A more narrow search engine

Nov 10 2020

Google is fantastic in large scale but it should be possible to be even better in small scale with domain knowledge.

Say a search engine for dogs or lego or fishing or travel or cars. It can be primed with knowledge a general search engine cannot.

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A car that work with high heels

Oct 20 2020

Ever tried to drive a car while wearing high heels? Ever tried to break and accelerate and clutch? It should be as comfortable as for men’s shoes.

Do design car pedals that work with high heeled shoes.

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Bicycle helmet that works for a pony tail

Oct 16 2020

If you have pony tial tied low, your bicycle helmet might fit. If you have it middle or high you cannot have a bicycle helmet.

Do design a bicycle helmet that fits people with pony tails.

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A car headrest that works for a pony tail

Oct 12 2020

Half of the population has long hair and half of them have pony tails.

Do design a car seat with a head rest that is usable with pony tail.

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Configurable telephone call waiting music

Sep 08 2020

While you are waiting for a support call you are forced to listen to some easy listening music.

I suggest making it user settable.

“Thank you for calling Company X.
Your call is important to us.
You will now wait for an unknown number of minutes
and we will play some sounds for you so you know
you are still connected.
Press 1 now directly to not have to go through all the settings.
You will then be rewarded with bird sounds.
Press 2 to listen to birds; annotated with which bird it is.
Press 3 to listen to rain and wind in the forest.
Press 4 to listen to occasional static. Also, besides the birds, the least annoying sound.”
Press 5 to listen to US teenage over produced pop.
Press 6 to listen to softened down and mishandled jazz.
Press 7 to listen to what we believe is classical music.
Press 8 to listen to what we believe is rock.
Press 9 to listen to etno but it will be pan flutes and everything is played on synthesizers. The “etno” in etno will also be from North and Central America only.
If you choose to not choose you will get bird songs.

Addendum

Just changing from music to bird sounds would be a giant step forward.

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Measure when using power mitre saw

Jul 21 2020

Say you feed your powered mitre saw with wood from the left.

I suggest having a laser measurer mounted to the right. It is angled towards the blade, close to the fence.

When the blad is down 0 distance is measured. As soon as you put wood through it can measure the distance to the end of the wood and hence the resulting length.

A draw back is that it has to be in line with the wood and, possibly, in the way.

If it is set further out, it might be so long away, and with the wrong angle on the display, that it is impossible to see.

So I suggest that it does not have a display but sends its data to a phone close to the saw.

I you have a wood working shop with a bolted down mitre saw, you could mount the laser measurer at a wall once and for all.

It can also be set with a offset.

At Kickstarter, Reekon tools has made a solution that doesn’t have the length limitation my idea has.

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Simple site for editing simple data

Apr 22 2020

Problem

As a developer I often have a settings table which is only editable by database tools (e.g. sql or text editor) and often only on the backend server. It would be nice to have a solution to allow easy editing while not being on the backend.

Solution

A small xcopy:able web site or application.
For database data it could have a connection string to the server and for text files it could have a path.

It should be able to figure out some meta data by itself but then, with local settings, override them to a more user friendly format.
For instance, if settings is a CSV table, the local settings could have definitions for separator characters, column headers and column data types.

This suggested solution is not for production but would solve the problem during development and even for production time backend manipulation in the right, careful hands. The same hands that otherwise would write sql queries to do the same task.

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A ski or snow board binding that stretches higher than today

Feb 17 2020

All slalom ski boots or snow board bindings only stretch so far up.
We do want a fix position, so we might want to make the slalom boot higher or snow board binding higher; maybe to almost below the knee.

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Snow board bindings that can rotate easily when required

Feb 17 2020

When riding snowboard the bindings should not rotate but be in a fix x degrees angle.
When kicking the snowboard with the rear foot loose and the front foot fastened the angle should be straight forward (or at another angle).

Why not have a simple manually operated lock/lever that lets the rider loosen the binding to rotate.

Then, when about to ride again, use the same lock/lever to lock the binding in position?

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A height distance tool for cutting food to a certain depth

Jan 28 2020

When making hasselbackspotatis one cuts the potato almost through.

Instead of cutting carefully or holding the knife at a certain angle why not surround the potato with wooden blocks of the same certain height.

Change the potato to a carrot and a block on each side to achieve the same result.

Exchange the potato or carrot to anything.

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