November 2007
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Rainboats
So you’ve might have read that we here in the South have run into a bit of a water shortage. It’s been bad and now getting worse - fortunately, we have a little rain headed our way today and during thanksgiving. Thanks rain.
Anyways, I wanted to introduce to you a concept I have called a rainboat. It is essentially a enormous oil tanker - built specifically for capturing rain out at...
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Slim Apple Notebook Rumor
This rumor has been floating around for awhile - an ultra thin NAND-Flash based laptop computer.
So I’ll play along and offer up my guess. The notebook is your normal clamshell design, hinged, 1/2 monitor, 1/2 input area.
Instead of a normal keyboard, the whole input area is touch sensitive as a virtual keyboard, except it’s not a lcd screen - it’s cast onto the surface by a scanning laser or lit from inside the input case and projected onto the surface of the input area.
I’ll sketch it out… might make more sense.
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Let's turn body heat into electricity!
I thought it would be cool to create a mouse where most of the palm surface contained that microchip that turned electricity from heat. Your mouse could be nearly self powered!
Then I was thinking Herman Miller should develop an office chair whose seat cushion contained the same chip. All those hot asses converting electricity and tied into a battery system or back out to the grid.
My butt only leaves my seat probably 1.75 hours out of each day. And my ass is super hot. I don’t know math that well, but do the math!!!!
Devastation at it’s finest…