Grow Trampoline

Posted on January 4, 2025 by gemmell

I have noticed that the patch of grass underneath my trampoline does not do well. I think it’s too shady. Enter the trampoline grow lights! Literally a couple of diffusers on the sides that put some light down underneath the trampoline so the grass doesn’t die. Could do it with LEDs and solar panels, but hell, you just need a couple of mirrors really.

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Roomba Helpers

Posted on January 4, 2025 by gemmell

These are miniature robots that ride ontop of your roomba, jump off and move things out of the way so the roomba can vaccume. Think of them like cute little garbage men animals that can heave a pair of socks to the laundry. They ride on the roomba and essentially “help” it to do a better job.

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RoboDyson

Posted on January 4, 2025 by gemmell

This is a 4 legged robot that looks like a newborn bambi: skewed legs that angle into a small metal body and a fully fledged regular cordless Dyson vacuum cleaner as the head. Essentially it replaces your wall mount dyson, and you can pull it off and do your vacuuming, or you can command the thing to do it for you, and it walks around your house like an odd animal hoovering up all the dirt. The cool thing is that it could use the dyson swivel heads far more effectively to get around chairs and things (but less effective than an irobot to get under things).

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Rental AIgent

Posted on September 17, 2024 by gemmell

Let’s be honest, real estate agents who handle rentals are the worst. Wouldn’t it be great if you could email the agent and they did something? Enter AIgent. It can organise plumbers and all that ails your rental property. Manage payments etc.

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MagJoint

Posted on September 11, 2024 by gemmell

Similar to the last post, I’m trying to avoid invasive hip replacements. In this solution though, two membranes with embedded magnets are implanted so that one membrane on the hip repels one membrane on the head of the femur. The great thing about magnetic repulsion is that there is no friction. So what you end up with is a joint that moves smoothly, and reduces impact on the already stressed bones.

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ExoHip

Posted on September 11, 2024 by gemmell

So I had a hip replacement. It’s a big op where they cut off the top of your femur and replace it with a ceramic one. But why? Because the bone is sorta damaged and there’s no cartledge it between the two bones. What if you could take the pressure off using an exo skeleton? Like it’s just creating an external transfer of forces that takes it from the hip to the femur but skips the actual joint. It might enable people to avoid hip surgery.

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Wetware

Posted on August 9, 2024 by gemmell

This is an idea revolving mostly around the name: we sell the physical equipment, software, and personalities that turn off the shelf robots into sexbots.

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Green Compute

Posted on August 9, 2024 by gemmell

This is the solar powered shipping container of GPUs for bit coin mining but for a different purpose: serving compute.

The core proposition is the same, when power plants are generating too much energy the numbers may come out that it’s more profitable to run compute resources than put power onto the grid. Each container is added to the “green compute” network & pricing is premium because it’s 100% green energy. Sure we want them to store the electricity in batteries, but if it’s ultimately to be used on “training AI” then why not just train when the sun shines?

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Software Platform For TradieBot

Posted on May 23, 2024 by gemmell

So humanoid robots are coming. Fast. One day there will be one in ever home. What I want to do is to start building the software platform for tradies and other visitors (medical staff?) to remote into these robots and operate them as if they were on site. Imagine you needed someone to check out your dishwasher, and they just remoted into your homebot and looked at it, ran some tests, fiddled, diagnosed and ordered some parts to be delivered to your door, which on arrival, they remote into the bot and install. The remotely operated robot completely upends the typical tradie booking system where they have to travel to a site and do work, and customers have to wait for said tradie to show up to let them in.

What I am saying is that we become the software platform that provides the telepresence, control, security, booking system etc.

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Cycle Drive

Posted on May 23, 2024 by gemmell

For people who have to commute, they don’t have time to exercise. Similar to the “gym car” idea from a while back (gee, wouldn’t that be crazily dangerous!) the cycle drive is an adaptation for the pedals where you are essentially riding a recumbent bicycle while you’re driving the car.

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