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This is a device like a radar gun that contains the required technologies to perform the following.
You point this gun at solid wastes produced by creatures of various types.
The AETG captures and delivers information:
the type of animal that produced the excrement, composition data, temperature,
volume, approximated beast size, measure of out-gassing etc.
The device will also allow the user to store all of the datum, rate stinkyness, stickyness, time, date, gps location, and feild notes.
The device can interface with a spreadsheet software to turn out reports.
This could have all manner of applications.
Unless its considered cruelty to animals to measure their excrement without their consent or awareness.
most trackers know this information...
http://www.bear-tra...com/animalscat.html
[xandram, Mar 12 2009]
Fecal Examiner
http://www.freepate...ne.com/5066463.html
someone's got a patent out... [k_sra, Mar 18 2009]
[link]
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//This could have all manner of applications.// |
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[tapping fingers on desk awaiting just one] |
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//and feild notes// sp "field', or did you mean "fetid"? |
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You could gather intelligence and track down the dog that did his business on your lawn. |
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It could be a fun hobby for kids. |
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Doctors could use it to measure how disgusting a person is. |
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Hunters would know that wolves are in the area or maybe it's bears. |
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Researchers could document Big Foot evidence. |
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Maria could find out what Joe had for dinner last night and then get a divorce. |
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//contains the required technologies to perform the following// |
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this is a website for new ideas right? |
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what exactly would your lazy brain matter like to hear? |
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back scatter radiation detector, laser based edm scan capability, gas meter electronics, the guts from a Motorola gsm smart phone with a gps radio in place, temperature sensors from Honeywell, image processing algorithms with a database of animal waste to run recognition routines, small form factor gas spectrometer |
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moreover why are the guts of the instrument so important? all of the disparate technologies exist to make an integrated sensor of this type. |
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the idea of a rectal thermometer is disgusting too but it exists. Is that why this idea is no good?
is your group negativity because you find the subject matter inappropriate?
Now that's entertainment! Adolf would be proud. |
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Hey what are you guys doing this weekend? We should go destroy some rare paintings together. |
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thank you [zen tom] you are much more eloquent than I. I, on the other hand looked at this person's profile page to see that 'bakers have been kind on other ideas, so why the outlashing?
we are not Poodants!! |
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//the idea of a rectal thermometer is disgusting //
No, not really.
//feild// sp. "felt" |
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my feelings were deeply hurt and, therefore, i accept your apology. :P |
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i can picture zoologists in the african sahara using something like this (don't they already?) and thus don't find the idea without merit. trying to turn it into a Wal-Mart buy of the week seems a bit much, though. |
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//the african sahara // There's another? |
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i don't actually know. imagine my embarrassment. :) |
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//i don't actually know. imagine my embarrassment//
Well, I suppose there was one (still is?) in Las Vegas, but I don't imagine there'd be too many zoologists there.
Except at zoologist conventions.
//Stickyness// Maybe some form of air-hammer like optometrists use to measure eyeball bouncyness to diagnose glaucoma.
Or maybe that would only measure elasticity. Unless you measured how much flew off, in which case, I suppose you'd get a measure of stickyness.
Shutting up now. |
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[zen_tom] totally misunderstood!! sometime I am too cryptic. I meant [vfrackis] has outlashed at ALL halfbakers, whether that was the intent or not, and I see that the 'bakers have not boned all the ideas, so you are correct in saying that this is a bad idea! hence the bones!
I don't understand why [vfrackis] got all upset. We have all made inventions that we thought were good at the time, and then not received so well when presented to others. We are not against poo! |
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zen_tom, blissmiss, Custardguts, xandram , all halfbakers: |
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first off thanks for all of your comments, i do appreciate all opinions positive or negative |
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i am honored that anyone would take the time and i am privileged to have participated to date. |
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this particular idea is not about dog poo rather an instrument that is capable of gleaning and coordinating information from excrement. |
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in all honesty can't say i am upset about anything
anyone has said and hope that I did not in turn upset anyone. |
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i do have a growing concern with the boundaries that exist here. too many, such is life |
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halfbakery is a misspelled word? as are the majority of your names.
so here are the boundaries that i see |
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No spelling errors will be tolerated. Always seems to be someone that feels superior pointing them out. |
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No jokes allowed unless they are witty. I say bad jokes are the best. |
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No suggested cruelty to animals. I was cruel to an animal today at lunch time, a turkey and probably several all at once. |
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No duplicate or similar ideas, how many ideas are posted here exactly? |
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No ideas that could be construed as bad taste or "juvenile subject matter". this covers much ground
all of my ideas to date in fact. |
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No communication of ideas in a "poor" manner or else marked for deletion what's wrong with a run on sentence why does everything have to be grammatically correct? |
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Comments of this type are so common on this site and I say tired. Certainly they are not just on my ideas.
You see this mentality in the posts associated with the most favored ideas. |
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Not sure i can place a name on it to suit or categorize.
I think that proper behavior guidelines is a tone that does not foster creativity and only serves to turn people away. |
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I very kindly asked you for an application. Not of
doo-doo mind you. But for an application for your
idea. The millions of ways to use this quite simply
passed me by. |
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And you are very correct. My name is not spelled
correctly...it should be spelled |
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[zen tom]-what a lovely piece of writing you have
put forth. |
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In my Daily Om reading today the subject was
imperfection and how it is a virtue to seek out
imperfection in others. |
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You have just done your weeks worth in a very
kind way. Kudos. |
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nice [blissy]! as I have said previously [zen_tom] is quite eloquent and serves well as a spokesman here.
as for [vfrackis] you must realize that all of us have been through similar experiences here, but we have weathered the storm because we LOVE this place and we HONOR [jutta] and all the work she does to keep this place in shape. You can whine all you want and disagree with whatever you want and you can still keep your account here. That's not a bad deal, is it? Sometimes I don't use capitalization and I make spelling errors. I choose to capitalize when I feel like it, but I like my spelling errors being pointed out, so I may fix them and learn. hey, sometimes it's just a typo.
Take a load off. Read a bunch of random ideas, good and bad. You will find peace. |
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The data would be stored in .trd, .crp -files? |
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Anyways, i fail to see the applications of this technology too; |
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I want to bypass most of the comments on here, but i have read them. Concerning savannah, yes it does exist elsewhere, for instance parts of Australia, either side of Amazonia and presumably somewhere in central Asia. Just couldn't resist saying that.
Back to the point though. I don't know about an actual gun, but i can see that there would be ways of analysing excrement quickly with, say, a core sample. For instance, you could detect specific types of infection, gut flora, details of recent diet and sometimes species, and to some extent whether the food was marine or terrestrial in origin. This could be done by detecting different isotopes, providing substrates for particular enzymes, alpha globulins, and testing for particular nucleotides and proteins found in specific types of microorganism and so forth. Concerning applications, you could use it to analyse the dietary profile of a whole city by analysing the sewage, pick up individual details of someone's diet such as whether they ate a lot of fish or were veggie or use it to detect cholera or typhoid in a water supply. You could also find out what kind of pests are eating your crops and maybe where they're coming from. It would also be useful for detecting how energy flows in a food web, particularly near coastlines. |
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//Concerning savannah, yes it does exist elsewhere// |
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yes, but does the 'sahara' exist anywhere else? that was the debated geographical point of reference. |
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Aside from correcting all of the spelling, this is a totally halfbaked idea... i.e. a useless, stupid, turd map, that no one will want. This makes it meet with my approval and is accordingly awarded this croissant. [+] |
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Well, "sahara" actually means "desert", so yes. |
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i found a patent for a fecal examiner. sounds like a canine periodical. |
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