Product Ideas

# Created: 2024-01-08; Modified: 2024-01-12

• A hidden USB port on a random old brick wall.
• Black-and-white glasses
  • Upside-down glasses
  • Infrared light to visible color
• Pair working (company must have an even number of employees).
• Echo effect using multiple Zoom clients.
• Disk profile like film LUT.
• Sensory deprivations as a service.
  • Atlanta
• Subtitle search for efficient video mashup
  • playphrase
• AR model viewing APP that anchors the object at a point in space (use motion and gravity sensors instead of vision), useful for sectional viewing of architecture.
• A physical hash generator that are intrinsically unique for generating password from a simple seed like URLs.
• Customized video service that focuses on reviving old-school TV experience. (What’s good about old-school TV?)
• A meta protocol for building communication protocol from the ground up (2023-07-16)
  • A runbook that establishes communication with aliens within finite steps.
  • Ref: What is the future of databases?
• 不锈钢的指甲贴片 (2023-07-13)
• Text Watermark (for anti-piracy)
  • There’s a ground truth of text. Re-arrange it (without significant deterioration) to encode an identification code.
  • Each reader (buyer) is randomly assigned such a code (because the capacity is not enough to generate unique code for each person).
  • Over-time, we can identify the person by looking at all the leaked patterns, then ban him.
  • “A Watermark for Large Language Models”
• An activity game where teammates are strangers to each other, but they have to transmit message in broad day light.
• 隐喻词典
  • 《现代派文学辞典》
• 微缩建筑模型，微缩小人进入，摄像头VR探索
• 家里的布景，e.g. 电梯
• 戴眼镜的玩偶 (2023-11-04)
• 泳池做书房，顶层的贴砖阳光房（叶永烈，必须写下我们）(2023-11-19)
• LLM 是 deterministic 的，很适合作为社会科学的函数 (2023-12-09)
• 用意大利面做的沙锤 (2023-02-26)
• Game idea: grab a chair and walk a long way to the mountain and enjoy the sight.
• Electric toothbrush as vocoder/talkbox.