Author Archives: gemmell

Better Text To Speech For Word

Posted on September 24, 2021 by gemmell

The inbuilt Word TTS is terrible. At least on Mac. It should be simple to connect a Word Add-In to AWS Polly and have it do the reading.

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WE CARE DOCTORS SURGERY

Posted on September 9, 2021 by gemmell

I hate the medical system. It’s transactional. For $70 someone will listen and try and diagnose your problem in 15 minutes. I have never been to a doctor and come away with a response beyond “let’s get some basic blood … Continue reading →

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Krilling It

Posted on August 26, 2021 by gemmell

Land based krill aquaculture as a food base for a civilization that is destroying itself via over consumption. The logic is: Grow some simple, fast life cycle organisms that eat algae but contain enough nutrients to feed the biggest mammal … Continue reading →

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Face Masks for Facial Recognition

Posted on August 17, 2021 by gemmell

Phone doesn’t unlock because you’re wearing a mask? You need one of my masks that have your face printed on the outside. Or a see through one.

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Home Factories

Posted on August 16, 2021 by gemmell

These are garage/carport sized machines where you download a “pattern”, buy the raw materials required and place QR stickers on them, and then the machine does the rest. Can build everything from furniture to rocket ships. This works in 3 … Continue reading →

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Bottoms Up Honeycomb Blinds

Posted on July 29, 2021 by gemmell

If you get tilt & turn double glazing your in-frame honeycomb blinds no longer work because the head of the blinds get in the way of the tilt. So instead you have blinds which open top down, and close bottom … Continue reading →

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My Kindergarten Teacher VR

Posted on July 19, 2021 by gemmell

This is a VR simulation of you as a five year old. You look up and a lovely warm motherly character says “Ooh poor thing, let’s get a bandaid on that. Here, have a hug,” and is generally just a … Continue reading →

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Mumometer

Posted on July 14, 2021 by gemmell

This is like a stepometer but for children, and listens to how many times they say “Mum” in a day. “Muum, muuum, where’s mum?”. They get a quote of 100 mum’s and it buzzes when they hit 50, 75, 80, … Continue reading →

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Pre-greements

Posted on July 14, 2021 by gemmell

This is a platform for law firms to have pre-agreed on formats and positions for contracts. So you might have an Ashurst and Allen-Overy rep hash out a baseline contract for something, including various approved plays and adjustments, so that … Continue reading →

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Modmeats

Posted on June 2, 2021 by gemmell

Instead of spending bajilions creating fake meat, why not take a meat that’s considered not very paletable e.g. kangaroo, and use some food science to transform the taste to something more like beef? This is based on a little article … Continue reading →

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