"I love the idea of a tricorder, but please, invent something that is PASSIVE."

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#include <stdio>
#include "acpi/dilithium.h"
#include "sf/medical/diseases.h"
#include "sf/shared/science/scanner.h"

int main(void) {
  scan_for("Cancer");
  printf("You have cancer!");
}

The Eye Writer guys were at the Open Hardware Summit, their work allowed the graffiti artist Tempt to continue to create after he lost use of his arms and legs to Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Their methods used webcams for eye tracking, while the articles method uses electrical signals from eye muscles http://www.ees.intelsath.com/EES-EOG.pdf

The more the merrier!

Shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level!

All the record labels could sell music on-line for a reasonable price?

For all of the technologies they have shut down, they certainly could have assimilated a few.

Still to this day, nothing beat places like mp3downloads.ru (I think that was its name, circa 2001). Pick your songs, download at whatever quality/format you wanted, priced accordingly.

People will legitimately buy something if given a fair and reasonable option.

Mine is 8" when floppy =)

Grooveshark and Last.fm have a large area of non overlap.

* Last.fm provides a great social aspect to your favorite music, as well as to the band/song bio pages.
* Last.fm's tag/artist/genre stations are great for honing in on what you want to listen to.
* Last.fm has great coverage of indie artists (Especially 8-bit chiptunes)
* Last.fm lets artist songs to be aired in full during streaming, but only sampled for 30 second previews (if they want to sell them for instance)

Grooveshark and Pandora are great for things more mainstream. Soundcloud and Last.fm are hands down the best, for the rest.

It's been stated already, GPS is just where you are. Its road metadata and routing that gets you. I'd like to point out the wiki style road map system Open Street Maps http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Easy to upload your own tracks and create roads out of them. The OSM wiki has lots of information on apps that utilize the data, I even used it on an old Nokia Series60 phone. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin is how to use the data over the default maps on Garmin.

Valve does this with their Steam client for games like Half-life that support play on Mac and PC. It's quite useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)#Steam_Cloud Ignoring the 'Cloud' buzzword, this and Firefox-Sync are very useful, especially for dual booting win/linux or mac/win machines.

I think this is one of its (and these online 3d printers that keep popping up) excel at, custom one-off small scale items. I know some grownups who are addicted to their doll house furniture. The would flip if you showed them Google sketchup's furniture shape library and said 'print out whatever you want'!

"Mr. President, we must not allow... a mine shaft gap!"

Speaking of 3D rendering, most of them output HDR which would be awesome to see without being tone mapped!. (LuxRender has built-in Reinhard tone mapping) And since we are on the topic of HDR.. this is what it is NOT http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~reinhard/tm_comp/flickr_hdr/The%20Problem.html (Reinhard discusses the blown out tone mapping heavily prominent on flickr)

I love how they used the whole Saucer separation thing like twice in the first season.. and then never again until Generations. (Although there may have been some separated when the hundreds of thousands of Enterprises all came into the same time/space)

We could focus on rail infrastructure and reducing ticketing costs there. You could easily cope with demand and capacity efficiently by adding/removing engines and cars as needed.

This is like the US vs Japanese, Final Fantasy games numbering scheme all over again.

This only works for accounts not linked up with Yahoo. Those require OAUTH unfortunately.