Category Archives: Random

Develop AI Persona for people with terminal illness

Posted on October 25, 2016 by gemmell

So your wife gets cancer and knows she’s going to die. You get her to interact with a computer on a webcam and capture as much as you can. You basically try and distill her “essence” so that you can … Continue reading →

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Mouth organ to change taste

Posted on January 26, 2016 by gemmell

This is a small programmable device that you put in your mouth (fit to your teeth?) that allows you to programmatically change the flavours in food. It could be marketed to food conisours or as a gimick. Not sure if … Continue reading →

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Punchiscope – periscope for smokers

Posted on November 29, 2015 by gemmell

Punchiscope is like periscope, but dedicated to bong smokers. Never smoke alone. It offers anonmyisation. It will also have filters so that users can put googly eyes on themselves.

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daterapedrugs.com

Posted on November 29, 2015 by gemmell

So this is a really interesting moral question. You start daterapedrugs.com and you have an online store that you can browse drugs used for date rape. It lists their effects and pundits can buy them – however we only ship … Continue reading →

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flingerie – lingerie for your face

Posted on November 29, 2015 by gemmell

The idea here is that when something is that little bit hidden it is sexy, there is something to discover. So this is a series of fashion items which partly cover the face. Basically pieces of fabric attached to a … Continue reading →

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How does this policy affect me?

Posted on June 11, 2015 by gemmell

So Ele’s pivot on an idea of Ramonas was that you could offer a “how does this policy apply to me” service. You know how you get an communication from NRMA that says they’re changing 3.1c) in their terms to … Continue reading →

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A pen that can transfer money

Posted on May 25, 2015 by gemmell

You write on a pad any command you want. The ink dissapears and a cloud executes the command. Magic and cool. So this idea came about when discussing a pay-per-use pen, so we were talking about being able to transfer money … Continue reading →

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Driving AI game to teach driving AI

Posted on May 25, 2015 by gemmell

So the idea here would be to have a learning algorithm that tries to minimise damage/ death. The second part is that it’s gamified so that people can setup these crazy scenario’s where all sorts of things happen – essentially … Continue reading →

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Portal which makes the web accessible

Posted on April 29, 2015 by gemmell

So not all websites are accessible for people who use screen readers. This site would essentially be a jquery portal where you would go, and visit the site though the portal. The jquery would inject the relevant tags for the … Continue reading →

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A slashdot like site that is news for teens that doesn’t pray on their insecurities and actually tries to enrich their lives through understanding.

Posted on April 11, 2013 by gemmell

In the book “Raising Girls” the author says that marketing intentionally makes teenage girls feel insufficient and that they need to go out and buy XYZ, or look like ABC. So I’d like to create a site which helps teenagers … Continue reading →

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