Cortexstorming
From Eurekamp 2009
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I cortexstorm, therefore I am!
NUDNIC of Cortexstorming - Nimrod Kozlovski
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)
Cortexstorming is a light and fun brainstorming (an outer-layer-brain-storming), where one participant presents an original idea to the public and the public just throws up into the air anything that pops up related to the idea. While not pursuing any concrete targets, cortexstorming's purpose is to generally inspire and stimulate original multidisciplinary ideas out of nowhere.
(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 2007 ideas - please click here.
For the list of 2008 ideas - please click here
Internet
1. Skinned Alive
Skin any website by yourself, 1 skin 2 all sites (default)
2. I'm Feeling Lucky
Once a day, Google posts a link to a website on their homepage. This gives the webmaster a 24 hour chance to make actual money off the web.
(Tan-Tan)
3. Eyes Everywhere
If you had eyes (and hands) everywhere, how would you use them?
(Dror Gill, Ran Rubinstein)
4. Compare Everything
A system of rating the entire existence by comparing two things at a time and deciding which one is better. Beta on the net, then find a way to upload it to real life.
(Ido Kenan)
5. Double team
Swiss Knife - build your swiss knife of web apps and services for specific tasks or activities
RubikShoppe - a tool for constructing (hopefully) smarter online shops.
(Uri Levanon)
6. Web Conglomerate (WebC)
- bringing together people from separate companies to form a conglomerate organization that ideally floats on the NASDAQ. The focus is on IT-centric companies.
- asking and answering the Why, What, Who, How, Where and When of WebC.
"Like a train at the beginning of the line, WebC has its destination (NASDAQ) and along the way stops regulaly to pick up more passengers. With a ticket in hand, each person finds their correct seat. The train finally passes the city limits, and the destination becomes clear and viable."
(Adrian Wajsbrem)
7. Social network for those who really need it.
Use the Internet platform to build a distributed knowledge system, so every resident can easily have access to all the rights he/she is eligble to get from the country in all life aspects (e.g. social security, education, disabled, ...).
(Erez Perlmuter)
8. History of the Future
Since all western culture has recently become digital, we face a serious problem: if our society becomes extinct, future historians will not be able to recreate any of it. Is there a way to make the internet of today avilable to historians 2K years from now? (carve it in ROCK, says Dogbert)
(Gadi Guy)
9. The Emotional Web
All the things that make the web emotional!
(Lior Zoref)
10. Go to page number
A way to refer to a web page using a number.
(Hanan Cohen)
'11. ''''Undo for Instant Messaging
Correct errors for messages that already sent. Withdraw messages that are still unread. Extension for SMS and mobile (Slava Shechtman)
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12. Clouds
Is it just a nice way to present large systems or it has something related to real clouds lifecycle?
(Yuri Rabinovich)
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13. The sync paradox
Syncing our digital asset in the cloud computing age is a mutual recursion problem; the more we deal with it, the bigger the problem becomes.
(Addy Feuerstein)
14. Cross platform simultaneous translation
Using web and cellular devices to simultaneously translate speech (STSI - Speech to Speech Interpretation)
(Nitzan Peles)
"Real-world"
1. Spring-Cola ;-)
Can we add sweeteners and artificial colorings to natural water resources so that we can extract soda directly from the ground, reducing money wasted on factories and man power. Pump it and bottle it!
(Tan-Tan)
2. Counting people passing by
When one selects a place for a new business, he is usually interested in knowing how many people (and possible demographic info) are passing in the street near his store. This information is relatively expansive to find and is unaccessible to the general public. I have a cuning way of providing this info using a simple technique and some statstical magic. There is also a business model that requires very small capital for the proof of concept.
(tzurs)
3. Electric idle time power saver
While relatively small and redundednt, the consumption of millions/billions of electronic devices which are left plugged in just so that we can turn them on using the remote control is mind blowing.
Using a simple electronice device, we can turn on a "dead" device, hint: think passive RFID.
(tzurs, curtesy of rb)
4. Twitter updates USB/Bluetooth device
Because the desktop clients are too intrusive, and it's time for some luxury merch around twitter ($$$)
(Uri Levanon)
5. Print me a shoe
Take a 3D measure of my feet by an electric "sock". Save, Personalize, 3D print...
(Yifat MS)
6. Look - I'm running (or:Heart rate monitor glasses)
Heart rate monitors today are usually based on electrode fitted to the chest and a wrist display (watch or other). Measuring pulse off glasses' sidebrow can allow some interesting applications.
(Menashe H)
7. I Can Haz Bath Wif Mine Plaster
A simple nylon sleeve that can be wrapped on plastered hands/legs easily, to protect from water when taking a shower.
(Uri Levanon)
8. Interactive time-stamps for mobile phones
Perfect for the frequent traveler, who doesn't always want to or can't inform people of exactly where s/he is...
If the traveler is out of their regular time zone, callers will be advised of what the local time for the traveler is and asked if they want to complete the call or to receive a callback once it is an appropriate time for both to participate in the call.
(jodij)
9. Tennis Courts with automatic ball collection
Think billiard table corner pockets on a large scale! Covered gutters running along the sides of tennis courts where the balls can gather for easy retrieval.
(jodij)
10. Kitchen Sinks with foot peddles/ or sensors for home use
like they have in hospitals and public spaces.
Next time you are washing vegetables or dishes and your hands are full, think how nice it would be to turn on or off the water with a touch of your toe! Or for the "Smart House" option - automatic faucets that work on sensors. Great way to save on water.
(jodij)
11. Social and physical activity meter:
Presentation of device which encourages young to play active, "real life" games with real friends instead of playing computer games with virtual friends and watch stupid TV programs.
(Igor Nabutovsky)
12. Buy me or else... [part I]
What is the cheapest discount supermarket? Do the discount stores really want us to have a full up-to-date comparison of their prices?
Potential buyers for this start-up: Shufersal, Mega, Rami Levi.
(Zvi Devir)
13. Giving our pictures a personality
Interesting thing about pictures, no matter how many times you look at them, they remain the same! What if we could borrow this idea from the fantasy book of Harry Potter, and give the images in our photographs a personality, life, make it possible to interact with them! Wouldn’t it be even better if their personality would even fit with their real life characteristic? Well, join us and learn how we could make this possible!
(Dror Yaffe)
14. Digital food printer
The idea is to create a digital food creator that “prints” different tastes and smells onto edible substances (Tofu, edible paper...). You will have a set of cartridges - each with a different set of tastes and smells (like meat and potato's, pasta sauces, chinees food, shawarma shemesh... ) and you can change the cartridges in the printer for different foods. The tastes can be artificial or extracted from real foods (using molecular cooking techniques). the printer is connected to the internet and can get the exact ratio of tast from famous restaurants or chefs and make the exact same tast like in thier restaurants. you can also buy cartridges made by these restaurants so the taste and smell are exactly ther same.
(Rafi Michaeli)
15. Busines Card Manager : The idea is to create a simple approach to manage business card database (competeing with business cards scanners) using bar codes, a simples HW extention to a PC and a managing SW. This approach is supposed to be much cheeper/ simpler and may generaly by used for other applications as well. Would be glad to get inputs and expand the idea to other fields as well.
(Alex Rudnitsky)
High-tech
CleanTech idea 1: Harvesting acoustic energy at noisy places (e.g, airports).
Clean-non-tech idea 2: Must we flush toilets with drinkable water? can we find feasable alternatives?
(Ofek Shilon)
Coding Language
Create a coding language that's made of simple, straight forward English commands (e.g. Make Game, Good, Sababa;)
(Tan-Tan)
The absord paradigms of interfacing computers
why do we need to work the way they thought in the fifties?
(Eviatar Tron)
"There is nothing new under the sun", so said Kohelet
While there are many new things, they are often old things with new twists.
Are we careful to learn from the problems, mistakes, and good of the past?
(Shmuel Kallner)
Crazy, Fun
Furry grey energy
My cat consumes a lot of resources and energy. I believe it's high time she returns some of it back to society. Would it be feasible to harnass the static electricity from her constant rubbing against my carpet for better uses other than electricuting me when I pet her?
(Tan-Tan)
Feeling under the weather
You know how some days are shitty for everyone, there are those accident prone times, and the times when joy fills the world.
How is it the TV tells us when we need to take an umbrella with us, but it dosn't tell us its going to be emotionally rough?
its time for emotional weather prediction: I want to know when a depression is heading my way, and when it is better not to travel because people will be lousy drivers.
(Eviatar Tron)
Electric Underpants
Conductive underpants can save our genitalia and genomes. Nonmetal fibers can be found that are conductive, which could be woven into Faraday cage protectors that block the ubiquitous EM that surrounds and irradiates us. Or: metallic fibers might be usable for real Mithril - chainmail formed from multitudes of microscopic metal loops.
Also featured: airboating on the Yarkon, Icon Language, Magnetic Refrigeration, IsraelRenewableEnergyCooperative
(Jeremy Rutman)
Transportation
The Future of Transportation
We will try to create a new type of transportation. Why public transformation is not sufficient? Do we really need private cars?
Shai Agassi here we come!!!
(Asaf Tzadok)
LED Display on Car Windsheilds
How many times have you wanted to tell the #$%^$%& driver that just cut you off or who is bumper jacking you what you really think?
Why not post him an "SMS" on your front or back windshield.? For easy use, you can pre-program your favorite phrases.
(jodij)
Car-to-Car ALE
Relating to above, use radio messages. Every car has a radio which listens on a 'control channel'. When someone wants to send a message (audio/data) he justs taps the car's license number and a link is established (on an other channel) with that car. Then hilarity ensues.
(Itay Donenhirsch)
Car-to-Car Traffic Gossip
Distributed traffic jams alert system. Each car automatically tells the passing cars speed-slows events it gone threw. The other cars show and relay that information. That's a way to display low-latency information of traffic events to the user.
(Itay Donenhirsch)
Car parking discovery
You know the problem, you park in a big mall, in some floor, go to a film or shopping, and when you go back to your car, you cannot really remember where is the car parked (there is a great Seinfeld episode on this ).
However automatically SMS message sent to your floor indicating where your car is parked (floor number, and placement number) would solve the problem.
One alternative is that a photoelectric device will exist in each parking spot, which will read the car number. The car owner will send an SMS to a special mall number, the mall will reply with the car placement.
(Danny Weissberg)
Multimedia
Intriguing Novel Ways to Interact with the News
We will discuss (and experiment) topics like: textual landscape fly-through, keyword extrusion and cross-word missile attacks.
Ariel Malka
Video Tagging:
Every Facebook user knows about the picture tagging feature. When you upload a picture to your profile, you and your friend can tag people which are on that picture (by placing a square at the place they appear), so other people navigating in that picture will see the names of those people appearing in the picture.
But how about Video Tagging? You can upload a video and tag people appearing on the video.
The video tagging can have 2 flavors:
Manual tagging: When playing the video, the tagger can say that from time x to time y person z appears in the video.
Automatic tagging: When playing the video, a tagger can select a certain snapshot where a person who is to be tagged appears. The application then using image processing intelligence will identify all places this person appeared throughout the video (and even add arrow to point at the person)
(Danny Weissberg)
Buy me or else... [part II]
If you have the feeling TV is full of commertials, you are not mistaken. The total commertial time on TV exceeds the allowed time for commercials on dayly basis, but as no one cares. I will suggest a method to monitor the commertials on TV.
Potential buyers for this start-up: Keshet, Reshet, Channel 10.
(Zvi Devir)
Face it
Will give a quick demo of a (finally!) working, soon-to-be-launched global photo index driven by a face recognition technology.
No, this isn't for security. First application is going to be on social networks.
Will want to brainstorm about what could you do if you could find anyone in any photo or video on the web.
(Eden)
Government
Government Transparency, up for mashing ("Transparency 2.0", if you really have to :-) )
There's a sizable & useful portion of government information which should be out in the public according to the transparency act (sadly, it's not). Let's take this information and not only open it but:
A) Create Web APIs to access it
and/or even...
B) Expose it as semantic data (RDF)
While this would be very tough to enforce here in Israel, it can be done if executed well. My conjecture here is that the resulting ecosphere, with the different mashups based on this info creating lots of self-service in access to government info, might even be economically rewarding (after a couple of years).
As an example, imagine having access to public health information records of restaurants in sites like rest.co.il, or to car licensing issues & services from sites such as auto.co.il - everyone wins: The different site operators can offer a more complete service, the government ministries have less direct public interaction to perform, the users gain from new offerings, from the user experience which would probably be better on such commercial sites and from the resulting openness... Etc etc.
(Itamar Rogel)
Culture
A Different Kind of Mall
Your average mall has stores for clothing, shoe, jewelery, tchochas, makeup and etc...and of course a food court of greasy fast food, a pharmacy and a supermarket...I would love to see a mall based on creativity instead of consumerism - but that is not to say that there would be nothing to buy! Furthermore, while there will be plenty of opportunity for retailers, restaurants and the like to make money - part of the profits would be returned to the creative community to fuel artistic activity.
I envision a multi-floor complex where the visitor can integrate into the experience at a number of levels:
observer - walking through the studios /shops/galleries, attending a concert/play/lecture/art film, eat/drink at the cafes
shopper - buy someones artwork/music/jewelry/book, frame an artwork
creator - participate in a studio course for plastic or digital art, rent an open studio
vendor - sell one's artwork/music/jewelry/photography/sculpture
visionary - take part in the artistic direction of the mall and cultural dialogue as a whole
Just like your average mall, people of all ages would have a reason to come to the creativity mall. Senior citizens in the mornings, school children and families in the afternoons, adults afterwork until the late evening... and of course tourists at any time!
(jodij)
left handed world
what would the world be like if 90% of us were left handed
(mel rosenberg)
Other categories?
Anything else?
