Half-baked Ideas

  Some major pain points for buying airplane tickets are that prices fluctuate by the minute, there are so many different classes of tickets, and there are so many hidden fees.  The result is that few people know how much they will end up spending on a flight when all is said and done.  Some […]

  Most journalism we see on the internet is drawn from the media of just a handful of most influential countries in the world.  Many people go to BBC News for world news, but even then the news is filtered through a Western point of view.  The major news events from minor countries are often […]

Many Internet-users today have user-generated content spread across several different social networking and review sites.  It would be helpful to find all of a user’s public content displayed on one page in one timeline. A similar concept called “nameplate sites” already exists.  However, nameplate sites are only pages with links to a user’s various internet profiles and […]

If you had to eat the same meals each day for the rest of your life, what would you eat? Many have tackled this question, but there is still no definitive answer.  Each proposed diet either has deficiencies when followed long-term, is not suitable for everybody, or is so unappealing that it cannot be sustained. […]

  Most people today have come to rely on their local power company to provide electricity to their homes.  While this form of electricity distribution is highly efficient and stable, most people have no backup plan for when the local power company fails. Moving from the current grid power model to a more distributed model […]

  I’ve always been a fan of automatically updating random wallpapers on my computer desktop.  It stimulates the mind and breaks the monotony of working at your computer each day.  But wouldn’t it be cooler if your wallpaper updated every minute instead of every day? The wallpapers can be drawn from webcams.  You should be […]