Word book + Toilet paper

I often use Post It to remember some English words when i study english.
then, i often put it around the place where i stop in my house, like kitchen, near table, near desk, and toilet.

Then, what i thought is that, it could be nice if we can have some study text on the toilet paper...
in order to learn or remember just the same idea that i do with post it

it can be a words, or can be a historical thing, or some formula in math,,,,

sometimes it might work....

no? lol


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Bank account bar code or qr code

Make it easy and simple to transfer money

its been a while....
but from today, i would like to update my idea again continuously.

today's topic is about ATM machine.
then, transferring money bother me somehow, so i would like to have an idea about simple way of transferring money...

Problem from Observation

i found it bothersome when we transfer money into another bank account, in terms of steps...
at first, i will get bank account information via e-mail or something from computer or mobile (sometimes via paper though), and then, for example if we get it in computer, we will write it down in paper or mobile, so that we can bring it to the ATM machine. (sometimes if the document is too big, we write paper -> paper)

then, we again, input the bank code and something so on...

It means, at least once, sometimes twice we need to write down the target bank account code into several interfaces.

Make it Simple with the solution

the idea that i want to bring here is, an application of mobile phone, or smartphone, sometimes for computers.
that is, when we fill the account information, we can create a bar code or QR code of our bank account.

we can either create other person's code, or some might send it to you.

then, we just need to bring the code, and with the bar code reader that is attached to the ATM, we can read the account information.
then we don't need to input bank account more than twice.

then we can easily transfer money to any of the banks in the world...

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Songs managing system using tags, for SongA ft. B

iPhone5 was not coming this time,,,, now the latest is iPhone4S, hmmm...
but the only portable mac thing i have is... older version of iPod nano... (though i use mac book...)
When i use iPod, i sometimes feel bothersome to choose songs like "SONGNAME ft. FEATURING"

cos i want to listen to the song that is sung by A, but that song's artist name is "A feat. B" or something like that....

then, if we could have a tag system for mp3 players, then the song can belongs to both A and B....

then the management would be easier....
i dont know weather i could make u understand or not....

fig. changing properties that a song has

fig. songs that artists have

this time, artist name are something like tag, though all properties could be something like tags...

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Search engine regarding os type, or application type

when we start using a new application, or installing an unfamiliar application, we always google how to do that...

but you may have also noticed that... many of the cases it is really hard to find appropriate information.

'Cause situations are changing enormously in a minute....

for example, installing Eclipse (develop environment for java, or android)... many versions are released and it is really hard to find "appropriate" information for us...

then, it would be nice if we have something which offers the result only mentioned about "your" environment...

something like following picture

hmmm bad interface, though it would help us if we can have indexes of explanation

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Best 5 +2 in 1 + 2 month

1. Before Augmented Reality comes to the daily life and online shop book

these two idea would be similar, or the same concept

as i mentioned in Before Augmented Reality comes to the daily life there should be a step before AR coming to our real life.

this idea is similar to the previous post, but extracting digital world's component into real world.
it would be nice if some companies ship the product just by reading QR code or RFID through our smart phones. and if we registered your payment information and address, we can use it in multiple books or shops (which i posted in the previous post)

2. iPhone nano would be interesting

what if we could use it like a phone??
i posted before Cordless extention of mobile phone in which we can use other device as a cordless extension of a mobile phone, but what if the mobile phone itself is small enough so that we can carry with us always... just like a watch!

3. Small signal for distance places

what if we could have small tangible staff on our desk, and it has really small signal communication... like tangible "poke" system.

4. blog search interface

it would be nice if we could search the blogs like mac's folder's one function

5. Shower head with Shampoo dispenser

using shower head as shampoo, or body soap dispenser.
it means we never waste shampoo or water.

 

i havent been updated, so add 2 more :p

 

6. Computer Display with Digital Photo Frame Function

t would be nice if computer display could have digital photo frame function after turning off the computer...

7. Physical Folders of Local Folder in A Computer

it might be interesting to have physical folder in our life to access to local folder in our computer. of course it doesn't mean we will have tons of folders, but some of the folders that we use(or used) often.



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iPhone nano would be interesting

iPod nano now is really fantastic for me... in terms of mobility.

i haven't used this, but i heard that it is not so hard to use...
and the nice thing for me is we can carry it like a watch! that's something interesting...
then, i just wonder what if we could use it like a phone??

i posted before Cordless extention of mobile phone in which we can use other device as a cordless extension of a mobile phone, but what if the mobile phone itself is small enough so that we can carry with us always... just like a watch! not as big as this one.. lol

a picture of a mobile phone carrying like a watch

a picture used in Cordless extention of mobile phone

now we tend to bring many things with us... but many functions are overlapped. for example, iPhone and iPad.

then, it is no use if all of them has networking function, i mean we don't necessarily connect all the things into network, (when we regard the price? :p )

then, what is the merit to use all of those thing? i can't really figure them all out, but there must be something... my guess is it depends on application, and for example seeing through the website, it would be better if we could have a bigger screen...

then, how about something like following picture?
we can use the same installed application, and network, or phone call through other devices just with docking with other devices. could be nice as well :)

could be nice if we have a place to connect iphone nano in our laptop as well :) ....no? lol

日本語版はKNLog の方に近いうち載せておきます



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Mouse with Vibrating function

Just wonder what if there is a mouse, that has a vibrating function, in order to tell some notifications...
Got an e-mail in certain account, or someone chatted u in facebook, google, skype...

might be interesting to integrate growl

マウスにバイブ機能つけたらどーなるんだろーなーってアイディアです。。。
growl とかと連携するのも面白いかも・・・


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Computer Display with Digital Photo Frame Function

I always dreaming to have digital photo frames such like following

it is not that expensive, but not really easy to buy...
and when i imagine the process of usage (i haven't used that though) sometimes we can insert cards, or we will connect to the computer...

then, i just wondered it would be nice if computer display could have digital photo frame function after turning off the computer...
that is i think very simple, just connect the picture folder to display, or having small storage in display.

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Cordless extention of mobile phone

i just found interesting post at

Ladies Bluetooth Fashion Bracelet lets you see who’s calling without taking out your phone

the idea is having easy access monitor of mobile phone in their arm...
(of course it is more than that though)

but this idea made me come up with today's idea...


we bring mobile phone everywhere...
but yes, as the author of the blog said, sometimes it is in a deep place in one's bag... then it might be interesting to have a cordless extension of mobile phone.
of course the function is almost the same, and i know you think it is useless...

but what if we could connect ipod and your mobile phone?(though iPhone is something like that :p) or more than that, your headphone/earphone and your mobile? your headphone could become your phone, with bluetooth.
operation and auditory information will be transform via bluetooth. the device that is "calling", i mean using network is your mobile, but the thing that you are using to call/talk is not your phone anymore.

when it will be available? or why did i said something like this??


before answering that, i would like to ask you...
when u use ur phone??




especially for japanese, im sure that many people would say "when i have a time"
the answer would not be "when i want to call." anymore.


so...

the idea is super simple.
make all of the devices being able to call through phone.
can be ipod, can be a watch, or can be something else.

i mean, it would be nice if we could answer the phone with the bracelet or something else which is the closest to u at the moment!
im sure that is not that difficult in terms of technology!


Kenji

Physical Folders of Local Folder in A Computer

which is easier? finding something on your shelf, or finding something in your local folder on your computer???

it depends on what is "something", and on users...
for some people, i guess it is easier to find something in physical world.

for example, i like making folder with strict rules, it means there are a lot of files that exist in more than 5 folders deeper from home folder... click again and again, and reach to one folder.
but then for me, in physical world, my favorite books/current reading books are always near by me.

then, it might be interesting to have physical folder in our life to access to local folder in our computer. of course it doesn't mean we will have tons of folders, but some of the folders that we use(or used) often.
of course, we can make alias (or short cut) to access easily.
but sometimes it is easier, and for example if touching on them enables to focus on the folder when we are using another application, the operation would be faster.
and for some reasons, the folders that we used to use often (means have a lot of memories) will not be accessed without any reasons later on... however, if we could have something physical, then we might have some opportunities to remember them and seeing through them.

there are of course hard drives or usb memories which is physical, and able to keep data or memories. but in my idea, the contents itself is in one's computer, the physical thing is just for accessing that folder.
... hmmm... can't explain it well, hope u could understand the concept...

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Roulette with several balls

I am now thinking to make a smartphone application which is a roulette, but dislike the others, it has several balls...

the situation that would be used is now thought in a party or some drinking place...

i don't know it is only japanese or international thing... doing some game at drinking places...

decide how many of the people drink, then set the number of ball according to that, and start the roulette....

then the guys pointed by the roulette would drink!

haha, simple game, but if something like that is on a table, i will start using it

actually now what im thinking of is something different from normal roulette, but thinking of having a needle (? or something sharp to point out) and the roulette table is divided into the areas which is defined by the number of the people, then the needle will turn around to point out the area

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Sharing mobile screen

sometimes, when using skype, i really appreciate the function of "sharing the screen"

which is, showing what one is seeing on one's display to the other's display.

as i said in previous post, i actually observed people in macdonald for 5h the day before.
then i found that, people (might be only japanese..) never stop using their mobile....
sometimes they are talking not facing each other, but seeing their own mobile...
sometimes they are showing how great the picture on one's mobile is..( mainly how cool the guy is :p)

then, it might be interesting to have a function in which we can share one's screen to everybody through their mobile.
that is especially useful when one wants to show his picture to his friends. it is always bothersome to pass the phone each time... but if we could share the screen, ( i don't know maybe with bluetooth or something other? bluetooth might not have that protocol to share the image at the sametime... so might be 3g or wifi? hmm....not that sexy...) then, we can talk about the same thing and no need to pass your own mibile!


of course to share something, there must be an idea of projection... but i know some of the company is now developing small projector, so i just avoid to say projector on purpose...

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face history table

in Macdonald, i spend almost 5h being alone.
i had an appointment, but i arrived there too early...

then, i decided to "observe" people in macdonald.

i wrote down things i found more frequently than every 5 mins ( including [that girl is cute])

then,,, i found that

most of the girls are talking about guys, and "that guy is IKEMEN (means cool in japanese)" and showing the picture in their mobile...

then, i found... or might be the thing that i already knew... girls like to talk about guys, and guys also like to talk about girls...


then, today's idea is that...

it would be interesting if we could have a table, which remembers all the people who sat down on the same table, and is able to show with the screen which the table has, so that people can talk about guys and girls...

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Shower head with Shampoo dispenser

Just wondered... we never need to use shower and shampoo at the same time.
otherwise we will waste one of them...

figure shower and shampoo

imagine, we always use shower, and few people who care about the planet or utility fee turn off the shower and take some shampoo, and use it, and then again using shower. at that time, our hands are moving to various of things, shower -> shower switch-> shampoo -> head -> shower switch -> shower -> then body soap -> towel or something to wash our body -> ....

then, today's idea is using shower head as shampoo, or body soap dispenser.
it means any two of them would not come together, then we never waste shampoo or water. besides it is good for lazy persons (in terms of not moving their hands a lot :p)

figure idea

like the figure, all shampoo and water pipe are connected to the shower. and with buttons, we can choose which to use.

hmm... that's true that we use water just warm up the shower room, and when winter, we sometimes left hot water running when we are using shampoo...

so it might not be a good design, but can be like that.

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blog search interface

when you review papers or your diary, i guess you sometimes overview whole pages quickly, and pick up one page randomly to read whole content.

but actually, i think it is not random... some part of the page has some attractive points, then that is why you chose that page to read

and i just thought if we could review blogs like the way we do with real diary or book, it would be nicer.


cos the way we search blogs now is not that good. we can not see any part of the pages, we can not see how long the blog is, and so on; most of the information the blog has is not being shown in the searching result
actually, it takes less than 1 second to overview how long the blog is, what kind of figure they use, how large the letters are, and so on.

then i just thought it would be nice if we could search the blogs like mac's folder's one function

then we might be able to add or integrate ordinal search result like

----EDIT at 15th Aug----
just found what i said in this blog later.



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Twitter for job

Twitter Job Hustle from Wonder Years on Vimeo.



haha, that video is really funny :) using twitter, they tried to get a job.
today's idea is not like that video, but i know some of my friend got internships through twitter, or facebook and other SNSs.

yes, that way of hiring is now being focused.

then i just wondered LinkedIn. i think it is powerful. when i asked a question "what is LinkedIn?" then the answer is always "something like facebook, but for job".

but for me, i can not use LinkedIn... of course i have an account, but i really hesitate to use or post something on LinkedIn...

but imagine, what if we could have "something like twitter, for job"... at least for me. it is easy to use.

I know some companies try to find some people using twitter, but it could be nice if we could have a web service that is like twitter, but for job hunt, or show what kind of people we are, mainly focusing on job side.

and it would be nicer if we could have profile page on the sns :) then it would be easier to understand who the one is.


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Doki-Doki sensor; the sensor to measure how exciting the girl is

doki-doki is a japanese expression that represents the sounds of heart beating

with that information, you might be able to understand the meaning of the doki-doki sensor...

before explaining today's idea, i want you to watch following video





this measures the flow of the blood.

then, if the technology spreads, it might be a part of mobile, and always measures one's health.
but if we could access to other person's sensor, or at least, if we could get some signal if the one's heart is beating faster, the date would be more exciting for guys...


without the girl's saying good or bad, they can feel, or see whether she got excited or not, through those signals...


I know, i can not keep writing this post, it's really silly... but could be funny if we/something could understand one's emotion :)

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Capturing Refrigerators

this idea is really nice :)





but for me, the only merit is access from distant places...
especially when we are in super market, we would like to know what do we already have, and what we are missing...

i couldn't get how this technology get to know data inside fridge, but only thing i wanna know is not expiration date, but "what is inside the fridge?"

so it might be nice if we have fridge scanner, and we can access to that image wherever we are.
that might be cheaper and efficient :)


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new way of showing the searching result

now many people are saying that
search engine of the next generation is utilizing the power of social!!

of course, i agree with it... but is it the only focus??? i will be doubtful...

i mean, if we search for something, the result shown up is always like this

i know there are some add-on for firefox that shows the thumbnail of the website next to the text, but... the way of showing is always like that.
of course there are image search, and so on, but normal result from for example yahoo, msn, and any other searching engine is showing in almost the same way


but do you think it is the best way to show the result??

of course, i know it is much important to find the way to show the result in the order user wants than how to show the result, but i think if we could have really efficient way to show, user will be careless about the result order...


now, the only thing that we can find from searching result is title and short text
but sometimes, at least for me, even though it contains really good information for me, some website is not attractive, or feel not to read...

but it might be interesting if there are some new ways of showing result, what i found today is TED's website is something interesting

the website visited often could be shown larger, or the website people stay longer could be shown larger, or... there must be a lot of ways to show, but for me,
the way TED took was a little bit interesting... showing some videos smaller, showing some bigger.

and searching is always active action (?? the thing you have to choose what to do next) whereas analog life is more passive.
only make something big/small makes the way a little bit passive i feel. so... i wanna have that function in new searching result!
and not by clicking them, but just putting our cursors on gives us some additional information. that might be also good for us :)

also, amazon's recommendation makes something passive for us, and it might be interesting if the searching result also says or shows some related websites or recommendation :)

or... have you ever open the links in different tabs???
it might be interesting if we have some button next to the result as kind of "candidates" and we can see those website later without changing the tabs
just like facebok's image :p just press -> changes to the next website

there must be a lot of ways to show!


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Portable charger

shaking something makes electricity...
in following video, even in japanese, i couldn't got the meaning what he is saying...



I think it will not be "my" idea, but it would be interesting if we could have this function in our mobile phone

in japan, we have tons of

those.. this is a portable charger for mobile.
but if the phone itself has that video's function,
phone is something being shaken always, so it would be nice :p
i don't know how powerful it is, but it will be really great :)

but of course there must be tons of ways to utilize that function, so...
today's idea is a bit meaningless ><


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Language property in google +

just like this previous post, it would be nicer if the circle in google+ has "language property"

and every post will be automatically filtered or determined which circle the post can belong to...

i have a lot of international friends, and it is often determined by group which language i should use. when i use japanese, i dont want to disturb my friends wall for example in facebook, twitter, and so on.

and google+ has possibility to make it easier, because it is often the groups(i mean circles in google+ word/world) which sets my language to speak.

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facebook/skype online info/ gmail recieving info

this would be similar to the previous post;

KNIdea: Small signal for distance places

that was, communicating with their gf/bf, using ambiguous communication tool.
sending the paired object's information


today's idea is using almost same idea, about sending "internet information"
like facebook, skype, gmail

in detail, for example, what if we could have a domino which has our friends' (in facebook) face picture. and it turn over when the friend went offline, or stand when the friend comes online.
we can confirm those information from website or software, but it means always from display. we have no choice to confirm those info without turning on the computer, even the g-mails

then, what if we could have dominos like this??

then, we could confirm whether your friends are online or not

or we could confirm whether we've got e-mail or not, without connecting to the internet (i mean the computers)

or it can be designed like this :p

 

Small signal for distance places

haha, it is really cute....
i have no idea how to spread this idea, but it gives me some hints, or some inspiration for today's idea.

when i got a mobile at the first time, or before getting the first mobile i was thinking that e-mail is something really useful, and it never forces people to reply immediately, that means receiver has their own choice when they replies.

but nowadays, e-mail is something bothering sometimes. the number of e-mails are increasing, and some e-mail requires really quick response. that makes us stick to the computers....

it is also reach to the couples. let's say, i want to call to my girlfriend, and gave a call, but she didn't reply. then i might send an e-mail such like " can you have a call when you have a time?"
then, it increase the number of e-mails, and becomes a reason bothering my girlfriend...

ah,,, needless to say, but i don't have girlfriend now though... lol

then, what if we could have small tangible staff on our desk, and it has really small signal communication... like tangible "poke" system.
for example, having cube with colors, or having a book that says "call me" or something, and every action towards the object will transfer to distant girlfriend's place... then we can find they are at home or they have time or not or... we can inform that "i want you to care me!!!" .... without (hopefully) bother each other

hmm.... it is hard to explain, and i have no idea whether it works or not.
but isn't it cute or funny if we could communicate using tools like something in the video above??  ; one falls the domino, and one stand that, it is definitely communicating something.
in short, my interest is having tangible communication tool instead of existing, e-mail, call or skype.

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wearable video recorder

today's idea is about video recorder.
what i thought of the problem is, real time recording in specific situation; sports, concert, and so on.
then, what is the problem there??

imagine you were using video recorder, in order to record your child's soccer game. and you are thinking of having really good film for the future.
then, you won't be able to leave your focus from the video recorder's display. it means, you can not watch your child's game directly, only through your display.

same thing happen when you were in concert, and the main person is moving around, and he/she came just in front of you.
then, there is only one option you can take, whether taking picture instead of touching him/her, or touching him/her instead of picturing.
there's no choice to take both of the options.

then, i thought there should be solutions for that, and today's idea is for that.
actually similar post was here (hints from Video glasses, and portable printers) as well, but this time, it is a bit different.
the design is something like that

maybe it needs a lot of prototypes.... i mean it is not the final product, but im thinking basically like this.
of course, one opinion i will get from prototypes must be "feedback"; whether filming or not, where the video is aiming at, and so on.
the solution might be something like this, (from dragonball lol)

or can be a separate display like mobile phone....

but still, we need to develop, but i think it could satisfy user's need very much....

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Twitter Path

sometimes, like when japanese earthquake happened, twitter takes great role.

to inform many people...

but at the same time, it means "wrong information" or "old information" will be spread spontaneously.

in order to deal with those, it might be interesting if we could see the "path" of one tweet. not only "official retweet" but also "un-official retweet" (which uses RT: @--- xxx)

that's interesting just seeing, and also we can confirm where the resource is.
and if somebody find the information was wrong, we can inform people using exactly the same path.

problem behind is, when twitter or tv program broadcast wrong information, and even though they apologize after, we can not say, the apologize will achieve to the same people.

so... at least on twitter, it might be good to have those path thing as a function

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online shop book

as i mentioned in Before Augmented Reality comes to the daily life there should be a step before AR coming to our real life.

today's idea is similar to the previous post, but extracting digital world's component into real world.

the idea is having "online shop book"
maybe you had experienced reading some articles or books, and had seen some product in it.
then, it would be nice if some companies ship the product just by reading QR code or RFID through our smart phones. and if we registered your payment information and address, we can use it in multiple books or shops (which i posted in the previous post)

what is different between real online shop and the "online shop book?"
that might not really different, and might become a competitor...
but sometimes, at least for me, world in digital bother me.
reading physical books brings sometimes better experience.

and also that's diffidently easier for elderly person if there are physical book than online

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