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Anti-Mosquito Laser
-> Technology -> DeviceI think we have the technology to produce an automatic anti-mosquito laser. The frequency of the wing movements of a mosquito is characteristic and can be used to detect them. And cheap lasers are now powerful enough to kill a mosquito. The device would find its market because its advantage compared to odour-based devices is that it can be used outdoors.
3D Liquid Crystals -> Technology -> DeviceWho has never dreamed of a 3D television set like you can see in some futuristic movies ? Well it's 2009, and I think it's time we do it ! A 2D LCD screen consists of lines of liquid crystals put one near the other in a plane. I don't think it would be difficult to find a way to arrange columns of liquid crystals, not restricted to a plane, but to a cube ! The pedestal could be used to send electric current acting on the crystals.
Harvesting energy from human movements
-> Technology -> DeviceThere already exists fibers capable of converting the movement to electricity. I think a walking person generates enough energy to power a cell phone, so that we would never have to care about charging the battery again.Tagged as Fiber, Energy, Cell Phone.
Electro-pulse ice removal
-> Technology -> Device Conventional windshield defrosters rely on gradual warming to liquefy snow and ice. It takes a few minutes to melt a thick layer of ice. Instead of this lengthy process, we could deliver a swift jolt of high-power electricity that would immediately melts the ice at its interface with an object's surface. Once the bond between the ice and surface is broken, the remaining ice would slide away.
New emailing system -> Technology -> CommunicationIn order to reduce spamming, we could ask randomly to user sending an email to prove he is a human being by asking him to type something, like a CAPTCHA. That would be a small nuisance, but would surely reduce the number of email.Status:
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