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✰ Tags formatted like <->NameOfIdea indicate relationships between ideas ✰ If you think an idea is particularly good, color title green and tag with #good. Add comments after an idea in gray

Mind Map of HackathonProjects.tk google doc: IdeaMap <http://www.mindmeister.com/223188451>

See also: startupideas.jacobcole.net

Projects Underway•IdeaOverflow IDE and PoliticalProgressBar • LiveLog • PhotoQuote + InstaQuote • BigScreen •Multiphone Speaker •Emergency Pizza Button App • Gmail status message logger • WhyIsItAwesome.tk • AdmitSphere.org • InstaDefine.com ...more active projects >>

Graph Visualization of the Ideas (click on a node and hit “Isolate Node” to start). Related: Seth Teller Random Ideas • needgap.com

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Text me for more details, support, or info about most of the ideas on here! ~Jacob

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“ThunderPledge” – a website like Kickstarter for pledging to take collective actions when you reach a critical mass. For instance, there are a large number of people who would consider becoming vegetarian for climate reasons but feel like it's pointless unless millions of others do the same. Using ThunderPledge you could pledge to become vegetarian only when a million other people have also committed the same. At that point, not only would you know for certain that your change is part of making a difference, but you would have a ready-made support group of people all trying to do the same thing.

This generalizes to many  applications – for instance organizing a boycott. Boycotts are useless unless they reach critical mass. (A friend called this “Kickstopper”!). Additionally it could perhaps be worth making a variant “ThunderVote”  specifically dedicated to the voting use case. If you are, for instance, a democrat in a largely Republican area, you might think it's useless for you to get out and vote. But using this site, you could mark who you’d vote for with the touch of a button, but only pledge to actually make it to the polls if a thousand other people of your same political leanings in your district do the same.

http://thunderpledge.jacobcole.net/

Could learn from the ProductHunt story because this idea is community based. #dima

Looking for: designer, full stack engineering collaborator. Email jacob@ideaflow.io

[#problem "India's poorest 'fear hunger may kill us before coronavirus'"](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52002734) people in India have to not enough ventilators

- if no one's there, the camera should be off; you should know when someone shows up and not feel watched when you're alone

- being able to open and close the door really easily is important too, so people can come and go when the door is open, but not when the door is closed ~David Dohan ~David Bieber <> facebook rooms

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I want to setup an always on video somewhere in one of my rooms to hang with people. I think the distinction between always-on and "acts like a door" is important though

1) if no one's there, the camera should be off; you should know when someone shows up and not feel watched when you're alone

2) being able to open and close the door really easily is important too, so people can come and go when the door is open, but not when the door is closed

~David Dohan ~David Bieber

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Brainstorm 3/17/2020

- create a product that’s like a “Uber for Students”, where different students will help each other with school work and other activities that is shown over an App. ~ Houjun

- an AR app to help people affected by the corona virus outbreak with cabin fever meet up in virtual space. ~Zachary (First author or whatever) # good , Huxley, Anahita, Oscar, Julia, Selina

<> Ready Player One #book (the Oasis) # goodbook

<> VRChat app

<> Guillermo Valle Perez #potentialSupporter #genius #oxford

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- Hospital status app which reports the number of open ventilators, or something along those lines. ~Huxley #Good

- Reduce the negative effects of loneliness caused by social distancing

- COVID-19 economy visualization  ~Anahita

- SIR infectious disease simulation-  ~David

- CNN that detects forest fires #ML

- Relevant: fion.tech ~Vajresh

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Active Projects 3/17/2020

- NeAR

- Detecting Exomoons from Exoplanet data from NASA

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[Politisort - politisort is a machine learning project that {detects, sorts, generates} politically biased tweets https://github.com/PolitiSort/PolitiSort](https://github.com/PolitiSort/PolitiSort) ~@Zachary Sayyah

Pumpkin is a social media app designed to help people hang out IRL more often. It does this through a variety of features that help people set up and organize both spontaneous meetups and pre-planned ones ~@Zachary Sayyah

Using ML and other various statistics algorithms to find methods of detecting exoplanets (planets outside of our solar system) as well as potentially investigating the integration of computer science into exomoon (extrasolar moon) detection. -- @David Freifeld

“Pitch-based scrolling- e.g. when you sing middle C, the document jumps to 50% mark. natural tool for voice recognition users/RSI/paralyzed patients  #assistiveTechnology” ~Jacob Cole

"Guitar hero typing tutor? Typing tutor that plays musical notes when you hit each key. you hit all the keys just right, it plays a song! Maybe it could be like guitar hero, where accompaniment is automatically added.” ~Jacob Cole #educationalGame #game

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‎John Maxwell‎ to EA Entrepreneurship

August 23 at 7:41 PM ·

Please steal my startup idea: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YNnG86WS8z8aYdBES/how-to-make-billions-of-dollars-reducing-loneliness

forum.effectivealtruism.org

Use machine learning style transfer to remove accents from conference calls. #ML <>Indian accent removal <> Or add accent! I’d love to add a british accent to my talks! ~Dan Dascalescu

Social carpooling app that lets you say either  “I am going to SF”, or ”I need a ride to SF”, and if any Facebook friends that are going match it connects them

What I also wish I could do is on our thing

#idea favorverse — List of all of your friends and things you can do for them that would help. For instance right now I need to get a keyboard stand 3-D printed. If there were some system that knew what things all of my friends had this could be a start. Helps people better connect with their friends and their communities.  This is the beginning of a global system where people do favors for everybody and get everyone’s needs met! ~Jacob #SharingEconomy

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Completely hands-free texting interface using voice recognition, reads back what you were about to stand before you send it, read the other persons reply to you #Idea

[#web: An instant way to create collaborative documents with reasonable URLs on the web http://instantdocs.jacobcole.net jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) 858-740-6970

[Bite-sized android/iOS app: An improvement on the basic notes app that allows you to send a Suggestion or writing you right down to a suggestion box Or other destination: e.g. I might write down "Piano in dining hall @MIT". This would make my note go to goes to The MIT Suggestion Box](http://instadefine.com/IdeaOverflow/MITIdeaOverflow/index.1.7_mitsuggestionbox.php) . Or I could say @blog and it would post the note on my blog. Feel free to email me at jcole@mit.edu Or call me at 858-740-6970!

[0Discussion/Specs are here: http://thoughtstreaming.jacobcole.net ! jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) 858-740-6970

[Web Clearinghouse for campaign donations -- Currently Democrats and Republicans donate vast amounts of money to their parties to cancel out the media noise from the opposing party. My friend Sam Galler ~smgaller@gmail.com , who is super nice, massively connected, and a graduate student at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, proposed that we build a website that acts as a clearinghouse for donations to political campaigns in the US. If you donate to the Democratic Party it cancels out the donations to the Republican Party. The resulting bag of saved money goes to charity. He has the connections to get this website, if built, on frontline media, and would love to find people who want to work with him on it. I think this could save millions of dollars, and is a #lowhangingfruit #govtech #good jcole@mit.edu 858-740-6970If anyone wants to work with me on this larger project: http://ideajoin.jacobcole.net I would be super delighted! jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) 858-740-6970

[Mind Map of HackathonProjects.tk google doc: IdeaMap.tk <http://www.mindmeister.com/223188451](http://www.mindmeister.com/223188451)>

Recreate the experience of libraries (esp. Oxford libraries!) in the digital world

InstaQuote - nice site that lets you log quotes that you like and autocompletes them as you start typing them in (with an interface similar to my site instadefine.com). Knowing the thread of quotes a person resonates with is a very powerful, and truly relevant dataset that gives you a window into their soul. You can use the data to introduce people who ought to meet each other. You can notice patterns in the progressions of quotes people like and fast-forward people's intellectual development by suggesting works that might interest them (e.g. people who like ayn rand, I notice, often later get into eastern philosophy)

<RELATES TO> PhotoQuote (idea): app that lets you photograph a quote in a book, then searches online to find the boundaries of the quote you're probably looking to note down, and adds the quote to your notebook. I find myself photographing quotes all the time. This is a big idea.

Hey guys! Let's use http://hackathonprojects.tk/ to brainstorm ideas! And actually, one of the projects I'd be most interested in is building a better web app for hackathonprojects.tk that has the following features (NEEDED: team member with d3 skills, machine learning or language processing skills):

-when you start to type in a new idea, it will auto-suggest related ideas via an interface similar to the StackOverflow tag suggestion interface. It will then allow you to click on a related idea to confirm that they are related and add a "RELATES TO" tag, denoted by the <-> symbol, to the idea

-create a nice interface using d3 to explore the graph -- the landscape -- the "world map" -- of all ideas

Here's a skeleton of a design i've been playing with so far a very proto version: http://instadefine.com/IdeaOverflow/idealisttest/index.1.3.php

Here's a sample of the idea graph explorer interface: http://instadefine.com/IdeaOverflow/ATTHackathon/git/IdeaOverflow/IdeaGrapherFishEye3/VisionCharter0.2.htm

(I would prefer to re-implement with http://arborjs.org/)

Here's my grand vision into which this project fits http://ideaoverflowideplan.tk/

Who’sAround? -- way to send messages to only to people nearby you, e.g. just the members of the HackSphere google group currently in San Diego hacksphere@googlegroups.com, without them having to make their location public. I propose the syntax hacksphere>SanDiego@googlegroups.com. Say I want to go boogie boarding with my friends in San Diego -- I send out an email/fb post to friends, with the filter currently in San Diego added. Then, only my friends whose GPS/IPs indicate that they're currently in SD get the message. It's not creepy/a waste of power (*cough* Daniel *cough*) like constantly geotracking people, and yet is in many ways a "gateway" into that world. This RELATES TO Doug's "Bam" app that allows you to post "e-graffiti", digital messages tagged to a location. (This recreates the real-world phenomenon of being able to yell out and get the attention of only people near you -- in my mind the replication/generalization of real world phenomena in the digital world is a powerful heuristic #replicatesrealworld). RELATES TO CommonPlace, "social networking for the neighborhood" https://www.ourcommonplace.com/about #lowhanging ~jcole@mit.edu

Platform for "HackerCasting" -- streaming any or all of your screen, keystrokes, mic, and camera live while enthusiastically coding, like twitchtv for hackers. EXTREMELY POWERFUL FOR EDUCATION/SPREADING HACKATHON CULTURE. We should HackerCast this event even! There is no better way to learn something than hanging around people who are doing it for fun. Education is a solved "problem" in specific subcultures

http://www.jacobblog.tpclubs.com/2012/08/hackercasting-a-big-idea/

What inspires me about this potential platform is that it is a step in the direction of truly excellent telepresence and that it is centered around the idea of expanding cultures of inspired learning to include the everyday person. I think this could be tremendously enabling.

I already do this using justin.tv and other tools and frequently get viewership during hackathons (especially in India!) but it's cumbersome. I can see the power of the paradigm already howevr -- I think it is as William Gibson wrote: the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet. Many, perhaps most, of the largest challenges in the world today – such as building societal frameworks that inspire and empower people to get involved in, for instance, doing science and creating things as a way of life -- are already solved in specific subcultures. Thus, maybe we don't need to create new cultural paradigms, maybe we can just expand the ones that are already there! In fact, I'm starting to think that the one of the largest, low-hanging, as-of-yet untapped powers of the Internet is to enable this sort of transmission of people's ways of being that are productive and happy at the same time.

Skyline Midi generator -- image process a city skyline picture  and translate it musically into a good sounding song. A music translator for cities. Weiwinnie.wu@gmail.com I haven't started yet

How To GAMIT Wiki -- Turning this into a wiki editable by any MIT student would be awesome.

Backchannel for online lectures -- A simple customizable interface that has a video (possibly from YouTube) on one side and a list of questions and comments that people have about the video on the other side. At any time, a watcher can pause the video and type a question or comment, and it will be arranged chronologically in the document, with the video’s time stamp. People can upvote and downvote questions and comments.

This is a vast improvement over online lectures with no interactivity, and addresses several concerns over the “online lecture”-ification of classes as well as flipped classrooms: specifically, students cannot ask questions in real-time, and hence there is no personalization of the lecture, and no ability to go on interesting tangents. However, neither does in-person lecture accomplish this completely because there are too many people and one instructor. Now students get to ask ALL their questions, in a time-specific manner, and a teacher can address them during class (or by commenting on the questions). This also provides the instructor with very specific feedback to improve the online lecture.

Maybe some online courses already have this feature. (Does EdX do this? If this is an immediate improvement.) I imagine that someone could turn a YouTube video into a commentable video in this sense just by dropping a YouTube link at the website, possibly setting a password for students. This immediately makes the existing wealth of educational videos available vastly more powerful.

I imagine this extending to other media besides videos. What if we did the same for every major textbook, ordered by page number? Reading a textbook no longer has to be a very independent activity; you could be connected to the corpus of all questions and ideas that other people have had while reading the textbook. A reading group’s best friend!

(And what if we could make the comments/questions not linear, but graph-like?)

[#education #<->Piazza #<->TodaysMeet #<->Concrete Mathematics, Graham, Patashnik, Knuth (one of my favorite math books; they incorporated class comments into the margins of their textbook) ~oldheneel@gmail.com](mailto:holden1@mit.edu)

WhatToDoAtMITRightNow -- Events "right now" at MIT, could be similar to CPW app

[ClickTracker: Keep track of your clicking patterns (for instance, how much you switch tabs, and go back to check your email), and compares them on productive vs. nonproductive days. There’s a study that shows people who are depressed and in front of a computer tend to switch tabs (and go back to email) a lot. My guess is that if you log someone’s click patterns and show them how much time they are wasting, they will shape up rather fast! #self-quantification ~oldheneel@gmail.com](mailto:holden1@mit.edu)

EveryDayOfYourLife:A site which asks you a number of questions every day, such as

- Did you write today? (for writers!)

- Did you ask a question today?

- Did you get out of your comfort zone?

- Were you open-minded?

- What did you do wrong today, and how will you improve?

- Summarize how you moved forward in your life today, in one line.

Etc., and records your answers. You choose the questions that it asks you, or they can come from a standard set. Perhaps they can appear with probabilities too, because a way to surprise someone and get candid reflection is to ask a unexpected question the user has no canned answer to. This site accomplishes several things:

- It motivates you to be on track towards your goals, by recording the number of yes’s in a row (COMBO!) and forcing you to say “No, I haven’t” when you failed to do something.

- It forces you to reflect every day, and reflection results in self-improvement.

- If you so desire, you can share your answers, and thus feel more connected to humanity. It’s especially interesting to see other answers to the same question. [You can “follow” people, etc.]

- It gives you hope that you are making progress (or hints that you’re not), when you look over your answers over the past months and years.

#<->750words.com (see the Metadata feature)

#<-> The Illumination (book): every day one of the characters writes one statement about why he loves his wife, and they accumulate thousands of these sentences.

[#lowhangingfruit ~oldheneel@gmail.com](mailto:holden1@mit.edu)

[Workflow sharing -- #startupidea: is to take the workflows of top students and make/sell complete sets of customize materials to help other people adopt the workflows of the super productive people. I think that that's half the battle, getting into the right life-rhythm. I bet for each stereotype of person, you can find some sort of optimize workflow and then you go and get the workflow kit for the type of person you are like are you like riley or (racks brains) my friend jenny or like cj whose system do you use well fine the person you learn like you could even make "learn like riley" or “learn like a thiel fellow” or “learn like a harvard student” “or _insert child prodigy here_” Example workflow “take a normal sheet of paper fold it hamburger style but then instead of folding it all the way to symmetry, give a quarter inch gap between the two folds then with the fold pointing to the right, fold it top-to-bottom 3 times unfold then write terms on outer flap, definitions on inner flap fold over, repeat IT'S HAPPY. I've done like 264 defines in 3 hours but actually a lot of perceived inefficiency or  failure /does/ come from shitty workflows once I have a system set up, the stuff practically teaches itself i'm just starting to hack school coursenotes: ocw formatting: latex killer ppts: magic markers THE LIST GOES ON.” In parallel, as college students, we’re  SITTING ON GOLD.(e.g.  my friends coursenotes/annotated copy of Poems Poets Poetry is a GOLDMINE. like she should just republish the darn anthology with her notes. http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/ makes his business off of this i want the workflow of someone super geniusly good - jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) (and Riley) #good

[Flow Cytometry App: I want someone to write an app that allows scientists to plan their flow panels without having to commit to the spectra of a single company.  some mobile applications exist, but these tend to be (a) clunky (b) slow (c) limited in accuracy.  Making a pretty graphical interface would not be hard, nor would importing libraries, just need a bench scientist to get together with a programmer.  There exist like many many bench scientist who would thank various deities for an effective mobile app.  I call bench scientist.  ~rileydrake@gmail.com](mailto:rileydrake@gmail.com) or 443-854-7249

app to track when people actually /do/ take their meds this is absolutely what we should be thinking about

there exist a number of drugs for which the main and important factor is the minimum blood level concentration is the important part

among these are birth control, seizure meds, beta-blockers and a whole bunch of other things

and you have to take them at the same time every day because you need to maintain minimum effective concentration

but, excepting beta-blockers, having a concentration in excess, up to about 3x the normal does, is not something that will hurt you

so, what would be cooler than reminding you to take your meds when you tend to sit down and eat dinner

is an app that analyzes when you actually do take your meds, and then suggests custom dosages based on your schedule

custom blister packs are actually not that hard, it's something that's done a lot for people who are on oral chemo and want to take more on the weekends because they have to work during the week

[it's not something that's anywhere outside of the realm of physicians to prescribe, in fact, its actually in their best interest ~riled@mit.edu <-> Nightinggale, which delian@mit.edu is doing for the thiel fellowship, is exactly this ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

SqueeMatch -- I could write a tool to find people i would like to meet at MIT and surroundings based on how often they say "squeee" in chats #peoplematching ~jcole@mit.edu

[IdeaOverflow Bite-sized HackNY Project -- email ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) or call 858 740-6970... Looking for team member with graph visualization skills like d3, or text processing (or search or machine learning skills) Project: This is the single project about which I am currently most passionate in the world ~John Lennon

Pitch-based scrolling- e.g. when you sing middle C, the document jumps to 50% mark. natural tool for voice recognition users/RSI/paralyzed patients  #assistiveTechnology

EEG-based Slumping Detector-- detect the pattern of brain activity that correlates with slumping / program that alerts me as is my posture begins to deteriorate so that I could correct it.. Could also just tells you to go to sleep. Helps people recover more quickly from RSI/carpal tunnel. Has interesting neuro/psych implications if it works as well. Would use Emotiv headset ~jcole@mit.edu

WorldThroughYourEyes -- What if you could make an app for Google Glasses or similar that follows a person's eyes and then and tracks where they are focusing. This way, you could  compare how different people focus differently, and analyze what that does to their lives. I also imagine that you could you could put on glasses yourself (or watch a screen), and then see the world through another person's eyes. ~jcole@mit.edu

[InstaBoxSite: platform to build: generalized, easy to modify "suggestion box" framework anyone can use to quickly build a website off that mold.  All of following sites and countless more are based on fundamentally the same idea of a “comments box: isawyou stackoverflow forums reddit fml formspring ideaoverflow.tk / hackathonprojects.tk](http://hackathonprojects.tk/) suggestion box/politicalprogressbar ifiwereanmitstudent.tk tumblr twitter facebook wall

[In parallel, I am able to protoype many of the websites I build these days with what is basically a google doc. Why not build a google doc with slightly more functionality that truly allows me to prototype these tools? Check out http://mitdocs.tk/ to see the potential of this. Relatedly, way for people to make a homepage as easily as they can make a google doc -- consider http://adamchu.tk/ , and http://minimalisthomepages.tk/](http://minimalisthomepages.tk/)  ~jcole@mit.edu

[Quick tool to find song playing in background of youtube video, for instance, identify the following:  http://youtu.be/OWAMr_WrDK0?t=10m52s (echoprint is what you want http://echoprint.me/](http://echoprint.me/) --- CJ)

[virtual reality game with 3d-goggles in swimming pool -- Or indoor skydiving arena that projects a zooming in Google Earth onto the floor below. Would be like <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHo2eEVSqao > except with actual indoor skydiving than. Since while you're at terminal velocity you experience no toleration, this would be indistinguishable from actual skydiving (sans the initial drop), especially if you did this with virtual reality goggles. ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

Index card sharing -- A good way to organize your thoughts is to write them down concisely. An index card seems like a good length for a unit of thought: longer than a quote or decontextualized summary, shorter than a story or lesson. Index cards seem a good way to transmit thoughts: it is easy to learn information presented in bite-sized chunks, each centered around some principle you can easily remember. The title of the card can act as a "slogan" for the principle.

I am inspired by Trefethen's Index Cards: one mathematician wrote down his thoughts on science, eduœcation, politics, intelligence, etc. on ~350 index cards over a period of 40 years and published it as a book. (http://books.google.com/books/about/Trefethen_s_Index_Cards.html?id=hJT0tgAACAAJ)

Minsky's Society of Mind also strikes me as written in a similar way: while a page is more than an index card, the fact that each section is no more than a page has a focusing effect on the reader.

There are two parts to this project: allowing the user to create a system of cards, and then facilitating sharing.

[Each index card has limited space but allows multimedia (for instance, putting in a simple picture/diagram as a symbol). You can hashtag index cards, search for others' cards on similar topics, rate cards, provide links, and make "connections" between different cards (and possibly specify the kind of connection, for instance hierarchical), much like a semantic net. This gives a way to visualize someone's thoughts (and almost "surf" their thoughts, in a way). I might have some good ideas which I write as a linear sequence of blog posts---but if I write them as index cards instead, this would force me to crystallize my ideas more, and allow them to be connected in a nonlinear fashion. Some possible uses: A card could be a quote, and then a anecdote around it. I could make one index card for every book I read, for instance---then anytime the book comes up in conversation I could pull up my index card on the phone and know exactly the thoughts I have about it, and be able to talk about it. (In fact, if I write up cards on a variety of topics, they could almost be a cheat sheet for conversation. If you had a repertoire of cards related to topics important to you, then you needn't grope for words, for instance, if someone asks about an aspect of your work. In fact, maybe they could check out your cards first, and the conversation could immediately proceed to something new!) I could use it for academics: a card could be a Theorem or Principle X, and contain the information I would need if, say, I had to give a talk wit on short notice. ~oldheneel@gmail.com](mailto:holden1@mit.edu) #organizing thoughts

[[Thoughtstream tool -- Make a central platform that integrates status messages, facebook posts blog posts, favorite quotes, and liked songs -- in other words, a platform for thoughtstreaming. RELATES TO many earlier ideas ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) [I was thinking about this. At the end of the day I want to look at all my writing activity (fb, reddit, chat), and choose to (or automatically) add things I’ve written into my thought database. That way I can tag thoughts as I write, and not have to go back and search for them, or copy/paste in the moment ~ cj@cortexel.us](mailto:cj@cortexel.us) ]

[Idea for a music project, to be performed at house parties. I tend to end up in beatbox/chant/drumming/freestyle vortices, inspiring deep conversation vortices, and vortices of the most ridiculous hilariousness. If I could record all of that from earlier in the party, and have bots layer these great moments together into music later -- music people could dance to, remember, and appreciate. . . O_O WOAH. ~cj@cortexel.us](mailto:cj@cortexel.us) #music #peakexperience #generativemusic Woa....--Rafael

[Tool or music bot for quickly turning protest chants into generative hardcore/electro/punk/folk songs, on the spot, to be blasted through speakers and enjoyed at rallies and protests. ~cj@cortexel.us](mailto:cj@cortexel.us) #protest #generativemusic #music

[Flow Me – Tool for making freestyling/rhyme/poetry unfairly easy. Suggests rhymes and alliterations as you type. Goal: to empower those with good messages and no writing skills. ~cj@cortexel.us #poetry #nlp #creativity #writing (Carl: check out http://tranquillpoet.com/ for inspiration!   Thank you!! That is awesome! This is a really elegant incarnation of the idea! Already getting a bunch of new ideas. Here are the beginnings of mine: http://cortexel.us/flow](http://cortexel.us/flow)) 3

[DeviceSymphony – mobile app/Web app that plays the same note you are singing, or plays harmonics to the note you’re playing. This way, you could put all your mobile devices out on a table and sing and be accompanied by a whole orchestra! #<->backup singer app #music ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) #good

[App/Wii game/rock band extension that lets you be a conductor –when you point towards a certain section of the imaginary orchestra, certain notes would play. This RELATES TO a humorous book I read a really long time ago called the armchair conductor ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

[Scavenger Recipe App (aka Fridgey!) -- Enter what ingredients are present in your refrigerator, and it looks up possible recipes that include the ingredients entered, ranked by ratings and difficulty to make, for those days where you have a bunch of stuff in the fridge, but nothing to eat. This app can also log and track what ingredients you have available, so you do not have to enter your fridge inventory every time. A broke college student’s oasis. ~carlton.stafford@gmail.com #<->FoodMom]

Comments:

*Cool! They are definitely similar, but not the same, for one automatically orders ingredients you do not have, and the other shows you what you can make with what you do have. Combine them possibly?

[*Question: Would ‘method of preparation’ be a worthy sub-category for the application? In other words, "Recipes that require baking", "Recipes to be prepared on a skillet." Or.. even better, “select the appliances/cooking materials accessible to you” (Can you suggest a less wordy way of saying this?) I am envisioning this in the form of a checklist. - acousticcole@gmail.com](mailto:acousticcole@gmail.com)

[*A checklist, or perhaps a filter interface, where you check appliances available, and it filters out options that would not work. That may be a little easier. carlton.stafford@gmail.com](mailto:carlton.stafford@gmail.com)

* Check out www.yummly.com

http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/08/15-websites-to-find-recipes-by.html <- it exists.

[Build eyetracking heatmap from laptop webcam -- useful for evaluating how you read different websites, self-tracking/optimizing, and evaluating websites you build. You could make a script that lets you compare different people’s reading styles and evaluate the eye movement patterns of master readers. Also for online chess you could track eye movement patterns of novices vs masters as part of the coaching -- this has been studied extensively. #cv ~hbedri@mit.edu  ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) <-> http://www.sension.co/

[Google docs optimized for instant web publishing #idea #good #lowhangingfruit ~jcole@mit.edu . An important facet is to combine with easy-to-remember domains like .tk. I was reinspired in the direction of this project after a resounding success building a collaborative doc, http://6034bonus.tk , for my AI class final notes yesterday; Google docs are great because they're such a fast way to prototype so many web ideas. See also mitdocs.tk and derivatives. I wish they just created pages that were a bit more... web 2.0-y that were a pleasure to view as well as edit. Also, I wish you could do align left and align right on the right and left-hand sides of the same line. This is, I feel, the basis for an entirely new creative outlet. Is anybody who is good with node.js want to experiment with sharejs maybe? <http://sharejs.org/ >? Note: doing so would be the stepping stone into a whole, tightly connected bunch of projects to which I've given much thought and with which I am completely willing to help. I’ve been web prototyping http://minimalisthomepages.tk/](http://minimalisthomepages.tk/) also  #<->Way to track traffic on Google Docs/quick way to assign a google doc to a .tk domain

[Way to track traffic on Google Docs/quick way to assign a google doc to a .tk domain #<->Google docs optimized for instant web publishing ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

Emergency Pizza Button app -- One click pizza ordering via a big red button, modeled after the MIT east campus emergency pizza button.  Relatedly, I want to make “Push a button, get a cookie” app for Insomnia Cookies. ~jcole@mit.edu #active

docs.google.com

PhotoQuote -- app that lets you photograph a quote in a book, then searches online to find the boundaries of the quote you're probably looking to note down, and adds the quote to your notebook. I find myself photographing quotes all the time. This is a big idea, and knowing the thread of quotes a person is interested in is a very powerful, and truly relevant advertising dataset. #RELATES TO “site that autocompletes quotes” #intentiondb <RELATES TO> OCR Book quote app on app store

Instaquote -- site that autocompletes quotes like instadefine.com  and it basically ends up letting you create a database  of quotes you're interested in

[and this is deep because quotes are your thoughts stated more clearly than you can state them yourself and if you make a db of all the quotes people think of  you get a huge window into their lives  it #RELATES TO the power of status message logging. example:  is  send myself  email  of quotes I like  for instance  "and it scared me, having a wrong thought, because it meant my mind wasn't working properly"  from the curious incident of the dog in the night-time  i just was rereading today and i realized that was brilliant  because it RELATES TO a concept  of avidya  in eastern philosophy the idea that there are some thoughts that we have that aren't true, but instead  things that shouldn't bother us bother us  and when we think carefully and relax we can learn to only be bothered by the right things  (relatedly, there's a lot to be done with etymology) #intentiondb ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

[online etymology tree #<->instadefine #<->admitsphere ~jcole@mit.edu +1 ~csvoss@mit.edu](mailto:csvoss@mit.edu)

[FoodMom -- App that tells you what to cook and automatically orders ingredients (or makes you a shopping list). Also suggest who you should cook with using the following meeting people strategy:” ~Jacob  +1 ~csvoss@mit.edu ~jcole@mit.edu #6.470 Meet people who have similar interests by matching people to each other who have mentioned titles to the same Wikipedia articles in their gmail chats, or used the same quotes. (Or it could look at your playlist history and match by music taste! (real “musicmatch”)). Cooking/eating is one of the few anchors to physical world in an era of increasing digital distraction, and we should use it to resurrect classic face to face socialization. Ideas. Starts with http://foodlists.tk/](http://foodlists.tk/) #primer #lifecoach

[I’veFallen -- app that uses accelerometer data to detect when you (an old person) have fallen. If you don’t touch a button in 1 min cancelling emergency call, it calls your relatives who check if you’re okay, and broadcasts your gps location. ~jcole likes this one -- email me if you want to work on it! #<-> ginger.io #lowhanging #humandatamining #machinelearning  ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

[WhereAreYou? -one-touch broadcast your current location (gps) to answer text msg (“where are you”). #easyui #lowhanging  ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu). #DONE, by Aaron Iba.

ThisIsHowYouSoundRightNow (or ThisIsHowYouLookRightNow) -- app that determines if you’re in “hack mode” or “lazy mode” (alertness level) by using machine learning on keystrokes. Make hack-o-meter. Also make it so that it shows a picture of you from webcam when you’re drowsy so you look at yourself and see you need to go to sleep #humandatamining #machinelearning ~jcole@mit.edu

[Sphero app idea: make angry angry templar from SCII (http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/7435938/Arcade_Highlight_%E2%80%9CAngry_Angry_Templar%E2%80%9D-9_28_2012](http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/7435938/Arcade_Highlight_%E2%80%9CAngry_Angry_Templar%E2%80%9D-9_28_2012)) -- a sphero chases whoever is holding a sphero. Would use WifiSlam? #inprogress ~jcole@mit.edu

WhenToLeave: App that tells you when to leave/what route to take so you don’t get stuck in as bad of traffic. RELATES TO Social ridesharing app (search it on page) #lifeguiding ~jcole@mit.edu

Organize related news articles into timelines so you can see the meaning of each article, and maybe join in! #intentiondb ~jcole@mit.edu

Ambient information display app -- show imgs relevant to conversationby processing speech; e.g. saying i want to know if there is paint program for macs should autodisplay it. Inspired by Doug’s #augmentedvirtuality ~jcole@mit.edu

Wa (1        1 word for personal peace) monitoring/regulating app. Maybe could use neural data. RELATES TO gracegrader. peace within the mind leads to peace within the family, peace within the #humandatamining  ~jcole@mit.edu#machinelearning #intentiondb

[CuriosityThread -- Site that shows the chain of questions/interests a person asked/followed to gain the knowledge/passion they have. Perhaps to partially populate this site, Wikipedia could track threads of browsing, and scrolling. Subsequently, tutorials (even a textbook!) customized to the curiosity profiles of different people could be made of it? Relatedly, creating a web database of the series of questions bright students ask could be extremely powerful. I would love, for instance, to have documentation of the series of questions one of my friends asked over the course of his life to ultimately gain the knowledge to get gold at the International Chemistry Olympiad. #edu #<->admitsphere #<->whyisitawesome. #active, see http://curiositythread.tk/ or http://whyisitawesome.wikispaces.com/](http://whyisitawesome.wikispaces.com/) ~jcole@mit.edu

[IdeaOverflow -- A place people can share good ideas that they don't necessarily have time to implement themselves online. I want to make a map, a connected graph, of all of peoples' ideas (and implemented engineering projects) that shows the relationship of these projects to one another. At the borders of this graph would lie the ideas that are yet to be implemented -- investigating them more deeply would be analogous to exploring undiscovered terrain on a map. This tool would help people tof come up with awesome ideas for hackathons, class projects, startups, and fun, and it also allow people to see  the trends/relationships in exciting ideas that are surging at a given point in time. Most of all, it's inspiring to think that through this system, you could bring vitality to the education industry by reducing every class project to, at worst, implementing an idea that someone, somewhere would be really excited to build if they had the time to. #intentiondb ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

[** Check out whatareyouworkingon.co by adleberg@princeton.edu](mailto:adleberg@princeton.edu)

PoliticalProgressBar -- I want to create a simple graphical interface that voters can use to quickly see what government is trying to accomplish and how far it has gotten towards achieving its goals -- it would perhaps take the form of a progress bar.

More generally, the deeper significance of many news items can be revealed on interface such as this -- if a certain piece of sustainable energy legislation passes, how much closer has it gotten us as a nation and planet to actually being energy sustainable for the forseeable future? This system would graph that kind of information on timeline/progress bar, the position (% completion) of which could be determined roughly by a consensus of scholarly opinions.

Above all, I want to make a database of thoughtful people and politicians' dreams -- their collective positive visions for how the world should be -- then find the most rational way to make those dreams real (e.g. elect the senators that have the competence, vision, and concrete plans necessary. Are trickle down economics or Obamanomics better for creating a vibrant economy that allows people to live the American dream? I don't know. Let's look at the research and find out, and take the most rational action.) #intentiondb ~jcole@mit.edu

[explorable etymology graph -- would allow you to learn vocab both quickly and deeply. http://collegeappswiki.wikispaces.com/How+to+Memorize+Vocabulary](http://collegeappswiki.wikispaces.com/How+to+Memorize+Vocabulary) #edu #<->admitsphere #instadefine ~jcole@mit.edu

[playlistforlife.com -- looks at what you're doing on pc and other devices and gives you the music for it! Or just compiles people’s coding playlists, jogging playlists, etc and lets you look them up, mix and match, etc. Could use stereotyping after learning to predict tastes #music  ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

As an addendum, possibly be prodded to change playlist depending on activity of accelerometer in mobile device. Eg, when running, when driving/working. ~jaredlwong

[Real-time politifact analysis of political ads you’re watching -- could be an app that listens to tv commercials that comes on and identifies them. could use http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/jun/24/politifact-app-now-available-iphone-and-other-devi/ . #done WHOAH IT”S ALREADY BEEN DONE http://www.superpacapp.org/](http://www.superpacapp.org/). #politicalscience ~jcole@mit.edu

[Mechanical Turk problems as reCaptcha -- service that lets you embed box that has ppl do specific types of mturk tasks AS the captcha challenges. have them do 2: one is super verified. the other less so.  Apparently, when you fill out some Google capchas it helps in Google street view For reading house numbers #hack ~jcole@mit.edu[a]](#cmnt1)

Better facebook search: you should be able to say something like “John Lennon MIT” and have it return John Lennon of MIT if such info is available (actually, i’m not sesarcheable :P) #eayui ~jcole@mit.edu

Social ridesharing app --  If your friends or friends of friends (on fb, linkedin, gmail/google+, etc) are going in a similar direction, they can be advised to pick you up, and vice versa. This would avoid legal problems with hitchhiking (not to mention safety issues). And then you could bring on "friends of friends," people who work in same company as you, etc. to expand network into, ultimately, a general rideshare.

[Relatedly, CabShare: App that tells you whether anyone else in your vicinity is taking a cab to the same place or in the same direction. Finally, what if google maps had an integrated call a cab button when you searched directions. And/or what if this were integrated with Social Rideshare/Cabshare? RELATES TO database of intentions. #intentiondb #<->”App that tells you when to leave/what route to take so you don’t get stuck in as bad of traffic>. #lifeguiding~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:~jcole@mit.edu)

Roommate-cancelling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed noise cancellation alg in your headzphones (would this work?). -Update on sound canceling headphones that take feed from tv: how about ones that cancel people talking on the phone by receiving the phone signals and playing inverse sound waves. #signalprocessing ~jcole@mit.edu

hackercasting -- streaming any or all of your screen, keystrokes, mic, and camera live while hacking, like twitchtv for hackers. EXTREMELY POWERFUL FOR EDUCATION/SPREADING HACKATHON CULTURE

now the trick is to get people to do it. Like recording good conversations, it just needs to be made ultraconvenient for it to start happening. We need to have a boxed tool and  get it announced by a charismatic and well-respected person at the beginning of hackathons saying "all competitors! Load up this tool to start broadcasting yourself live and become a coding Olympian, inspiring people all around the nation. Anybody ever wanted a league of skilled minions to follow and work on projects with you? This is the first step to becoming a hero and gaining adoring acolytes."

[This has the secondary effect of scaling exponentially and putting ordinary programmers into the shoes of inspiring leaders. I want my Mouse Army from Diamond Age. #edu #lowhanging #culturalengineering http://www.jacobblog.tpclubs.com/2012/08/hackercasting-a-big-idea/](http://www.jacobblog.tpclubs.com/2012/08/hackercasting-a-big-idea/) ~jcole@mit.edu

[Create graph of all hackathon project ideas/startups to visualize connections/trends: at the borders are less connected ideas that need be explored-- just started here and here’s](http://instadefine.com/IdeaOverflow/IdeaGrapher%20FishEye/loadideas.php)the loader (takes a list like this one ~Jacob #visualization #intentiondb ~jcole@mit.edu

newsdiffs.org — tracking changes in online news articles overtime. Github respository. https://github.com/ecprice/newsdiffs and articles in the New York Times:   #visualization #intentiondb https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/opinion/sunday/article-changes-are-shown-in-a-tool-created-by-outsiders.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

www.nytimes.com

[Browser-based distributed computing API ~SETI@home with Chrome NaCl -- Mark Vismonte started on a JS version of this... #lowhanging  ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

[Who’sAround? -- way to send messages to only to people nearby you without them having to make their location public. Say I want to go boogie boarding with my friends in San Diego -- I send out an email/fb post to friends, with the filter currently in San Diego added. Then, only my friends whose GPS/IPs indicate that they're currently in SD get the message.  It's not creepy/a waste of power (*cough* Daniel *cough*) like constantly geotracking people, and yet is in many ways a "gateway" into that world. This RELATES TO Doug's "Bam" app that allows you to post "e-graffiti", digital messages tagged to a location. (This recreates the real-world phenomenon of being able to yell out and get the attention of only people near you -- in my mind the replication/generalization of real world phenomena in the digital world is a powerful heuristic #replicatesrealworld). RELATES TO CommonPlace, "social networking for the neighborhood"  https://www.ourcommonplace.com/about](https://www.ourcommonplace.com/about) #lowhanging  ~jcole@mit.edu

[Soft tissue pattern analysis -- machine learning takes webcam video feed and assess health by facial characteristics. Relatedly, whole body health, and posture assessor? Sees whole body. RELATES TO http://www.deepakchopraleela.com/](http://www.deepakchopraleela.com/)#humandatamining #machinelearning #intentiondb #computervision #taichi ~jcole@mit.edu

Guard dog app -- uses network of data from all devices in house to determine where strange sound is coming from. Triangulation pinpoints location. If burglar is carrying a cell phone, also listens to cell traffic src to pick up on location. #<->Trespasser alert  ~jcole@mit.edu

Doorbell app -- texts you or dings if your doorbell rings? #lowhanging #<-> “one-touch broadcast your current location (gps) to answer text msg”

Helpmefindmymom/helpmomfindme app -- 1 touch app for kids lost in a theme park. #lowhanging #<-> “one-touch broadcast your current location (gps) to answer text msg” #<-> “app that uses accelerometer data to detect when you (an         old person) have fallen” ~jcole@mit.edu

[Who Do I Live Like? --  App that analyzes computer/smartphone use patterns of people throughout the day and tells them who they use the computer/smartphone like. Would figure out if hypersuccessful people use computer diifferently. Conversations, GPS patterns, etc? I feel like this data would be invaluable and enable droves of sociological research as well as an entirely new class of apps cen tered around guiding/shaping lifestyle. What gets measured gets managed -- this app's job would be to measure everything it can in the process uncovering the secrets to human behavior that can be deduced from things as subtle as accelerometer motion patterns. .This RELATES TO my earlier post of this article -- this is the new frontier: AMAZING Application of Computer Usage Statistics: "How Depressives Surf the Web" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/opinion/sunday/how-depressed-people-use-the-internet.html?_r=1&hp](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/opinion/sunday/how-depressed-people-use-the-internet.html?_r=1&hp). You could even give more government financial support to people who use their devices more healthily. ~jcole@mit.edu

GraceGrader -- App that grades how graceful you are. Correlate this with other factors about a person. Maybe could even be used for marketing/healthcare. Could be done with iphone or even webcam/computer (webcam sees if your head stays level or jerks up and down).  Maybe could even tell if you slam the keys too hard using sound data (and speed data)!. RELATES TO ginger.io #lifetracking

Jogging technique analysis app -- from machine learning of iphone app in pocket RELATES TO ginger.io #lifetracking ~jcole@mit.edu

ClackerAlert -- tells if you slam the keys too hard using sound data (and speed/jerkiness data)!.Prevents RSI ~jcole@mit.edu

Trespasser alert -- detects if someone w/ a broadcasting device is in an off-limits area (perhaps this would be computer network app) #<->Guard dog app

FaceAverage -- Research shows that statistically speaking, if you average everybody's face dimensions in a room of say 20 people, you would end up with a very attractive face because those with blatant asymmetries, outliers on either end of the spectrum, would cancel each other out. Develop Facebook app that tests this amongst your friends. ~jcole@mit.edu

[Handwriting match online either within your own sample or between you and famous person,  parallel to iwritelike.com](http://iwritelike.com/) ~jcole@mit.edu

Fisheye lenses on laptops and iPhone's so that they can see the whole room -- algorithmically undistort#~Jacob ~jcole@mit.edu

Wouldn't it be cool if you could get captioning of an event via iphone? Either broadcast by service, or realtime speech recognition. You could preload the txt of the speech into system to make voice recog. more accurate. RELATES TO PA System ~jcole@mit.edu

Slump-o-meter -- webcam (or other device!) based posture detector that tells you to go to sleep when the height of your head decreases too much during a session at the PC. A recent Stanford study showed that as the night progresses, people become progressively worse and the productivity decreases.  ~jcole@mit.edu

iPhone gong/om app – App that sings the same note as you at a deep resonant freq OR app that makes many iPhones would resonate together to create a consistent resonating sound like a gong or “om” for use in meditation to harmonize brain wave activity. #~Jacob ~jcole@mit.edu

iPhone backup singer/instrument app -- would play an electric organ or vocal tone that matches the pitch/harmonizes with that you are singing. #~Jacob

[~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)

[CloudDream -- creates cloud/ceiling popcorn patterns for artists to generate ideas for images. people see images in clouds: write a program that artists could use to overcome creativity barriers;  basically it would take a cloud formation image  and allow the artists to zoom in a specific part in incrementally improve something that resembles e.g. a giraffe until they have a full image. It’s easier to “trace” something you “see” in  the random patterns than to draw it from scratch. Our brains find patterns in everything. #~Jacob ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)#good

SpeechChat/Txting -- chat program that uses speech recognition/screenwriter to make it so that you can text/chat without ever looking at the screen. ~jcole@mit.edu

BikeSting -- #hardware a chip embedded in a bike seat that gps tracks it when stolen then police place this around city watch when it gets stolen (it broadcasts it's location to cell network) and catch the bike  theft rings then ppl are too scared to steal bikes cause they don't know if it's being tracked ~jcole@mit.edu

[CuriosityThread -- Site that shows the chain of questions/interests a person asked/followed to gain the knowledge they have. Perhaps to partially populate this site, Wikipedia could track threads of browsing, and scrolling. Subsequently, tutorials (even a textbook!) customized to the curiosityprofiles of different people could be made of it? Relatedly, creating a web database of the series of questions bright students ask could be extremely powerful. I would love, for instance, to have documentation of the series of questions one of my friends asked over the course of his life to ultimatly gain the knowledge to get gold at the International Chemistry Olympiad. ~jcole@mit.edu #active http://curiositythread.tk/](http://curiositythread.tk/)#good

[LiveLog --  Evernote + twitter (+ etherpad?). .realtime blogging -- people can see your unformed scratch thought process. entries should be hashtagged and have live search by hashtag started frontend](http://jacobsstuff.tpclubs.com/testing/LiveLog/LiveLog.htm):  ~jcole@mit.edu

[WhereAreYou? app -- instead of txting your friends how long you’ll be when you’re late you press 1 button and  it sends your location. could even integrate w/ txting/chat and see when someone msgs you “where are you”? and give you option to reply by WhereAreYou  #Completed http://glympse.com/](http://glympse.com/) ~jcole@mit.edu

GrabLunchWith app -- you press a button and it suggests where you should have lunch -- tries to recommend friends to go to same place so they meet. ~jcole@mit.edu

Academic conversations tool (matches people to each other that have mentioned titles to the same Wikipedia articles in their chats), or quotes. Or music taste! (real “musicmatch”) ~jcole@mit.edu

[Guitar hero typing tutor – letters fall down the screen, and make music when they cross the bar. By the end of it, you could use your keyboard as a musical instrument, because each key correlates with the note and you will be fluent into the nature of that correlation~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)#good

["PA System" multiphone app -- 1 iPhone broadcasts microphone (or recording) into all iPhones in the room. very interesting paradigm. http://crowdsound.com/](http://crowdsound.com/) -- not taken!

[We've got to make a Gmail statusmessagelogger -- It would log your status and those of all of your friends. Doing this is of utmost sociological importance I my intuition tells me. Could do sentiment analysis and correlate w location, school, friends etc. Are we indeed the combo of our 5 closest friends? ~jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)#good

COOL: iphone as mouse replacement app that you slide phone on desk. uses accelerometer. #good #exists  ~jcole@mit.edu

[free food/reuse finder: app that parses free food/reuse mailing lists (as exist at MIT), and tells you if free items to grab/free food is near you. Helps less food get wasted, helps people who really want stuff get it 2nd hand (Carl: check out http://harvardfoodfinder.com](http://harvardfoodfinder.com) for inspiration!) ALSO SEE BYU LUNCH BOX APP

Nap Map App -- shows you where the closest good place to nap is (perhaps start on campus?) ~jcole@mit.edu

Hacker casting – service that allows people to cast their screens while they are coding, also casts WebCam view of them, and also displays what keystrokes they're making. This way, avid learners can watch and learn how pros code  ~jcole@mit.edu

Kaleidoscope app– <->*RELATES TO secret message reading app. Also, is there a magnifying glass app?

word definer: uses OCR to define words it's easy (maybe you would touch the word on the display that you want the definition for?). I can help/advise with this one ~jcole@mit.edu

AirDraw -- Use accelerometer, and/or wifislam hyper accurate GPS data to make a mobile app that allows you to draw in the air. you could view your three-dimensional drawing by looking at it with your iPhone. In general see #<->”Window” into virtual world ~jcole@mit.edu

“Window” into virtual world app: use the iPhone as a window to look at a virtual 3-D object that has been superimposed into real space. Would use accelerometer and Wi-Fi slam to make it so that when you move the iPhone around the object you'd see it from different angles ~jcole@mit.edu

IdeaOverflow: A place people can share good ideas that they don't necessarily have time to implement themselves online. I want to make a map, a connected graph, of all of peoples' ideas (and implemented engineering projects) that shows the relationship of these projects to one another. At the borders of this graph would lie the ideas that are yet to be implemented -- investigating them more deeply would be analogous to exploring undiscovered terrain on a map. This tool would help people to come up with awesome ideas for hackathons, class projects, startups, and fun, and it also allow people to see  the trends/relationships in exciting ideas that are surging at a given point in time. Most of all, it's inspiring to think that through this system, you could bring vitality to the education industry by reducing every class project to, at worst, implementing an idea that someone, somewhere would be really excited to build if they had the time to. ~jcole@mit.edu

V.

Nowadays, everyone can access many online-education platforms beside schools. However, learning is not enough.  It is better to have some practical experiences. The project will definitely help young people around the world.  Extend the idea of working remotely or virtual works is plus tool beside online education. The idea can give everyone the chance to work whether in huge business firms or in a small group.   -Shorouq

Arti

It’s a platform that can many talented people in art fields to, so they:

-Display their artworks directly

-Sell their works

-Share virtual tour for their works (visual private exhibition and just

from your home)

-Share some video for art lessons

We:

-Enjoy their artworks

-Buy their paintings or handmade crafts

All:

-Help talented people

-Simple way to share artworks (No traveling, no extra budgets)   -Shorouq

Fixit:

Help people to find job easily as well as look quickly and smartly for the nearest electrician, plumber, etc.  You shouldn’t have a great educational background or you shouldn’t have any fancy titles to work. You are poor, you are homeless, you need some works, you need to help,..  just fill a brief summary about you and your contact information, and we will get you. In the end, you help us and we help you back. The more you work, the better your profile will be. -Shorouq

Mobile Apps:

This is a long thread specifically from my mobile apps class -- some overlap from earlier:

Here are some of my app ideas! Please tell me if you'd like to work on any of these with me! ~jcole@mit.edu

[Multiphone apps, using Alex List's Swyp: https://github.com/Swyp/swyp](https://github.com/Swyp/swyp):

-BigScreen (multiple iphones come together with make screen)

-3D sound

-multiple phones come together to make big keyboard ~ipad

-"PA System"

-gong iPhone app -- resonates multiple iPhones

-IPhone "backup singers" (multiphone)

-tuning fork iPhone app

-Everyone watches same video or sees same site or plays same song

-"telephone" game

-do the wave app, beeps when you should lift arms -- could generalize to new public performance art form

-group patterns for sports fans app

-3D scanner (multiple phones or just one moving)

-2 phones record/playback binaural data

-Deckofcards -- allows for multiplayer poker (and other card games) -- PERFECT USE OF SWYP API

-multiplayer game- game of catch or virtual tennis application

Group of people takes pictures at scenic spot, automatic composite created

If you allow, pic shared publically; enables supercomposite + time lapse. Maybe even adds result to google maps

Panorama from video

Musical Instruments (e.g. miracas, tilt-based instrument, etc app).

Giant (larger) Tonematrix

app that allows instant replay (rec's the last 30 min?) of your conversations, music, or life in general (maybe could even ID the notes)

vocal idea recorder app w/ fuzzy voice search. Also allows you to assoc photos

app that tells you if

mutual friends/friends/people w/ shared interests are in area. Useful on train or on tours?fully functional graphing calculator on iPhone or cell phone in general. Would essentially emulate a TI-89 or TI-Nspire except would use multi-touch functionality to its advantage

Political Progress Bar #in progress

Instant Document Scan, from pic or video feed. Autocorrects quality/distortion

AP English -- helps you keep track of stuff for AP english, allows you to scan your essays etc and use fuzzy ocr search

Lecture recorder w/ fuzzy voice rec. search

App that helps you stay on top of paperwork/gives you a schedule to get forms signed etc

Spy thru fence by walking past and processing video feed

OCR Word Search Solver

Mouse replacement (use phone like you would ordinary external mouse, sliding on desc) #in progress

Voice timbre extractor -- Pachelbel alert: tells you if it hears pachelbel chords in song playingtakes individual voices out of a crowd

Tone of voice detector -- tests if person is happy, or their emotion. Machine learning?

Take photos (2 shots) for viewing with 3D glasses

power saver -- turns off power when you leave house

Circadian clock advisor, regulates sle

Turns on lights as you're headed toward room?

App that helps you relax and keep balanced lifestyle

Actigraph -- figures out when you're going to sleep perhaps

Playlistforlife.com -- songs to play that go with w/e you're doing

WhatshouldIdo? Helps you schedule your day thru time-based recommendations/opportunities in your area/friend networks, plus:

WhatdoIwanttodo? Go thru binary search (would you prefer A) or B) to find what you want to eat)

20 questions beater

chess/checkers/connect4 board analyzer

anagram solver (photo-based or input based)

App you can ask what a def of a word is.

App that disables sound during prescheduled times or in preidentified places

WhatdoIwant to eat? Go thru binary search to find what you want to eat

App that analyzes vital sign from image/video?

PTSD treatment app

Speech recognition subtitles for conversations (could do auto translation too?). App that lets you make a phone call thru a human or automatic translation service.

Voice recognition texting + screen reader response for complete hands free access

Recipe app with verbal or tonal scrolling.

Map of free wifi netwApp that keeps track of everything you buy automatically (wireless dl from cashier?) so it has an inventory of

orks in area, in and out of range

App that lets you make money by permitting subscribed users use your phone as a wifi uplink

Global temp data tracking

Tide app w/ GPS.

App that tells you best surf break to go to based on tide/conditions. Maybe suggests a board as well?

virtual golf swing analyzer?

fishing game?

-iPhone or smartphone app that uses an algorithm to figure out who should order what food at a restaurant and split what with whom in order to satisfy the most people for the lowest cost (users would input what they would like and how important something is - or if it is a must-have - and how important money is, or how much money they had)

way to make payments by phone instead of physical credit card

App that suggests when people should schedule to go places for least traffic -- it would work together w/ other users to stagger times

App that broadcast data to let nearby noise cancelling headsets try to cancel your voice

IPhone based id -- lets authorized security services instantly get an image of your face on their screen as you walk in so you don't need to pull out your id

Supercamera -- take 500 consecutive photos and composites/steadycams them.

App that grades your driving via accelerometer. With more car data, you could do this even more effectively, via machine learning against crash records

"Holding a baby chicken" App that helps you move gently and gracefully. Grades your grace?

App that tries to perform accelerometer-based odometry

Jogging/biking pacer app

IPhone as segway sensor array

App to read secret physical secret messages that others have left, or id secret signs

Night Vision app (IR? or light amplification)

UV detector

Music page turner that listens to you

Piano playing grader

Face recognizer in crowd

Photograph an equation to auto-graph it.

Auto-interpolator of data points on visual chart

EasyDefine OCR

InstaDefine.com app

book companion -- has hard words that appear in book, in order, and searcheable like instadefine

App that interpolates where wifi in nearby area signals are coming from (you have to walk from point to point before it can triangulate)

Guard dog -- uses network of data from all devices in house to determine where strange sound is coming from. Triangulation pinpoints location. If burglar is carrying a cell phone, also listens to cell traffic src to pick up on location.

Trespasser alert -- detects if someone w/ a broadcasting device is in an off-limits area (perhaps this would be computer network app)

Doorbell app -- texts you or dings if your doorbell rings?

Helpmefindmymom/helpmomfindme app -- for kids lost in a theme park.

"Panic Pin" -- separate pin that you can tell someone if forced to identify your PIN (idea from idea about credit cards)

Guest login on phone?

Research shows that statistically speaking, if you average everybody's face dimensions in a room of say 20 people, you would end up with a very attractive face because those with blatant asymmetries, outliers on either end of the spectrum, would cancel each other out. Develop mobile or Facebook app that tests this amongst your friends.

Website/iPhone app that algorithmically grades beauty. Put large disclaimer at the bottom.

Makeup iPhone app: tells where to put makeup to transform face to make it most attractive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics ... nformation

Kolgomoroff complexity RELATES TO beauty! Even in art!

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Re: IDEAS!

by Trevor B Walker (trebawa@mit.edu) » Sat Feb 04, 2012 3:11 pm

I like a lot of these idea! For the recipe app, it would be cool if it could parse recipes and then automatically display the next step, along with a timer if one is needed.

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Re: IDEAS!

by Abubakar Abid (aabid93@mit.edu) » Sat Feb 04, 2012 3:56 pm

Wow, this list is quite broad. I'm not sure if this is what you mean by "App to read secret physical secret messages that others have left, or id secret signs", but I would like to make an app that makes the real world like a scratchpad for people to leave messages and other people to read them. So, wherever you are, you just open the app and read messages that other people have left at that location or write your own. One implementation could be like a virtual graffiti app, but it doesn't necessarily have to be linked with physical structures. Not sure if something like this has already been done.

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Re: IDEAS!

by Eric Lubin (eblubin@mit.edu) » Sat Feb 04, 2012 4:10 pm

Wow. very interesting ideas. here's my input:

[the instadefine.com](http://instadefine.com/) client seems pretty straightforward. do they have an API? either way, simple enough idea I like it.

[as for a graphing calculator, check out https://www.abettercalculator.com/](https://www.abettercalculator.com/). It's a web app that lets you graph functions and is pretty well developed. it used to be java-based but was rewritten from the ground up in HTML5 so is now usable on iOS.

The video-based panorama picture app sounds pretty cool also, (maybe just take multiple pictures and stitch together)?

I think I'm most interested in a deck of cards app. it could be very interesting using Bluetooth to play locally. one phone is designated the dealer and then everyone is dealt cards that only they can see. there would be a place to put down cards (face up or face down). and maybe we could include iPad support where the iPad would represent the table where the "community" cards are stored. the scrabble app makes use of this fuctionality. where the iPad is the board and each phone has each players set of letters to play. anyone feel free to expand upon this. just some food for thought

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Re: IDEAS!

by Laia Mogas-soldevila (dumo@mit.edu) » Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:07 pm

Hey Jacob,

I may be interested in : 3D scanner (multiple phones or just one moving)

I would like to develop an architecture and energy related app.

(see my post)

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Re: IDEAS!

by John Lennon (jcole@mit.edu) » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:19 am

Abubakar Abid (aabid93@mit.edu) wrote:

Wow, this list is quite broad. I'm not sure if this is what you mean by "App to read secret physical secret messages that others have left, or id secret signs", but I would like to make an app that makes the real world like a scratchpad for people to leave messages and other people to read them. So, wherever you are, you just open the app and read messages that other people have left at that location or write your own. One implementation could be like a virtual graffiti app, but it doesn't necessarily have to be linked with physical structures. Not sure if something like this has already been done.

a) I meant an app that that would be able to read, for instance, a hidden QR code that's concealed steganographically in, for instance, an innocent looking image of a lolcat. What if, to help people living in censored environments get information from the outside world, you made an app that would be able to read certain class of information codes hidden in images. The police would have trouble scanning every single postcard that enters a country, and you couldn't exactly get someone in trouble for possessing a postcard that has a hidden image in it if they claim not to know about claim (well, if the justice system works at all in such countries). This is just a completely out their brainstorm, but it kind of a cool thought.

b) A friend of mine who might actually be taking this class made this virtual graffiti app -- it's really cool! thebamapp.com

thebamapp.com

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Re: IDEAS!

by Katharine M Daly (dalyk@mit.edu) » Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:27 pm

I like a lot of the ideas Jacob has posted here. I'm interested in OCR and/or audio recognition stuff, so the essay scanning, subtitles for conversations (+ translation), or the piano grader apps stood out for me. The best idea I had come up with so far was to use OCR to convert vocab lists at the end of textbook chapters or words in the glossary into flashcards that the user could study using their phone. This would be targeted towards middle school and high school students who have vocab quizzes. There seemed to be a lot of flashcard apps in the Android market, but none that I saw skipped the time-consuming part of having to enter in all the text for the flashcards yourself.

-Katharine

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Re: IDEAS!

by Eric Lubin (eblubin@mit.edu) » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:52 pm

[There seems to be a few iOS apps that integrate with quizlet (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flashcar](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flashcar) ... 99818?mt=8) for flash cards. But I do agree taking it one step further to streamline user input of data through OCR would be neat. Anyone interested in the deck of cards idea?

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Re: IDEAS!

by John Lennon (jcole@mit.edu) » Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:08 pm

IWantA -- app that you input a list of items you want into that in turn lists all of the different ways you can get something based on what's available local to you, the Internet, etc. Then, when you happen to be nearing the date of the special sale, or a place where you can buy something, your iPhone notifies you.

For instance, I want a bike, not urgently, and as cheaply as possible. I missed the Cambridge bike auction last term because I wasn't thinking about it, but now I wish I had gone to it -- I wish my iPhone app had notified me that there was the bike auction because I had a bike on my wish list. I could also buy one at Cambridge bicycles, but it's too expensive. However, there are cheaper bike shops further out of town. Next time I travel further out of town near cheap bike shop, it would have been continued.

Additionally, I'm missing a glove right now. while visiting Yale, I actually notice that there's a North face store that I walked past like 3 times, and except for my inhibitions about absurd price, I would have bought the glove. Now I think it would have been worth it simply due to the convenience.

Additionally, this could be integrated with social networking so that if your friends are near a place to pick something up for you, it would notify them as well. Heck, you could eventually do it with random strangers with sufficient "reputation points", and maybe pay people for their troubles. The more reputable you are, the higher value tasks you're given.

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Re: IDEAS!

by John Lennon (jcole@mit.edu) » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:16 am

Experience capture. When something amazing, like a volcano eruption starts to happen, everyone in a tour group pulls out their phones together and, with a mixture of excitement, awe, and reverence starts recording the scene from slightly different angles. This would allow for full immersive three-dimensional panoramic virtual reality, three-dimensional sound image capture, and would be an amazing shared social experience to boot. It's sort of like when all of the Navi in avatar connect their nervous system-hair to the great tree to transfer Jake from one body to the other.

UILab -- toolset that allows you to design UI and UX for any kind of app, and then builds it from there. Would have elastic rectangles as div-like “boxes,” you could click on them and make them nonelastic if you wanted. More generally you could edit the UI’s of existing applications using a system like this

re: meeting other people at hackathon/checking in at event  -- talk to jacob (the guy who pitched a million things) or hisham or tejas or shri or zac

History-Tree: Browser plugin uses your browsing history to predict which pages you will visit next. This can help you in two key ways: Let’s say you are currently reading the New York Times. After reading NYT, you always go to the Economist. Once the plugin notices this pattern, it can make this transition seamless. Whenever you press some hotkey, it will show you which websites you commonly browse to next in a small tree. Secondly, the plugin pre-loads these pages, to make them render instantly once you choose to view them.

Website that allows instant food ordering with a press of a button

Anyway, the basic idea  is just to make the ideas site usable for people trying to come up with good class projects, science fair projects,  independent  projects etc.  I have ideas for  a pretty simple interface I'll talk about soon.

Mostly, I want to do this because I personally have >10 projects that are just itching to be made real, like right this second, and I know that there are  plenty of people who would be excited to work on them. I would want to have a nominal foot in them, but I can't possibly do them all myself. I know good things will happen if we pull this together.

-Political progress bar: lists all current initiatives by government, and shows where each of them are. This could be used to  coordinate disjoint congressional activity.

[-App that lets you use a phone as a replacement for computer mouse. Instead of having to carry around an actual mouse, use your phone!  Would use accelerometer and/or camera. It's not been done before, though http://mobilemouse.com/](http://mobilemouse.com/) is related #~Jacob

-Slump-o-meter -- webcam based posture detector

-T9 Predictive Keyboard Layout for PC

-Guitar hero typing tutor? Typing tutor that plays musical notes when you hit each key. you hit all the keys just right, it plays a song! Maybe it could be like guitar hero, where accompaniment is automatically added.

How about a  Netflix-algorithm-based scholarship matching site  (you get matched to people you are like, it's not a blind search. I have an exact vision as how to do it)?  The same engine can be used to help you find activities on campus  or in your area.

-  if you were to average all of the parameters of the faces of  people in a relatively large room, the resulting face would likely be very attractive, because it is extremely balanced. app/Web app that automatically merges faces

-Dormhole (MIT-Stanford Wormhole++)

Let's put a 3D TV in our floor lounge and make it into a 3D wormhole between colleges (Dormhole!)

-Princeton 3D sound technology for speakers --->

-face-recognition technology to match you with the other college that has the most interesting person to you, based on concepts mentioned in GChats and FB friends

---> get grant to build a larger one in student center afterwards. Use expensive 3D tv that works w/o glasses

-iPhone backup singer/instrument app -- would play an electric organ or vocal tone that matches the pitch that you are singing. #~Jacob

- approximate voice-recognition search of YouTube videos

- quizlet aggregator.

-voice recognition/text-to-speech hybrid texting or chat client. Then you could talk via headset w/o being near machine!

-filter that can tune to a specific voice timbre, so it can hear what an individual is saying in noisy room

-noise canceling headsets that network with your roommates computer microphone to cancel out precisely what they're saying before it reaches you

-iPhone gong/om app – many iPhones would resonate together to create a consistent resonating sound like a gong or “om” for use in meditation to harmonize brain wave activity. #~Jacob

Use  machine learning and/orsentiment analysis of people's  personalities/saying/doings on social networks to help  people make college decisions.

Science projects:

Is it impossible to construct a macro scale Brownian ratchet?

Investigate under  what circumstances and to what extent photons motion is influenced by the item projecting them. For instance, if you have a laser sideways, the photons move sideways. But if you move the laser forward and backwards, the photons velocity is not affected. Why is this?

[Can a strategy such as Beal and Sussman's controlled hallucination algorithm](http://web.mit.edu/jakebeal/www/Publications/NIAI-2008.pdf) beat Captcha in theory?

-***GOOD IDEA*** ***COMMERCIALLY VIABLE*** web site that has a bunch of real people's embedded lists of scholarships that they applied to/are applying to. it would list the basic description of the person, their skills, their achievements, their interests, and the list of scholarships that they are applying to.  What this would allow people to view is essentially find a person similar to them (maybe even income if anonymous) and see the scholarships of the person applied to.  This arose from a bunch of people asking me for a list of scholarships that I applied to. This is better than simply searching blindly on scholarship match web sites because it circumvents the individual scholarship vetting process; people don't apply to use the scholarships, or at least they wouldn't include them in the lists they submit. the key is to make this easy, like simply asking a friend for a list of scholarships.  The lists could either be plain text, or parsed by a regular expression that will naturalistically interpret the input to identify the deadlines and titles and links to each scholarship. Another useful feature would be to have a username based lookup so that friends can share their own lists. Only a simple database of initial lists is necessary to begin this process; 20 or so profiles perhaps.

(This is a long GDoc O.O) So hear me out here, what someone were to create a program that sat and listened to a conversation (or indeed a lecture) and then provided analytics on which words were used most frequently, working out what topics were talked about, etc?

-> Might I suggest .. dropbox paper? Or Notion?  It’s easier to make a sort of freeform wiki using those tools

Interested:

[Ryan D’souza: dsouzarc@gmail.com](mailto:dsouzarc@gmail.com)

[Jared Moskowitz        jared.moskowitz@tufts.edu](mailto:jared.moskowitz@tufts.edu)

[Joel Kottas jkottas@u.rochester.edu](mailto:jkottas@u.rochester.edu)

[Yush Gupta yush.gupta@gmail.com](mailto:yush.gupta@gmail.com)

[[a]](#cmnt_ref1)That's what Recaptcha does already. https://www.techradar.com/news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-been-training-ai-for-years-without-realising-it