Too many Kids and Pets die of heatstroke every year after being left in vehicles - https://goo.gl/FFDbEr

How about an internet connected Amazon Echo like device that with camera and vision analysis https://goo.gl/SoUzEi . It can basically learn to - subtract the vehicle https://goo.gl/x4uKVU - sense when temperatures are at dangerous levels - Take a picture and send it to certain pre determined phones alerting the owners that a kid or pet might be in the car.

Maybe we can even wire the car to switch on air conditioning till help arrives, alert local authorities to go check on the car etc.

Another way to have an API that would let sites like reddit, hacker news, you tube have a live feed of "potential kid in hot car" images that could crowd source a second level of human verification.

I am not entirely sure but there maybe some truth to the suggestion that animals can sense earth quakes in advance - https://goo.gl/j4sLFw - https://goo.gl/YrSzJm

How about a pet owner data collective that predicts earthquakes? It would work by having some sort of Fitbit accessory for our pets which would collect and share their electrical signals via an app. Machine learning could then correlate these signals with actual earthquake activity and learn how to predict quakes (or if we would be able to predict them). Maybe just in time before the next big one hits the Bay Area :-) .

Scientists are working on testing this claim in central Italy, where a destructive earthquake struck last year and lots of minor seismic activity is still present.

The article is pretty informative, I just like to report here the closing remark from the Principal Investigator: "It’s a huge claim, so we’d better have good proof for it".

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/world/europe/italy-earthq...

Oh gosh, I have so many of these.

- a vacuum cleaner that separates out things it shouldn't have vacuumed for collection later.

- a tiny indoor drone that finds and takes the perfect photos at parties so you don't have to miss the action behind a camera. (I think I read about one that follows snow boarders or something)

- a web service that tells me about cool things that are happening nearby, but by scanning newspapers and notice boards, because around here most of this stuff misses the internet

- take a photo of a piece of furniture and find plans on-line for how to build it

Underground tubes that deliver packages directly to your residence instantly.

Had the same idea :-). To revive freight tunnels. With the advancements in self driving tech and tunneling tech this would seem feasible.

Amazon could finance them and then rent capacity it out to other companies.

A pilot perhaps in Chicago by reviving the old freights tunnels - https://goo.gl/ErJQFx

The Swiss were/are considering them too - https://goo.gl/PNMRrE

I have always wanted to invent an ice-cube maker that works by being filled with water and placed in a microwave.

I had a dream where I invented this, ha! Could it be done with laser cooling?

I actually have ideas that work, but everyone else thinks they are impossible and "half-baked" -- actually, it is worse than that. I get called a lunatic.

So my impossible dream is actually turning what I already do into some kind of real business with an actual income stream. Ugh.

Ever see second life? theres the avatar name floating above the avs as they walk around. I would like to see a set of AR glasses that provide peoples names floating over their heads in real life.

So many issues - technical and legal..

  Well anyway, how about a walking machine that could walk on the ocean floor from one continent to another.  Like an underwater ATAT.

(Half bakery still exists right?)

Yes it does.

I think I probably have an impossible idea pretty much every day. But a week or two back, I was actually moderately proud about suggesting a human-powered ekranoplan to some coworkers. Proud enough to do a web-search... and find it had been posted on half-bakery several years ago.

For short people: a lightweight, retractable, sturdy, claw-like device that can easily fit into a purse, yet extend up to 4-6 ft. for reaching items on high shelves.

Teleportation

This is all I require.

Thanks, I have one more to round up the modern gentlemen set: the time machine - it will tremendous improve my stock market speculation...

I think there should be one app/website/service that replaces 80% of other apps/websites/services.

Freedom (global)

I am drunk, don't count on me. I will tell you tomorrow.