Category Archives: Technology

Guide – the Google Assistant for children

Posted on February 23, 2021 by gemmell

After buying my daughter a tablet with Google Assistant and watching how poor it was at giving her answers to her questions I thought I could do better. She’s 6 years old and asks 6 year old questions. “Why are … Continue reading →

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Pneumatic anti-roadkill device

Posted on February 10, 2021 by gemmell

Sits at the front of your car, detects an impact and releases a jet of air to push the animal out of the way. Either that or an external air bag that detects an impact and inflates, hopefully sparing the … Continue reading →

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VR Meditation Platform

Posted on February 9, 2021 by gemmell

After trying the new Occulus device I was impressed by just how immersive it was. Then whilst doing a guided meditation on InsightTimer I was finding it difficult to focus. Then it hit me: We should use a game dev … Continue reading →

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LendUp

Posted on October 27, 2020 by gemmell

A micro-investment platform where you can make a micro investment (e.g. $500) that bubbles up to the top level so that the controllers can participate in micro-lending or any form of lending that generates a profit for the microlend. This … Continue reading →

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Video Chat Catch Up for Later

Posted on August 4, 2020 by gemmell

Perhaps this is now possible with MS teams allowing plugins, but the idea is that when you have people who come late to a meeting, you either wait for them or you repeat yourself. With the VC4Later addition to the … Continue reading →

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CarBed – Killer of Cities

Posted on July 15, 2020 by gemmell

Imagine you go to bed at night with your wife as per normal, but during the night your robotic bed wakes up, ferry’s you to the car and loads you in (think like a coffin into a hearse). The car … Continue reading →

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Hydroponics using just energy and (sea?) water

Posted on July 1, 2020 by gemmell

So you can make Ammonia (NH3) by taking water molecules, splitting it into H2 and O2 via hydrolisisers, and then using a plasma (or the Haber Bosch technique) to combine the H2 with Nitrogen from the air to produce Ammonia … Continue reading →

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CodeTest

Posted on June 30, 2020 by gemmell

This is like Codility or HackerRank but based on convention over configuration and some tooling around git repositories. Essentially you have a tool which can run over a github repository and create a test site. Underneath each applicant it’s sent … Continue reading →

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The Reveal

Posted on June 30, 2020 by gemmell

A site dedicated to 30 second clips where some amazing sight is revealed. The idea is that you’ll post up a video of not just famous places but beautiful scene’s in your neighbourhood. Eventually I would want 3d so that … Continue reading →

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Dirty Lake Clean Pool

Posted on May 25, 2020 by gemmell

There are plenty of cities in the world with a big ol’ dirty artificial lake in them. Usually brown in colour, not great to swim in. I was thinking about how you could create a clean pool for swimming in … Continue reading →

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