 Universal Basic Subsidy | Pay a willing person to withhold the competitive advantage their labor could give others. An industry-funded pool prices the exit. |
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 Preference Ranked Voting | Complete a voter's shortened ranking from the nearest expressed preference patterns, then count every ballot to the end. |
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 Bring Back the Swamps | Floating living reactors investigate ocean carbon buffering through mineral dissolution, managed cultivation, and growing surfaces with a second life as marine habitat. |
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 Panoptes | Explore a large autonomous outer-system observatory: solar gravitational lens imaging, nuclear departure and braking, paired interferometry and the survey of fast interstellar objects. |
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 Battle Domes | A carnivorous garden that puts visiting insects on the menu and handles its own water, climate and feeding. Enjoy the plants while the habitat takes care of the growing. |
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 The George Washington Expedition | A crewed, round-trip expedition to Alpha Centauri built around a rotating habitat, sacrificial shielding, long-lived people, and an obligation to return with direct evidence. |
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 Visible Clean | Two battery-powered hands-in enclosures make washing feedback simple: the first coats both hands automatically, the second illuminates what remains after washing. |
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 The Tabletop Refreshments Cooler | A shallow circular refrigerator for keeping a single, visible layer of drinks and snacks cold wherever people gather. |
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 Sky Clipper | A shallow-draft cargo ship shares its load with hydraulically connected square solar pontoons around its perimeter, serving dedicated intercontinental terminal pairs. |
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 Cloud Volcano | A fabric mountain fitted to Clipperton’s lagoon lifts marine air toward clouds; downstream calculations bound its local shading and the distance to a Pacific climate effect. |
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 Tidal Glass | Could 500–1,000-acre passive tidal districts of individual Fresnel shell cells fill a permanent inland sea for less than $100 billion? |
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 Scents for Cents | A beautiful, collectible postcard carries one protected liquid fragrance dose: enough to experience a scent without buying a bottle. |
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 The Haptic Clipboard | A four-direction control puts copy, paste, cut, delete, and line selection under one tactile finger—with physical confirmation for every command. |
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 Thermoregulated Fan | Built-in knowledge of human comfort adjusts the fan automatically as temperature and humidity change. The user shifts the response curve to suit their preference. |
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 The Joseph Reserve | A negotiated wage component shares uncertain prosperity, a reserve buffers reversals, and reconciliation makes pessimistic employer forecasts consequential. |
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 The Royal Flush | Good stories, useful nonsense, honest laughs, and one emergency last sheet for the room where everybody eventually needs something to read. |
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 Donuts | A love letter to donuts, followed by six new varieties built from strawberry milk, farro, tiny rings, waffle cone, sponge cake, and German chocolate cake. |
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 E-shoji | A folding e-paper divider in black, mahogany, bamboo, or walnut. Upload a design, keep the frame, and change the room. |
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 Laundry Detergent | A critique of the American supermarket laundry aisle, twelve scent compositions, and a grace period for forgotten wet laundry. |
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 Spider | A six-wheel suspended carrier for rural troop transport, wilderness rescue and wildland firefighters, explored through a shared 3D model, frozen terrain views and future-system concept drawings. |
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 Engineered Crops | Engineer crops around useful molecules: purpose-built oils, domestic natural rubber, and harvestable organs that turn fields into material factories. |
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 One Shot Suppresser | For kitchens without a hood: a ceiling-mounted 16 oz suppressant can, a guided hanging nozzle, and a mechanical pressure indicator. A $200 DIY product proposal. |
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 Elsewhere, All Night | A greenhouse-like sleeping pod whose entire inner surface is a screen synchronized with audio, smell, and airflow so the user thinks their bed lies within another world. |
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 Routes | Automatically infer regular motion, ask verified users to register persistent X-to-Y routes, privately connect overlapping availability and need, and sell bundled route information to traffic and planning entities. |
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 Aisle Path | Scan grocery lists, compare products, optionally hand shopping to staff, and use store logistics LiDAR and cameras to build a walkable VR puzzle store on the phone with a complete route and exact shelf guidance. |
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 Yardwatch Airlift | An app-booked guard dog arrives by cargo drone while you are away and is collected before you re-enter your garden. |
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 Pressure Canary | A sensor calibrates to internal air pressure and continually sends an encrypted signal home; a locally validated breach signature trips it and immediately stops the signal. |
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 Headroom | Can bridges stop being can openers? A dashboard scanner below $100 and a fiberglass clearance bow below $50. |
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 The future outlet | A quiet bedroom panel opens flush, swings out for service, and lets the electronics evolve behind an enduring wall. |
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 The Invite | Provisioned QR identity vouchers carry petitions and durable contacts through configurable referral chains whose members spend social reputation to proxy access. |
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 The Bus Bulwark | A manually triggered whole-bus inflatable adds sacrificial distance before an unavoidable impact, evaluated through approach timing, momentum and energy absorption. |
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 The Moving Line | A twelve-foot wall face on a wheeled adjustable base, with expanding side elements linking sections into a movable boundary. |
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 Tinnitus-treating earpiece | An earpiece uses biofeedback to treat some forms of tinnitus and designed sound to mask other forms, explicitly testing whether it slows progression, while letting speech through. |
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 Steady Frame | Camera-mediated glasses explore temporal and spatial filtering for photosensitive epilepsy, balancing reduced visual modulation with timely, usable vision. |
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 The Toasty Triangle | A quesadilla is unusually well suited to a vending machine: simple mechanical steps turn a few inexpensive ingredients into hot food people already like. |
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 The Micro-Place Pick | A disposable half-inch placement pick has a square foot, four reinforcing ribs and a tiny adhesive pad for lifting and releasing chip components. |
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 The mediator between states | A computationally proposed, probably non-dye blocked tetrahydropterin designed to test whether an NADH/QDPR-recyclable mediator can reduce ferric heme without inheriting methylene blue’s entire pharmacology. |
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| What is truth? | A claim-support gauge and a zoomable map of nested epistemic depth. |
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 Mother's Best | A grant-funded human-milk atlas to test whether infant formula should have evidence-based growth, illness, night, and heat-day profiles. |
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 Babble Bubble | Transparent helmets preserve face, voice, rhythm, and feeling while turning every spoken sentence into unrecoverable Baby, Robot, Troll, or Elf pseudo-speech. |
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 Space Elevator | Inspectable 3D assemblies and numerical studies connect a pressure spine, flying stations, balloon rig, orbital handoff and pressure-cushion return into one transport architecture. |
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 Kurapia for climate change | Build a disciplined local contractor around replacing thirsty ornamental turf with living, lower-input groundcover. |
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