Instant Camper

This is courtesy of a good friend of mine. The idea is cool: its
basically a big magnetically held in place screen material that you
have stored in a roll in your car. When you can't find a place to stay
in terms of a motel you whip the screen out and throw it over your car
and then you can unroll your windows without bothering about flies and
mosquitoes. You also font have a disgustingly foggy sweaty car the
next morning. The edge of the material is all flexible magnets.
Kowabunga!

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Giant pole wind generator

Winds that blows pushes the top of the tower (which has a large scoop
that always points toward the wind) and the bottom of the tower moves
in the other direction. The generator is below ground.
This idea, if possible, is x5.

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Band: Overhead Transparent Sea

A/V kids know what I'm talkin bout.

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No more free raw material!

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From: Aaron Campbell <glowplug@gmail.com>
Date: January 29, 2008 12:52:58 PM PST
To: "go@blogger.com" <go@blogger.com>, "." <.>
Subject: No more free raw material!

Maybe this is a bit farfetched and perhaps in some cases might be detremenental to recycling, but I confess that I'm tired of giving away raw material to people who make it into something else in order to sell it...sometimes.

I guess the idea is to make recycling more attractive to the recycler by paying him a bit to do it. Five cents a can in Oregon is a start, but what about all the rest of the things that we recycle?  The trash co comes and takes our paper, plastic, glass, and compost to make something else with it or sell it to a different co who makes a profit from it. It burns me up a bit, but maybe I've forgotten a key reason they do it, like maybe they do it at a loss. Hmmm.

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Hypercolor Wall Covering

Paint that changes color with heat. Or, like in the Pacific Science Center, a wall that holds differences in light for a brief amount of time, glowing briefly. Hmm, perhaps glow in the dark paint that's less expensive is the real idea here, but I also want color changing walls, so there you go. 1.5x ideas

Web Magnifier

I want a tool on my mouse that works the way that old Apple MacOS system 8 did for the viewing impaired: A keystroke triggers the mouse (or a tap on the screen somewhere) to become a big magnifying lens, with the ability to mouse click from within it. When I use the key functions or preferences to make the viewing font bigger, the images and text within those images are still small. Did I miss some function in Firefox that lets me do this?

Home Wiring Gun

This may be totally unfeasable, but then again...
If the right material was engineered, one should be able to lay down wires (insulated, even) with a caulking gun. Just squeeze out the wiring goo and install the wires without having to staple or nail or snap them in. Easily painted, won't come off, great for low-voltage wiring.