Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true.
After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them.
Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster — in three months, he figures.
So, if a teen can figure out how to make a bag degrade faster…what can scientist do to speed-up nuclear waste’s half-life. Now if we can speed that up, then nuclear energy seems better. It is so much cleaner and more powerful of this stuff we do today.
This is great. I came across a post on Venture Hacks called “Free ideas. Just add execution.“ It reminds me of a conversation Nick and I have every so often about how everyone has ideas…but it takes some real talent to actually do something with one.
There are a tons of places on the web which harvest ideas (Starbucks, IdeaBlob, Dell Idea Storm) but there are very few places that say come on over and do something. (Brickhouse)
So what do you do? Well, you still have to come up with ideas…but then execute too. When I figure that out - I’ll call ya!
For the brain to send the right nerve impulses, it apparently requires the user to think about speaking in a particular way—one designer calls it “a level above thinking.” Despite the learning curve this causes, requiring users to go through lots of training, it brings another benefit: you can intersperse talking normally with voiceless speech.
Now - if you take that to the next level and in addition to thinking to create speech and you tap the inputs of the brain and mashup with the cell phone…we don’t have to talk anymore. People can carry on full convo’s with no speech.
My big question to the voiceless communication was if it was something I wanted to say? Like - would this thing say what I am thinking, or what I WANT to say.
Man sometimes I feel so stupid. I don;t think I’m going to put anything in that silly seat pocket anymore. I even thought of it about 2 minutes before I got off the plane. Then, as I was getting buckled in the next one - i remembered it. It was left behind. I called the airlines but you know how that stuff works.
So I figure I need to get the iPod Touch as the replacement. It will give me a chance to look over the iPohine/Touch SDK and see what exciting things can be done. I tell you - it will be nice to have wifi and a browser available. I like the sounds of that too.
So I guess I have to decide whether I need a 16 or 32 - retail is $499 on the 32 Gig iPod Touch - that is really up there. I guess I will have to see what eBay has to offer. So if you get on a plane and in 12C you find a Zune, just give it to your kids…I’m going to see a man about a Touch. :)
