IDEA TWENTY-EIGHT: Street level Google Map

Google should fuck shit up and revolutionize maps--offer street level maps for yr handy. There you'll be, trying to get to wherever u need to go and following a "sketch" rendering of the street that you're on as you walk/drive/bumble/trance along. That shit won't be too thick, graphically--just a bunch of lines to represent yr surroundings. Store names and subway stops will be represented according to the filters u set regarding the type of information u want to come into view as you walk forward.

An icon of some sort will glow over the direction you are to take according to the address you programmed in. once you get to that icon you'd click or say ok and the next one would appear.

Users would submit youtube type clips of them walking down a street with a camera on their jacket lapel and the google doods would strip it down to scenes out of Tron.

Gone will be the bird's eye and all of the misperceptions it engenders.

People scale is the best scale when it comes to guides of any kind, i find.

The spirit craves a form it can know.

IDEA TWENTY-SEVEN: Bloody Strawberries Forever Soon Mix

Fucked up mix of "Strawberry Fields" by the Beatles and "Soon" by My Bloody Valentine.

IDEA TWENTY-SIX: Electronic Kick

The Electronic Kick is for meetings, both real-life and virtual. It would consist of two tiny round sensors. The first would be placed on the back of a person's watch between the metal or plastic watchback and the skin. The battery in the sensor would feed off the energy produced by the watch, regardless of whether it was mechanically or electronically manufactured. Another sensor would be placed somewhere on the person's clothes or body, or perhaps on a pen or handy that he or she will have nearby for the duration of the meeting.

The key if there are non-team members present in real or virtual viewing proximity, is to make certain the sensors and their use is well hidden.

The sensor underneath the watch is the receiver and the other one is the sender by which the person can send a pulse to another person by tapping it according to a preset number of times (once for teammate A, twice for teammate B, and so on). The pulse would be meant as "an electronic kick under the table" (thank-you, unrat) to the teammate on video conference who is babbling on or otherwise fucking up. With iChat, perhaps this could be built into the desktop interface as well, where you chould flag the person speaking in such a way that would only display on their copy of the web part, and remain invisible to the other meeting participants.

Still, such flagging would depend upon the person speaking to be refering to their desktop screen, which, in the case of long table in a large boardroom, might not be feasible. With the sensors on the particpants bodies, it doesn't matter if it's a conference phone call, an informal breakout session or even a cocktail party. The Electronic Kick could revolutionize corporate communiciations.



The first Wiki I ever spent time on and still the illest, after all these years...fusion anomaly: if u dont know, now u know!--enjoy!