Category Archives: Technology

Re-breather (Frankenstein Edition)

Thinking about breathing under water, it turns out that fish pull oxygen from the water to and put it into their swim bladder. So you could, in theory, tap into the fish biology to pull oxygen directly from the water.

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Tails!

Someone told me they had a dream that they were wagging their tail and in real life, they managed to pull their coxic out of line. They had to see a specialist to get it back in, and apparently, your … Continue reading

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Wifi Based Kids Radios

My daughter’s best friend has covid, but they’re able to chat to each other over regular RF walkie talkies. Given they’re both at home, it feels to me like you could sell little units that are connected to the wifi … Continue reading

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Pre-greements

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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Formalising the Bank of Mum ‘n’ Dad

This is an app and legal structure that formalises investments through other parties. Like p2p loans. The idea is that mum & dad give you a $200,000 loan to help pay for your first house, and how do you repay … Continue reading

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Guide – the Google Assistant for children

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

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

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

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

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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