Oook, calling all venture capitalists, investment banks and kids with big piggy banks'! Two more ideas for you.
*'s denote something that has to be thought out practically in more detail
1.) A big live map of available parking spaces!
So, each parking space (we'll start with a campus first) at Northwestern, including street parking, will have *cheap sensors* that will know when there is a car in the spot. When there is, it tells a *little parking map* on your phone or GPS that that spot is free! No more driving around looking for spots and no more fretting about parking.
2.) Speed sensors for highways
Not so much an invention as just "an improvement"...for me at least. When "Air Traffic 780" our local radio station talks about: "...18 minutes from the Dan Ryan in", from their "air chopper 780":
1.) I don't know which one the Dan Ryan is (although my invention won't solve that)
2.) I have no idea how long the mentioned lengths should take on a good or bad day...just the time it takes me to get from Deerfield road entrance on I94 to the Skokie exit on 41.
So how about, instead...they told me the speeds. And we're in a recession right now, so no need for choppers, a simple road-side speed tester'll do just fine.
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I have an invention! It will generate redonkulous amounts of clean electricity, probably enough to power the USA. (But it'll cost a lot) Do you guys wanna hear my idea?
i do sir! is it a buncha electricity generating bikes? cuz if it is...that solves energy and obesity!
Parking space thing is genius, but how would you do it?
Have cameras hovering over parking lots?
The phone/GPS thing may be hard to do, how about some sort of interface and kiosks that are located around the lot. Think of a realtime map that looks like the ones in Tech.
yah i thought about the kiosk/map at the parking lot. However, wouldn't it be faster to just drive around and look once ur there lol?
In taiwan, what they had was a sign, that displayed how many open spaces there were in this one mall's parking lot on a big sign. Like the signs that display gas prices...but much shorter at the entrance of the parking lot.
I believe that instead of cameras, they just had sensors that when depressed due to the weight of the car would send a signal to the sign telling it to reduce the number of spaces free by 1.
My idea is basically to harvest the electric flux caused by all the ions bombarding the north pole from outer space. It's basically the same idea as the classic electric motor (a rotating magnet with a coil of wire) except instead there's a stream of ions and a really really large coil of wire. It's an untapped, enormous source of power.
what if mother earth needs the magnetic flux for a fine kinetic equilibrium we don't know about ???
:I really like the parking idea
why do u have to make a ":|" face when you say you like something?
why so serious?
why so SERIOUS? let's put a SmILe on that FaCE~
i like the parking idea too. All they have to do is assign a number to each meter with that "cheap sensor" and hooked it up w/ a SMS system. When you txt the sys, it'll tell you the street and the meter# that's available.
they desperately need that at chinatown
wow, parking space sensor would solve so many problems! you should switch to engineering joey.
huh heanshi, you really think alike with jake! Jake said the service would have to be virtually free tho, do you agree?
And haha ann, I dunno how to make these things, only interested in having them created.
oh don't think i properly introduced myself to the community
<<<<< Adam Xia
they can just do a $.99 for each sms you sent to the sys like how fox do their votes
i like the parking lot sensor invention
i think i would pay for this service, but would anyone else? is this profitable potentially?
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