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Got a brilliant idea? Share it on The Internet Wishlist!
Ever wonder what the next big thing is? You might want to check out The Internet Wishlist, a suggestion box of ideas for apps and websites people are wishing for. Ideas range from web to mobile apps, realistic to imaginary, and helpful to humorous. The website is a brainchild of Amrit Richmond, a professional community developer and creative strategist, with a goal of inspiring entrepreneurs and startups to innovate and build the products and features that people actually want.
Next time you come up with a brilliant idea when you’re surfing around, consider sharing it to the rest of the world. Just add your breakthrough idea to the list and hope that someone actually makes it a reality. Alternatively, you can also use the Twitter hashtag #theiwl.
What’s on your wishlist? We’d love to hear them at the comments section below.
NeuAer uses radio signals to make your smartphone smarter
Startup NeuAer just demonstrated some cool, almost science fictional technology for your smartphone today at the Launch conference in San Francisco.
The company has an Android application called ToothTag, which allows users to tag different objects and create different interactions. It uses the radio signals given off by various gadgets, including BlueTooth devices. So you could ToothTag set up a trigger that would drop a pin on your Android map whenever you park your phone. You could also tie the trigger to proximity, so that you’re alerted that whenever your child (or, more properly, their phone) gets too far from you, or whenever your ex-boyfriend or girlfriend gets too close.
And it sounds like ToothTag is just a showcase for Neuaer’s technology. The long-term goal is to allow mobile developers to build different proximity applications using Neuaer’s ProxPlatform technology.
The obvious question is, of course, how well it actually works. The demo worked fine, but whether or not that will hold true in the real world in another question. The other issue is that Neuaer doesn’t yet work on the iPhone. That could be a barrier to adoption, and it’s also frustrating for me, because I want it.
Tags: NeuAer, proximity, TagTouch
Companies: NeuAer