Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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 LCD Desk  hippo  Mar 06 00 
 Flat-screens as a construction material 
 
 digital grandfather clock  l2g  Mar 07 00 
 A grandfather clock with 7-segment digital display 
 
 Domain Name Generator  syost  Mar 07 00 
 Domain name generator 
 
 Total Bowling  l2g  Mar 07 00 
 An obsessively complete bowling simulator 
 
 custom sunglasses  johan  Mar 07 00 
 sunglasses made to fit your unique head 
 
 ToastyWear  quanta  Mar 07 00 
 Heater for making your clothes warm in the morning. 
 
 RoadJoyLighting  agentv  Mar 08 00 
 Road Joy Lighting System 
 
 Gnash Detector  syost  Mar 08 00 
 Discloses whether you grind your teeth at night. 
 
 Micro-Cells  Eeyore  Mar 08 00 
 Merging your home phone and portable phone 
 
 Car-Ma  Eeyore  Mar 08 00 
 Real time rating of other drivers. 
 
 PalmChime  Eeyore  Mar 08 00 
 An hourly chime program for PDAs 
 
 Archive Halfbakery  dean  Mar 08 00 
 Flush LRU items out of their letter slot, into an archive. 
 
 load your office  quanta  Mar 08 00 
 The cubicle of the future - customized, digital, and good looking too. 
 
 Finding Browser  Eeyore  Mar 09 00 
 A small modification that would improve any web browser. 
 
 Cheap Telepathy  koz  Mar 09 00 
 Cochlear implants and microphones for the masses. 
 
 Babbage Drum Machine  syost  Mar 10 00 
 Mechanical drum machine in the spirit of the Babbage Engine 
 
 Charity Banner Portal  syost  Mar 10 00 
 Central site for charitable banner ads 
 
 Component Service Provider  jimfl  Mar 12 00 
 The lightweight alternative to the ASP. 
 
 Reinforced-crotch trousers  baf  Mar 13 00 
 Extra durability where it's needed 
 
 drunken scripting  rhino  Mar 13 00 
 a program which will make it seem like your box has had one too many 
 
 Instant replay  hippo  Mar 13 00 
 Wearable short-term visual memory 
 
 bioscanner  eyemage  Mar 14 00 
  
 
 Ansible  eyemage  Mar 14 00 
 faster than light communication via bells theorem 
 
 xml ai spec  triptych  Mar 14 00 
 an xml spec for artificial intelligence 
 
 Sound effects as performance art  hippo  Mar 14 00 
 Sounds effects are generated by the artist's posture and gesture 
 
 Trendspotting  rmutt  Mar 14 00 
 Find users that anticipate popular search terms 
 
 auction protocol  triptych  Mar 15 00 
 like nntp - only for auctions 
 
 Drive-thru Salad  cody  Mar 16 00 
 Salad you can eat in your car 
 
 Alaskan Oil  ps  Mar 17 00 
 Why gas prices have gone up. 
 
 VST  rhino  Mar 17 00 
 vegetable substitution tables 
 
 anti-salt  ronan  Mar 19 00 
 Correct over-salty foods 
 
 SmartVCR  centauri  Mar 21 00 
 A VCR that edits out commercials. 
 
 CoffTea  rhino  Mar 21 00 
 a little bit of both 
 
 XMLTV  jimfl  Mar 21 00 
 Television Content Markup Language 
 
 OpenNets  dnm  Mar 23 00 
 Networks owned and admined by the people that use them. 
 
 Star Trek communicator  Emohawk  Mar 25 00 
 cell phone that looks like the communicators in the original Star Trek 
 
 Dessert pizza  Emohawk42  Mar 25 00 
 sweet pizza for dessert 
 
 Spamproof email  rmutt  Mar 25 00 
 Reverse-psych spammers into removing your email address from their lists. 
 
 Two-fisted mice  rmutt  Mar 25 00 
 Look Ma -- both hands! 
 
 universal site id #  triptych  Mar 27 00 
 central service issues a unique ID # to every website. 
 
 reactive tattoos  triptych  Mar 28 00 
 use your skin as a screen with special digital pigmentation 
 
 freelance webvideo  triptych  Mar 28 00 
 service to set up live video stream for any event. 
 
 web app protocol  triptych  Mar 28 00 
 a way for different web apps to share data across the web. 
 
 distributed alife network  triptych  Mar 28 00 
 Create a digital ecosystem which would allow any alife organism to exist 
 
 cyberdog  DjD  Mar 28 00 
 cyborg dog, doesn't wait on evolution 
 
 Cornering a market  netman2000  Mar 29 00 
 Use eBay to corner a market for a particular item. 
 
 Vomint  dpenguin  Mar 29 00 
 Breath mints for after you've prayed to the porcelain god. 
 
 prescription windshields  ronan  Mar 29 00 
 Prescription windshields for drivers who require glasses 
 
 Browser Based Spellchecker  noweb4u  Mar 29 00 
 Fix those annoying spelling errors on pages you visit 
 
 previous/next hyperlinks  ronan  Mar 30 00 
 Special links to next/previous page in series 
 
 vote feature for 1/2 bakery  ronan  Mar 30 00 
 rank ideas by popularity 
 
 12 volt house  rmutt  Mar 30 00 
 Low voltage power for the modern home. 
 
 wind-breakers  dpenguin  Mar 31 00 
 The gas you pass won't pass this. 
 
 professional masks  baf  Apr 03 00 
 Uniforms for the face 
 
 Venture Fund  ps  Apr 03 00 
 Venture Fund for 1/2 Bakery ideas. 
 
 Inflatable Bag  ps  Apr 03 00 
 Bag with inflatable inner lining to protect laptops. 
 
 feed me LED  jutta  Apr 04 00 
 Plant soil moisture indicator light 
 
 Shower thermostat  rmutt  Apr 06 00 
 Maintains a constant water temperature 
 
 Sunny day laptops  rmutt  Apr 06 00 
 Laptops you can use in the sunshine 
 
 halfbakery IPO  dnm  Apr 09 00 
 Move over Idealab! 
 
 unScroll  dnm  Apr 09 00 
 halfbakery mod to keep the perpetual scroll to a minimum 
 
 smart tree  jutta  Apr 10 00 
 A tree that can buy its own food 
 
 aluminum can protocol  jutta  Apr 10 00 
 Ubiquitous computing meets urban decay 
 
 Car Word Magnets  centauri  Apr 10 00 
 Change (and exchange) bumper stickers whenever you like. 
 
 Marriage as IPO  hippo  Apr 11 00 
 Stupid over-application of 'business' metaphor to a marriage 
 
 virtual cemetery flowers  jutta  Apr 15 00 
 Send donations in lieu of flowers? You can have both! 
 
 wuwei.net  jimfl  Apr 17 00 
 The ultimate computer security site 
 
 Real World Search  Bravus  Apr 19 00 
 Search engine for the real world 
 
 Baby mouse  hippo  Apr 19 00 
 Computer mouse for small children 
 
 Blacklisting browser  rmutt  Apr 19 00 
 Discipline obnoxious web sites with a click 
 
 emotion font  sugarat  Apr 20 00 
 Add subtlety to your emails 
 
 supercomputing  rohar  Apr 20 00 
 Massive parallel processing for the masses 
 
 Colored Fonts  corystahl  Apr 20 00 
 Say goodbye to boring single color text 
 
 hats w/ bangs  manylulus2  Apr 20 00 
 hats with hair pieces attached to them 
 
 ExerCar  Rich  Apr 21 00 
 Car that allows you to exercise during long commutes 
 
 Zip/Unzip Bug  bear  Apr 21 00 
 Evolutionary Computing as applied to a _very_ common application. 
 
 License-plate scanners  Cheezeman  Apr 21 00 
 A detection system to see driving records 
 
 Liscence-plate scanners  Cheezeman  Apr 21 00 
 A detection system to see driving records 
 
 helicopter with ejection seat  hijk  Apr 21 00 
 Get out quick 
 
 Rearward car horn  tuna wagon  Apr 22 00 
 Get people off of your bumper. 
 
 "handheld" cellphone  urbanmatador  Apr 22 00 
 a wearable option 
 
 science by music  Malakh  Apr 22 00 
 teaching science by means of music 
 
 Hire-a-Stalker  Malakh  Apr 22 00 
 renting out stalkers to anyone who needs to feel important 
 
 Video Windows  dontthink  Apr 23 00 
 Windows displaying images from remote locations. 
 
 New Orphanage  creator  Apr 24 00 
 Invest in an orphan 
 
 Self-Driving Car  danilom  Apr 24 00 
 Car that would be equipped with adequate sensors (distance radar, visual analysis, GPS) and processing power to steer/completely control itself. 
 
 artificial guitar calluses  fishee  Apr 25 00 
 peel em off the sheet, and stick em on your fingers! 
 
 Immortality Grant  bear  Apr 25 00 
 A fund to pass some of our better people onto the future 
 
 A "real" golden parachute  elarson  Apr 26 00 
 How to hit the ground running 
 
 Cellphone Disruptor  bod  Apr 26 00 
 Get revenge on annoying cellphone conversations 
 
 emergency exit  egnor  Apr 26 00 
 Simple drop shaft for people. 
 
 Biotelemetric Mannequins  centauri  Apr 27 00 
 "More real than real, that's our motto." 
 
 Toasties  eagle  Apr 27 00 
 A Starbucks-like chain of cafes that specialize in toast. 
 
 Sim Mall  Darkstar  Apr 28 00 
 Create your own mall! 
 
 Printable Money  Darkstar  Apr 28 00 
 Be your own mint! 
 
 Self-Describing GA  dean  Apr 28 00 
 Make GA evolved code comprehensible 
 
 articulate programming  egnor  Apr 28 00 
 Software that can explain itself. 
 
 geocorder  egnor  Apr 28 00 
 GPS-keyed voice recorder/transmitter. 
 
 electronic hand drum  krevis  Apr 28 00 
 Like bongos, but electronic 
 
 Xyleigh  Xyleigh  Apr 28 00 
 Brain Radios 
 

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