Cortexstorming
From Eurekamp 2010
I cortexstorm, therefore I am!
NUDNIC of Cortexstorming - Nimrod Kozlovski
You can contact him at 0544336056, nimrod@internetlaws.co.il with any question.
What is cortexstorming?
Brainstorming is a creativity technique of generating ideas to solve a problem. The main result of a brainstorm session may be a complete solution to the problem, a list of ideas for an approach to a subsequent solution, or a list of ideas resulting in a plan to find a solution.(Wikipedia)
Cortex is a brain structure in vertebrates ...the outermost layer of the cerebrum ... has a grey color, hence the name "grey matter" ... is formed by neurons. The human cerebral cortex is 2-4 mm (0.08-0.16 inches) thick and plays a central role in many complex brain functions including memory, attention, perceptual awareness, "thinking", language and consciousness.
(Wikipedia)
(EureKamp)
Cortexstorming is the main activity of the camp; it's a kind of light and fun brainstorming (an outer-layer-brain-storming), 7-10 minutes long. One participant presents an original idea in a nutshell (2-3 min) to the public and the public just throws up into the air anything that pops up related to the idea. This is a platform for a free no-strings-attached collaborative thinking where anything positive is welcome - from a well-backed feedback based on real experience to the most crazy out-of-knowhere and useless application or improvement. The purpose is not to maintain a focused discussion or a brainstorm with a target in mind, but rather to generally inspire and to stimulate idea sparkles out of nothing. Cortexstorming will take place in the main room of the camp and will contain several consecutive sessions, grouped by the area of the ideas.
The idea for cortexstorming may be one created by the participant or found elsewhere, business or non-profit, Internet-related or "old-world", technology-based or gimmick, useful or totally useless ... in short – anything creative, innovative, cool, crazy or fun that worth 5 minutes of attention.
Note: the ideas DO NOT have to be business-oriented, Internet-related, technology-related or authored by the presenter. We aim at having a vast versatility of presented ideas to ensure true multidisciplinary interaction. We also don't seek for polished presentations and don't aim at convincing each other of anything. Less PowerPoint and more interaction!
Cortexstorming Whiteboad 2008 [Full resolution]
Suggested ideas for cortexstorming.
Please add your idea below (and specify your name). You're free to open a new field. In case you don't want to reveal your idea beforehand, just write down something so we know the rough distribution of ideas by areas and organize the sections accordingly.
For the list of 2009 ideas - please click here
For the list of 2008 ideas - please click here
For the list of 2007 ideas - please click here.
Internet
1. 'Massively-Multiplayer Online Librarianship Games
Massively-Multiplayer Online Librarianship Games (Federated Bibliography) -- There are zillions of works and versions of Romeo and Juliet (original, translations into various languages and by various translators, Tchaikovsky's ballet, Zefirelli's film, Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo+Juliet", etc. etc.). In a 21st-century catalogue, they should each have their own record and metadata, but all should be linked to a single "work" ID (effectively allowing a "Romeo and Juliet cloud"). Also, each such work/version should have a well-defined representation of its relation to the original, allowing one to navigate "all translations" or "all adaptations" etc. Creating and maintaining such a semantically-rich catalogue is a gargantuan task, but we have the Internet, and each node and link only needs to be established once, because bibliography wants to be free (and federated, i.e. shared). There are some non-technical challenges, too: who issues these "work ID" numbers? Who decides what is a work? Let's cortexstorm for a few minutes on cool things that can be hacked up by amateur librarians to help the establishment see the value of free and open systems. (Asaf Bartov) Abartov 13:18, 28 February 2010 (CST)
2. Life as Peter Pan or How To Make People Dreams Come True
How can we use the Internet/mobile/technology to help people dreams come true. From small dreams of go to an NBA game and meeting Madonna to getting a chance as an employee or learning a new work. We all have dreams, but the education system don't teach us to dream more. It doesn't inspire us to help others accomplish their dreams. People who don't have nothing to long for are the ones who fall pray to extremists groups or just to life full of depression. Bug if people will believe that dreams come true, their lives might change and more dreams will come true. Shahar Nechmad.
3.Smart phone appswhat's next
In the past few years we saw great improvements in the usage and technology of the different apps. We can credit some of the improvements to the progress of the smart phone itself, thing like GPS , Gyroscopes and of course touch screens all allowed the creation of different apps for different usage. That with the ongoing battle between Apple and Google will probably improve the technology of the phones further and further.
I propose to make a session about what is next,which technology features will enable more usages and in what part of our lives will the apps touches next.
(Suggested by : Zeevi Michel, SircleIt- Because the future is sircle shaped! )
4. The "new" interactive web
one of the most fascinating issues i have studied in last year is what i call "the new interactive web". As we surf the web as individuals we share a lot of information, and this information can be monitored and be used to profile our closed network. With that in mind, we can imagine our network (or community) as a living being, with desires, needs and feeling. When we look at this information with a sharp eye and open mind, I believe we can predict the way the internet will develop in the close future, or in other words - what problems need to be solved.
when we have these tools, we can see how the interactive web (as oppose to a single user) can ask for its change and improvement, rather then just accept a concept, if it fits.
Suggested by Nadav Leshem.
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5. Where Art meets New Media
Are you art fans? Then you must be interested as much as I am in the potential collaboration between ART and internet, new media and digital culture. I would like to see the art world embrace some of the digital world trends and brainstorm about the posible opportunities. For example, Social media taught us that everything is sharable and public, participation is a part of the content. Art should also evolve: the art work should include the audience participation and make it a part of the creation. Also, the use of augmented reality can enrich art with extra layers of dynamic content, created both by the artist and the audience.
Suggested by Romi Itzhaki
6. Really bad ideas #1: Dating site for married people.
One of my really impracticle and socially taboo ideas: Among the more frequent complaints I hear from people who use dating sites like JDate.co.il or Cupid.co.il or such are that a lot of the men who's profiles are there are actually married. There are also statistics that 40% of married couples cheat on their spouses. So why not create a site for married people who are looking to date other married people? I'll love to discuss steps to make such a site work, like, how to keep anonymity, and to avoid getting caught by your spouse, and how to avoid negative public reaction. And i would also like to bring up and discuss with you many of the points that I've already thought about "Why Not" about this idea.
Suggested by Oded Sharon
7. Really bad ideas #2: The Smoking Places App. ( if time permits )
The idea is pretty simple, a location based app telling you the location of all the smoking and non smoking pubs in Tel-aviv. User generated content by non-smokers who want to go to non-smoking places, and by smokers who want to go to the smoking places. I'll explain why this is a bad idea during the talk.
Suggested by Oded Sharon
8. Really bad ideas #3: Universal updater. ( if time permits )
I don't have a good name for it, but i have plans for a service for content managements that updates all your statuses, blog posts, picture uploads, location based uploads from a single place and by adapting your update to the relevant medium. I'll also share and discuss with you why this is a really bad idea.
Suggested by Oded Sharon
9. "Are friends electric?”.
The subject matter revolves around the social networks phenomena. Most of us are engaged in one or more social networks (most notably Facebook). We gather friends there likes gems in a quest, but are they really what they claim to be?
Researches claim that 80-90% of entities in social networks are bots that produce spam. Moreover, even human beings may not be what they seem to be. In other words, how do I know that the hot bikini model I befriended at facebook, is not a zit faced geek, having fun at my expense?
I would like to offer a facebook extension that will scrutinize my friends and advise regarding their likely profile vs. their declared profile. First line of defense would be a Turing test on bots, a more difficult task would be to try to build a profile from the way a friend interacts with the world.
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Suggested by Hayim Porat
10. Being John Malkovich on Facebook
What if you could actually be someone else on the internet? That is, another real person will willingly give you access to all his online accounts (facebook, twitter, foursquare, even Gmail) in exchange to yours for one week. Would you do it? How "personal" is your internet persona, and what would it be like to exchange it with someone else for a while?
Suggested by Addy Feuerstein
11. Insurance
Nobody really understands what they buy, if they need the specific insurance or covered. Boring, but we spend thousands of NIS every year. What can we do about it?
Suggested by Elad Barkan
"Real-world"
1. Stationary camera accessories:
Advanced photographers like to use various filters on their cameras, but some filters (e.g. polarized or gradient) require stationary position, whereas many camera lenses tend to rotate uncontrollably during zooming and/or focusing. Also, different lenses have different filter diameters. Of course, these problems can be solved by buying more (great deal more) expensive lenses with internal rotations, and a separate set of filters for each lens (quality filters may come at $100 each). But can the same goal be accomplished without such crippling expenses?
2. Unified Addressing:
When people want to transfer some information to me, they may need my snail-mail address, my email address(es), my phone number(s) etc. They need to update their phonebook whenever I change any of the above. What if each person had a single global and permanent address, for all media types, and the actual address and routing would have been carried out in the background?
3. Hey, Dude!
Two years ago we wished for lightweight personal transportation to be both energy- and road-efficient. A recent flood of designs from Honda, Nissan, BMW, Spira, Chertan, Antro, Tajima, Venturi and -- most importantly -- a production announcement by Volkswagen could very well make our wish come true. But would the Eurekamp magic work again? Let's see by making another, more humble wish this time:
Improved control of domestic water heaters to save gigawatts of power worldwide.
As usual, if there is interest we can userbreeze later to discuss why this isn't so easy.
Update: one $200 controller claims to be the only programmable on the market; it's optimized for a loftier goal than energy conservation, though.
4. Is your trolly only good for carrying your underwear from point A to B
When do you need your mobile/MP3/Notebook charged? well... on the way. What do you usually pull/push when you are on the way? Your Trolly!
I have developed a small, simple device that connects to your trolly's wheels and convert kynetic energy to electrricity for charging your occasional device. Would you use it?
What if we equip the entire cart "fleet" of a medium airport with energy convertors like this? what can we use this electricity for? chargers on a cart, power a small lcd screen with comercials and special offers based on your location (we will have to have an indoors location detection device on the cart...), if we have the location device, let's add a boarding pass barcode reader and an automated direction and time management system for the passangers - how many flights are being missed in a day? what of we can cut this down by 50%?
My name is Hanan and Iam facinated by airports and hate them at the same time...
5. Face-to-face made simpler
What is common to a cocktail party, a conference, a rock concert, and even a busy mall? They are all full with people, few (even very few) of whom you might be interested to meet.
Can we increase the likelihood to locate them? I would like to Cortexstorm about a real time content rich driven device that will make this possible.
Suggested by Moshe Molcho
6. GreenTech: Riding the wave of Electric Cars?
Let’s assume that Electric Cars are the “next thing” for cars. And that at least in Israel, by end of 2011, BetterPlace and Israeli government will make sure this revolution is well on its way. What other challenges/opportunities this entails? Becoming the Second, Third EV Service Provider/Operator (competing with BetterPlace)? Privatization of Electric / Power Utility to accommodate the advances required by it? What else? How can we benefit from it? What would be the right timing?
Suggested by Nava Levy
7. Bio-surveillance by phone with uncompromized privacy
Bio-surveillance uses crude health data of whole population for the rapid detection of disease outbreak. Each year new "animal" flue comes to life, not counting regular flue/cold outbreaks...Googles draws "flue" map of the worlds using internet search queries... I propose utilizing phone calls to draw more precise and updated map -but no fear - no eavesdropping!!
'Suggested by'Slava Shechtman
8. Utilizing 'wireless wearable sensors
More and More wireless wearable sensors are developed to monitor vital signs and chronic medical conditions in real time. These wireless sensors may be connected to a portable unit, such as a Smartphone and tablet, which gather and process this data. How can we use the data gathered by these portable units for the greater good?
Suggested by Roy Melzer
High-tech
1.Cloud Car computing.
'I made a prototype of software for car computers, which integrate and synchronize all your Vehicle, PC & Internet services through a wonderful touch & voice activated User Interface. The system also collects all your vehicle & location data for wide range of services. What is missing? What do you think? (Yuval Aloni)
2.Twitting appliances
Obviously our appliances and devices would be sending and receiving messages like crazy in the future, right? From the refrigerator to your air-condition to your car to the music player... Some of them we'd want to be talking only to other devices, some of them we'd like to follow, and then for some others we might want to allow to twit in our name. Now, anyone can say "I want my fridge to tell me when there's no milk"... But if your appliances could tweet, what would they say? (some cars I see would definitely say "someone please clean me"!) Let's see what is the best idea that is nicely situated at the border between crazy and useful :-) (Itamar Rogel)
3. Beyond the In-Meeting Experience
Video calling and video conferencing has been around for ever. Today it's a $5B market, and yet the challenges remain the same: imitate the "in-meeting" experience, where you sit in a room with a few people, collaborating, sharing ideas and producing great outputs, all through inter-personal communications. So the screens are getting wider, the cameras are getting better, quality is improving... and yet something is still missing. It seems that video conferencing would never be a similiar experience to a face-to-face meeting. So if we can't imitate the experience, how about surpassing it? Can technology offer us a better experience, something that will drive us to use virutal meetings instead of face-to-face?! (Sagee Ben-Zedeff)
4. Meeting knowledge as a start point for something bigger
Multi-party meetings is a common practice in every organization. This way of communication has a lot of knowledge, which in many cases stays in attendees' minds, but is being lost from the enterprise perspective. If we just store this data, it is rarely used. Therefore we should put some spirit into it, to make it live and constantly growing repository of reusable knowledge. There are some automatic ways to make it more usable and accessible, but w/o human contribution it will be never be perfect. Can we get people into the loop? How can we motivate them to contribute? (Zak Mandel)
Crazy, Fun
1. Kosher Cheeseburgers - Brainstorm with me on a radical approach
2. Driving teenagers evil spy gadget in disguise (Itay Donenhirsch)
3. Fresh
By the time we're at Eurekamp I will have thought of something fresh; even if I had the time to find it now, it would get stale by then, so I would rather not put limits on Divine Providence and just settle for promising that by then I will certainly think of something which fits the parameter, whichever it may by then be...
4. Invisible maze
This idea has been sitting in the back of my head for about 3 years now and I would love to get some fresh opinions and ideas about it. I would like to create a full scale invisible maze. A player will stand in his starting point and will see the entire room without any barriers or walls. Each player will have a color or any other marking and will have to travel through his own custom maze. When a player approches a "wall" he must be notified somehow - visual, tactile, sound etc. for example, he could have a "barrier" of lasers light up in front of him telling him not to pass. The beauty of it (as I see it) is the situations where one player can't go through a certain wall but the other player can go through the same wall without any problems.
Any input on which methods will be best to track players and to make them experience a "wall" will be more than welcomed.
(suggested by Shahar Zrihen - shahar@idevelop.co.il )
5. Puppet-Oriented Design (POD,get the pun? :) )
Make puppets by request in the form of people. This can be a great gift. Make the puppet do things.
For example, make a telephon port to the puppet, and when the specific person calls make the puppet say or do anything. The perfect gift!
Itay Donenhirsch
Multimedia
1. What can and should happen on stage
...if you put together dancers, sensors, machines, a display and the internet
lets talk about what we can do by puting technology in the hands of the performers in ways they can really creat with
look at things like :
[3] (Thanks Shira Miasnik)
more ideas ?
lets talk friday
Alon Barnea
2. Visual virtual relaxation room ("Quasi-Holodeck")
An idea for relaxation inspired by a wall on MNAC.
Create a room with images projected on all walls, including ceiling and floor. These images will feature a continious relaxing animations, like falling stars, slow waves.
Ofcourse accompany the images with appropiating sound. Why not put something like that in various places in the city?'
Itay Donenhirsch
Other
1. Self-regulating blanket
Don't know what about you, but many people (me included!) have a troubling issue with blankets, especially on the winter: The blanket with which you start the night is just too hot (or cold) as time goes by! This interrupts your sleep as you wake up in the middle of the night reaching for a thinner (or thicker) blanket, and I won't even mention the heavy issues that ensue when sleeping hugged with a loved one. A real solution thus needs to involve not only varying insulation that is self-regulated, but different heating levels for different areas in the blanket. As to what's out there today, unfortunately today's electrical blankets don't even cover the basic self-regulation issue, but note that I'm not necessarily talking about a blanket that generates heat (and there's still a safety issue with electrical blankets). I'm talking about a blanket which is like a standard blanket, but capable of varying insulation levels. (Itamar Rogel)
2. State-Enforced Driving License Reader
The idea here is that each car would be equipped (as part of must-have safety equipment demanded by state regulation) with a card reader that receives the driver's license of the active driver, contacts (by a cellular network) to the transport registration offices and authorizes driving only if the license is active (have the drivers' license be a smartcard if it needs be).
This would prevent drivers with out-of-date or withheld license to drive (without some additional trickery) and would enable all sorts of smart crime identification and prevention mechanisms (for example, if such law-violating drivers would forge licenses).
Hay! But what about privacy? Well, this walks a fine line, I agree - but I think it is worth it in this case. Open for discussion though. Personally the reliability of any governmental central computer bothers me more in this idea ;)
Phase B might include a more advanced smartcard reader unit, which will contain in it a radio transmitter and receiver. Each unit will broadcast the law violations record of the active driver, to be received by other units. Then it can be viewed in-car. This way other drivers will be aware of who's around them in the road, plus there might be a (small) social shame factor for law-violating drivers. (Itamar Rogel)
3. Privacy in the social media day and age
4. Transportation
5. Unbanked
All I am saying is: Give unbanked, financially handicapped/emarginated geniouses a chance: I founded AMEN, Association to Empower the Needy (I could not put a link here, look for it on Facebook) to prevent suicides and divorces caused by insolvence which is in its turn caused by the fact that the drummer you march to is outside the banker's hearing range.
AMEN's principle is already applied in Silicon Valley, andf is based on the creation of a business GERMINATOR as opposed to the more traditional Incubator; the latter is based on the assumption that one is already making a living , thus can spare the time waiting for an answeer, the money needed for the due diligence and the odds which place 4% of the projects in the financed box and the rest in the waiting list for tthe next similar chance while somebody from the inner circle submits similar ones which will get the financing as the original one bites the dust.
For my own private example just look at www dot bodyblade dot com, which works like my Ballastic Universal exerciser, patented in '86, tested and recommended by Wingate but never financed, while the Bodyblade, ten years later hit the market and has now sold over a million at $160 each...) I have now 7 prototypes, plus production drawings and intellectual property, of Ballastic(TM) devices (look at them on YouTube on the "pizzarebbe" channel) which can help victims of car crashes, explosions, etc... plus those of Muscular Distrophy, Multiple Sclerosis and even strokes regain their normal life faster, but it takes money to move on and to create the due diligence, plus, and this counts the most, prior failures to obtain financing affect the odds of the future appication for same.
The GERMINATOR model means that anybody is given, on a first come, first served, available space and budget basis, a desk, computer, web access and shared tools for the time it takes to package their idea, or even to just form it, and if necessary even enough money for rent and food for the family (a communal dining room is part of the concept, especially because is an excellent venue for brainstorming, and there is an internal currency based on shares of one's project, among participants, for the mutual purchase of services or complementary and supplementary intellectual property.
The Germinator also provides all the necessary logistic services, first and foremost shared secretarial and translation services (in Israel a PhD who can properly spell and pronounce 5 more languages may be at grade 3 level with Hebrew, and his/her makolet person much higher than that, then open ended consultation with economist, social services representative, not working for same, to prevet the misunderstandings arising when the official ones cannot/willnot accept/ understand that genius can only exist bypassing closed-box concepts, and lie in their Procustean (Procrustean is a commonly accepted misspell) beds.
10% of any project's shares are pooled permanently to fund future projects, and their dividens when there are any are distributed equally to all participants; 45% of any project's sharese constitute collateral from which to draw cash advances, purchase materials and service during development, and generally live on.
I seek a 1.000 sqm. industrial space, and its relevant resources, to accomodate up to 100 projects and people; I already know at least half that number and know that the ones I know know more which I don't.
I tend to focus on the editorial/art/media/stage/entertainment/web type of projects, but am open to just about anything else, first of all to any ideas that do not contradict mine.
To see my links, ask me any questions that Mohammed Yunus has not already answered in his books, or any of those he never came up with, write to pizzarebbe@gmail.com
I have reached my FBF limit but if you send me a Facebook Friendship request the fact that you have read it here is a good enough reason for approval.
If you have any business proposals, please reach me through LinkedIN
Eliahu Gal-Or, AKA Lightwave or Pizzarebbe
6. Car accidents
My name is Tal Olier, married to Yael and father of Itai, Ori and Adi. In order to put some food on the table, I work for a large software company as a system architect. A few months ago I had an enlightening about how we (drivers, especialy Israeli ones :J) behave on the highway. Later on that day I have developed a revolutionary method that will reduce dramaticaly the number of car accidents in case adopted (by someone...).
I will be happy to introduce the idea and develop it further with you guys.
Tal Olier (tal.olier@gmail.com, tal.olier@hp.com[5])
7. Memory in an information society
We are bombarded by information every way we look. information has become so cheap, whyremember this fact or that fact when you can just Google It ? I believe it is very important
to make the effort to remember information, though it's available on the web for immediate access. I believe that when remembering data, our mind changes also. This act creates
associations which enhance furthermore our ability to memorize and even further to be creative and generally SMART. There are Techniques which help us to remember enormous bytes of information which you didn't believe is possible. Most of these techniques work on building subjectively Associations about the information we want to remember.
I believe we need to learn how make it easier on users to absorb information by using these techniques. We can make memorizing more ergonomic.
This can be done by incorporating cognition techniques with today's technology. Think of the possibilities of users being able to remember a hundreds time more than today's normal
user. It will help extends our human abilities.
Asaf B.O
8. BOK - Brain on a Key
Inspired by Harry Potter - why don't we let our brains some rest?
Take those memories out, store them in a BOK, use them as needed.
Yifat Migdal-Steinberg
9. Where's everyone?
Harry Potter's once again. Each mom would love to use
Molly's clock showing where every family member is right now.
As long as DAD's possibilities are (Work) or (Home) :-)
Yifat Migdal-Steinberg
10. Really bad idea #4 : Artifical solar eclipse
A few years ago i went to Turkey and saw my first TOTAL eclipse and the expereince was truly breath taking and very spiritual. I want to devise a method to create artificial solar eclipses.
by Oded Sharon
11. Keeping the Coke buzz until the last drop
don't you hate it that coke don't sparkle when you reach the last cup (in big bottles).
I'd love to explore the many ways I think we can solve this troubling issue. better mankind by elavating this hurendus situation we all find ourselves dealing with.
by Roy Man '
12. R[eal]ecycling
sometime ago i watched pen & teller's bullshit episode about recycling, and since then i changed my life. i dont care for recycling mo more. but i do believe we can use bottles more than once, and not only refill them with water. uses for empty bottles of all sorts, this is what my time will deal with.
by Roy Achiron
