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The science of drink refill

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 25, 2010

It’s interesting research. If it becomes a product it might lead to better service. In making a more general point I take some issue with the interactivity part of the glass. Don’t most people want to interact with others and not with messages on a surface when in a bar? If it becomes a product I think it has to be extremely discreet, almost invisible and serve as an aid to better overall service without replacing or substituting humans!

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Synchronized movie plot summary

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 25, 2010

A page or teletext message that explains what has already happened in the movie you couldn’t watch from the start or summarize how it will end in case you want to quit watching before it’s finished.

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Free paper strips, useful or not?

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 25, 2010

I saw this at a Starbucks the other day. They are blank strips of paper and there is pen next to it that you can use to write down stuff and tear the strip. Pretty clever and useful! I haven’t seen it in any other places so far.

I wish there was one at a bar when I wanted to write my phone number and give it to a girl whose boyfriend happened to be sitting not far from her. Uhhhhh :-(

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In panic we fall!

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 25, 2010

Something’s not right and some things I can’t understand… When we say a lot of people lost money in a credit gamble where do these losses go? Aren’t the losses someone else’s winnings? How is it possible that everyone is losing money at the same time? Unless people lost something they never had that should never bring us into the kind of recession everyone talks about, you know there’s no money to go around any more. Where can the money really go? It doesn’t just fly…Seems to me this global financial crisis is more a symptom of an economic transformation, the winners of that credit spree will decide the new direction of economic growth but who are the winners? News are full of losers but no one is pointing at the winners who will essentially be the new lenders. I think that is what we need to see more of in the news, stories of winners so that we know where to apply next for work and funding for new projects

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Deactivate roaming sms

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 25, 2010

We should have the option to deactivate receiving sms when roaming because it costs money. Receiving text message is free when not roaming but costs when roaming. Many times I am traveling and I receive advertising sms for which I get charged. It’s only fair for companies to allow you to deactivate receiving sms when you don’t want to and have them delivered when you’re not roaming so you don’t get charged.

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Talent or Hard work?

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 10, 2010

What’s more important for you to have…

For me it’s obviously talent because even with minimum effort the results will still be more impressive than if I had no talent at all. No mater how much effort you put into something if you lack talent you are severely disadvantaged.

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Let’s be serious about dodging…

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 8, 2010

Let’s punish politicians who dodge questions in important debates. Here’s one way to do it. Since audience responses to candidate’s questions are monitored how about we asked the audience to indicate whether they think a politician answered the question or dodged it? If the audience thinks the politician dodged it, the verdict is broadcast live and the moderator asks the politician to answer the question again!

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Thou shall hunt but not kill!

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 3, 2010

If new and agile robotic game animals are invented would you support banning the hunting of real animals? I think robotic game hunting is a great idea because animals facing extinction due to excessive hunting will be saved. Hunters can hunt all year round and do it for the fun of the game and not for the kill. They can use laser rifles to shoot animals of all kinds. This is how we can perhaps produce perfect hunting conditions using robots.I can imagine huge hunting parks where the robots mimic the movement of the real animals using gps technology. The hunting area is split into two. One side is a habitat with real animals roaming freely and the other is its replica where robots roam. Each robot is tagged into a real animal whose exact movements it replicates with great speed and agility. If you looked at the two parks from above you would see two sets of animals moving the same and hunters using laser-rifles making normal-rifle sounds trying to beam into them. If we can produce perfect hunting conditions using robots, I don’t see why we shouldn’t ban hunting of real animals

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The future of conversation and mobile internet!

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 3, 2010

Mobile internet is great! We will all become addicted to it and soon we’ll all be interrupting each other. Sorry, let me check what you just said. Hold on a second, I can look it up. Hey I can look it up too. No guys no, I’ll look it up and I’m telling you it’s not true. Yeah but did you check that one too? Cool, my friend just sent me this, like it? Like it but check out mine. Nice, hey it’s time to go, nice meeting you guys, didn’t talk to each other much but it was fun looking that stuff up. Next time? let’s don’t even come here, we can do it from home right? right. Impossible?? Yeah, wait till you get one too :)

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Multi-screens for mobiles

Posted by: thinkaloo on: January 3, 2010

I saw the 3-screen laptop but I am not sure many people will use it. For one it adds weight. Foldable multi-screens make more sense for mobile devices which are much smaller and lighter to carry. I can see immediate applications. Say someone can make a video-conference call on one screen and browse the web or type email on the other. Multi-screen makes more sense on a mobile device than carrying a heavier laptop around

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