| time travel radio | | jutta | | Mar 07 97 |
| Low-bandwidth broadcast of spatially relevant information |
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| turn-alone | | jutta | | Mar 07 97 |
| Stand-alone turntable for microwave ovens |
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| proportional honking | | jutta | | May 27 97 |
| Car horn volume is sometimes too high |
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| multilingual friends network | | jutta | | Sep 27 97 |
| Free translations |
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| computerized lock | | jutta | | Oct 28 97 |
| Scan, compute, and authorize. |
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| electric pillbox | | jutta | | Jan 29 98 |
| Contraceptive Pill container with built-in remainder service. |
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| font morphing | | jutta | | Mar 01 98 |
| How to get from A to B |
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| laundry balls | | jutta | | Jul 15 98 |
| Time release capsules for fabric softener |
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| frequency translator | | jutta | | Nov 25 98 |
| Translate audio into vibrations |
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| valvo | | jutta | | Nov 30 98 |
| Rubber toy figure with valves between limbs |
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| pop thesaurus | | jutta | | Dec 18 98 |
| catalogue pop song meanings |
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| high-end whiteboards | | jutta | | Dec 24 98 |
| Whiteboards as a luxury item |
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| transcripTV | | jutta | | Dec 29 98 |
| TV Transcription Service |
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| backdrops | | jutta | | Jan 04 99 |
| Fake backdrops for video conferencing |
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| two-way drones | | jutta | | Jan 10 99 |
| Terminals that can ask questions |
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| desktop videophone | | jutta | | Jan 22 99 |
| Use one-way mirrors to hide the camera |
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| future email address | | jutta | | Jan 27 99 |
| Jan-1-2000@futuremail.com |
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| light-sensing display | | jutta | | Apr 08 99 |
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| Virtual Living Room | | jutta | | May 04 99 |
| A web site combining TV listings and per-program chat channels. |
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| meta-browser | | jutta | | Jun 08 99 |
| Netscape for real. |
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| fish-tea | | jutta | | Aug 09 99 |
| Fish-shaped tea bags |
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| nose cam | | jutta | | Aug 10 99 |
| Camera with indentation for the user's nose. |
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| milliMach | | mab | | Aug 10 99 |
| Universal unit of velocity |
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| Controller | | cmcmanis | | Aug 11 99 |
| High durability control device for harsh environments (bars) |
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| e-recess | | naia | | Aug 11 99 |
| required online morning break for employees |
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| time shift | | mab | | Aug 12 99 |
| adjust daily schedule by eight hours |
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| vote histogram | | jutta | | Aug 12 99 |
| Display incidence of votes over time |
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| rainbow cars | | jutta | | Aug 13 99 |
| Drive behind a car of adjacent hue. |
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| C exception handling macros | | jutta | | Aug 13 99 |
| Goto considered helpful |
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| school bus driver | | bretp | | Aug 13 99 |
| how to make it a better job |
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| universal alert | | noddy | | Aug 19 99 |
| alert your group/team/family anywhere, anytime |
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| restaurant payment protocol | | jutta | | Aug 20 99 |
| Hand out the credit card as you say "Check, please". |
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| my first URL | | jutta | | Aug 22 99 |
| Toy blocks for the net-literate toddler |
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| waiting party line | | jutta | | Aug 22 99 |
| Have people waiting for customer service talk to each other |
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| Hot Spare, Inc. | | jutta | | Aug 30 99 |
| Redundant Array of Expensive Consumer Goods |
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| sound-seeking swivel base | | jutta | | Aug 31 99 |
| Camera base that turns towards sound source |
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| personalized postcards | | jutta | | Sep 01 99 |
| Send a postcard with yourself in it. |
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| NetJukeBox | | shahid | | Sep 07 99 |
| Personal NetAppliance, mp3, Linux, speech recognition. cable modem, DSL, wireless |
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| paint world | | jutta | | Sep 10 99 |
| Doom meets Natural Media Painting meets MUD |
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| astronomer's clock | | jutta | | Sep 15 99 |
| clock with adjustable speed |
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| bidding for greens | | sdpinpdx | | Sep 19 99 |
| Auction off green lights to people who are really in a hurry |
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| optimizing food assemblies | | tenhand | | Sep 22 99 |
| Maximize properties of food using technological overkill |
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| Internet Payment Network | | ecolonsmak | | Sep 29 99 |
| Wire money over the internet using conventional routing information. |
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| speed maps | | jutta | | Oct 03 99 |
| Street maps that indicate travel speed |
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| turn maps | | jutta | | Oct 03 99 |
| Street maps that indicate the routes more travelled |
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| broadcast encryption | | tesumner | | Oct 31 99 |
| secure group messaging |
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| posing | | jutta | | Nov 05 99 |
| Michelangelo's "Bob" |
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| TV for Windows CE | | ecolonsmak | | Nov 15 99 |
| TV tuners for Windows ce devices would be awsome. |
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| P.I.Box | | jutta | | Nov 25 99 |
| P.O.Box service + webcam |
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| mailbox-XL | | jutta | | Nov 25 99 |
| A safe drop-off box for packages. |
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| sushi furniture | | jutta | | Nov 25 99 |
| People are fish. |
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| Road tunes | | bod | | Nov 30 99 |
| Tunes from the road |
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| Distributed computing trinkets | | cosma | | Dec 03 99 |
| SETI@Home in cute, disposable gadgets |
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| wonder woman's living room | | monstro | | Dec 17 99 |
| A living room where everything is completely see-thru. |
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| cradle bed | | jutta | | Dec 17 99 |
| Bed with back panel(s) |
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| ViewDot | | bear | | Dec 21 99 |
| Collabrative broadcasting as the wave of the future. |
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| info locker | | efader | | Jan 03 00 |
| store my personal info - not files or email!!!! |
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| new knees, hips | | dean | | Jan 06 00 |
| Old knees, hips are inferior |
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| Social Workspace | | jimfl | | Jan 13 00 |
| Sometimes you want to be alone, sometimes you don't |
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| mile attorney | | jutta | | Jan 24 00 |
| Tax attorney for frequent flyer miles |
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| next url | | jimfl | | Jan 28 00 |
| HTML tag to facilitate navication in a standard way. |
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| Low-pass filter for news | | cosma | | Jan 28 00 |
| Filter out the stories which don't say anything new |
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| Regenerate Art | | cosma | | Jan 28 00 |
| Pictures that grow themselves |
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| NiftySquick.com | | cosma | | Jan 28 00 |
| The answer to "where do you get your ideas?" |
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| SearchTracker | | dean | | Feb 02 00 |
| Filter out duplicate search URLs |
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| 007 alarm clock | | djoseph | | Feb 03 00 |
| The alarm clock you must shoot to snooze |
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| Quantum Time Reversal | | dean | | Feb 05 00 |
| DNA + quantum dot array, used as a quantum time reveral mirror |
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| massage mattress | | jutta | | Feb 11 00 |
| Bed with a face hole for stomach-sleepers |
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| cargocult.com | | dean | | Feb 12 00 |
| Plug in computer, start getting checks |
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| broadcast cryptanalysis | | dnm | | Mar 02 00 |
| AKA: The Chinese Lottery |
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| BrakeLight | | jshare | | Mar 02 00 |
| Bargraph to show decceleration |
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| Lego programming | | johan | | Mar 02 00 |
| Design hardware and software using Lego. |
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| gps alarm watch | | dbday | | Mar 02 00 |
| instead of setting an alarm based on time, set it based on location |
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| shareware variants | | Eeyore | | Mar 02 00 |
| Extensions to the "Shareware", "Nagware", "Freeware" list |
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| A new business plan | | rmutt | | Mar 02 00 |
| Is this one patentable? |
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| Angry Mob Cryptanalysis | | mab | | Mar 03 00 |
| Democratic alternative to key escrow |
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| E-polaroid | | anachron | | Mar 03 00 |
| Digital cam plus inkjet; hand-held |
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| disintegrated browser | | baf | | Mar 03 00 |
| Break up web apps into small, independent components |
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| Truth-videocam | | anachron | | Mar 03 00 |
| Tamper-proof videocam equipped with GPS receiver and encryption |
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| startup: the computer game | | baf | | Mar 03 00 |
| Tech company sim/strategy game |
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| Tai Chi UI | | johan | | Mar 03 00 |
| Control computers with Tai Chi. |
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| VoulezVousCouchez | | manylulus | | Mar 03 00 |
| Celebrity Full Length Body Pillows |
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| zero-gravity executive desk toys | | Clopedion | | Mar 03 00 |
| In space, no one can hear the click-clack of that gizmo with the metal balls on wires. |
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| Game->Work Lib | | johan | | Mar 03 00 |
| Map actions in games to logical "work." |
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| Theme Park Leash | | koz | | Mar 03 00 |
| Keep kids on a leash at amusement parks. |
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| billgee doll | | hotdog | | Mar 03 00 |
| Blame it on Bill Gates |
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| asteroider | | hotdog | | Mar 03 00 |
| piss 'em off and throw stones |
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| ElectroTattoo | | waynej | | Mar 04 00 |
| Tattoos created using electrically conductive inks. |
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| Cab Light | | bgreenman | | Mar 04 00 |
| Hail a Cab At Night Or Walking Away |
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| Josh | | jgreenman | | Mar 04 00 |
| Gun that takes photograph of shooter and registers exact moment of every shot on microchip |
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| eyecam | | jgreenman | | Mar 04 00 |
| glass eye camera |
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| Cable Goo | | squiid | | Mar 04 00 |
| Spray out a new cable when you need it |
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| love PIN | | mush | | Mar 04 00 |
| the no-risk approach to dating |
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| multiple cluster size drive | | joltrushsoon | | Mar 05 00 |
| use different sections of a drive with different size clusters to manage space |
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| halfbakery channel | | syost | | Mar 05 00 |
| Create a halfbakery channel for my.netscape.com and my.userland.com |
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| license.com | | dean | | Mar 05 00 |
| Your driver's license as a .com |
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| education | | mush | | Mar 05 00 |
| ...betcha nobody ever thought of this before... |
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| Inter-car communication | | hippo | | Mar 06 00 |
| A simple device for sending messages between cars |
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| temperature controlled keyboard | | dan | | Mar 06 00 |
| Keep your hands warm or cool |
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| Car sniffles begone | | quanta | | Mar 06 00 |
| Dashboard-mounted (or centre console) tissue dispenser |
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