Hackathon Projects V1
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Hackathon Projects 1.0 (old doc) -- hackathonprojects.tk (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yl0AAQKVmJoCQXOW9agcmIzta5GahcmMNnus94TwlYU/edit)
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Rules: Take any projects and add to the list at the beginning ! I, at least, would love it if you would email/msg/txt/call me/or note your name in projects underway” box below if you are using one of my ideas (I think most of them are mine) because I have more details to add to many. I’d be so honored if you actually implemented one of them! ~Jacob Cole, [email protected] , [email protected], 858-740-6970
See also: IdeaOverflow.tk VisionCharter: a very prelim. graph visualization of this list and its interconnections
Favorite/Active Projects (join teams below or add your top interests to the list!)
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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”
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 yourselfand 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) #autocomplete #intentiondb
I have a very well thought out nexus of projects that I think might interest some of you, incl. the following: ~Jacob [email protected]
I'm think of working on upgrading http://hackathonprojects.tk/ today at MIT "Hackathon 2.0" from an ordinary Google Doc to an enhanced, idea-sharing-online collaboration system! However, this will take attempting to basically re-create Etherpad-like functionality (etherpad lite is open source, can be extended, and runs on Node.js --cj). If anybody knows the NowJS guys perhaps they would be relevant to talk to? Specifically, I want to retain as much of the current editing functionality of the Google Doc is possible but I want to:
-Create a search box that allows me to filter ideas by tags → (cont on next pg)
-create an auto fill when I start typing a hash tag to mark an idea with the tag.
-Create a really cool special "#relates-to earlierIdeaNameHere" tag that allows you to link ideas to each other naturally. Once linked, by clicking on the relates to tag, you will be able to see a pop-up or expanded div with the related ideas content. This way, threads of ideas can naturally evolve. #autocomplete #intentiondb
IdeaOverflow.tk http://instadefine.com/IdeaOverflow/ATTHackathon/git/IdeaOverflow/index.php ~Jacob ([email protected] ) (https://github.com/jinpan/IdeaOverflow ) See also http://atthackathon.tk/
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. #intentiondb
Jacob: I randomly came across http://wikiwall.com/ after we discussed the infinite whiteboard concept. I definitely like the concept of expanding the ideaoverflow app though. I go through all my ideas once or twice a month just for that purpose of finding connections and remembering important but forgotten thoughts. However with the connections, making sure their human-tagged versus auto-related is important. -Colin Winter #intentiondb
Gmail statusmessagelogger -- It will 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? ~ja [email protected] #socio
Current progress of the project:
-really it’s just a node js XMPP server which logs changes in status into a text file
-at the hackathon I’ll be
1. setting up a database
2. setting up a frontend and deploying
then when I’m done I’ll come meet people!
Projects underway at Stanford/Berkeley Big Hack
Sphero app (except virtual: 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 ) -- a sphero chases whoever is holding a sphero. Would use WifiSlam? [email protected] #game
Projects underway at GreyLock! (doesn’t mean you can’t join them/work on something related):
Projects underway otherwise (doesn’t mean you can’t join them/work on something related)
Toaster.js home automation/monitoring system -- Sharad
Ambient information display app -- show imgs relevant to conversationby processing speech -- Doug
Auto-facebook friends categorizer -- Peter
3D wikiracing game -- Dylan?
“Assassins” app with real-world interaction -- Carl
Sentiment analysis-based 3rd party FB search -- Samvit
“BigScreen” app (needs sound + video synch) -- Jacob Cole [email protected], Prabhav Jain [email protected]
multiphone speaker (needs better synch) -- Rafael Cosman [email protected], Neal
Idea Graph Creator/Connection mapper -- Jacob Cole [email protected] #intentiondb
Build eyetracking heatmap from laptop webcam -- useful for evaluating how you read different websites, self-tracking/optimizing, and evaluating websites you build #cv
Google docs optimized for instant web publishing #idea #good #lowhangingfruit [email protected] . 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. 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.
Emergency Pizza Button app -- One click pizza ordering, modeled after the MIT east campus pizza button. I actually want to do this at the next hackathon I’m at, and I think it could make a lot of money. Relatedly, I want to make “Push a button, get a cookie” app for Insomnia Cookies. [email protected]
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
site that autocompletes quoteslike instadefine.comand it basically ends up letting you create a databaseof quotes you're interested in
and this is deep becausequotes are your thoughtsstated more clearly than you can state them yourselfand if you make a db of all the quotes people think ofyou get a huge window into their livesit #relates to the power of status message logging. example:issend myselfemailof quotes I likefor 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-timei just was rereading todayand i realized that was brilliantbecause it relates to a conceptof avidyain eastern philosophythe idea that there are some thoughts that we have that aren't true, but insteadthings that shouldn't bother us bother usand 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
online etymology tree #<->instadefine #<->admitsphere
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
Meet people who have similar interests by matching people to each other who have mentioned titles to the same Wikipediaarticles 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/ #primer #lifecoach
-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
-one-touch broadcast your current location (gps) to answer text msg (“where are you”). #easyui #lowhanging
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 drowiy so you look at yourself and see you need to go to sleep #humandatamining #machinelearning
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) -- a sphero chases whoever is holding a sphero. Would use WifiSlam? #inprogress
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
Organize related news articles into timelines so you can see the meaning of each article, and maybe join in! #intentiondb
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
Wa (japanese 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 #machinelearning #intentiondb
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 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
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. #intentiondb
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
explorable etymology graph -- would allow you to learn vocab both quickly and deeply. http://collegeappswiki.wikispaces.com/How+to+Memorize+Vocabulary #edu #<->admitsphere #instadefine
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
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
Better facebook search: you should be able to say something like “Jacob Cole MIT” and have it return Jacob Cole of MIT if such info is available (actually, i’m not searcheable :P) #easyui
Social ridesharingapp -- 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
Roommate-cancelling headphones: uses roommate's laptop mic to seed noise cancellation alg in your headphones (would this work?) #signalprocessing
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
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’sthe loader (takes a list like this one ~Jacob #visualization #intentiondb
Browser-based distributed computing API ~SETI@home with Chrome NaCl -- Mark Vismonte started on a JS version of this... #lowhanging
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/#humandatamining #machinelearning #intentiondb #computervision #taichi
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
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
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”
[Who Do I Live Like? --
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.
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
ClackerAlert -- tells if you slam the keys too hard using sound data (and speed/jerkiness data)!.Prevents RSI
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.
Fisheye lenses on laptops and iPhone's so that they can see the whole room -- algorithmically undistort#~Jacob
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
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.
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
iPhone backup singer/instrument app -- would play an electric organ or vocal tone that matches the pitch that you are singing. #~Jacob
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
SpeechChat/Txting -- chat program that uses speech recognition/screenwriter to make it so that you can text/chat without ever looking at the screen.
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
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.
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.
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”)
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
"PA System" multiphone app -- 1 iPhone broadcasts microphone (or recording) into all iPhones in the room. very interesting paradigm. 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?
COOL: iphone as mouse replacement app that you slide phone on desk. uses accelerometer.
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
Nap Map App -- shows you where the closest good place to nap is (perhaps start on campus?)
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
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
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,
“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
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.
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!
Multiphone apps, using Alex List's 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 -- takes individual voices out of a crowd
Pachelbel alert: tells you if it hears pachelbel chords in song playing
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
Turns on lights as you're headed toward room?
Circadian clock advisor, regulaties sleep
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.
App that keeps track of everything you buy automatically (wireless dl from cashier?) so it has an inventory of
Map of free wifi networks 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 -- takes 500 consecutive photos and composites/steadycams them.
App that grades your driving by acceleration
"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 ([email protected]) » 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 ([email protected]) » 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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by Eric Lubin ([email protected]) » Sat Feb 04, 2012 4:10 pm
Wow. very interesting ideas. here's my input:
the 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/. 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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by Laia Mogas-soldevila ([email protected]) » 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 Jacob J Cole ([email protected]) » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:19 am
Abubakar Abid ([email protected]) 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
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Re: IDEAS!
by Katharine M Daly ([email protected]) » 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.
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by Eric Lubin ([email protected]) » 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 ... 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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by Jacob J Cole ([email protected]) » 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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by Jacob J Cole ([email protected]) » 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