2007 June archive at Waste of Spaces

Archive for June, 2007

Jun

New Printing Standards Anyone? Say Hello to Pocketbooks

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Categories: Web 2.0 Ideas

The Idea Formula
A4 Paper Printing divided by half = New Pocketbook Printing Format

Instead of printing all the ebooks or web articles in one-side A4 papers and stack it in what looks like a pile junk of sheets… looking like university papers

You can actually fold several A4 papers and arrange them into what looks like a pocket book. So if there is a software to resize normal documents into pocket documents and print it in a perfect position for you to fold into a pocketbook. I can print any ebooks, blog, articles, or whatever in a very suitable size for portable reading, plus I’d be saving ink and paper.

That software could include features like a web-based pocket word processor, since many computer screens are now widescreen anyway. Reading 2 pages at a time in a pocket format on a widescreen is quite nice.

Jun

Realworld Racing

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Categories: Web 2.0 Ideas

The Idea Formula
Racing Game + Google 3D Maps = Real Map-Based Racing Game

I bet you would love a realistic marathon race. It could be as realistic as if you’re driving a Ferrari, you should perhaps drive with a gas-saving strategy so you don’t have to stop and refuel so often. You could show off to your friends, on how you drive only X number of hours from San Jose to San Francisco

I have done several real life street racing with my friends on a high way with lots of cars. If there is a game that let me in a real town with simulated car traffic, I could show people some cars zigzag dodging skills without risking killing myself.

Game-wised, street racers could be wining a bet from each race, and save up these money to buy new cars, buy new parts, decorate new wheels, buy new engines, or buy a virtual garage.

You might be able to play this game with GPS installed. And you can record your driving skills, speed, distance, and simulate your actual driving in a game. Don’t kill yourself over setting a record on the internet though.

And if 3D is too difficult to do. You could make a 2D version instead, based on Google Map. If you can simulate realistic acceleration and gas consumption from Honda to Ferrari, it’s still going to be a fun racing.

Jun

Ultimate Home on Autopilot

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Categories: Tech Ideas

I was having a fun thought. You could apply some programming concepts to a house, and here’s what a house could do.

Automatic Lighting
The floor of the house could be made to sense the weight of each steps to detect the movement of people in the house. The light of each room will light up as the person enters.

Temperature Control
You might be a person of nature, loving natural air rather than air conditioning. When the house detects the appropriate amount of wind, it could open all the windows and control the wind flow to cool the house. The window adjusts automatically to block sunlight. When the house gets too hot, it could then operate on air conditioning.

Auto Suggestion
Based on what you do in a day, the house could record your personal life activities generating the usual lifestyle for yourself.
For example, at 8pm you walk into your living room, you have a few choices like listening to music, watching news, watching movies, or read a book. The house may suggest you to listen to dance music, as of 8pm you usually listen to music.
The house can suggest activities by lighting up (Have you seen some incredibly beautiful backlight?) the bookcase, stereo, tv, or whatever.
The house can guess if there’s a visitors in the house or just family time, as the bell ring by visitors, dogs barking, the house can sense the walking patterns, to make sure if they’re really visitors. And if they’re identified as visitors, the house could prepare water or tea automatically, and suggest appropriate activities for welcoming business clients for example.
If the house identifies as just family members gathering around at dinner time, it could then suggest activities like cooking, or watching movies together.
It is actually possible to detect a person’s mood, by the weight and rhythm of each steps, or tone of voice, translating to exciting or tired.. and suggest appropriate activities like dance music or massage chairs.

Scheduling
Instead of auto-suggestion, you may want to program yourself to read a self-improvement book about 1 hour after dinner, and exercise about half an hour after you wake up.

Jun

Living in the dreams

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Categories: Web 2.0 Ideas

The Idea Formula
Floorplanner.com + Wishlist = Luxurious Fantasies

Allow users to add wishlists from any website, amazon, designer shopping malls, etc. And then let them combine these items into meaningful sets like Designer Desk + Designer Chair + MacBook Pro.

Users can add a real advertised house somewhere on a real map. Park your dream real cars in your parking lot. Porche for pleasure driving, and Mercedes Benz for going to work.

With a satisfied dream home, users can calculate how much does it cost to actually purchase them. Finally, share these dream lives with your friends.

Jun

The Business of Business Identity

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Categories: Web 2.0 Ideas

The Idea Formula
Namecard + Widget = Online Business Card

Think… slide.com version of business cards. This should be very easy to do. Just let users upload 2 pictures at the size of a name card, or perhaps, let them create one at the site. Add in some cool flipping flash animation between the 2 sides and you are done.

This should be a nice way for a business man or a designer to present themselves with a few words. Business cards shouldn’t just appear to real life business contacts, how about business contacts on the internet? Perhaps allow anyone to print the business card also?

The card could be integrated with reputaton features like venyo.org, thegorb.com or whatever.

Jun

Map Wiki Pedia

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Categories: Web 2.0 Ideas

The Idea Formula
Wikipedia + Google Map = Mappedia

The idea is to create the current wikipedia of buildings

May be, 5 years later, internet would be accessible in cars. With Mappedia, I would be browsing every buildings nearby while I’m stuck in traffic jam, or I could basically search for restaurants nearby, reviewing food menu, price, reviews of that restaurant. This would be the same for hotels, flower stores, or any interesting place.

Currently, Google is running “MapWiki” but it’s completely useless at the moment because no one is giving it any attention.

The problem is why would anyone post info about buildings like a grocery store nearby. Perhaps, we could create some incentive to post like, wayfaring, or map-based blogging. Or by that time, the system may be popular enough for at so many small businesses would be updating their store information online.