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The UnLego

Lego is amazing! The parts fit together with incredible precision. Not like real life where the parts don’t fit and everything is a compromise. In real life perfection is not possible. And this is how a new idea starts. Introducing Un-Lego. Model building the way life really is. And it gets better Un-Lego are made in some of the poorest villages in the world. They are not made by machines of even higher precision than the Lego bricks. The packaging is locally sourced and all… Read More »The UnLego

AI App

We need an AI App that sorts, tags, filters, crops and retouches digital photos exactly like you would have done it. The app can ask you to help it make decisions for a while. BTW I have nearly 150,000 digital photos in the cloud. Where eve that is. The photo is a screen shot of my Photos app from February.

Fine, Just Fine

“What could we have done better tonight?” This is what a restaurant manager should be asking instead of the usual “How is your food? A small change might elicit some useful information and some goodwill. “How is your food tasting?” usually doesn’t do that. Photo is of one of the postcards I send that is most often liked in Postcrossing.

GoogleFast

It is time for a new TV Game Show to test people’s ability to find out stuff on the internet. With the advent of AI (artificial Intelligence) and the Smart Phone to access it, general knowledge has become relatively less valuable and knowing how to find it has become more valuable. Jeopardy is in jeopardy of becoming irrelevant. It can be replaced by GoogleFind. It follows the same rough format as Jeopardy with much more complicated questions. The contestants can use their smart phones to… Read More »GoogleFast

Made in Ghana

I earned this shirt as a volunteer at the Se’dav Va’aki Museum (formerly The Pueblo Grande Museum). But that is a different story. This story is that the shirt was manufactured in Ghana. Here is proof: If I were young and looking to help the poor and potentially make a lot of money I’d move to Ghana or Kenya and go to work in manufacturing. This shirt is proof that it can be done. For labor intensive manufacturing Africa for the next few years will… Read More »Made in Ghana

Virtual Coronation

The Coronation of Charles III was a world wide hit for the UK and the royal family. I thought why don’t they do a reenactment every five years or so to attract more tourists? And perhaps they could do more Medieval rituals using the British Armed Services but it would be a struggle to overcome the bureaucratic objections. Then I had a private enterprise idea that is a surefire money maker and is very doable. I propose that someone use the footage from the coronation… Read More »Virtual Coronation

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Droning about Drones

Last week I had the brilliant idea to uses drones to wash windows in high rise buildings. The idea came to me because we live in a high rise building and washing the outside windows is complicated and dangerous. Men on platforms with ropes and pulleys maneuver to get to the windows. At the same time the news is full of “drones at war” stories. I made the connection and got excited until I searched Google and found out that there are lots of companies… Read More »Droning about Drones

Earned Prosperity

A lot of people could be employed in the tedious work of digitizing and cataloging old books and records. I seems it would be a better way of distributing money than welfare or eternal unemployment checks. If the owners of the moldering archives were incentivised to get it done, it would create an opportunity for small businesses and give low skilled people work.

What Did You Say?

It is often noisy in restaurants. Bose or one of their competitors should invent a noise cancelling device that makes it less noisy. They have done it with headphones. I’m visualizing an Alexa looking pod on the table that cancels noise from everyone outside of a six foot circle. So that loud man at the next table doesn’t disrupt your dinner. Photo is Nurit and I having High Tea at the expensive hotel in Victoria BC in 2006.