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1. Combining the mio water flavoring , which gets very good reviews in his category ,into a cap of a reusable water bottle ,similar to pillid[2]

2. Pcb layout design, in the electronics industry, is somewhat similar to games like pipes. So why not gamify pcb layout[3] ?

3. Recently i read some interesting research about some electronic circuit. It would have been very useful to get access to a full diagram/layout and a module to buy and play with.

[2]http://store.nalgene.com/product-p/pillid.htm

[3]http://www.chipestimate.com/blogs/IPInsider/?p=2126

http://tempoautomation.com/ is working on a solution for the pick and place part. Maybe they know of solutions to the other parts.

For the indian market Worldhaus.com has a roof/floor panels that reduce construction cost and time by around 40% and blocks that reduce construction time by 50%.

There's some research that at least some expert systems("decision support system") implemented in the right culture do improve medical services[1].

But still due to huge resistance by doctors, who like the autonomy of the job, such systems are rarely used.

I could only imagine how rapidly such systems would improve if the backbone of medicine would be dependent on them, and enough revenue would be shifted towards them.

[1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24573664

Google glass doesn't look like a risky bet.It seems pretty safe to start with the workplace market and go from there.

If a consumer market appears due to all the people playing with glass, google would have decisive advantages: the best "workplace" appstore(and the best device for dual use), a lot of development invested in the product, large developer community , brand and volume.

And if a consumer market won't appear, the workplace businesses seems pretty big.

Google does invest serious cash in futuristic technology outside of it main business lines, things like robots, drones and construction software. I don't think they lack "goodwill" for innovations.

It isn't dynamic as far as i know.

You don't need to review all that code. From the qubes architecture document:

"it is possible to move all the drivers and driver backends out of Dom0. The same is true for moving the IO Device Emulator (ioemu) out of Dom0."

The idea behind qubes is to use the security properties of virtualization layers to enable a secure , easy to use system. Given that virtualization layers are relatively small ,code wise ,that's a good place to start.

Given that amazon uses xen in the EC2 platform(as many others), we're not only talking only about "worldwide collection of software engineers " but also of some serious commercial interests in it's security.

And XEN might not be the end point of that approach. There has been some research on formally verified hypervisors.While it's not 100% foolproof since you still have to depend on hardware security, which is a unknown(does intel cooperate with NSA?), that could give great assurances for system security.

There are modeling innovations in research, few I know of(probably many more availble) :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7458922

Another huge innovation in modeling is machine learning, and it can build very complex models(in many cases far accurate than rule based models) using a relatively simple interface.

Lack of eye contact in video chats greatly hurts the experience and is probably the source of the difference between it and face to face chat.

Using something based on [1] but a bit better(for example , let's you cover maximum screen area) could be a decent solution for this.

[1]http://hacknmod.com/hack/laptop-mod-eye-contact-video-chat/

Dynamic search anonimizer: most of the times google's personalized search is much better than anonimized search services like duckduckgo. But in certain query types anonimized search is highly preferable.

What about a service/browser extension that understands thoses difference and guide the search accordingly ?

Since private marketplaces over the internet seem to spread everywhere and do have some monopolistic power ,i wonder, is there a more open strategy that works against such markets ?

Technologically it does seem possible. But if they have built it, won't somebody else built similar factories, and than a race to the bottom would have begun and nobody would have made that much money , especially relative to the money they made with new generation every 18 months ?

The problem with wearables is that it's far easier to design a new wearable than a mobile OS. So this field is swamped with competitors ,some of are pretty innovative and some are very good at the cost game , and collectively they try many possible products.On top , there's no ecosystem to build(app store) so copying is far easier. Same goes for smart appliances.

Does buying groceries online in the UK is cheaper than buying them offline?

The median income for game in the app store was less than $1000 in 2011. I'm sure it has came down since.

For critical jobs that can't find workers, there can always be some draft like mechanism, wheres people share this work. Once in while(probably long while) doing some dirty job isn't that bad as a price for basic income.

But i agree with many people who replied to your thread - this would be a very small problem.

Do it slowly. Yes inflation can happen due to increased demand , but raising the amount of money slowly enables increased supply, which will cause prices to go down.

It doesn't work in supply restricted things like real estate thought, so other solutions might be needed for that market.

There we're rumors they are working on watch that detects heart attacks by listening to your pulse.

You're probably right, and maybe smartphones are unique in that case.

I wonder what will happen if amazon would decide to strongly promote online-only (or even amazon only) products, offered at a lower price ?

I think i missed something. I just looked at the book "from concept to consumer" and they give an example of a real product that sold at retail for $50(went to retailer through a distributor) while the manufacturer got only $19 ,i.e. 38%.

If it was online only, it could go for half the price , while offering 24% margin($6) for online sale and logistics(excluding shipping), which i believe is pretty reasonable for that market.

35% is half of what's left after cost of components. i consider 51%(35%+) as most.

Instant messaging has some interesting research[1] as a solution for solving the communication/interruption conflict:

" Analysis of these data indicates that IM use has no influence on overall levels of work communication. However, people who utilize IM at work report being interrupted less frequently than non-users, and they engage in more frequent computer-mediated communication than non-users, including both work-related and personal communication. These results are consistent with claims that employees use IM in ways that help them to manage interruption, such as quickly obtaining task-relevant information and negotiating conversational availability."

[1]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007....

AFAIK, motorola does make a small profit over the moto-g.They're not subsidizing it.

And online only without marketing can offer 35%+ decrease in price, which fits my comment.

Business wise, one interesting thing about the G is that it's launched online-only only(or online mostly) ,without big investment in marketing(since the product is so good it markets itself).Those savings are a big part why it's so cheap.

Usually ,in electronics products are priced around 3.5x of their components costs, with most of the cost difference going towards marketing and offline retailers(who than dictate online price). This is usually done in order to get a large volume of orders.

Hopefully the model will shift to online only, offering consumers much lower prices and better products,and a much easier entry point for makers - since getting access to retailers is really hard.

Usually the scripting part is relatively small, i believe.

How much percent of writing such a tool would be in python ?

The most realistic case of something close to this scenario happening, is that virtual reality will greatly improve and people will prefer to mostly live there.

And in virtual reality ,marginal cost does go to zero.

The problem with healthcare is

1. Politics that prevent innovation, i.e. regulation.

2. Disruptive innovations, i.e. innovations that trade quality for cost have negative view by consumers relative to other industries.

Change those ,and tomorrow we can have a serious reduction in costs, and within a decade or two a huge amount of cost reducing innovation.

BTW 1 and 2 can be partially solved by targeting poor countries with disruptive innovations , letting them improve and prove their quality there, and then transfer them to the 1st world.

OK, you don't like inkscape. but why rule out python? it's faster to code than c++ and more important, it will be far easier to get code contributors(and probably kickstarter support ).