Ideas and Projects
We are looking for any Ideas and Projects you have and are looking to realize them or just put them out into the field and let someone else make them real.
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Mobile: smart iPad rss reader
An RSS reader that learns from the user's habits and organises their rss feeds so there is no more annoying scrolling through heaps of rubbish to find something good.
45 votes -
Web: cheaper-than-beowulf cluster
Ever wanted to crack a password? Do something that would take 5000 years to compute on your computer?
Well here's an idea:
1. Make a javascript protocol for distributed computing
2. Make a silly facebook/twitter gag thing
3. Put the distributed computing code on it
4. It goes viral
5. 100k+ people compute a bit of your problem and it gets solved in a week.We need to make this possible now, before people start caring about their browser's CPU usage.
37 votes -
speaker simulator
device that is going to turn any speaker into studio monitor system using different crossover settings , different room and acoustic parameters.
35 votes -
HW: Cheap wake-on-LAN device with Web interface for home networks
Create a networked embedded device capable of tripping power/reboot switches or wake-on-LAN commands. Should have accessible UI, ideally web-hosted.
29 votes -
Web: Peer-to-peer twitter. Like Skype for talking!
Problem: Current downtime of twitter.
17 votes -
Port Emacs to the web
Emacs running on javascript for simple browser use. Cookie based identification, no login. Add-ons preloaded, each user simply modifies her .emacs file and sets up modes she wants to use.
16 votes -
Mobile: App that recommends you a tea, depends of your health, work tempo, time …
Includes AI algorithms and latest medicine knowledge. For iPhone and Android.
16 votes -
HW: Wireless Energy Transfer
Using microwaves and a rectenna (Schottky diode), the output can be a commercial wireless router.
14 votes -
Mobile: search for a face and extract relationship status of that person
point your video camera on your phone to a person you find interesting, start face recognition and compare it with e.g. facebook database. once found, extract relationship status, birth date and interests
12 votes -
LifeLog: Mobile app for iPhone. Track your life and suggest you optimizations and new healthy habits
9 votes -
Semi-autonomous flying vehicle
Mod of toy helicopter (HW) so that it can micro navigate itself (stay stable, avoid close objects, ..). User only needs to meta-navigate it remotely (go to loc A, move fwd X m, ..) via mobile or web (SW).
Removing the latency and skill problem of such usage.
9 votes -
Torrent video stream
Streaming videos based on the torrent protocol.
8 votes -
mobile/web: Mood music
Recognise user's mood based on device usage patterns (smashing keyboard etc.) and play music appropriate for the mood.
6 votes -
Mobile: Apps with real time symbol recognition technology.
1. Real time translator (for menus). Chinese to English.
2. Bill scanner. (automatic look up trough personal expenses)4 votes -
Mobile: augmented reality
take it to the next level: use with multiple databases (wiki, used car db , published papers, real estate db, services db, ebay db, local db, etc.), make it useful for everyday tasks.
3€/month for accessing a single database.multiple usage scenarios:
- walking around seeing a car u like -> point the phone to it -> display current lowest price for this type of used car
- on a conference point ur phone to a group of ppl -> display the field they`re working in -> display research interests -> ql, in a big group I identified somebody that… more4 votes -
ptr and ptc programs
klicking the ads-wery simple
and easy3 votes -
3 votes
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mobile games world contest... every where and every time.
i build first mobile games world contest without use a mobile connections, so you can partecipate everywhere and you can win a good gift. you can fight with another player in other part of the world at different time and place without use your mobile connections. ex you can go to the peak of everest and fight against a surfer in california.
3 votes