lots like that, would get rid of genetic variability, then if there is a problem everyone will have it eg susceptibility to catch a disease or disability and it could wipe out a lot of the planet. So there will have to be limitations on the use of the technology, perhaps only some people can use it, eg 50% of babies born are permitted, so if you have two babies, only one is permitted to be designed using genetic engineering technology, so that if there's a problem then at least half the population will still have sufficient genetic variation. Also bear in mind the technology would probably be based on the mother and fathers dna, with some modifications or enhancements, so that there would still be a lot of things that were subject to genetic variation through the combination of mother and father chosen ie not everyone would start with the same mother and fathers genes.
  • Wireless Web Camera. In the future it will be possible to buy a web camera that either transmits back to a base station plugged into the usb port of pc (like wireless phones that transmit back to base stations) or is wireless (eg operates on 3G like a mobile) either way you'll be able to walk around with your camera and have a live stream back to the internet for webcam chat rooms etc or just recording it. Using the mobile network will permit people to be anywhere and transmit video back to their webpage or webcam chat sites. In fact they already have wifi wireless web cameras on sale on ebay, but these require a power supply (eg 5V 2A power supply), the next stage would be to support battery operated cameras (rechargeable battery) hopefully the battery would last long enough. But it's true that one could always get a power extension cord for most locations to be able to run the webcam and it is possible to get a usb wifi device for the pc to be able to see the webcam (802.11). It is possible to get a "2A Output 5V Mobile Power USB Battery Charger 18650 Box" which allows to run a usb device such as a wireless webcam off battery power (rechargeables) perhaps this could be used with four 3000mAh 18650 batteries (even though it says 2600mAh) the 3000mAh batteries are available in australia, I haven't seen the 2600mAh batteries on ebay with an australian powerpoint charger ie from australia.